Gravatar

Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) is a service that provides universally recognized avatars and rich identity profiles tied to email addresses via SHA256 hash. Developers can fetch user avatars, profile information, verified social accounts, and identity data using a REST API with API key or OAuth authentication. The service offers both a public avatar CDN (no auth required) and a REST API (v3) for profiles, avatar management, QR codes, and verified account lookups.

Gravatar publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including avatars API, experimental API, profiles API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Avatars, Identity, Profiles, Social, and Image.

The Gravatar catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Gravatar’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, pricing, status page, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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44.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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1 APIs

Avatars Identity Profiles Social Image GraphQL REST

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Composite quality — 44.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.0 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 8.1 / 18

Access Clarity 9.0 / 18

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 12

Contract Governance 1.1 / 11

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Gravatar avatars API

Operations about user avatars

Gravatar experimental API

Experimental operations that might be subject to change. Use with caution.

Gravatar profiles API

Operations about user profiles

Gravatar qr-code API

Operations about QR codes

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Gravatar Public avatars API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gravatar Public avatars experimental API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gravatar Public avatars profiles API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gravatar Public avatars qr-code API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Gravatar GraphQL

Gravatar does not expose a native GraphQL endpoint. This schema is a conceptual GraphQL representation of the Gravatar REST API v3, derived from the public REST types documented...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

context Context

0 classes · 40 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Gravatar API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 11

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AssociatedResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Avatar

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CryptoWalletAddress

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GalleryImage

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Interest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Language

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Link

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Profile

31 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Rating

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VerifiedAccount

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 12

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Associatedemail

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Deleteavatar

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Getavatars

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Getprofile

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Getprofilebyid

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Getqrcodebysha256Hash

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Getverifiedaccountservices

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Searchprofilesbyverifiedaccount

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Setemailavatar

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Updateavatar

7 fields

EXAMPLE

Updateprofile

8 fields

EXAMPLE

Uploadavatar

8 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Gravatar Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Gravatar Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Gravatar Scopes

3 scopes · implicit

3 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Gravatar Agentic Access

12 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

AndroidSDK

AndroidSDK

iOSSDK

iOSSDK

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Status

Status

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

APIExplorer

APIExplorer

Source (apis.yml)

aid: gravatar
name: Gravatar
description: Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) is a service that provides universally recognized avatars and rich identity
  profiles tied to email addresses via SHA256 hash. Developers can fetch user avatars, profile information, verified social
  accounts, and identity data using a REST API with API key or OAuth authentication. The service offers both a public avatar
  CDN (no auth required) and a REST API (v3) for profiles, avatar management, QR codes, and verified account lookups.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Freemium · Open access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/gravatar.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
tags:
- Avatars
- Identity
- Profiles
- Social
- Image
- GraphQL
- REST
tags_raw:
- Avatars
- Identity
- Profiles
- Social
- Images
- GraphQL
- REST
apis:
- aid: gravatar:gravatar-avatars-api
  name: Gravatar avatars API
  description: Operations about user avatars
  humanURL: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/
  baseURL: https://0.gravatar.com
  tags:
  - Avatars
  tags_raw:
  - avatars
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gravatar-avatars-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest-api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/gravatar-graphql.md
- aid: gravatar:gravatar-experimental-api
  name: Gravatar experimental API
  description: Experimental operations that might be subject to change. Use with caution.
  humanURL: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/
  baseURL: https://0.gravatar.com
  tags:
  - Experimental
  tags_raw:
  - experimental
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gravatar-experimental-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest-api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/gravatar-graphql.md
- aid: gravatar:gravatar-profiles-api
  name: Gravatar profiles API
  description: Operations about user profiles
  humanURL: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/
  baseURL: https://0.gravatar.com
  tags:
  - Profiles
  tags_raw:
  - profiles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gravatar-profiles-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest-api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/gravatar-graphql.md
- aid: gravatar:gravatar-qr-code-api
  name: Gravatar qr-code API
  description: Operations about QR codes
  humanURL: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/
  baseURL: https://0.gravatar.com
  tags:
  - QR Code
  tags_raw:
  - qr-code
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gravatar-qr-code-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest-api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/#authentication
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gravatar/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/gravatar-graphql.md
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.gravatar.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/gravatar-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gravatar-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/gravatar-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/gravatar-scopes.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://docs.gravatar.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://api.gravatar.com/v3/openapi
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started/#authentication
- type: Pricing
  url: https://docs.gravatar.com/general/pricing/
- type: Status
  url: http://status.automattic.com/9931/136545/Gravatar
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Automattic/gravatar
- type: AndroidSDK
  url: https://docs.gravatar.com/sdk/android/
- type: iOSSDK
  url: https://docs.gravatar.com/sdk/ios/
- type: APIExplorer
  url: https://docs.gravatar.com/api/explorer/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://gravatar.com/tos
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://gravatar.com/privacy-policy
- url: https://blog.gravatar.com/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  X-twitter: kinlane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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