We are increasing contest hosting price from January 1, 2027.
From January 1, 2027, we are increasing the price of hosting contests on Toph.
The Standard tier will go from Tk 20,000 to Tk 30,000 per contest, and from $200 to $300 for contests billed in US dollars. Prestige tier pricing, which we quote for each event, will also be revised. The Training tier will remain free of cost, as it is today.
Over the past decade, we have kept investing in Toph — in tools that ease the contest hosting experience, in features that help make significant events a success, and in the infrastructure that holds steady when a thousand people are submitting at the same time. In all that time, we have never changed what we charge. This is the first revision in Toph’s history, and it is what will let us keep building.
Academic and non-profit institutions that hold a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with us signed on or before August 31, 2026 will continue to avail the current pricing for a further three years. The details are further below.
Here is what changes for each tier.
Nothing changes here.
Training contests remain free — for your class, your club, or your institution’s practice sessions — with up to 50 participants, up to 5 moderators, contest windows of up to three hours on the shared judge queue, and email support.
We made the Training tier free because practice should not carry a price tag, and we intend to keep it that way.
From January 1, 2027, a Standard tier contest will cost Tk 30,000, up from Tk 20,000 — or $300, up from $200, if you are billed in US dollars.
Standard remains our recommendation for IUPCs, ICPC preparation contests, and competitive inter-college events. It includes 150 participants, up to 15 moderators, contest windows of up to seven hours on the shared judge queue, mock contests, print server access, balloon tracking, plagiarism detection, and email and phone support.
Additional participant seats will continue to be available in sets of 100, at Tk [10,000] per set, up to a total of 1,000 participants for a single contest.
Prestige tier contests are quoted individually, and those quotes will increase from January 1, 2027.
Prestige is built for national events, inter-university championships, and high-stakes official contests: unlimited participants, up to 50 moderators, no cap on contest duration, a dedicated judge queue so your contest never waits behind another, segmented standings, featured visibility on Toph, and priority support throughout.
If you are planning an event on this tier, talk to us. Any quote we issue before January 1, 2027 will be honoured at the quoted price.
If you have already confirmed a contest with us at the current pricing, that price stands — even if the contest itself takes place after January 1, 2027. The new pricing applies to contests confirmed on or after that date.
Many academic and non-profit institutions host contests with us under a memorandum of understanding, often at a discount specified in that MoU.
If your institution’s MoU is signed with us on or before August 31, 2026, the current pricing and your MoU discount will continue to apply for three years beyond the price increase — until December 31, 2029.
Two things to keep in mind:
MoUs signed on or after September 1, 2026 will be at the new pricing from January 1, 2027.
If you have been considering an MoU with us, or your existing one is due for renewal, talk to us and we will walk you through it.
Toph hosted its first programming contest in August 2015. Almost a decade has passed since then.
What started as a humble platform for hosting programming contests has become a home for thousands of competitive programmers. What some may have once thought was “just another online judge” is now Bangladesh’s leading competitive programming platform, with more than 1,400 contests hosted.
Throughout these years, Toph has emphasised the social good it hopes to bring and its ability to serve the community as the go-to platform. The supportive feedback from the community has always motivated us to continue to innovate and expand our offerings.
A price change is never welcome news, and we did not arrive at this one lightly. But we would rather charge fairly for what we have built than quietly let it stagnate. Thank you for the first decade. We are looking forward to the next one.
