Competition Details
ARC Prize 2025 is hosted on Kaggle and is based on the ARC-AGI-2 dataset. The competition is now live, Mar 26 - Nov 3.
Your objective: Reach 85% accuracy on the ARC-AGI-2 private evaluation dataset within the Kaggle efficiency limits*.
* Approx. $0.42/task, no internet.
All leading participants are expected to open source their solutions if eligible for a prize.
The primary mission of ARC Prize is to accelerate progress toward open Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by making cutting-edge solutions used in the competition freely available to the entire research community.
We provide substantial prize money, dedicated infrastructure, and public recognition precisely to incentivize and reward participants who share reproducible methods openly. While anyone is welcome to use our public data and leaderboards independently, the privilege of competing officially, and benefiting from our private evaluations, global visibility, and chance to win prizes comes with a commitment to transparency and openness.
Our ultimate goal is collective advancement, ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity, which is why open-sourcing your solutions isn't just encouraged; it's central to the spirit of the ARC Prize.
The spirit of ARC Prize is to open source progress towards AGI. To win prize money, you will be required to publish reproducible code/methods into public domain. New for 2025, you will be required to share your solution before seeing your final leaderboard score when the contest ends.
ARC Prize 2025 winners will be determined by the participants' scores on the ARC-AGI-2 private evaluation set at the end of the competition. During the competition, the public standings will reflect the participants' scores on the semi-private evaluation set.
The Grand Prize is unlocked on Kaggle once the first eligible solution reaches at least 85% on the private evaluation set and an approximate $2.5/task efficiency.
Note: the private evaluation set imposes limitations on solutions (eg. no internet access, so no API-based systems like GPT/o3/Claude/etc). ARC Prize also hosts an open leaderboard on arcprize.org/leaderboard which measures the semi-private evaluation set and lifts the compute and internet restrictions however is not part of the prize competition.
We've increased the Grand Prize by $100k for 2025!
Awarded to the top teams (up to 5) which score at least 85% during an annual competition period. If not won, the Grand Prize will continue during the next annual competition.
We've also set aside $175,000 for additional potential prizes to be announced later. If the Grand Prize is achieved before all of these prizes are announced, we'll add any unannounced prize money to the Grand Prize.
Awarded to the submitted paper that best advances our understanding of how to achieve strong performance on ARC-AGI according to the Paper Award Rubric.
Note: The deadline to submit a paper is 1-week after the competition ends. Papers must be submitted here.
For examples of previous papers, see the winners from 2024.Awarded to the highest-scoring submissions during the competition.
Note: To view previous winner notebooks, see the winners from 2024.
See the ARC Prize 2025 official rules on Kaggle.
The ARC Prize 2025 official rules will be available on Kaggle when the competition goes live.
Prizes are awarded at the sole discretion of ARC Prize Inc. and are subject to review by our Technical Team. We may issue more or fewer awards based on the spirit of the prize and the received submissions.
In order for a submission to be eligible, all code and methods authored by the submitter must be made open source under a permissive public domain license (eg. CC0 or MIT-0). Additionally, any 3rd party code or methods not authored by the submitter must be available under, at least, an open source license which allows public sharing (eg. Apache-2.0, GPLv3).
The Grand Prize will be unlocked when a team surpasses a score of 85% accuracy on ARC-AGI-2 private evaluation tasks. At the end of the annual competition, the Grand Prize will be divided among the Top 5 (or fewer) teams that have surpassed 85% accuracy.
If no submission reaches the 85% mark during ARC Prize 2025, there will be no Grand Prize winner in 2025 and the prize will be held for future competitions.
The Top Score Award will be awarded to the submission with the highest score on the private evaluation set during the 2025 competition. The top 5 teams with the highest scores will each be awarded with the Top Score Award.
To be eligible for a Paper Award, separately submit a paper (PDF, arXiv, txt, etc.) documenting and describing the conceptual approach of an eligible ARC Prize 2025 Kaggle submission. Papers must be submitted within 48 hours of the competition ending.
Paper awards are evaluated equally based on the following rubric, consisting of six components, with a score ranging from 0 (lowest) to 5 (highest) given in each category.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Accuracy | How accurate is the submission based on its performance on the leaderboard? (Note: you will be asked to provide your submission ID to match your notebook to your submission) |
| Universality | How general and universal is the Submission approach beyond the competition? Does your submission translate to other similar problems? How well does your method generalize? |
| Progress | How much does the paper increase the overall chance of anyone achieving 85% on ARC-AGI? |
| Theory | How well does the paper describe why the Submission works (as opposed to merely describing how it works)? |
| Completeness | How thoroughly and completely does the paper cover your submission to the leaderboard? |
| Novelty | How novel is the Submission relative to existing public research? |
The Paper Awards will be awarded to the 3 submissions with the most points during the 2025 competition. Paper rubric evaluations will not be shared. In the event of a tie, the paper that was entered first to the competition will be the winner. In the event a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, the paper that received the next highest score rank will be chosen as the potential winner.
Papers must be submitted via submission form on Kaggle before the Paper Submission Deadline.