# 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.”

## Ship an agent that actually knows things.

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