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Awwwards: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A juried design award at 65 euros a shot, scored by eighteen judges on design, usability, creativity and content, with no free lane at all.
awwwards.com
Eligibility
Who Awwwards accepts
You need
65 euros, or a 150 euro annual Pro membership
A site that can survive a design jury: design is 40 percent of the score, usability 30, creativity 20 and content 10
An account
You'll be rejected if
A functional product with an ordinary site, which will be scored against the most ambitious work on the web and lose
Anyone unwilling to pay, since there is no free submission route
Design workMarketing sitesWeb appsDesign tools
What you actually get
A scored entry in front of the largest working audience of web designers there is, and a shot at Site of the Day, Site of the Month, Honourable Mention or a Developer Award. The site name and the screenshot are dofollow; the big Visit Site button is the one link on the page carrying rel="nofollow".
How to submit to Awwwards
1
Decide whether the work can win
Their published criteria are design 40 percent, usability 30, creativity 20 and content 10. This is a jury, not a directory, and the money is spent whatever the score.
2
Pick a lane and pay
Standard Submission is 65 euros for one website. Pro at 150 euros a year includes one annual free submission and 30 percent off the rest.
3
Submit and wait for approval
Submissions are approved before they are scored, and only approved sites go to the jury.
4
Sit through five days of voting
An approved site goes to at least 18 jury members. The three scores furthest from the average are discarded automatically and voting runs five days, though a high jury score plus at least ten Pro users can produce a Site of the Day sooner.
Awwwards requirements
An Awwwards account
65 euros per submission, or a 150 euro annual Pro membership
A live site, which is what is being judged
Credits for the people who made it, which is the currency of the community here
Gotchas
There is no free submission of any kind. Every route to the jury is 65 euros a shot or a 150 euro annual membership, and the money buys a score rather than a listing.
Approval comes before scoring, so a submission can be rejected outright and never reach the jury at all.
The jury weighting is public and it is not about your product: design is 40 percent of the score and content is 10. A site that works well and looks ordinary is buying a low score.
The links are not all the same: the site name and the screenshot are dofollow, while the Visit Site button, the one a reader would actually click, is the single anchor carrying rel="nofollow".
Let your agent submit to Awwwards
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Awwwards playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.
What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 5 Awwwards rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 4 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: A Standard Submission is 65 euros for one website. User Pro is 150 euros a year and bundles one free submission, 30 percent off further ones, 30 percent off job posts and 75 percent off their courses, so two submissions a year already argue for the subscription.
Types it into Awwwards in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to Awwwards?".
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Awwwards FAQ
How long does Awwwards approval take?
Awwwards's typical time from submission to going live is 3-5 days.
How much does it cost to submit to Awwwards?
Submitting to Awwwards is paid (A Standard Submission is 65 euros for one website. User Pro is 150 euros a year and bundles one free submission, 30 percent off further ones, 30 percent off job posts and 75 percent off their courses, so two submissions a year already argue for the subscription.).
Does Awwwards give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Awwwards carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 89.
Does Awwwards require a backlink to your site?
No, Awwwards does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Awwwards?
A functional product with an ordinary site, which will be scored against the most ambitious work on the web and lose; Anyone unwilling to pay, since there is no free submission route.