Best Served API Business Model

How does serving your API business model win the award?

 

How do you make sure that your offerings are well explained, and served in a way that your users resonate with immediately? 

 

What is your developer portal about and why are you offering it? Are developer portal users able to engage with your messaging and presentation to want to use your product offering? 

 

This category is for developer portals that found a cohesive and transparent way to stay true to their API business model. They manage to increase the API’s perceived value through appropriate and clear descriptions.

API business models that are well explained can help to convince future customers (not only developers). What are the answers they will search for? Read more about this on the Pronovix Blog.

Award Criteria

Questions to ask:

 

  • What is the end consumer going to use the data for?

  • Whether you're marketing one API or many, how well are you putting in key concepts to your product that help people to supercharge their experience of your ecosystem?

  • How easy is it to digest the information in your developer portal?

  • What is the customer journey and is it cohesive with your brand, your products, and the desired outcome?

  • Is the perceived value of your APIs clear to your customers?

  • What is your developer portal about? What assumptions are made of the consumer? Do they understand what you're doing?

  • How do you make sure your developer portal users understand what they are doing?

Over the past years, countless API teams have been hard at work, creating exceptional developer portals that empower and inspire us all. Interested in who excelled in this category?

Nominees in this Category

Shell

Shell Developer Portal (2024)

Maya Philippines, Inc.

Maya Developer Hub (2024)

Cloudinary

Cloudinary Doc Portal (2024)

Klaviyo

Klaviyo Developers (2024)

TransUnion CIBIL Limited

TransUnion CIBIL API Developer Portal (2024)

Sabre

Sabre Dev Studio (2024)

UPS

UPS Developer Portal (2024)

BRIAPI Developer Portal home page screenshot

Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI)

BRIAPI Developer Portal (2024)

Pismo Developers Portal home page screenshot

Pismo

Pismo Developers Portal (2024)

Postcoder home page header screenshot

Allies Computing

Postcoder (2024)

ABN AMRO Developer Portal Home page screenshot

ABN AMRO

ABN AMRO Developer Portal (2024)

DHL API Developer Portal front page screenshot

DHL Group

DHL API Developer Portal (2024)

Nationwide Partnership Portal home page

Nationwide Insurance

Nationwide Partnership Portal (2024)

Skyflow

Skyflow Docs (2024)