The Best Airhex Alternative
for Aviation APIs
Airhex is great for airline logos. Logostream goes further — airport logos, aircraft liveries, embeddable route maps, and a full aviation data API. One key, everything you need.
What Is Logostream?
Logostream is an aviation branding and data API built for travel platforms, OTAs, metasearch engines, and flight-booking products. It provides structured access to airline logos, airport logos, aircraft liveries, and rich aviation datasets — all through a single REST API key.
Common use cases include:
- Airline branding on search results, booking flows, and boarding passes
- Airport logos for terminal guides and wayfinding UIs
- Aircraft livery images on booking confirmations
- Embeddable route maps and network visualisations via a single <img> tag
- Fleet, route, and aircraft-type data for analytics dashboards
Unlike Airhex, which covers airline logos only, Logostream is a complete aviation branding infrastructure — covering logos, liveries, maps, and structured data in one platform with transparent self-serve pricing.
What Is Airhex?
Airhex is an airline logo and data API focused on providing standardised airline branding assets to travel companies. It offers a well-curated library of airline logos in multiple formats and shapes, alongside an airline database and basic geo data (airports, cities, countries).
Its core offering includes:
- 936 airline logos in PNG, SVG (licensed), GIF, and JPEG
- Multiple shapes: rectangular, square, tail, circular
- Dark theme variant and custom background colour
- Airline database with codes, alliances, and operational status
- Airport, city, and country data APIs (JSON / XML / CSV)
Airhex is built primarily for OTAs and travel agencies that need airline logos. It does not offer airport logos, aircraft liveries, route maps, or aircraft type data. Pricing is not published — a custom quote is required for every new customer.
Feature Comparison
How Logostream and Airhex stack up, feature by feature.
Why teams switch to Logostream
Four reasons Logostream is the better long-term choice.
3× more airline logos
Logostream covers 2,700+ airline logos — nearly three times the 936 that Airhex offers. Plus airport logos, aircraft liveries, and stock/bank/crypto logos. All from one API key.
Simple auth, transparent pricing
Airhex uses MD5 hash authentication and doesn't publish prices — you have to request a custom quote. Logostream uses standard Bearer tokens and has clear self-serve tiers with a free plan to start.
Embeddable maps — zero JavaScript
Drop a route map, airline network, traffic heatmap, or range ring directly into any <img> tag. No JavaScript, no tile server, no separate SDK. Airhex has no map capabilities whatsoever.
White & variant support
Need a white logo for a dark background? Airhex only offers a generic dark-theme variant. Logostream serves white, colored, and transparent variants out of the box — plus aircraft livery designs.
Final Verdict
The honest take on which API fits your use case.
Choose Logostream if…
- You need more than just airline logos — airport logos, liveries, or route maps
- You want a self-serve free tier and transparent pricing from day one
- You're building an OTA, metasearch, booking UI, or aviation dashboard
- You need structured aviation data (routes, aircraft types, fleet) alongside branding
- Simple Bearer token auth matters to you — no MD5 hash generation
- You want all aviation branding infrastructure under one API key
Choose Airhex if…
- You only need airline logos and nothing else
- You're already deeply integrated with Airhex and migration cost is high
- Your team is comfortable with MD5 hash-based authentication
- You need XML or CSV data export formats specifically
- Enterprise custom pricing and a dedicated account team is a requirement
What developers say
Feedback from the engineers shipping with us every day.
"We switched from Airhex after realising we needed airport logos too. Logostream covered both with a single key. The self-serve signup had us live in under 15 minutes."
"The route map API is genuinely impressive — one img tag and we had an embeddable network map. No tile server, no JS bundle, nothing. Just works."
"Simple Bearer token auth, great docs, and SVG logos out of the box. We evaluated three providers — Logostream was the only one with transparent pricing and a free tier."
"The aircraft livery API was the deciding factor for us. Our customers love seeing their actual aircraft design on the booking confirmation — that's not something any other provider offers."
"Documentation is thorough and the examples are accurate — always a good sign. We had airline logos, airport logos, and route maps integrated in an afternoon."
"38,000+ routes and 41,000+ airports behind a single REST endpoint. The coverage is far beyond what we expected for the price. Airhex simply doesn't come close to this scope."
Everything Airhex doesn't have — built into Logostream.
Airport logos, aircraft liveries, and route maps. One API key, fully self-serve.
Operating
Airlines Logos
1,100+
Airport
Logos
600+
Aircraft Liveries
2,700+
Simple Integration
with standard identifiers
ICAO, IATA
Daily updates
Global CDN
<100ms worldwide. Edge-cached for every request.
Support for
SVG
PNG
JPG
99.99% Uptime
Mission-critical. GDPR compliant.
Everything aviation in one API
// GET /v1/airlines const res = await fetch( 'https:<comment>//aviation-api.logostream.dev/v1/airlines?iata=LH',</comment> { headers: { 'x-api-key': 'YOUR_KEY' } } ); const { data } = await res.json(); // data[0] { iata: "LH", icao: "DLH", name: "Lufthansa", legal_name: "Deutsche Lufthansa AG", country_code: "DE", home_region: "Europe", alliance: "star_alliance", is_lowcost: false, active: true, year_founded: 1953, base_airport_iata: "FRA", rating_skytrax_stars: 4, website: "https:<comment>//www.lufthansa.com",</comment> colors: { primary: "#05164D", secondary: "#FFAD00" }, logo: { icon: "https:<comment>//api.logostream.dev/airlines/icao/DLH?key=...",</comment> logo: "https:<comment>//api.logostream.dev/airlines/icao/DLH?variant=logo&key=...",</comment> wordmark: "https:<comment>//api.logostream.dev/airlines/icao/DLH?variant=wordmark&key=..."</comment> } }
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions when evaluating Logostream as an Airhex alternative.
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