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Icon Horse vs Lordicon

Icon Horse

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

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 HorseLordicon
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefreemium
FormatsPNGJSON, SVG
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

Lordicon supports 2 response formats, while Icon Horse offers fewer — pick Lordicon for more integration flexibility.

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