Icon Horse API vs Lordicon API

Two free Art & Design APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.

The verdict

Choose Icon Horse API if its data fits your use case better; on access and reliability it's level with Lordicon API.
Choose Lordicon API if its data fits your use case better; on access and reliability it's level with Icon Horse API.

	Icon Horse API	Lordicon API
What it does	Favicons for any website, with fallbacks.	Lordicon is an animated icon library with the 48,100+ premium and free animated icons, perfect for enhancing web, mobile, or content design projects.
Provider	Icon Horse	Lordicon
API key	Not needed	Not needed
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Yes
Status today	Online · 994 ms	Online · 702 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Up	Up
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

Favicons for any website, with fallbacks.

Get any site's icons on demand, with confidence

Strengths

Lordicon is an animated icon library with the 48,100+ premium and free animated icons, perfect for enhancing web, mobile, or content design projects.

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key (both qualify).
Calling from a web page? You need CORS. Otherwise route requests through your own server or a serverless function.
Going to production? Favour HTTPS, a strong uptime record and a provider with clear rate limits and terms. Check each API's docs before you commit.
Still unsure? Both are free to try: send one request to each and compare the data you get back.

Neither needs an API key; you can call both straight away.