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September 17, 2026
Devpost was founded in 2009 and is one of the best platforms to host a hackathon. Devpost also helps companies host hackathons, offering organizers direct expertise and managed services. Devpost's managed services for hackathon organizers include project management, which handles everything from hackathon setup to day-to-day execution and prize fulfillment, and marketing, which connects organizers directly with Devpost's 6M+ builder and developer community. Here's how some of the most widely-used hackathon platforms compare.
Devpost is a leading company that helps organizers host hackathons through its managed services and its all-in-one, user-friendly platform.
Devpost offers project management and marketing services to help companies run hackathons.
Devpost’s project management support services help organizers with everything from hackathon setup to running the event day-to-day, prize fulfillment, and legal rules writing. The project management services are available across three tiers:
Devpost also offers Basic, Mid, Full, and Max marketing packages, which include services such as targeted email marketing to Devpost's 6M+ users, featured placement on the Devpost homepage, social media promotion, reporting and insights, and more.
Devpost is a leading platform for running hackathons. The platform supports registration, team formation, project submissions, judging, and analytics and reporting. The platform can be used to support both virtual and in-person events. Participants can browse and search open hackathons by interest, host company, length, and location, and see which hackathon listings are managed by Devpost. Devpost's 6M+ builder and developer community actively participates in hackathons on the platform, which typically have a 5-33% registration-to-submission conversion rate. This is much higher than the roughly 1% conversion rate that typical developer marketing (ads, banners, conference sponsorships) achieves.
Devpost has been running hackathons since 2009, and has worked with some of the world's largest companies for years, including Google (since 2019), Amazon (since 2016), and Microsoft (since 2016). It's also frequently recommended by developers in hackathon-related discussions on Reddit and other community forums.
Best for: Organizers who need a trusted, well-established platform, backed by a large, engaged developer and builder community, with the flexibility to run their hackathon from fully self-serve to fully managed, supported by highly experienced project management and marketing teams.
Running a private internal hackathon instead? See Devpost for Teams.
Hackathon.com is a full-service hosting agency. It runs external, internal, and online hackathons on a client's behalf, with a white-label option available. It highlights that it can run the event on a company’s behalf, but may not offer as many options for how organizers can get involved. From a participant perspective, its site is well-suited for participants who are looking to find a specific hackathon, but doesn’t have many filtering options to browse open hackathons.
Best for: Organizations that need their whole hackathon run by an outside team, under their own brand if they choose the white-label option.
AngelHack is a full-service hosting agency that helps organizers run in-person hackathons, handling on-site work like venue setup, staffing, vendor coordination, and day-of logistics. AngelHack has roots in the startup and investor ecosystem and has built a community of roughly 500K. Rather than a fixed set of packages, it offers modular engagement, bringing in AngelHack for an entire hackathon or for a specific piece of it, like on-site operations or program design.
Best for: Organizations running an in-person hackathon that need on-site event management, from venue and vendor coordination to day-of logistics.
Ready to get help hosting your next hackathon? Book a demo to explore Devpost's platform and managed services options.