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 Images.

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 11 more developer resources.

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52.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 47/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumOpen⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

AvatarsIdentityProfilesSocialImagesGraphQLREST

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Composite quality — 52.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 17.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 47/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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

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APIs 4

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

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 11

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

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Examples 12

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Gravatar Scopes

3 scopes · implicit

3 scopes

SCOPES

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 1

The organization behind the API

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.
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: '0.19'
type: Index
tags:
- 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
  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
  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
  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
  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: 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