A contributor-run marketplace of 14.6M+ icons, vector illustrations, 3D icons and Lottie animations, paired with browser editors, fifteen design-tool plugins, an AI suite, a REST API and an MCP server.
IconScout is a design-asset marketplace for icons, vector illustrations, 3D icons and Lottie animations, wrapped in browser editors, design-tool plugins, an AI suite, a REST API and an MCP server. The contracting entity named on the terms of use is Design Barn Inc., on a page dated February 10, 2021.
The catalogue is contributor-supplied. Creator profiles are grouped as icon designers, illustrators, motion designers, 3D designers and AI designers, and many publish an hourly rate — $10, $25 and $45 per hour appear on the same page — so a team can commission whoever made the closest asset.
Ownership changed in February 2021: the company announced it had been acquired by LottieFiles and said IconScout would continue as an independent platform. A Southeast Asian technology outlet reported the deal a day later, noting the amount was undisclosed and attributing its account to a press note.
Scale is vendor-reported: the pricing page advertises 14.6M+ customizable design assets and says the platform is trusted by 9 Million+ users worldwide, and no independent audit of either figure surfaced this round.
Per-category detail matters more than the headline total, because format decides whether an asset survives a pipeline. Vector icons number 11.7M+ as SVG, EPS, AI, ICO and PNG; illustrations 791K+ in SVG, EPS, AI, PNG and JPG; 3D icons 876K+ in PNG, BLEND, OBJ, C4D and glTF; Lottie animations 1.5M+ in Lottie JSON, GIF, MP4 and AEP.
Navigation lists a further 160,000+ animated icons, 155,000+ stickers, 3,000+ animated stickers and a 7,000+ Unicons icon-font library; the home page adds 356,500+ 3D characters and avatars plus 80,000+ 3D and animated emojis. Editable source formats make the 3D and Lottie lines usable past a first draft: BLEND and C4D open in a modelling tool you already own, and AEP lets an animator rework a Lottie file rather than accept it as shipped.
The site does not agree with itself on growth rate: the home page promises 10,000+ new daily assets synced into design tools, while the API page describes the same editorial process as adding over 10,000+ new assets each week.
Every account includes editing tools, so recolouring costs nothing extra. The glTF 3D Editor edits 3D icons and exports glTF or GLB for web and AR; the SVG Editor recolours, resizes and modifies vector paths; the Illustration Kit Editor mixes styles into custom illustrations; a batch File Converter outputs SVG, PNG, PDF and EPS; an SVG to Lottie converter auto-animates a static file.
IconScout AI is nine tools. Four generate from a text prompt — Icon Generator, Illustration Generator, Image Generator and 3D Illustration Generator. Two build people: the 3D Character Generator and the 3D Avatar Generator. Three work on existing files: the Vectorizer, the Background Remover and AI Reimagine.
Output format is the decision-relevant detail. The Icon Generator and Illustration Generator produce editable vector SVG, so generated work lands in the same editors as licensed work and can be recoloured in code rather than re-generated. Generation is routed rather than chosen: the page names Flux 2 Pro, Recraft, GPT Image, Grok, Seedream, Qwen and Nano Banana 2, each tool picking whichever suits that asset type. Generated assets are yours to use in personal and commercial projects with no attribution required; the one exclusion is reselling or redistributing the generated files themselves as stock assets.
The plugin flow is short:
For platform teams the sequence differs, because cost is metered:
Step three decides the plan. An icon costs 1 credit, an illustration 10 and a 3D icon 15, so a product downloading mostly 3D assets burns credits fifteen times faster than one downloading icons. Usage emails land at 50%, 75%, 90% and 100% of the allowance.
Shipping motion without an animator. The Lottie line exists in Lottie JSON, GIF, MP4 and AEP, so a developer takes the JSON into a React, iOS or Android build while a designer keeps the AEP for revisions.
Client work billed under one licence. A subscription carries a lifetime commercial licence for all assets and AI generations, so agency output stays usable after a retainer ends. Film and video sit inside the digital licence only while the budget is below $10,000.
Merchandise and print runs. Anything reaching paper or fabric needs the Physical Unlimited License, which the pricing FAQ ties to team plans, so a studio printing packaging or apparel should price that tier from the start.
Embedding a library in your own product. The REST API v3.0 exposes search and download endpoints with cURL, Node, Python and PHP examples, so a presentation tool, site builder or CMS can offer the catalogue natively; searching and browsing are free. For work inside an assistant rather than a product, the MCP server lets a compatible client search the library, check formats and licence, then download SVG, PNG, Lottie JSON, GIF or MP4 in the chat.
It fits poorly if you need one asset outright, need photography or footage, or cannot approve an annual commitment.
https://mcp.iconscout.com/mcp over streamable HTTP, reached through standard OAuth with no separate key to generate, and it works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex and other compatible clients.| Plan | Listed price | Billing unit | AI credits | Licence and team rights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | $19.99 struck through, $14.99 | Per user / month, Billed annually | 500 / month | Unlimited digital use licence; lifetime commercial licence for assets and AI output |
| Team | $49.99 struck through, $24.99 | Per user / month, Billed annually | 1000 / month | Adds Physical Unlimited License, member invites, shared history, collections, palette, unified admin |
| Team+ | $84.99 struck through, $54.99 | Per 5 users / month, Billed annually | 5000 / month | Includes 5 seats, dedicated support channel, training and onboarding |
| API Basic | $99 | Per month | 1,500 API credits | Royalty-free commercial licence, email support |
| API Growth | $499 | Per month | 10,000 API credits | Priority support |
| API Business | $999 | Per month | 25,000 API credits | Dedicated account support |
All three subscription cards are labelled as annual billing, and the page checked this round shows no monthly option and no statement of which billing period the struck-through figure refers to. Team+ is priced per five users, so its headline number is not comparable to its neighbours.
Every AI tool is free to try with no card and the free plan includes 3 generations, and the daily freebies section rotates a new set of premium assets every 24 hours and needs only a free account.
Credits differ on each side. Subscription AI credits are a monthly plan allowance. API credits are weighted by asset — 1, 10 and 15 — and do not roll over: the free plan resets on the 1st of each month, paid plans at the start of the billing cycle. Additional credits are off by default and must be switched on in the dashboard, which prevents surprise overage but stops downloads at the limit until someone acts.
Orders are processed in USD through Stripe or PayPal and a subscription can be cancelled at any time. Cancellation applies from the next billing cycle, after which the account is downgraded to the Free Plan. Cancelling revokes nothing you already have: purchased and downloaded assets remain yours to keep.
A third-party review platform's recommendation strip lists ten comparable products around IconScout, with rating and review count: UI HUT 5.0 (8), Icons8 4.8 (13), Icon buddy 5.0 (8), Get illustrations 4.9 (12), LottieFiles 4.8 (19), Flaticon 5.0 (3), Vectopus 5.0 (3), Blend Icons 5.0 (4), Streamline 5.0 (4) and UI 8 2.4 (9), against IconScout's own 3.0 (7) on the same page. That strip is a recommendation module, not a category ranking, and every sample is in single or low double digits — three reviews cannot separate a 5.0 from a 4.8. Treat it as a shortlist only.
The differences that survive scrutiny are structural. Icon-only libraries do not carry 1.5M+ Lottie animations with AEP source files, and libraries without editable 3D formats cannot be reworked in a modelling tool. The vendor also states that no other asset MCP server ships animated assets today — its own comparative claim, unverified independently this round. The decisive point is rights: whether a rival includes physical and merchandise use at the tier you can afford matters more than catalogue counts.
A fair usage policy dated August 30, 2022 bounds the unlimited claim: mass downloading, re-selling downloaded content and sharing subscriptions between users are all listed as illegitimate use. Enforcement is automatic — when download volume gets unusually high a pop-up appears, downloads stop, and the only options are to wait or contact support.
The licence comparison separates a digital licence from the Physical Unlimited License, and the gap is wide. Under the digital licence, film and video use is capped at budgets below $10,000, while printing, paper merchandise, posters, calendars, mugs, apparel, games and toys are all marked not allowed. The physical licence lifts those to unlimited, though large merchandise runs still need a negotiated custom licence. At any tier, assets and derivative works may not be licensed, sub-licensed, sold, resold or redistributed on their own — even for free — and may not be used as a trademark, design mark, business name, service mark or logo.
Two carve-outs are easy to miss. Brand logos carry a separate Logo Usage License — personal use only, no modification, publication, transfer or commercial purpose. The free-tier Simple License permits commercial use but withholds the right to collect or compile files to build a similar or competing service.
The refund window is seven business days from purchase and applies only if you have not downloaded any assets, so one test download forfeits it, and no partial refund covers an unused annual term. The terms of use page is dated February 10, 2021 and, across the full text checked this round, contains no clause covering rights in AI-generated output — those appear only on the AI and pricing pages. On a third-party review platform the company holds 3.1 from 134 reviews, with 64% at five stars and 21% at one star; the same page notes it has not recently invited reviews, so the sample may not be representative.
The three standard API plans list access to icons, 3D icons and illustrations with SVG and PNG export only; Lottie access and JSON export appear exclusively under the contact-sales custom plan, so an integration needing motion cannot be priced from the public page. The pages also disagree on attribution for free assets: the Simple License says use without attributing the creator is permitted though attribution is strongly encouraged, the daily freebies FAQ says it is generally not required, and the MCP page markets "no attribution" as something premium unlocks. Check the licence attached to the file at download time.
Yes. Cancellation stops auto-renewal from the next billing cycle and downgrades the account to the Free Plan, but purchased and downloaded assets remain yours to keep.
The Simple License covering free files permits commercial use and does not require attribution, though it strongly encourages it. Other pages word this differently, so confirm the licence shown with the file itself.
Not on a digital licence, where printing, packaging and apparel are all marked not allowed. Those uses need the Physical Unlimited License, which the pricing FAQ attaches to team plans; mass production needs a custom licence.
The AI pages state that uploaded content is used only to produce your result, is not used to train models and is not saved to servers, and the MCP page says the server is a transport layer only. Note the scope: the MCP answer adds that how your conversations are handled is governed by your AI provider's terms, and the privacy policy says nothing about model training.
Downloads are metered at 1 credit per icon, 10 per illustration and 15 per 3D icon, and searching is free. Paid plans run from $99 a month for 1,500 credits to $999 a month for 25,000 credits, and unused credits expire at each reset.
The pricing page checked this round shows only annual billing on all three subscription cards, with no monthly option displayed.