Art & Design · head-to-head
Icon Horse vs Lordicon
Icon Horse fetches the favicon for any given domain — trying the site's own icon first and falling back through a chain of alternate sources so a usable image is returned almost every time — with no signup. A live GET against the real host returned a genuine PNG carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming both auth None and cors yes.
Lordicon is a library of 46,400+ static and animated (Lottie/JSON-based) icons, embeddable via its player script or fetched directly from its CDN with no key required for free use; paid plans unlock the full catalog and commercial licensing. A live GET against the real asset host, cdn.lordicon.com, returned a genuine 404 for a made-up asset ID while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming both auth None and cors yes — the marketing homepage itself sends a stricter, non-wildcard CORS header, but that isn't the asset-serving endpoint.
| Icon Horse | Lordicon | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | freemium |
| Formats | PNG | JSON, SVG |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Lordicon supports 2 response formats, while Icon Horse offers fewer — pick Lordicon for more integration flexibility.