If you have ever tried to enter an AI art competition, you probably had five tabs open by the second evening. One with the competition listing, which turned out to be last year’s. One with the official rules, as a PDF. One with a thread of prompts someone shared, without the images they made. One with the image tool you were paying for that month. And one with a search for “can you enter AI art in competitions”.
AIContestList started from the idea that those tabs belong together. Creative work goes better when the opportunity, the examples and the know-how sit next to each other: you see a call, you study how others solved a similar problem, you make your own version, and you learn something for next time. This guide explains each part of the site and where to read more.
The four parts at a glance
| Part | What it does | Start here | Read next |
|---|---|---|---|
| Competitions | AI image, video, music, design, writing and other competitions, checked against official sources | Competitions directory | Finding competitions, Reading the rules |
| Prompt Library | Prompts shown beside the images they produced, with model and provenance | Prompt Library | Reading a prompt, Same prompt, different image, Reusing prompts |
| AI Studio | An image generator built for making competition entries | AI Studio | What AI Studio is, Weekend workflow, Choosing a model, Inspiration Lab |
| AI Academy | Guides to prompting, competition preparation and tool changes | AI Academy | This page |
Competitions: find a call that is real, current and open to you
The competitions directory lists calls across nine categories, from AI Image & Art to AI Video & Film and AI Music & Audio. Each listing gives the deadline, eligibility, format, entry fee and prize, with a link to the organizer’s official page. Before a competition is listed, its details are checked against that page, and each listing shows a verification state and the date it was last checked. Listings are due for a recheck 30 days after they were verified, and sooner as the deadline nears.
Two guides go with it. How to Find AI Art Competitions Worth Entering shows how to filter the directory and spot calls that are not worth your money or your rights. Read the Rules First walks through the clauses that decide an AI entry: the AI policy, disclosure, originality, rights and eligibility.
Prompt Library: learn from prompts that come with their results
The Prompt Library shows each prompt next to the image it produced, so you can see what the words actually did. You can browse by model, style, use case and color palette. The model and version are listed only when they were recorded at the time the image was made, and each page names the creator, source and license as far as they are known.
How to Read an AI Image Prompt shows how to take a prompt apart into its six working parts. Same Prompt, Different Image explains why copying a prompt rarely gives the same picture, and what to match first. Can You Reuse Someone Else’s AI Prompt? covers credit, copyright and provenance.
AI Studio: make the image next to the brief
AIContestList AI Studio is an image generator for people entering competitions. It runs image models from Google and OpenAI, works from text or from a reference image, and saves every result to a private library only you can see. It is a separate product from Google AI Studio, Google’s tool for developers.
What Is AIContestList AI Studio? covers what it does, what it costs and who sees your images. From Brief to Entry in One Weekend follows one entry from Friday evening to submission. Nano Banana or GPT Image? helps you pick a model for each stage, and Stuck for an Idea? introduces Inspiration Lab, a free random prompt generator.
How the parts connect
The links between the parts are buttons, not just menu items:
- On a competition page, Create in AI Studio opens the Studio with that competition attached.
- On a prompt page, Try in AI Studio opens the prompt in the Studio, ready to adapt.
- In the Studio, Inspiration Lab builds a prompt by chance when you have no starting point.
- Back on the competition page, Made for this competition shows Gallery images people made for that call and chose to share, after review. It is not a list of official entries; entries always go to the organizer.
Where to start
Pick the route that matches what you are doing this week:
- New to AI images: How to Read an AI Image Prompt, then Same Prompt, Different Image, then Stuck for an Idea?
- Entering a competition this month: How to Find AI Art Competitions Worth Entering, then Read the Rules First, then From Brief to Entry in One Weekend
- Choosing tools: What Is AIContestList AI Studio?, then Nano Banana or GPT Image?
- Publishing or selling AI work: Can You Reuse Someone Else’s AI Prompt?, then Read the Rules First
What AIContestList does not do
AIContestList does not run competitions or judge entries. Entries are submitted to each organizer through its official page, and the organizer’s rules always take priority over a listing. The site also does not cover general AI news, enterprise AI or coding tools; it stays with creative work made with generative AI.
How listings, prompts and corrections are handled is set out in the Editorial Policy. Organizers can submit a competition, and anyone can report an update when a detail has changed. More about the people and purpose behind the site is on the About page.
Questions people ask
What is AIContestList?
AIContestList is a website for creators who use generative AI. It combines a directory of verified AI art, film, music, design and writing competitions, a Prompt Library that shows prompts with the images they produced, AIContestList AI Studio for making images, and AI Academy guides on prompting and competitions.
Is AIContestList free to use?
Browsing the competitions directory, the Prompt Library and AI Academy is free. AIContestList AI Studio is free to start with sign-up credits; larger and more detailed images use credits bought in packs.
Does AIContestList run the competitions it lists?
No. AIContestList lists competitions run by other organizers and links to their official pages. Entries are submitted to the organizer, whose rules always take priority.
How can I get a competition listed?
Organizers can use the Submit a competition form. Each submission is checked against the official source before it is published, and submission does not guarantee a listing.
