# Gravatar

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gravatar/  
**Website:** https://docs.gravatar.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 46.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 63.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 45.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 44.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Gravatar Agentic Access** — 12 operations · 5 acting

## Security (2)

- **Gravatar Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Gravatar Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Avatars, Identity, Profiles, Social, Image, GraphQL, REST

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/gravatar/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.