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Codeforces Vs Codechef Payments
By Mr_Tree_HLD_LCA_Master, history, 4 years ago, In English

Good morning/night/afteroon Codeforces Community,

Recently i saw the prices in Codechef and Codeforces it made me wonder how come Codehef gives much more money than codeforces and when i say much more i mean it.

The thing is that Codechef gives money to setting,testing,translation and editorialists and Codeforces only to setting as far as i know.

Lets look at the prices in Codechef (seting only):

Now from a friend of mine that is setting in Codeforces he told me that the whole Div 2 he and another one are preparing will be 200-220 euros in total.

Isnt that crazy?

That amount of money from a high quality contest in codeforces is same as a hard problem in Codechef.

I mean look at the price to set a Codechef whole contest: it comes around 530 USD.

Now i know its USD and not Euro cause i thinnk many people will say that i confused it but no i have done the calculations and i can see that even in euros its much.

One reason is that an admin told me that in Codechef Easy-Medium is same as Div 1 A / Div 2 C problem Codeforces so that means a hard probem in Codechef is around Div 1 C althought i dont believe it at all and i think most people wont believe it.So i dont think this is the reason.So anyone that has experience before and knows something please comment below.

Now lets go to the part of translation:

Testing:

And Editorialist part:

I mean here its just prices so since Codeforces doesnt pay these things there isnt much to say than just a big WHY?

Is it becuase more work,participants,what is it?

I dont think its any of those but i think a reason is maybe because Codeforces spends a lot money to preserve such good site and Codechef doesnt (thats why they have this whole situation with cheaters).

But still of course Codechef preserves its site so i still dont think it's this

It's not that i have something against Codechef or Codeforces plus that is better to whom sets problems in Codechef,i am just wondering.

I may be totally wrong but i was just trying to justify the things i saw.

Thanks

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Codechef is run by unacademy which has worth more than 1 billion dollars plus it must be earning good money through its DSA certification program. They can easily pay more money to attract more top-rated problem setter

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I am thinking why can't they first utilise their money in making system better so that contest doesn't gets unrated continuosly....

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    yes I think they can easily make their servers even better than cf I don't know why they aren't

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    This applied for The entire Online Education system in India.Instead of Improving Quality they are just burning money

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Are you from codechef?

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I guess cc pays more because of shit ui for problem preparing (vs polygon)

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Note that you won't actually get the amount shown there. CC will cut $$$10\%$$$ to $$$20\%$$$ as "Tax Deduction at Source" depending on your country. Also your bank can cut $$$10\%$$$ or more. So you get about $$$2/3$$$-rd of the amount shown in.

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There are two ways to explain it.

1) Codeforces is poor and can't afford to pay a lot of money.
2) People like Codeforces more so they are more willing to create contests here. Codechef pays more to also get some setters.

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Codechef has a tie-up with Telegram, therefore, they are easily able to pay.

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    4 years ago, # ^ |
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    Wait who has a tie up with Telegram again?

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      I think he was referring to the "unofficial" tie up. *cough *cough — long challenges, *cough *cough solutions trade

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