AutoArena›Free Game with Cash Prizes

A free game with real cash prizes

AutoArena is free to play, and every season it pays real money: the top 10 players on its ranked leaderboard win cash prizes in US dollars, $25 for 1st. There is no entry fee, no deposit and nothing to buy. You win by climbing higher than everyone else that month.

What you can win

A season is one calendar month, so the prizes are paid every month. Season 11 (November 2026) is the first season that pays. Winners cash out whenever they like, as USDT on Solana at any amount or through PayPal from $10.

Free to enter, and nothing to buy

Playing costs nothing, and so does winning. There is no entry fee, no deposit, no subscription and no advertisements, and nothing in AutoArena is sold for money, so nobody can pay to climb. AutoArena pays out real money and never takes any.

It runs in any modern web browser, on a phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install, and you start with just a name. To be paid, sign your account in with an email address or Google before the season ends: a guest account lives in one browser, and its prize would be lost with it. If you are under 18 you need a parent or guardian's permission to withdraw prize money.

How to win

Win ranked matches. Every ranked win earns trophies, trophies rank you on the season's leaderboard, and when the season ends the top 10 ranks are paid. Between equally ranked players a match is worth +40 / −10 up to 1,200, +30 / −30 at 2,500, +20 / −45 from 4,000 trophies, tilted by the rating gap.

A match is a one-against-one auto battler: pick a hero and 5 minis, spend elixir to buy and place them on a 7×8 board, then watch the battle decide the round, best of 5, in four to five minutes. There is no shop to roll and every battle is a deterministic simulation, so a result comes down to what you built and where you placed it. It is a game of skill, not luck.

AI rivals hold places on the leaderboard too, and they win nothing: a top-10 rank one of them holds pays nobody, and its prize is not passed down, so to win you have to finish above them. The cash always goes to a person. AutoArena is made by a small studio, so at quiet hours your ranked opponent will often be the AI as well, which steps in after a few seconds when nobody else is searching.

How you are paid

Prize money appears on your Profile in US dollars when the season ends, and stays there until you cash it out. You can cash it out whenever you like, as your whole balance, two ways. USDT is the quickest: 1 USDT for every dollar, sent on the Solana network to your own wallet or an exchange, usually within a minute, and at any amount, from your first $1 prize. PayPal takes a balance of $10 or more, straight into your PayPal account from inside the game. Either way you receive exactly the amount on your Profile: we pay the fees.

The prizes are real money in US dollars, paid out as USDT (a US dollar stablecoin, one for one) or through PayPal. They are not coins, gems, points or a token of the game's own: there is no AutoArena coin, no wallet to connect to play, and nothing to stake. Prize money is kept apart from the game, so it can't be spent in the shop or wagered, and the coins and skins won in the game have no cash value.

A competition of skill, with nothing to bet

Nobody pays to enter and nothing is staked, so there is nothing to lose: the cash goes to the players who finish highest on a month-long leaderboard. You can't bet money on a match, and there is nothing to deposit.

The prizes reward the best players of each season rather than paying for time played. There are 10 of them, from $25 for 1st to $1 for 10th.

How it compares with other ways to play for cash

Most games that pay cash ask for money first. Cash tournaments on skill-gaming apps take a deposit and an entry fee, and pay the winners out of the fees. Reward apps pay small amounts for watching advertisements, installing other games or reaching levels. AutoArena is neither: entry is free, there are no advertisements to watch, and the cash goes to the players who finish highest on the ladder at the end of each month.

In-game prizes too

Every season also pays prizes inside the game: a Laurel emote marked with the season for the top 10 on the leaderboard, XP on the highest league you reached, and skins that can only be earned by playing. These are not money and can't be cashed out.

Who runs it

The cash prizes are offered and paid by Sydney Quant Pty Ltd, the Australian company that runs AutoArena, under published rules covering who wins, how prizes are paid, fair play, age and changes. Prizes are for winning fairly: an account that cheats, plays with a bot or a script, or plays on more than one account loses its prize. Questions, or a prize that hasn't arrived: matt@autoarena.gg.