In 2025, the Wanda Diamond League will pay out a record total of 9.24 million US dollars in prize money.
The total prize money awarded per meeting will be 500,000 USD at each of the 14 regular series meetings, and 2,24 million USD at the Wanda Diamond League Final.
The total prize money per discipline will be between 30,000 USD and 50,000 USD at the series meetings and between 60,000 USD and 100,000 USD at the Final.
From 2025, there will also be a select number of Diamond+ Disciplines – four at the series meetings and eight at the Final – in which athletes can earn higher prize money.
See below for the full breakdown of prize money in 2025.
| DIAMOND DISCIPLINES | ||||
| SERIES MEETING | FINAL | |||
| Place | Prize Money (USD) | Place | Prize Money (USD) | |
| 1st | $10,000 | 1st | $30,000 | |
| 2nd | $6,000 | 2nd | $12,000 | |
| 3rd | $4,000 | 3rd | $7,000 | |
| 4th | $3,000 | 4th | $4,000 | |
| 5th | $2,500 | 5th | $2,500 | |
| 6th | $2,000 | 6th | $2,000 | |
| 7th | $1,500 | 7th | $1,500 | |
| 8th | $1,000 | 8th | $1,000 | |
| 9th+ | $500 | 9th+ | $500 | |
| DIAMOND+ DISCIPLINES | ||||
| SERIES MEETING | FINAL | |||
| Place | Prize Money (USD) | Place | Prize Money (USD) | |
| 1st | $20,000 | 1st | $50,000 | |
| 2nd | $10,000 | 2nd | $20,000 | |
| 3rd | $6,000 | 3rd | $10,000 | |
| 4th | $5,000 | 4th | $6,000 | |
| 5th | $3,000 | 5th | $5,000 | |
| 6th | $2,500 | 6th | $4,000 | |
| 7th | $2,000 | 7th | $3,000 | |
| 8th | $1,500 | 8th | $2,000 | |
| 9th+ | $750 | 9th+ | $1’000 | |
Including promotional fees for top athletes, a total of around 18 million USD will be paid to athletes over the course of the series 16th season in 2025, with many more millions being invested in athlete services such as travel and transport, accommodation and medical and physio provision.
Prize money is entirely gender-equal, with exactly the same rates for male and female athletes. The 2025 increase will also apply to all 32 Diamond Disciplines, benefitting athletes across the full diversity of track and field.
Diamond+ Disciplines
In 2025, each Wanda Diamond League meeting will select a number Diamond+ Disciplines in which athletes are paid higher levels of prize money.
There will be four Diamond+ Disciplines at each series meeting and eight at the Wanda Diamond League Final at Weltklasse Zürich.
See the table above for the full breakdown of prize money and the table below for the list of Diamond+ Disciplines at each meeting.
| Meeting | Diamond+ Disciplines |
| Xiamen | 5000m women, high jump women, 110m hurdles men, pole vault men |
| Shanghai/Keqiao | 200m women, shot put women, 100m men, 110m hurdles men |
| Doha | 3000m steeplechase women, pole vault women, 200m men, high jump men |
| Rabat | 100m women, 400m hurdles women, 200m men, shot put men |
| Rome | 5000m women, 1500m women, 100m men, high jump men |
| Oslo | 100m women, 400m women, pole vault men, 5000m men |
| Stockholm | 100m women, 3000m women, 400m hurdles men, pole vault men |
| Paris | 100m hurdles women, pole vault women, 110m hurdles men, 400m hurdles men |
| Eugene | Mutola 800m women, discus women, 100m men, Bowerman mile men |
| Monaco | 100m hurdles women, 400m hurdles women, 200m men, pole vault men |
| London | 800m women, pole vault women, 100m men, 1500m men |
| Silesia | 400m women, 100m hurdles women, 100m men, pole vault men |
| Lausanne | 400m women, 100m hurdles women, 100m men, 800m men |
| Brussels | 5000m women, pole vault women, 3000m steeplechase men, discus men |
| WDL Final in Zurich | tbc |