HackIndia Hackathons 2026 - Everything Live and Coming Up
HackIndia is India's largest hackathon platform, with 50,000+ participants, 250+ universities, and 52+ cities already part of the community. As of June 2026, the calendar is packed with hackathons across the country. Here is the complete, up-to-date breakdown.
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Adaption AutoScientist Challenge × HackIndia
$50,000 Global Prize Pool | $2,000 HackIndia Exclusive Track
📅 June 15 – August 3, 2026 | 🌐 Virtual
Train your own frontier AI model using AutoScientist from Adaption. Beat a state-of-the-art baseline and release your model openly on Hugging Face and Kaggle. 10 categories including Language, Finance, Healthcare, Legal, Science, and Agriculture. Every participant gets 1,000 free platform credits.
AI for Marketers Hackathon 2026
📅 July 1 – July 31, 2026 | 🌐 Virtual
A month-long virtual hackathon built for marketers and growth builders looking to ship AI-powered marketing tools and campaigns.
Summer of Codesfest 2.0
National Level Hackathon | ₹40,000 Prize Pool
📅 July 30 – July 31, 2026 | 📍 VIT Bhopal University, Madhya Pradesh
A national-level two-round hackathon hosted at VIT Bhopal, open to developers across India.
HackIndia Spark-11 — Hyderabad, Telangana
South Central Region
📅 August 7 – August 8, 2026 | 📍 Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology
The South Central edition of HackIndia Spark, bringing the flagship hackathon series to Hyderabad's developer community.
AI, Web3 & FutureTech Hackathon 2026 — Lucknow
📅 August 21 – August 22, 2026 | 📍 G.C.R.G. Group of Institutions, Lucknow
A multi-domain hackathon covering AI, Web3, and emerging technologies, hosted in Lucknow.
HackIndia Spark 10 — Uttarakhand
North Region
📅 August 21 – August 22, 2026 | 📍 MIET Kumaon, Haldwani
HackIndia Spark expands to the North region with this edition hosted in the hills of Uttarakhand.
HackIndia Spark-12 — Jaipur, Rajasthan
North India Region
📅 September 18 – September 19, 2026 | 📍 Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology
The Jaipur edition of HackIndia Spark brings the series to Rajasthan's growing developer community.
🟠 Coming Soon
AI-First Startup Hackathon — Build a Startup Using AI Only
📅 September 2 – November 1, 2026 | 🌐 Virtual
A two-month-long challenge for founders and builders to build an entire startup using only AI tools, from idea to launch.
AI for Lawyers Hackathon 2026
📅 November 2 – December 1, 2026 | 🌐 Virtual
A focused hackathon for building AI tools that solve real problems in the legal industry.
✅ Recently Concluding
Web3 Hackathon 2026
📅 May 1 – June 28, 2026 | 🌐 Virtual
India's flagship Web3 hackathon focused on building the next internet. Registration has closed.
HackIndia Spark 9 — South India Region
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📅 July 4 – July 5, 2026 | 📍 St. Joseph Engineering College, Chennai
A 36-hour offline innovation sprint across four agentic AI tracks. Registration has closed.
Why Build With HackIndia
HackIndia is not just a hackathon platform. It is India's largest builder community, with direct access to a 3.1M-developer newsletter, active WhatsApp and Discord communities, a growing campus Brand Ambassador network, and a track record of successfully executed events across the country.
Whether you are a student writing your first line of AI-assisted code or an experienced engineer chasing a global prize pool, there is a HackIndia event built for you.
Stay Tuned
New hackathons, partnerships, and prize pools are added regularly. Bookmark this page and follow HackIndia on LinkedIn, X, and Discord to be the first to know when registrations open.