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The #1 API Integration for Icons

Give your customers access to nearly 10 million high quality, royalty-free icons with the Noun Project Icon API. Start for free with no commitment.

Trusted by Industry-Leading Brands

Why Teams Love Noun Project's Icon API

• Highest quality human-created, human-reviewed icons
• AI-enhanced search matches icon style to any design
• More reliable and less expensive than generative AI
• Quickly access nearly 10 million PNG and SVG icons
• Flexible controls to customize color, size, line weight, style
• All icons include royalty-free, commercial use

“With the Noun Project library in Mural, you can instantly search for and grab the most relevant icons and bring them into your conversation in real time.”

David Chin, Design Strategist at Mural

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Start for Free with No Commitment

Transparent, Usage-Based API Pricing

1. * An “icon call” is any request that includes an icon ID. All other calls are “service calls.”
2. ** For security and fraud prevention purposes, other limits may apply.

Questions about licensing? View Icon API terms & license details

Built for Quick and Easy Implementation

Bring stunning, human-created and human-reviewed stock icons to any app or website. Noun Project’s REST API is built on AWS and secured with OAuth, has excellent documentation, customization features, and a dashboard with real-time updates.

Icons and Format

• Huge library of human-made icons in thousands of styles
• PNG and SVG file format for all images in collection
• Rich metadata details provided with every icon

Color and Size

• Consistent black-on-transparent icon library
• Built-in, simple re-coloring to any hexadecimal value
• Simple resizing, plus infinite scaling for SVGs

Advanced Search & Style Matching

• Powerful search relevancy, search suggestions, and autocomplete
• Easily find icons with matched design styles or filter searches by visual style
• Custom tools to block unwanted terms and icons

Why Noun Project is the Best Icon Library API

Vast Library of High-Quality Icons

Access a diverse, human-curated library of nearly 10 million SVG and PNG icons covering every topic and idea. Our royalty-free library has icons in thousands of styles, with AI tools to find and match images for any design and to quickly add high-quality icons to your app.

Extensive Icon API Feature Set

Noun Project’s API includes powerful search, including search and filter by style and line weight, identifying stylistically matching icons, blocking unwanted content, and more. Built to support a wide range of workflows, it ensures your users can quickly retrieve the exact icons they need.

Secure and Easy to Integrate

Integrate with an OAuth-secured API built for straightforward setup. Clear documentation and intuitive endpoints make it easy for developers to connect quickly and bring high-quality icons into any web or app product experience.

Most Reliable Icon API

Power your product with an API built for scale. Easily handles over 300 million requests per month at 99.99% uptime, built on AWS infrastructure. Brands trust our icon API for fast performance, dependable delivery, and frictionless integration.

Simple Licensing and Flexible Pricing

All icons come with straightforward, royalty-free licensing, including commercial use. Free 30-day trial includes all API features and endpoints (call limits apply, see details). Pay-Per-Use lets you control your budget and pay only for what you use ($25 monthly minimum).

Industry-Leading Customer Satisfaction

Our customers stay with us: 100% enterprise retention and 99% self-serve retention for more than a decade. Teams trust Noun Project because of our consistent quality, responsive support, and a library that grows with their needs.

See How Top Companies Integrate Icons into Their Apps with Noun Project's Icon Library

Adobe: Limitless Creativity

Adobe Express enables anyone to make stunning graphics, videos, websites and more. Since 2013, Adobe's been empowering their users with our icon API.

Mural: Visual Collaboration

Mural helps innovative teams to think and collaborate visually. With the Noun Project API, users can incorporate icons to add visual impact to remote collaboration.

Typeform: Survey Design

Typeform empowers users to create effective surveys. With API images from Noun Project, users can create dynamic questionnaires with images that increase engagement.

Why Noun Project’s Icon API Is Better Than Generative AI

Noun Project’s Icon Library API is superior to generative AI for production-ready applications where icon quality, brand consistency, service reliability, cost efficiency, and legal and ethical clarity are essential.

Superior Icon Quality

• Scalable Vector Graphics: AI produces raster images that can look “fuzzy,” and that lose quality when scaled. Converting rasters to scalable images takes additional time and money. Our API serves professionally crafted SVGs, infinitely scalable with no quality loss. Every Noun Project icon stays sharp in any resolution, size, or media type.
• Consistent Styles: Icons in Noun Project’s library have cohesive, searchable styles with matched fill, weight, and other design qualities. AI not only struggles with style consistency but also with “hallucinations” that cause distorted or nonsensical images. Our human-designed collection delivers professional design for your brand — not icons that are just “close enough.”

Better Technical Performance

• Instant Response: Generating an icon with AI takes several seconds per basic image, and 15 seconds or even more to render at high quality. Noun Project’s API finds the exact icon you need in milliseconds. This means a fast, seamless user experience in your product. The faster the experience, the more likely it is that your end user will stay engaged.
• No AI Bottlenecks: Noun Project boasts 99.99% uptime and scales easily, handling more than 300 million requests per month running on AWS. Image-generating AI is subject to busy times, reducing generation speed or relegating your requests to a slow queue during peak GPU demand. In some cases, AI services fail to generate images at all when load is high.

Lower, More Predictable Costs

• Fewer Calls = Lower Costs: Our icon API retrieves production-ready SVG icons from an indexed library in just one request. AI icon gen often requires several prompt iterations plus image regenerations to deliver just one satisfactory icon. As a result, each usable AI icon can be orders of magnitude more expensive than an icon from Noun Project.
• Fixed Pricing = Predictable Bills: Noun Project’s icon API has straightforward, consistent costs for everything from searching to retrieving and downloading icons. This allows you to manage your budget as your app’s usage grows. AI-based icon generation costs can fluctuate widely for these same actions — making it harder to anticipate future costs.

Legally Safe, Culturally Relevant, Supports Artists

• Copyright Certainty: AI-generated images exist in a legal gray area for copyright, authorship, and trademark rights. Noun Project’s API icon library provides a safer alternative. Each icon includes a clear, royalty-free license, removing uncertainty and protecting your business from potential intellectual property risk.
• Universal Human Appeal: Our icons are curated to follow global design standards, ensuring that your app is accessible and intuitive for users across cultures and languages — something AI generation can’t guarantee. Noun Project’s API puts people first through the ethical use of — and fair compensation for — human designers’ work. Every time you use the API, we fairly compensate the artists who build our icon collection.

Icon API Common Questions

Do you offer a Free Trial?

Yes! You can try the API risk-free for up to 30 days to explore the full power of Noun Project's Icon API. When your trial period is over, you can pick the plan that works best for you. See Icon API pricing.

Can I find icons with matching visual styles?

Yes! Our custom-trained AI search delivers icons that precisely match any example icon’s visual style. Also find precisely matched icon packs, or search and filter icons based on properties such as fill, line weight, and more. Learn more about icon sets, style metadata and style matching.

What icon sizes and colors does the API offer?

All plans include PNG icons from 20-1,200 px and SVG images that can scale to any size without losing quality. The Icon API also makes it easy to recolor an icon in either format to match a hex color value. Learn more about format, scale, and color.

What type of apps use Noun Project's Icon API?

The Icon API is used in logo and brand design tools, ed tech platforms, AI design workflows, presentation and collaboration apps, plus many more product use cases. Explore everything the API supports in our documentation.