> As a condition to being awarded a Prize, a Prize winner must fulfill the following obligations: a. Deliver to the Competition Sponsor the final model's software code as used to generate the winning Submission and associated documentation. The delivered software code must be capable of generating the winning Submission, and contain a description of resources required to build and/or run the executable code successfully. For avoidance of doubt, delivered software code should include training code, inference code, and a description of the required computational environment. This code will not be made public without the winner’s consent, except as necessary for marketing purposes under Section 8.

https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/nexar-collision-predicti...

Feels to me they're trying to get the best model while capping total cost to $5,000...

This is basically how kaggle works. The prizes are relatively small for what they are getting. The payoff for the people competing is experience with real world datasets and a portfolio to show off when they try to get hired.

I haven’t looked at them lately, but this one does seem on the low side. That said everyone competing knows the terms up front.