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User Avatar API

Create highly customizable avatar images with a person's name or initials to improve your user experience.
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https://avatars.abstractapi.com/v1/
    ? api_key = YOUR_UNIQUE_API_KEY
    & name = John Smith

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Various avatar styles
Highly customizable
High quality retina support
Lightning fast loading
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The User Avatar API creates flexible avatar images from names or initials

Simple yet flexible REST API
The User Avatar API is built with the right mix of simplicity, speed, and flexibility, so you can focus on the parts of your code that matter and still have beautiful, reliable user avatars.
Highly customizable typograpy
Our highly customizable avatar creation process lets you specify fonts, weights, alignment, or style. Make your avatars match your brand and your interface easily.
Specify background and font colors
It's important to have full control over the look and feel of something as visible as your user avatars, so you can set everything for the avatar's color and size.
Multiple scripts and languages supported
Non-Latin scripts and lanuages supported, including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai so you can support users from around the world.
Retina support included
Create super crisp and clear avatars even on high resolution screens with highly flexible and high quality images that leave your site or app looking great for users.
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Abstract is about more than speed and features. We also care deeply about security, so all data that is sent and processed is secured via 256-bit SSL encryption (HTTPS).
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Free

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  • 1 request / second
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$
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  • 60,000
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  • 3
    requests / second
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Enterprise

Custom
A plan based on your specific
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Free

$0
  • 1,000 requests
  • 1 request / second
get free api key

STANDARD

$99/ month
  • 60,000
    requests / month
  • 3
    requests / second
get started

Enterprise

Custom
A plan based on your specific
needs
  • A plan based on your specific needs
  • 99.99% uptime SLA
  • SSO/AML login
  • 24/7 support via email, chat and phone
  • Technical onboarding support, account manager
talk to sales

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Woohoo! No more boring empty images in our user list. We looked at several options to handle this including building and maintaining it in house (no thank you!) but finally found that Abstract handles this. The flexibility is pretty great, but we mainly love the simplicity and not needing to think about it.
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User Avatar
API Changelog

Enhanced emoji detection and recognition to incorporate emojis within avatar text

April 8, 2024

Improved support for name-based avatars

March 14, 2024

Added system workaround for low-quality images generated by the User

February 19, 2024

FAQ about Abstract's
User Avatar API

Why would I use an API to create user avatars?

When users sign up for an app or website, it's common to allow them to upload an image of themselves. However, in many cases users don't do that right away (or ever!), and you and they are stuck with a bunch of bland and empty spaces where an image should be. You can automatically spice up the interface by adding a custom avatar for that user that's created from their name or initials.

How does the User Avatar API work with other services like Gravtar?

Gravtar describes their service as providing "an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?". This is a very popular option for getting a user's image, but it's not always available. Users of Abstract's User Avatar API will often use our service as a fall back when a gravtar cannot be found.

What languages and character types do you support?

We support most characters (including emoji!). We're also rolling out support for additional languages and characters like Arabic, Bengali, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai.

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