DevPortal Awards
Nominations now open! Closing date: 30 September, 2026
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The DevPortal Awards were established to spotlight innovative leaders and their exceptional developer portals in the API space. This event celebrates the efforts behind creating developer portals that not only cater to developers but also align with business needs and are easily maintainable.
The DevPortal Awards aim to recognize today’s best solutions and push the boundaries of what we consider to be the essential components of tomorrow’s developer portals.
It is difficult to have a conversation about APIs today without eventually arriving at AI. The vocabulary has shifted remarkably quickly. Agents, MCP servers, retrieval, orchestration: each offers a different perspective on how software may be consumed in the years ahead.
What has changed much less are the questions organizations continue to wrestle with.
- Can people find the capability they need?
- Can they understand whether it solves their problem before investing in integration?
- Can organizations continue to grow their API and data product portfolios without gradually losing coherence?
- Who owns the experience as more different teams contribute to it?
It is perhaps not surprising, then, that recent work on developer experience, API products, and AI continues to circle around the same concerns. Self-service, discoverability, onboarding, documentation, governance, and product context continue to reappear.
Developer portals rarely occupy the centre of these conversations. Yet, they are where those conversations become tangible. This is where an API portfolio begins to make sense beyond the boundaries of the teams that built it; where governance either supports or obstructs adoption; where product thinking becomes visible through the way capabilities are presented, explained, and connected.
Developer portals remain one of the few places where a broad set of architectural, product, and governance are encountered together rather than discussed separately. No portal tells the whole story of an organisation, nor should it. Yet it can reveal enough for experienced practitioners to recognise thoughtful work, appreciate difficult trade-offs, and learn from the experience that has been created.
If developer portals have become one of the places where these concerns come together, then there is no single way to evaluate them. A large enterprise platform solves different problems from an API product. A first-time onboarding journey deserves different attention from a mature data ecosystem.
Looking at them through a single lens would flatten those differences; the awards categories' different perspectives allow different forms of excellence to emerge.
The four lenses through which the awards observe excellence this year:
- A Unified or a Federated Enterprise Portal tells you how the organization governs a large API landscape.
- An API Product Microportal tells you how product teams communicate value and context.
- A Reimagined Onboarding Experience hints at how seriously the organization takes adoption.
- API Data Products reveal how it extends the same thinking beyond APIs.
Nominations
9 July - 30 September, 2026
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Jury evaluation
October-November 2026
Every year, we seek the most outstanding solutions with the help of experienced jurors, who are volunteers and have a long experience with API programs, developer portals and API documentation.
Awards Gala
December 2026
We announce the winners and highlight outstanding solutions and state-of-the-art practices with an active participation of the Jury.
Who can submit an entry?
Any live external developer portal with a high level of UX maturity is eligible for nomination, regardless of company size. As a global jury evaluates the entries and selects the winners in each category, submitted portals must be available in English. Developer portal vendors are not eligible to submit entries.
Who chooses the winners of the DevPortal Awards?
The winners are selected by an independent Jury. Jurors are invited to volunteer based on their extensive experience in API programs, API documentation, or developer portal design and strategy.
What do I get for winning the DevPortal Awards?
Winners receive the recognition of a peer-reviewed award that highlights the excellence of their developer portal and its contribution to the success of their API program. Each winner also receives a digital badge and a printed certificate, which is mailed to the developer portal team.
How do I receive my award for the DevPortal Awards?
Winners will be announced and celebrated during the free virtual Gala event in November. A calendar invite will be shared with all nominees as the date approaches.
What is the DevPortal Awards Gala?
The virtual Gala event is a celebration of teamwork and excellence. Award winners and jurors are invited to take the virtual stage to share insights, lessons learned, and the challenges they overcame in building outstanding developer portals.
Is there a Code of Conduct?
Yes, there is a Code of Conduct. Nominees are expected to uphold developer portal vendor neutrality, and all participants are expected to remain friendly, welcoming, and respectful during the online Gala event and in all communications. This Code of Conduct applies to all spaces managed by the DevPortal Awards. Violation of the Code of Conduct results in permanent exclusion from the DevPortal Awards.
Who are Pronovix and why do they sponsor the DevPortal Awards?
Pronovix, the developer portal company, is about using research, encouraging learning, and supporting knowledge sharing to promote the growth and development of not only their products but of their people, the communities they support, and their customers' businesses. They sponsor the DevPortal Awards to this effort.
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