Terms of Service

You may use unavatar.io to retrieve public avatar, logo, and related profile imagery made available through supported providers and domain lookups. You are responsible for using the service in compliance with applicable law and the upstream platforms you access through it.

All plans must follow these fair use guidelines. We'll reach out before taking any action.

Examples of fair use

• Displaying user avatars in your application
• Enriching user profiles with avatars
• Building directories or member lists with avatars
• Adding avatars to dashboards, CRMs, and reports
• Showing avatars in email clients and notifications
• Avatars in comment threads, chat UIs, and collaborative tools

Never fair use

• Building a competing avatar API on top of Unavatar
• Bulk scraping avatars for redistribution or resale
• Harvesting or enumerating user data from public identifiers
• Using avatars to impersonate individuals or misrepresent identity
• Claiming ownership of the avatars returned by the API

The best way to stay compliant is to use Unavatar to enhance a product that provides value beyond just avatars.

Good examples

• CRMs and sales tools: Show avatars next to contact records
• Dashboards and analytics: Show avatars for users, authors, or team members
• Developer tools: Render avatars in commit logs, PR reviews, or team lists
• Community platforms: Use avatars in forums, comment threads, and member directories
• Email clients: Show sender avatars next to messages
• Chat and collaboration: Display avatars in conversations and participant lists

Bad examples

• Avatar-only products: Building a site whose primary purpose is serving or searching avatars
• Data harvesting: Systematically resolving identifiers to build user databases
• Impersonation: Attaching real avatars to fake profiles, bots, or misleading content

Avatars returned by Unavatar are sourced from third-party providers (Gravatar, GitHub, Twitter, and others) and remain the property of their respective owners or the platforms hosting them. Unavatar does not grant you ownership of any avatar returned by the API.

Free-plan users must also follow our attribution requirements.

Paid usage is billed according to the pricing shown on the site at the time of purchase. If you use an API key on a metered plan, you are responsible for the usage generated by requests authenticated with that key.

We work to keep the API fast and reliable, but availability can depend on third-party providers and network conditions. Features, providers, and pricing may evolve over time as the product changes.

Questions about these terms can be sent to [email protected].