# Gravatar, free: Reverse email lookup API

> Learn instantly about your user: Gravatar solves the Cold Start Problem – with sharing their email address, Gravatar users share a full profile with you. Retrieve user profile data and avatars for more than 70 million users.

Gravatar's Free plan for the reverse email lookup API costs $0.00 per 1,000 people. We check each provider's docs for 13 fields. Gravatar's docs list 4: Experience, Location, Photo, Languages.
We ran Gravatar in [our reverse email lookup API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-reverse-email-lookup-api.txt). We didn't score any Gravatar plan.
This plan is free. We rank 472 plans for reverse email lookup APIs by price. Half the plans cost $30.333 or less per 1,000 people. [See the best free reverse email lookup API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-reverse-email-lookup-api.txt)
[Minerva's $400 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/minerva/400-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 people. Minerva's reverse email lookup API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [StableEnrich's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/stableenrich/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 people a month: $0.20.
[Village's $25 pack (Reverse Lookup by Email, cached only)](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/village/25-pack-1000-credits-post-v2-people-enrich-by-email-reverse-lookup-by-email-cached-only/llms.txt) covers any number of people. Village's $25 pack costs less up front than Minerva's $400 monthly plan.
[GetProspect](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/getprospect/399-monthly-growth-50k-post-v2-people-enrich/llms.txt), [Village](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/village/1-monthly/llms.txt) and [Findymail](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/findymail/399-monthly-business-plus-post-api-search-reverse-email-reverse-email-lookup-full/llms.txt) are the best reverse email lookup API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/gravatar/free
- [Reverse email lookup API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-reverse-email-lookup-api.txt)
- Get it: https://docs.gravatar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.gravatar.com/v3/profiles/{profileIdentifier}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://docs.gravatar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/api-data-specifications/endpoints-references/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing#7-1-profile-endpoints
- Sold by: Gravatar (https://gravatar.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 31%
- Experience: ✓
- Location: ✓
- Photo: ✓
- Languages: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 people: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: Search for profiles by verified account username · Get list of services supported as verified accounts · Get QR code for an email address' profile

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Learn instantly about your user: Gravatar solves the Cold Start Problem – with sharing their email address, Gravatar users share a full profile with you. Retrieve user profile data and avatars for more than 70 million users.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Basic attribution required" [...] "Attribution negotiable" [...] "To ensure a user-respecting ecosystem, the free use of Gravatar requires:" "Fetch profiles and avatars for your active users only" "Tell users you’re using Gravatar (with a link in your product or docs)" [...] "Yes, Gravatar can be used in commercial applications under both the Free and Pro plans, provided the usage guidelines are followed."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.28
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: profileIdentifier
- Method: GET
- Path: /profiles/{profileIdentifier}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 54 fields the plan's answer can hold

email hash, display name, profile URL, avatar URL, avatar alt text, location, description, job title, company, verified account service type, verified account service label, verified account service icon, verified account URL, verified account hidden, pronunciation, pronouns, timezone, language code, language name, primary language, language order, first name, last name, is organization, header image, hide default header image, background color, link label, link URL, interest ID, interest name, interest slug, payment link label, payment link URL, crypto wallet label, crypto wallet address, home phone, work phone, cell phone, email, contact form, calendar, gallery image URL, gallery image alt text, number of verified accounts, last profile edit, registration date, hidden contact info, hidden feeds, hidden links, hidden interests, hidden wallet, hidden photos, hidden verified accounts

## Gravatar's plans (2)

- [Gravatar, free](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/gravatar/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete
- [Gravatar, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/gravatar/contact-us/llms.txt): 31% complete

## Gravatar's calls (1)

- `GET /profiles/{profileIdentifier}`: [Gravatar, free](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/gravatar/free/llms.txt)

## Gravatar's APIs (1)

- [Gravatar: reverse email lookup API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/gravatar/free/llms.txt)

## Gravatar: reverse email lookup API alternatives

- [GetProspect, free, POST /v2/people/bulk-enrich](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/getprospect/free-post-v2-people-bulk-enrich/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 15% complete, stored
- [Village, free, POST /v2/people/enrich/by-email, Reverse Lookup by Email](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/village/free-post-v2-people-enrich-by-email-reverse-lookup-by-email/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 31% complete, stored
- [Findymail, free trial, POST /api/search/reverse-email, Reverse email lookup](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/findymail/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 54% complete
- [BlitzAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/blitzapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 69% complete, stored
- [Datagalactica, free](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/datagalactica/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://api.gravatar.com/v3/openapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.gravatar.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/api-data-specifications?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/api-data-specifications/data-models?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/api-data-specifications/endpoints-references?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.gravatar.com/rest/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.gravatar.com/sdk/profiles?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing
- https://wordpress.com/tos/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=reverse-email-lookup-api-pricing