What is DiceBear?

DiceBear generates avatars. You give it a seed, it gives you an SVG image, and the same seed always returns the same image. That one property makes it useful for user profiles: use the username or user ID as the seed and every person in your app has a consistent avatar without ever uploading a picture.

The look comes from avatar styles. There are 61 of them, drawn by different artists, ranging from abstract shapes to illustrated characters and robots. That collection is what sets DiceBear apart: no other avatar library has one like it, and all of it is one word in your code or URL away. Every style has options such as background color, flip, or scale, and most add their own, like hair, eyes, or accessories. So an avatar is the answer to three questions: which style, which seed, which options. Curious what happens under the hood? How avatars are made walks through it.

Where it runs

Anywhere, in practice. Libraries for JavaScript, PHP, Python, Rust, Go, Dart, and C# generate avatars directly in your code. The free HTTP API serves them by URL for everything else. A CLI covers batch exports, and the Editor works without any code at all. The integration picker helps you choose. Whatever you pick, results match: the seed Alice renders the same avatar in every library and on the API.

Privacy

The libraries generate avatars entirely on your infrastructure, so no data about your users leaves your systems. If you want the URL-based workflow with the same control, the HTTP API is open source and self-hostable.

Free and open source

The DiceBear code is MIT licensed. The avatar styles carry licenses chosen by their artists, and the license overview shows all of them in one place.