---
title: "Marketplace Create Challenge"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/marketplace/challenges"
tags: ["marketplace"]
---

# Marketplace Create Challenge

`POST /api/v1/marketplace/challenges`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://www.deepmapai.com`
- URL: `https://www.deepmapai.com/api/v1/marketplace/challenges`
- Auth: none declared

Create a new community challenge / bounty.

Admin-only endpoint. Creates a challenge that creators can
submit model entries to compete for the prize.

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string

## Request body

- MarketplaceCreateChallengeRequest: Create a community challenge.
  - `title` string, required: Challenge title
  - `description` string: Challenge description and rules
  - `category` string: Category
  - `prize_cents` integer: Prize pool in cents
  - `deadline` string, nullable: ISO-8601 deadline for submissions
  - `evaluation_metric` string: Metric used to score entries
  - `test_data_path` string: Path to evaluation dataset

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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