Why is there a base-contribution fee for all challenges?ΒΆ
We are an academic institute ourselves and we have limited funding as well. There are direct costs associated with running a challenge on our platform, these are the storage and runtime costs. Our review team will carefully review, discuss and if necessary adjust the challenge setup together with you during the onboarding process to arrive at the most cost-efficient estimate as possible. There is no margin on these expences. Instead, the base-contribution fee covers the other costs.
The base-contribution fee is used to fund platform maintenance, development and support to keep your challenge running both short and long-term. We are committed to maintaining and continuously enhancing our platform to serve the research community effectively. Therefore, we ask organizers of challenges to contribute towards the open-source development of the platform. More information about our pricing policy can be found here.