Our team has compiled a list of the most useful and cost-effective Images APIs for your business.

 The Flickr API is available for non-commercial use by outside developers. Commercial use is possible by prior arrangement.

What is Flickr?

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. On Flickr, members upload photos, share them securely, supplement their photos with metadata like license information, geo-location, people, tags, etc., and interact with their family, friends, contacts or anyone in the community. Practically all the features on Flickr's various platforms -- web, mobile and desktop -- are accompanied by a longstanding API program. Since 2005, developers have collaborated on top of Flickr's APIs to build fun, creative, and gorgeous experiences around photos that extend beyond Flickr.

The Flickr API

With over 5 billion photos (many with valuable metadata such as tags, geolocation, and Exif data), the Flickr community creates wonderfully rich data. The Flickr API is how you can access that data. In fact, almost all the functionality that runs flickr.com is available through the API. And the API is completely free to use, as a service to our members as well as developers and other integrators, so they can create even more ways to interact with photos beyond flickr.com.

Getting the most out of the Flickr API

We encourage all sorts of integrations, such as features and products that:

- Help people make their photos available to people who matter to them
- Enable new ways of organizing photos and videos
- Are fun!



Flickr API

API to integrate GIPHY, a GIF and video library.

 Why GIPHY?
 
As the first and largest GIF search engine that serves more than 10 billion GIFs per day, it’s safe to say GIPHY knows GIFs. We’ve built powerful SDK and API tools and an extensive library of GIFs and Clips so you can access the best reaction search engine in the game.

- **The Most Engaging Content**
Our exclusive clip, gif, and sticker library is powered by thousands of artists and hundreds of premium content partners. We a directly with them so you can feel secure knowing it's safe for distribution everywhere your app is used.

- **Powerful Search Algorithms**
Our unparalleled search algorithm lets users easily express themselves and animate their conversations with the exact GIF they we’re looking for, or didn’t know they wanted. It also uses analytics to improve results and keep users coming back for more.


- **Optimized Loading & Renditions**
We offer extensive rendition options for different platforms and devices to ensure loading content doesn’t get in the way of your app’s speed. Better yet, it’s already built directly into our SDK.




Giphy API

The Pexels API enables programmatic access to the full Pexels content library, including photos, videos. 

The Pexels API enables programmatic access to the full Pexels content library, including photos, videos. All content is available free of charge, and you are welcome to use Pexels content for anything you'd like, as long as it is within our Guidelines.

The Pexels API is a RESTful JSON API, and you can interact with it from any language or framework with a HTTP library. Alternately, Pexels maintains some official Client Libraries you can use.

 Pexels API

SkyBiometry API uses computer vision algorithms for face detection and recognition

SkyBiometry uses completely different computer vision algorithms for face detection and recognition than face.com. Therefore results may differ. We have made extensions to the API that provide additional value. For example, we return dark_glasses attribute in addition to glasses to differentiate dark glasses from clear ones. Determination of some face attributes is not implemented yet. If you need them desperately, please, let us know and we will do our best to implement them as the first additions to algorithms already in use.

Here is a list of things you can do thanks to SkyBiometry:

- **User authentication, moderation, photo grouping, emotion recognition… and more!**
From user authentication and security applications, to photo grouping for event photographers, mass biometrics is here to stay, and it can bring huge benefits for your enterprise and consumer applications. Our service is founded on advanced biometric technologies that can fit any project.

- **Seen enough of face recognition? Test the API with one of your own images**
Whether you want to help your users sort through images, moderate communities or verify their identity faster, you can start experimenting no strings attached with our free forever plans.

- **Find Out How You Can Use Our API For Your Business**
From user authentication and security applications, to photo grouping for event photographers, mass biometrics is here to stay, and it can bring huge benefits for your enterprise and consumer applications.



SkyBiometry API

With Noun Project Icon API you can bring a growing collection of high quality symbols to anything you create

**The Noun Project Icon API is full of possibility**

With our Icon API you can bring a growing collection of high quality symbols to anything you create. Innovators are using the Noun Project API to tell visual stories, educate children with autism, create real-time infographics, build interactive games, and personalize 3-D printed products. The possibilities are endless and we can't wait to see what you create!

**Why use our Icon API?**

- **Access thousands of icons**
Get immediate access to a collection of over a million icons. Built by creatives from around the world, our ever-growing collection includes everything from UX elements to emotions, objects, new technologies and social memes.


- **Curated for quality**
All of the icons undergo a stringent moderation process. Dedicated Noun Project staff review all uploads for both quality and copyright, so you get access to only the best content.


- **Reliable & Infinitely Scalable**
The API is built on AWS and currently handles nearly 100 million requests per month with 99.9% uptime. The REST API easily integrates with any website or app to get you up and running in minutes.

 
- **SVG & PNG access**
Pro accounts get access to our entire collection of SVG’s. Scalable Vector Graphics can be scaled up or down without pixelation, and allow for easy customization of color, gradients, and size. Playground accounts get access to our entire collection of PNGs, with SVGs available for public domain icons.


- **Track your usage**
Monitor your API call volume and track your application’s usage with our handy tools. With real time updates, you can see your app’s performance hourly, daily, and monthly.


- **Grows with you**
Test out your ideas & grow your traffic with our Playground account. Upgrade to the Pro once your app hits the big leagues.


- **Support independent creators**
We’re a community-driven platform. Every purchase you make is shared with our contributing designers.


- **Manage several apps**
We want you to build all that your heart desires. You can integrate our API into unlimited projects, so you never have to limit your creativity.

Noun Project Icon API

ScreenshotBird  API allows you to start taking website screenshots within seconds.

**Website Screenshots with a single API call**
_You won't have to set-up your own screenshot infrastructure. 
Our easy-to-use API allows you to start taking website screenshots within seconds!_

- **Easy to Use**
Take your first screenshot within 60 seconds. Stop wasting your time with open-source solutions.

- **Fast and Build for Scale**
Hosted in the cloud we can handle hundreds of millions requests.

- **Highly Customizable**
Everything is customizable. You can take 4K Retina screenshots, change the image output type and much more.

ScreenshotBird API

Screenshot API allows programmatic screenshots of any website in seconds

**Screenshot API** 
_Programmatic Screenshots of Any Website in Seconds_

**Zero to Screenshot in Second**s

- **No More Headaches**
Go from sign up to programmatic screenshot in 60 seconds. Stop wasting time with poorly documented open source solutions.

- **Customize**
We built ScreenshotAPI to handle every use-case and special requirement you could think of. Whether it's a PDF, WebP, JPG, or PNG, get the exact screenshot you need.

- **Scale**
Built to scale from 1-∞. We can support 1,000,000+ screenshots a month without breaking a sweat. Let us worry about scale, monitoring, and quality. - 

**Full-Page, PDF, WebP, JPG, PNG Screenshots & More!**
Use ScreenshotAPI to capture full-page screenshots of any website. Parallax, lazy loading, scroll to view, you name it, we got you.

Choose between a variety of output formats including WebP, JPG, PNG, and PDF! You can receive the file directly from the API or return JSON.



Screenshot API

ApiFlash Screenshot API based on Google Chrome and AWS Lambda.

ApiFlash is a simple yet powerful screenshot API that any modern company can easily use to make pixel perfect website screenshots at scale. An up to date version of Chrome is used to ensure that all modern web features are fully supported and that rendering is exactly as you would expect. It's also built over AWS Lambda to make sure that it truly scales and keeps being stable under heavy workloads.

We're one of the most cost efficient screenshot API out there and we are dedicated to provide an awesome service to all companies, big or small.

**Features**

- **Website screenshot API based on Chrome**.
Chrome Rendering
Up to date Chrome instances to make pixel perfect screenshots and ensure support for all modern web features.

- **Scalable screenshot API by design.**
Scalability & Stability
Truly scalable infrastructure built on top of AWS Lambda guaranteeing stability under heavy workloads.

- **Secure URL to image API.**
Secure Communications
Full HTTPS endpoints for all plans. We take the security and privacy of your data very seriously.

- **Full page website capture through our screenshot API.**
Full Page & Responsive
Parameters to capture full page screenshots, mobile screenshots and precisely control the viewport size.

- **An API simple to use to make website screenshots.**
Fast & Simple
Fast and easy to use API endpoints that are well documented.

- **Automatically detect the best screenshot API timing.**
Automatic Capture Timing
Automatic detection of fully loaded pages before screenshot capture.

ApiFlash Screenshot API 

The perfect tool to automatically moderate content. Detect and filter any unwanted content in photos, videos and live streams.

 **The Leading Image and Video Moderation API**
The perfect tool to automatically moderate content.
Detect and filter any unwanted content in photos, videos and live streams.

**Why use Sightengine**

- **FAST AND SCALABLE**
The API returns moderation results instantly and scales automatically to adapt to your needs.
Easily grow your Moderation Pipeline to tens of millions of images per month.

- **ACCURATE**
Built upon state-of-the-art models and proprietary technology. The moderation decisions are consistent and auditable, with feedback loops and continuous improvement built-in.

- **EASY TO INTEGRATE**
The API was built by developers for developers. You only need a few lines of code to be up and running.
Leverage our simple SDKs and detailed documentation.

- **PRIVACY COMPLIANT**
No human moderator is involved, your images remain private and are not shared with any 3rd party.

Sightengine API

 Screenshot API  allow to capture screenshot of any webpage with one API call.

**Screenshot API**
_Capture screenshot of any webpage with one API call._
Save as PNG, JPG or PDF

**THERE ARE MANY REASONS TO USE OUR SCREENSHOT API**
Our rendering engine supports HTML5, CSS3 and other latest web technologies.

- **Browser Based Rendering Engine**
Full browser engine with SVG, CSS3, ES6 and WebFont support. Everything looks as they do on your own browser.

- **Fast & Simple API**
Based on a single lightning fast RestFUL HTTP url, all options are easy to pass and reason about.

- **GDPR Compliant**
If you are working with personal data and need to ensure that your processor is GDPR compliant, look no further.

- **Here are some other highlights:**
-- Full Page Screenshots
-- Element Capturing
-- Viewport Settings
-- Lazy Loading
-- Retina Support
-- Shutters & Delay
-- SVG Support
-- JS & CSS Injection
-- Webfont Support
-- Thumbnail Output
-- Raw HTML Input
-- CDN Support

Restpack Screenshot API 

Restpack Browser Mockup API converts any image into a browser mockup with one API call.

**Browser Mockup API**
_Convert any image into a beautiful browser mockup with one API call._

- **THERE ARE MANY REASONS TO USE OUR BROWSER MOCKUP API**
_Our rendering engine supports variety of customizations that allow you to present the mockup exactly the way you lie._

- **Fast & Simple API**
Based on a single lightning fast RestFUL HTTP url, all options are easy to pass and reason about.

- **GDPR Compliant**
If you are working with personal data and need to ensure that your processor is GDPR compliant, look no further.

- **Fast Rendering**
Direct Display on Webpage

Restpack Browser Mockup API

Transform any URL into an image with Abstract's Website Screenshot API

**Website screenshot API**
_Transform any URL into an image with Abstract's Website Screenshot API_

- Resizing and cropping
- Highly customizable
- High quality screenshot
- Lightning fast loading

**Abstract's Website Screenshot API helps you take reliable, customizable screenshots of any URL**

- **Powerful website to image API**
Abstract's Website Screenshot API is designed with the right mix of power and simplicity: making it easy for you to the an image of any site, exactly how you want it, and when you want it.
- **A simple, fast, and reliable REST API**
Abstract's Website Screenshot API is built to industry standards to make it easy for you to implement quickly and then forget it. We handle everything else so you can focus on your business.
- **Robust image rendering engine**
The Website Screenshot API's powerful rendering engine handles anything you can throw at it, from HTML to CSS,  SVG to Webfonts, Graphs, Images, and more.
- **Highly customizable image options**
Get the website screenshot image in any format (PNG, JPEG, etc) as well as sent or stored almost anywhere you like. The Website Screenshot API will adapt to your workflow.
- **Set view port, dimensions, and more**
Get exactly the website screenshot you need with the ability to specify the screenshot's view port and dimensions. Take seamless screenshots for web, tablet, mobile, and more.
- **Inject custom CSS**
Abstract's Website Screenshot API makes it easy to modify the target page by injecting custom CSS into the request. Add your own CSS and get the exact screenshot you want.
- **Set custom timing and delayed captures**
The powerful customization continues, with the ability to add in capture delays and other custom timing to ensure you get the exact screenshot you want of the website.
- **Bank-level security for all queries**
Security is very important to us, so all data that is sent to Abstract's Website Screenshot API and processed by Abstract is secured by 256-bit SSL encryption (HTTPS).

Website screenshot API

Create highly customizable avatar images with a person's name or initials to improve your user experience.

**User Avatar API**
_Create highly customizable avatar images with a person's name or initials to improve your user experience._

- Various avatar styles
- Highly customizable
- High quality retina support
- Lightning fast loading

**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.
- **Bank-level security for all queries**
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).

User Avatar API

Screenshotlayer is a lightweight REST API built to deliver high quality PNG, JPEG & GIF website screenshots.

**Capture highly customizable snapshots of any website**
_Powerful Screenshot API for any application_

**Reliable & Queueless Screenshot Automation** 
- **URL to Screenshot**
High resolution PNG, JPEG and GIF website screenshots returned as an image URL within seconds, compatible with any of your applications »
- **Simple & Fast API**
Requested using an easy-to-integrate URL structure, processed by a powerful screenshot rendering engine, and delivered within seconds »
- **Advanced Options**
Set your preferred thumbnail dimensions and viewport, inject your own CSS, specify a capturing delay, export to AWS S3 or FTP, and more »
- **Advanced Export Options**
Have our API upload your screenshots directly to your AWS S3 Bucket or to an FTP path of your own.
- **Integrate anywhere, any way**
Snapshots are returned instantly as compact image URLs. Just make a request using the simple URL Structure, and let our API do the rest.

Screenshotlayer API

An image manipulation/data serving API written with a variety of languages.

**A Powerful and Fast API that can do amazing things.**
Built with a variety of languages to maximise performance, Dagpi is fast and reliable

**Easiest Image Manipulation Ever**
Powered by powerful networking APIs, Dagpi saves you from having to run resource intensive image manipulation on your own hardware. Simply utilise our services and our SDKs for easy image manipulation. No assembly required.

**A curated collection of data at your fingertips**
From roasts, jokes, and pickup lines, to entire countries, waifus, and full fledged game data. Add a new degree of user engagement with our vast data archive.

**Powerful Statistics**
Our rich and informative dashboard features not only full administrative access, but also boasts of a wealth of metrics that are visualised for your understanding.

**_All the characteristics of a Modern API_**
**Fast**
Dagpi is lightning quick, using the fastest web development framework available

**Secure**
Cloudflare HTTPS is used for top-tier, industry standard security

**Easy to Use**
With plenty of documentation, Dagpi is a breeze to implement

**Open Source**
All source code is publicly available for viewing and contributions

**Wrappers in Major Languages**
API wrappers are provided in numerous major languages for user convenience

**Active Community**
Dagpi boasts an active community on Discord that's always willing to lend a hand

Dagpi

Create images from templates with our API.

### Image & Video Generation API
Use the editor to create a reusable template. All the text, videos and images in a template are objects you can modify via the API.

- Easy to integrate with your app.
- Fast and scalable rendering.
- Synchronous image generation.

Glitterly provides a synchronous JSON-based API and a URL for programmatic creation of images from base templates.

The templates are created in the Glitterly drag&drop editor. All items that you add to your template are objects that can be modified via the API - send the template id and your changes and Glitterly will create the image synchronously.

Glitterly API

#### Features

- Customizable image complexity.
- Selection of rendering cell shape.

#### Parameters
These are the optional parameters available in the API:

**complexity**
This parameter determines the bits length of the x and y axes randomly generated numbers.

**cellShape**
This parameter determines the rendering method. As each enabled position within the SVG output can be rendered independently, the API allows you to select the way it will be draw. There are five defined methods for this property:

- Square (default)
- Circle
- Triangle
- Diamond
- Heart

Random Image Generator API

We've created a screenshots API which helps you to take screenshots from websites without having to use browsers or infrastructure.

### Automated Screenshots API
Take screenshots of websites with an easy to use automated API.

#### Capture screenshots automatically
Keep track of the visual changes on all pages you crawl with an easy to use Screenshot API. Get screenshots of the entire pages in JPEG format on different devices and screen sizes.

#### Capture and save screenshots
Easily add images taken by the Screenshots API in your apps. No need to worry about technologies used to take screenshots or image resizing or browsers.

Screenshots API is protected by ProxyCrawl anti bot detection services.

#### Websites to Images
Screenshots API uses latest Chrome browsers to functionally take screenshots of any website on any screen resolution.

#### Take screenshots for your project without worrying about your infrastructure
Join other top innovative companies using our tools and APIs

ProxyCrawl Screenshot API

Create with the largest open collection of high-quality photos.

### The most powerful photo engine in the world.
Welcome to the Official Unsplash API.

#### Simple integration
The Unsplash API is a modern JSON API that surfaces all of the info you’ll need to build any experience for your users. It’s so simple to use that we even run unsplash.com on it!

#### Unlimited requests.
Fast, flexible and almost without limits.

#### We can handle any volume.
We trust our API so much, we even run Unsplash.com on it.

#### Simple setup.
Whether you’re building an experimental or an advanced app, we make setup easy.

#### Designed and optimized for your workflow.

- Dynamically resizable images
- Mobile SDKs
- Works with all libraries in your language
- Rasily integrated into your tools


Unsplash API

Auto-generate Banners, Social Media Images or QR Codes Made easy

Generating content is hard, so we built a tool for you to generate social media images, banners from your own design templates with no coding!

#### Our Image Generation API allows you to
- Use a drag-and-drop image editor (No HTML/CSS knowledge required).
- Integrate with Zapier, Integromat, n8n, Airtable & UiPath and other Nocode platforms.
- Powerful image API - All the text and visual elements' properties can be modified via API.
- Templates for Facebook posts, Instagram posts and other social media posts.

#### Auto-generate with a simple REST API Request!
All the properties can be overridden with JSON to create multiple new images from a reusable template.

#### Automation and Integrations
APITemplate.io supports Python, UiPath, C# and REST API integration for you to create PDFs and Images.

#### Want some ideas? Here are some popular use cases:
- Generate quote images or posters.
- Infographics generation.
- Image ID, asset QR code generation or barcode generation.
- Bulk image generation with our Airtable integration.

Image Generation API

Tags and classifies visual content using machine learning at a glance.

#### How does it work?
Image Labeling API makes it easy to extract labels/tags from your images and detect for specific content out-of-the-box. Our pre-trained models enable you to analyze images for objects, colors, food, explicit content and other subjects for insights into your visual content.

We use deep learning algorithms to analyze images for scenes, objects, and other content. The response includes keywords that provide information about the content.

#### What can you do with our API?
Image labeling gives you insight into the content of images. When you use the API, you get a list of the entities that were recognized: people, things, places, activities, and so on. Each label found comes with a score that indicates the confidence the ML model has in its relevance. With this information, you can perform tasks such as automatic metadata generation and content moderation.

#### Key Features
- Full privacy.
- Pre-trained models.
- Accurate extractions.

Image Labeling API

Resizes and creates images with all appropriate sizes for any social media service.

Currently, businesses are putting in a considerable amount of money for social media marketing. There are plenty of resources deployed for creating visually appealing images and videos.

#### What does this API do?
Resizes and creates appropriate social network images for given service and returns resized image’s url. You can pass the *orientation* parameter for each service for the intended image format.

For improper image sizes, API crops images from center point.

Image generator for social networks such as;
- Instagram.
- Twitter.
- Facebook.
- Linkedin.
- YouTube.
- Pinterest.
- Tumblr.

#### Key Features
- Fast and reliable.
- Easy to use.

Social Media Assets Generator API

Performs BRISQUE algorithm on the image and predicts an image quality score.

#### What is Image Quality Assessment?
It is easy to take photos, but it is difficult to take good ones. It requires good composition and good lighting. The right lens and top quality hardware can make a big difference. Most importantly, a high quality photo requires good taste and judgment. You need an expert eye. But is there a mathematical measure of quality that constitutes this human judgment?

There is a scientific method called BRISQUE (Blind/Referenceless Image Spatial Quality Evaluator ) which is a no-reference image quality score well-accepted in the market. This API is a scalable and performant implementation of this method.

#### Use cases
- Determining the best image of the product to display on the front page.
- Sort the products/listings based on the image quality score on your e-commerce site.
- Show only the high-quality images for adverts.
- Only permitting high-quality images for your listing/product.

#### Key Features
- Fast and scalable.
- No human touch.
- Privacy Compliant.
- Pre-trained models.

Image Quality Assessment API

Classifies images and detects children, teenagers and babies automatically.

#### What does it do?
Minor Detection API will classify pictures and returns True if it is able to detect a child, teenager or a baby. This is useful if you run a business that needs heavy moderation of preventing users from posting pictures of minors.

#### How it works:
If a minor is detected in the image, a confidence score will be calculated for the result and returned. A score of 1 would mean that the content almost certainly contains a minor in it while a score close to 0 would imply that we are not that sure. In most cases, value of 0.5 is safe to go.

#### Where to use it
Minor Detection API is predominantly used by social media and news sites where a massive amount of user generated data needs to be moderated lightning fast. Instead of manually approving all uploaded images or hosting inappropriate images until someone reports, using Minor Detection API helps you prevent any complaints.

#### Key Features
- Fast response time.
- Pre-trained models.
- Auto rotates images.
- Predicts a confidence score.

Minor Detection API

Intelligently identify important elements of an image and retain it during cropping.

Smart image cropping API is a powerful tool that helps you to automatically generate human-like, satisfying cropped images. First, it identifies the important elements of an image by using image processing and computer vision algorithms and then crops the image using the aspect ratio or the width/height variables you've provided, without losing the most relevant parts of the content.

#### Use cases
- **Media companies** for displaying the most important part of the image on a smaller screen or with a different aspect ratio than the original image file.
- **Mobile apps.** They have smaller frames and popular apps now have square formats for images.
- **E-commerce sites.** There are many areas where a product image needs to be displayed, all in a different format (listing, product detail page, recommendations..). Smart crop API ensures the image doesn’t lose its content.

#### How it works
Smart image cropping API requires an image URL and one of the resizing options: aspect ratio or width/height to work.The algorithm takes into account multiple factors while calculating the most important region of the image. It applies a set of filters: 
- The rule of third. 
- Saliency detection. 
- Face detection. 
- Edge detection.

15 of the Best Images Apis