Migrating from Clearbit to Context.dev
Clearbit deprecated their logo API. Context.dev gives you logos, colors, fonts, and more.
What Happened with Clearbit?
- As of Q1 2024, this endpoint was shut down for general use. Only paying customers on higher-tier plans (Enterprise) may retain access, and even that access is restricted and undocumented.
- No official deprecation notice was issued publicly, but multiple developers reported silent failures, 403s, and "access removed" messages.
- Result: Thousands of developers and tools relying on Clearbit's logo service were left without a viable alternative or migration path.
What Is Context.dev?
Context.dev is a developer-focused API that extracts key branding elements from any domain, including logos, font styles, color palettes, metadata, and industry classification. This enables software platforms to automatically personalize user experiences with visual consistency and zero design lift.
Common use cases include:
- Automatically themed onboarding flows
- Branded client dashboards or portals
- Pre-filled design templates
- Embeddable widgets or microsites with native styling
Unlike the Clearbit Logo API or Logo.dev which return only a logo, Context.dev is a complete brand identity API that offers fast, scalable access to logos, colors, fonts, and design-critical information from any domain.
Feature Comparison: Context.dev vs. Clearbit
| Feature | Context.dev | Clearbit |
|---|---|---|
| Logo Support | Actively maintained, high-res, multiple variants | Deprecated for public use (as of 2024) |
| Color Palette Extraction | Full theme detection (primary/secondary colors) | Not supported |
| Font Extraction | Yes – pulls from CSS/web fonts | Not supported |
| Metadata (title, favicon) | Yes | Yes |
| Industry Classification | NAICS + general category | Yes (via enrichment, not free) |
| API Access | Open, usage-based billing | Restricted, bundled with enrichment suite |
| Developer Focus | Designed for real-time UI/UX rendering | Focused on sales/marketing enrichment |
Use Case Alignment
| Use Case | Context.dev | Clearbit |
|---|---|---|
| Onboarding personalization | ||
| Branded dashboards or white-labeled UIs | ||
| CRM data enrichment | ||
| Marketing lead scoring | ||
| Visual UI theming (fonts, colors) |
Final Thoughts
Clearbit was never designed to be a visual branding tool. It was a B2B data enrichment platform that happened to offer a logo API. With that feature now deprecated, teams looking for front-end ready, design-critical branding data need a new solution.
Context.dev steps in not just as a replacement, but a significant upgrade:
- More data (logos + colors + fonts)
- Better formats (SVGs, transparent backgrounds)
- Faster integration (REST API with UI-ready payloads)
- Fair pricing (no enterprise lock-in)
What your agent can do with context.dev.
You have an agent. Here's what it can do now.
Read the web, live
Give an agent real-time access to any page. Scrape to markdown, render JS, extract images, so the agent reasons over the current web, not a frozen snapshot.
Ground RAG in fresh content
Keep your retrieval index current. Crawl a sitemap, convert every page to clean markdown, and pipe it straight into embeddings, with no brittle parsers in between.
Run deep research on demand
Answer "tell me about this company" with actual sources. Resolve a domain to a typed profile, then expand with custom AI queries pulled from the live site.
Personalize onboarding in a call
Make a new user feel seen from sign-up. One domain → company name, logo, colors, industry, auto-filled before they tab away.
Enrich any entity your agent sees
Turn the references in your prompts into structured data. One call hydrates a company reference with logos, colors, industry, socials, and firmographics.
Make sense of transaction noise
Resolve "SQ *BLUE BOTTLE 8xx" into Blue Bottle Coffee. Identify the brand, attach visuals and metadata, hand the agent something it can actually act on.
What developers say
Feedback from the engineers shipping with us every day.
John Acosta
“As soon as you type in the email, we use Context.dev to collect information about your brand and different logos. Context.dev saves us a lot of time right now.”
Nick Khami
“Onboarding couldn't be simpler. Self-serve sign-up gives you an API key immediately, the documentation is thorough, and we were integrating within 10 minutes.”
Luke Ramsden
“ Getting started is very simple. API docs are great and sign-up is self serve, with an API key generated immediately. Took 10 minutes to start integrating.”
Aaron Edwards
“We're seeing much higher activation rates for our free trials and sign-ups because of it. It's made it a lot simpler for customers to get started with DocsBot and to get to that 'aha' value moment very quickly.”
Vlad Veselukha
“Context.dev offers extensive documentation making the setup super easy. On top of this, there is a dedicated Slack channel in case you have follow-up questions. Overall the API integration process was very smooth.”
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