In 2020, we Nordic APIs held our third Best Public API competition. The competition is a way to celebrate and showcase the very best public APIs out there. This year, our shortlisted entries were evaluated by a panel of expert judges. We are proud to announce the winner: AssemblyAI! We’ll be back next year. Do you believe your API has what it takes? Follow our Newsletter for updates on next year’s competition! ABOUT THE PROCESS Competition entry submitted Entry is reviewed and details confirmed The entry is published on nordicapis.com. Submissions close August 31st Judging starts September 7th The winner is announced September 21st. TIMELINE PRIZE The winning Public API will be invited to participate in a Nordic APIs LiveCast, they will receive a digital badge to add to their website, and we will also do a review of the winning API on the Nordic APIs blog. JUDGING PANEL New this year is that the winner will be determined by a panel of judges, all knowledgeable, enthusiastic and dedicated to the global API community. Judges will rate each API by scoring criteria that consider the holistic platform, design, security, strategy, docs, developer experience, and other factors. Travis SpencerCo-Founder Nordic APIs Adam DuVanderPrincipal ConsultantEveryDeveloper Alan GlickenhouseAPI Business StrategistIBM Asbjørn UlsbergDeveloper Experience ArchitectPayEx Zdenek “Z” NemecFounderGood API Shortlisted APIs. More to be published soon so watch this space. AssemblyAI Speech-to-Text API AssemblyAI is powering mission-critical speech recognition products and features. We provide developers with all the tools needed to transcribe any audio or video file with State-of-the-Art accuracy in less than 2 minutes. We out benchmark common big tech alternatives like Google, AWS, IBM, and Microsoft, at 50-70% of the price - making Speech-to-Text more accessible for companies of all sizes. RingCentral Developers The RingCentral API enables developers to build custom integrations for seamless communications and collaboration across their enterprise with APIs for voice, SMS, MMS, team messaging, social media, in-app messaging, video, fax, data, and configuration. Through a single developer account, companies can revolutionize the way they communicate across a multitude of industry verticals, such as retail, healthcare and finance, among others. RingCentral is recognized as a leading unified communications as a service (UCaaS) provider by leading analyst firms. Combined with our comprehensive developer tools, SDKs in 11 different languages, embeddable widgets, bot frameworks, and more than 200 out-of-the-box apps in our App Gallery, including Google GSuite and Amazon Alexa, we are powering the digital workplace of the future. RingCentral has invested significantly in creating a fully-featured developer portal with a focus on developer experience, education, community, and support. Through numerous innovations including our open sourced code generator, to community driven documentation, embeddable widgets, one-click app creation, a "walk-through" on-boarding process, our application analytics dashboard, and our one of a kind Game Changer program; RingCentral strives to put developers first and be a leader in developer experience. On RingCentral Developers, engineers will find quick start guides that create apps for them in a matter of minutes, interactive documentation, tutorials, official and community SDKs, and more combined with RingCentral's focus on supporting their community through live chat, forums, social media, and even with free 1-1 developer support. Once in the Developer Portal, developers will also find more details including usage and error analytics to help them monitor their app's health. Then there's RingCentral's Game Changer program that rewards developers with prizes like swag, conference passes, and even electronics like iPads and Macbook Pros just for learning new skills and helping others in the community! Amadeus for Developers Amadeus is a leading technology provider for the global travel industry. We offer cutting-edge technology solutions that help key players in the travel industry connect and build their businesses. Amadeus for Developers Self-Service is an open API program that makes it quick and easy to connect to Amadeus APIs and start building new solutions. On the developer portal, you can get instant access a catalog of Self-Service APIs offering travel data and functionalities for every step of the journey (from inspiration and A.I.-derived travel insights, to flight and hotel booking or information about tourist attractions or local safety) as well as documentation, guides, tutorials and more to help you get started quickly. YAP OCR APIs YAP OCR APIs is a cutting-edge solution including such strong benefits as: Online OCR: Fully synchronized processing and structuring data in real time. Flexible scaling: YAP APIs are adaptable and applicable for small, medium, and large systems. Accuracy: Human-made errors and subjective-judgment approach are excluded. Scalability: In-shape processing effectiveness cultivated by serverless technology. Intelligent automation: Collecting important data quickly and completely. Expert advice: Our technicians are proposing unique solutions on the base of your needs Mercedes-Benz Vehicle Status Get access to your connected Mercedes-Benz car! You can remotely access status information of some interior and exterior vehicle parts and integrate it into your app. You can identify potential security and damage issue before they become a problem. The API provides information about open doors, windows, lights and more. This can help Mercedes-Benz drivers monitoring their vehicle's status, even if the vehicle is far away. SPENDiD SPENDiD is a first of its kind stateless REST API offering demographically derived, peer-comparative spending intelligence, opening up an array of valuable consumer and marketing software experiences. By leveraging SPENDiD’s vast unbiased datasets, developers can set themselves and their software apart as innovative leaders through applications such as automated budgeting, personalized marketing insights, and even secondary lending metrics enabling potentially higher loan approval rates. Through its uniquely structured and unimpeachable data sources, SPENDiD is a smart technology that helps personalize the user/provider relationship in an era where the parties may rarely or never meet face to face. The "crowd-wisdom" and normative spending guidance SPENDiD offers is addictively simple and enlightening. SPENDiD was born out of a genuine desire to help solve what is truly an overwhelming and alarming U.S. trend in financial illiteracy and out of control spending behavior, especially among our younger population. Employers and even tax-payers are “co-sufferers” of this burden along with financially stressed employees and their families. SPENDiD is an ideal solution for use in Financial Wellness software offered by employers, PFM advisors, or fintechs. The result is easy to connect API technology thoughtfully designed to dramatically and quickly improve the cash-flow awareness and general spending habits of the end-user. This is done by making the task of budgeting radically simple and even addictive. Client platform adoption of SPENDiD’s API helps the end-user take a giant step closer to newly found cash-flow literacy enabling a more peaceful, productive, and fulfilling life. In addition, employers and society as a whole benefit from a happier and more financially stable employee or neighbor. PDF Generator API PDF Generator AP is one of the most flexible Web APIs and template editors for generating PDF documents from Your software, Your data. PDF Generator API allows you easily generate transactional PDF documents and reduce the development and support costs by enabling your users to create and manage their document templates using a browser-based drag-and-drop document editor. PDF Generator API is a perfect utility tool for low-code and workflow automation to generate customized transactional documents with ease. It allows developers and businesses to be more productive and focus on their core value offering. The 2019 winner of the Best Public API competition was Shutterstock! The Shutterstock API provides access to over 280 million royalty-free images, video clips, and music tracks. Additionally, platforms can use the API to deliver advanced search (including AI-powered reverse and similar image search), the ability to manage custom collections, and automated content updates within their internal systems. Here are some motivations from the communities votes: Most intuitive developer platform. Great features and easy to integrate. Evolution of the platform to enable large scale, robust integrations is really impressive. API reference is best in class! Foremost thing about any API is its documentation and integration, Shutterstock API provides both. Documentation is simple amazing which makes integration for both professional companies or indie developers whole lot easier. Congratulations! Previous page Next page