Why teams use the Icons8 Developers platform

Stop shipping UI icons like it is 2009: copying SVGs into repos, losing consistency, and arguing about stroke width in pull requests. Icons8 Developers is the home of the Icons8 API, a platform that delivers visuals through a modern REST API: icons, photos, illustrations, music, plus utilities like upscaling and background removal.

For product UI, the Icons Search API helps you find the right glyph fast, while the Icons endpoint lets you fetch assets in formats such as SVG and JSON — effectively an SVG icons API you can plug into your product. This works well for a design system that needs naming consistency, easy search, and a clean way to serve a consistent icon set across web, mobile, and internal tools.

More than an icon API: photos, illustrations, music, and tools

Need more than an icons API? Add the Photos API for imagery, the Illustrations API for onboarding and empty states, and the Music API for video or in app audio. The same integration can also power Smart Upscaler API and Background Remover API workflows when your content team has to rescue low quality assets or prep images for ads.

Authentication and API keys

Auth is simple: use an Api Key header or pass your key as a token query parameter. You can generate and manage API keys from the dashboard, which makes it easy to separate staging from production and keep client projects tidy.

Reliability and pricing

Reliability matters when your app depends on assets. Icons8 publishes a system status page with metrics, so you can check icons, photos, illustrations, music, upscaler, background remover, and face swap in one place. And if you need to plan spend, API pricing is split by service, so you can pay for what you actually use.

If you want consistent visuals on tap without running your own asset warehouse, start with the Icons8 icon API and ship cleaner interfaces, faster for your users.