SerpApi India Hackathon 2026: online, open to Indian developers, ₹3 lakh+ in prizes

• Eligibility: Indian citizens aged 18 or older.
• Team size: Solo or teams of up to five people.

• A public GitHub repository for the project.
• A demo video no longer than three minutes that shows what the project does.
• SerpApi must contribute meaningfully to the functionality of the project.

The total prize pool is described as worth ₹3 lakh+ and combines cash awards with SerpApi search credits. Specific awards listed in the announcement include:

• First place: ₹1,00,000 cash plus 15,000 SerpApi search credits.
• Second place: ₹40,000 cash plus 10,000 SerpApi search credits.
• Third place: ₹20,000 cash plus 10,000 SerpApi search credits.
• Best in Track: Six separate track awards, each awarding 10,000 SerpApi search credits.

The hackathon lists six tracks and supplies practical project ideas for each. Examples include:

• AI Agents: Build an assistant that compares libraries using live documentation and release announcements, with source links.
• Open-Source Integrations: Add a SerpApi search provider or connector into an open-source framework or tool.
• Travel & Local Discovery: Help users compare flights and hotels and find local places to eat within a budget.
• Commerce & Market Intelligence: Track and snapshot price changes across sellers for the same product.
• Knowledge & Public Interest: Use Google Jobs results to filter roles by location and experience for first-time developer hires.
• Open Innovation: Combine event search with Maps results to create local-event finders or other unconventional ideas.

The announcement recommends specific libraries and resources for building agent-style projects, for example serpapi-search-tools for Python and SerpApi MCP. Participants are also pointed to Browse BuiltWithSerpApi and the full API catalog to see which search sources and endpoints are available.

Entries can be edited up until the deadline. The submission must be public on GitHub so judges can inspect code and evidence of SerpApi integration. The short demo video should make the project's features and SerpApi usage clear.

This hackathon is structured to reward practical projects that use live search data rather than theoretical proposals. The combination of cash and usable search credits makes it relevant both to short-term prize-seekers and teams that want to continue developing with SerpApi after the event.