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Heroicons

Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons by the Tailwind team

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★4.7ratingPricing · FreeStable
The FalcoScan Intel PanelHeroicons · Design
Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
Low
Band
Saturation
Open
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Stable
Market trend
Rating
4.7
of 5 · FalcoScan rating

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The Brief

What Heroicons does

Heroicons is a set of SVG icons made by the team behind Tailwind CSS. It is released under the MIT license and includes React and Vue libraries. Icons come in Outline, Solid, Mini, and Micro styles, and the Outline style uses a 24x24 grid with a 1.5px stroke. Documentation is hosted on GitHub, and a Figma file is available. The page implies use by developers working with React or Vue and by designers working in Figma. The page does not state a pricing model.

How Heroicons compares with its closest alternatives

All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Heroicons does. Only Flaticon lists a starting price, $10 a month. 2 of the 5 offer an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Heroicons. Heroicons offers a web app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app. Heroicons was founded in 2020; the alternatives were founded between 2012 and 2021, 3 of them earlier.

Market position · Design

How Heroicons compares in Design

Heroicons has low opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 352 live Design tools on FalcoScan. Across Design, the average opportunity score is 52.4 and the average saturation score 41.5. FalcoScan rates Heroicons's own market position as open. 54 of the 352 operating Design tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 23 shutdowns in the category.

Heroicons compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
HeroiconsFounded 2020LowOpenFree—YesNoWebStable
Phosphor IconsFounded 2021LowOpenFree—YesNoWebStable
IconifyFounded 2020ModerateOpenFree—YesYesWeb, APIStable
Font AwesomeFounded 2012LowContestedFreemium—YesYesWebStable
UndrawFounded 2017 · Remote-firstLowOpenFree—YesNoWebStable
FlaticonFounded 2013LowContestedFreemium$10/moYesNoWebStable

Exact opportunity and saturation scores for all 6 of these, and where each ranks in Design.

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Heroicons exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Icon Library
Industry Verticals
DesignSoftware
Tagged

Heroicons shows up when builders search for these

iconsSVGTailwindopen-sourceReact
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Alternatives to Heroicons

Products still running that do the same job, from the design market and related ones, closest match first.

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Phosphor Icons

Flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, and presentations

★ 4.6Opportunity Low
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Iconify

200,000+ icons from every icon set, one unified API

★ 4.6Opportunity Moderate
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Font Awesome

The internet's icon library: 30,000+ icons with AI search

★ 4.7Opportunity Low
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Undraw

Open-source illustrations for every project, free forever

★ 4.6Opportunity Low
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Flaticon

The largest database of free icons, 16M+ icons

★ 4.5Opportunity Low
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Penpot

The open-source Figma alternative, free and self-hostable

★ 4.4Opportunity Moderate
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Questions

Heroicons: common questions

Is Heroicons free?

Yes. FalcoScan lists Heroicons as free to use.

What are the best alternatives to Heroicons?

The closest alternatives to Heroicons that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Phosphor Icons, Iconify, Font Awesome, Undraw, and Flaticon.

Is Heroicons still running?

Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Heroicons as operating at heroicons.com.

Does Heroicons have an API?

FalcoScan's records show no public API for Heroicons.

Who is Heroicons for?

Heroicons is built for designers and developers.

How do I sign in to Heroicons?

Sign in on Heroicons's own website, heroicons.com. FalcoScan reviews Heroicons but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Heroicons directly.

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