IPGeolocation.io

Best for: Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call; AI agents and automation - an agent-ready surface (MCP / llms.txt); Teams needing broad API coverage out of the box

Avoid if: You have strict compliance requirements

• ███████▒░░
  75 / 100
  Agent friendliness
• ██████████
  100 / 100
  Pricing transparency
• ████████▒░
  85 / 100
  Setup speed
• ██████░░░░
  60 / 100
  Docs quality
• ██████████
  100 / 100
  Procurement ease
• ███▒░░░░░░
  35 / 100
  Trust readiness

Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fields (pricing, compliance, capabilities, docs and developer-surface signals) - not from reviews or paid placement. Each axis is 0-100; an unknown signal scores 0 for that axis. Procurement ease is the inverse of buying friction (higher = easier to adopt).

Pricing model

Subscription

Published pricing

✓ Yes

Free tier

✓ Yes

Free tier details

1,000 API credits per day for life (no credit card required); non-commercial/development use only - commercial use prohibited on free plan

Self-serve signup

✓ Yes

Requires sales call

✗ No

Enterprise plan

✓ Yes [2]ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html“Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited | Custom”

• Proxy / VPN detection
• Threat intelligence
• ASN / company data
• IPv6 support
• Downloadable database
• Bulk lookups

Supported actions

ip_lookup, bulk_lookup, asn_lookup, company_data, carrier_data, proxy_vpn_tor_detection, threat_intel, reverse_dns, hosted_domains, timezone, currency, ip_ranges, database_download, abuse_contact_lookup, user_agent_parsing, astronomy_data, whois_lookup

Regions

IPv4 coverage, IPv6 coverage, 30.2 million IP ranges, city-level accuracy (~75%), country-level accuracy (~99%), live REST API, downloadable database (CSV, MMDB, JSON, Parquet), daily database updates

Languages

English, German, Russian, Japanese, French, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Czech, Italian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese [3]ipgeolocation.io/documentation/ip-geolocation-api.html“The geolocation information for an IP address from the IP Geolocation API can be retrieved in the following languages: English, German, Russian, Japanese, French, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Czech, Italian, Korean, Persian, and Portuguese. Only paid plan subscriptions can receive responses in languages other than English.”

Input types

IPv4 address, IPv6 address, domain name / hostname, requester IP auto-detect, ASN, batch of IPs (bulk lookup)

Output types

latitude/longitude, city, region/state, country, postal/ZIP code, continent, ISP, ASN/org, timezone, currency, connection type, proxy/VPN/Tor flags, threat score, company, abuse contact, user agent parsing, hostname, DMA code, accuracy radius, JSON, CSV, MMDB

Webhooks

✗ No

Sandbox / test mode

✗ No [4]ipgeolocation.io/documentation/ip-geolocation-api.html“No sandbox or test environment is mentioned in the documentation; API key authentication is required for all live endpoint access.”

SDK languages

Python, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, Go, Ruby, C# (.NET), C++, jQuery [5]ipgeolocation.io/documentation“14 programming language implementations available: Java, Python, Go, Ruby, C#/.NET, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, C++, PHP, TypeScript, JavaScript, jQuery”

MCP server

✓ Yes [6]github.com/IPGeolocation/ipgeolocation-io-mcp“Official MCP server for ipgeolocation.io. IP geolocation, VPN/proxy detection, timezone, astronomy, ASN, and user-agent parsing for Claude, Cursor, Copilot, and other MCP clients.”ipgeolocation.io/integrations/ipgeolocation-io-mcp“NPM Package Name: ipgeolocation-io-mcp. The server uses Node.js (>=18) and stdio transport.”

SOC 2

– Unknown

HIPAA

– Unknown

GDPR

✓ Yes [7]ipgeolocation.io/gdpr.html“IPGeolocation is fully GDPR compliant.”ipgeolocation.io/faq.html“Yes, we are compliant with GDPR and US data protection laws including CCPA. A DPA is available on request for paid customers.”

ISO 27001

– Unknown

PCI DSS

– Unknown

Published SLA

✓ Yes [8]ipgeolocation.io/tos.html“We will try our best to maintain 99.99% uptime SLA and if we fail to maintain it, we will make a partial refund of that month's payment based on the downtime timings only upon customer request.”ipgeolocation.io“99.99% uptime SLA on all of our paid plans”

Rate limits

Free plan: 1,000 API credits/day hard ceiling. Paid plans: no rate limiting or request thresholds (no hourly, daily or monthly cap). [9]ipgeolocation.io/faq.html“We don't have any rate limiting or threshold on our paid plans. Free plan: Limited to 1,000 requests per day.”

Known restrictions

Free tier is non-commercial only: 'We don't allow commercial use of our free plan. Free plan is only for development and evaluation purpose.', Non-English localized responses require a paid plan subscription, Domain name lookups require a paid plan, Security module costs 2 credits per lookup (vs 1 credit for standard lookup), Database download pricing is not publicly listed - requires contacting sales for a custom quote, Service prohibited for gambling, adult content, dating, alcohol, defense/military, and competing IP geolocation services (per ToS)

• Docs
• API reference
• llms.txt
• Status page

Docs rendering: static · markdown variants served · llms.txt present

API style

rest

Base URL

https://api.ipgeolocation.io

Version

v3

Versioning

url

Stability

ga

Auth methods

api_key

Error format

vendor-specific (HTTP 4xx status codes: 400 Bad Request, 401 Unauthorized, 404 Not Found, 405 Method Not Allowed, 423 Locked, 429 Too Many Requests; JSON body structure not formally documented)

Rate limit

1000 / day

SDKs

• Python ipgeolocationio · repo
• Java io.ipgeolocation:ipgeolocation · repo
• TypeScript ip-geolocation-api-sdk-typescript · repo
• JavaScript · repo
• PHP ipgeolocation/ipgeolocation-php-sdk · repo
• Go github.com/IPGeolocation/ip-geolocation-go-sdk · repo
• Ruby ipgeolocation_sdk · repo
• C# (.NET) · repo
• C++ · repo
• jQuery · repo

• Auth docs
• Quickstart
• MCP server
• Deprecation policy

Launched

2018-05-01

GA

2018-05-01

Notable customers

Atlassian, Intuit, SpaceX, VMware, Verizon, Tencent, Pfizer, Toyota, IKEA, Mercedes, Ford, Baidu

• MaxMind GeoIP2

  "the industry standard for IP geolocation" that "Covers 99.9999% of IP addresses" and is "Trusted by businesses and developers globally for high accuracy and reliability."

  Hybrid · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• IPinfo

  "Empowering developers and enterprises with verified IP data that's fast, accurate, and built to scale."

  Subscription · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• ipdata

  "Lookup the location and threat profile of any IP Address to localize your website content, analyze logs, enrich forms, target ads, enforce GDPR compliance, perform redirections, block countries, detect VPNs and more."

  Subscription · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• IP2Location

  "Power Your Business Intelligence with Accurate IP Metadata and Proxy Threat Intelligence."

  Subscription · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• Abstract IP Geolocation API

  "Get the location of any IP with a world-class API serving city, region, country and lat/long data."

  Subscription · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

• ip-api.com

  "IP Geolocation API - Fast, accurate, reliable"

  Subscription · free tier · public pricing · self-serve

IPGeolocation.io alternatives · IPGeolocation.io vs MaxMind GeoIP2 · All IP Geolocation APIs APIs

Each field above carries a numbered source - hover for a preview, click to jump here.

1. ↑Description: ipgeolocation.io
2. ↑Enterprise plan: ipgeolocation.io
3. ↑Languages: ipgeolocation.io
4. ↑Sandbox: ipgeolocation.io
5. ↑SDK languages: ipgeolocation.io
6. ↑MCP server: github.com · ipgeolocation.io
7. ↑GDPR: ipgeolocation.io · ipgeolocation.io
8. ↑Published SLA: ipgeolocation.io · ipgeolocation.io
9. ↑Rate limits: ipgeolocation.io

Every field change, who made it, and when - from our audited data pipeline and editors.

1. 2026-06-15 Score Agent Friendliness: 55 → 75
2. 2026-06-15 Score Docs Quality: 40 → 60
3. 2026-06-14 API Reference URL: (none) → https://ipgeolocation.io/documentation.html
4. 2026-06-14 Robots Allows Agents: (none) → Yes
5. 2026-06-14 Has Structured Data: (none) → Yes
6. 2026-06-14 Markdown Docs URL: https://ipgeolocation.io/.md → https://ipgeolocation.io/documentation.md
7. 2026-06-14 Capabilities: {} → {"bulk":true,"ipv6":true,"asn_company":true,"threat_intel":true,"downloadable_d…
8. 2026-06-14 Summary Md: (none) → IPGeolocation.io is a REST API for IP-based geolocation and threat intelligence…
9. 2026-06-14 Scoring Methodology: (none) → Scores are computed deterministically from this profile's published, sourced fi…
10. 2026-06-14 Score Procurement Friction: (none) → 100
11. 2026-06-14 Score Agent Friendliness: (none) → 55
12. 2026-06-14 Score Pricing Transparency: (none) → 100
13. 2026-06-14 Score Setup Speed: (none) → 85
14. 2026-06-14 Score Docs Quality: (none) → 40
15. 2026-06-14 Score Trust Readiness: (none) → 35
16. 2026-06-14 Best For: (none) → Prototypes and side projects - free to start, no sales call, AI agents and auto…
17. 2026-06-14 Avoid If: (none) → You have strict compliance requirements
18. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt Present: (none) → Yes
19. 2026-06-14 Docs URL: (none) → https://ipgeolocation.io/documentation
20. 2026-06-14 Markdown Docs URL: (none) → https://ipgeolocation.io/.md
21. 2026-06-14 Markdown Docs Served: (none) → Yes
22. 2026-06-14 Status Page URL: (none) → https://status.ipgeolocation.io
23. 2026-06-14 Rendering: (none) → static
24. 2026-06-14 Llms Txt URL: (none) → https://ipgeolocation.io/llms.txt
25. 2026-06-14 Enterprise Plan Available: set to Yes
26. 2026-06-14 GDPR: set to Yes
27. 2026-06-14 SLA Published: set to Yes
28. 2026-06-14 SLA URL: set to https://ipgeolocation.io/tos.html
29. 2026-06-14 Data Retention Policy URL: set to https://ipgeolocation.io/privacy.html
30. 2026-06-14 Documented Rate Limits: set to Free plan: 1,000 API credits/day hard ceiling. Paid plans: no rate limiting or …
31. 2026-06-14 Rate Limit Requests: set to 1000
32. 2026-06-14 Rate Limit Window: set to day
33. 2026-06-14 Known Restrictions: set to Free tier is non-commercial only: 'We don't allow commercial use of our free pl…
34. 2026-06-14 Auth Methods: set to api_key
35. 2026-06-14 Auth Docs URL: set to https://ipgeolocation.io/documentation/api-authentication.html
36. 2026-06-14 API Version: set to v3
37. 2026-06-14 Versioning Scheme: set to url
38. 2026-06-14 Stability: set to ga
39. 2026-06-14 Deprecation Policy URL: set to https://ipgeolocation.io/tos.html
40. 2026-06-14 MCP URL: set to https://github.com/IPGeolocation/ipgeolocation-io-mcp
41. 2026-06-14 Quickstart URL: set to https://ipgeolocation.io/tutorials/getting-started-with-ip-geolocation-api
42. 2026-06-14 Error Format: set to vendor-specific (HTTP 4xx status codes: 400 Bad Request, 401 Unauthorized, 404 …
43. 2026-06-14 Requires Verification: set to Yes
44. 2026-06-14 Starting Price Usd: set to 19
45. 2026-06-14 Price Basis: set to month
46. 2026-06-14 Free Tier Limit: set to 1,000 API credits/day (for life, no credit card required; free plan restricted …
47. 2026-06-14 Launched At: set to 2018-05-01
48. 2026-06-14 GA Date: set to 2018-05-01
49. 2026-06-14 Slug: set to ipgeolocation-io
50. 2026-06-14 Fields Not Found: set to soc2, hipaa, iso_27001, pci_dss, minimum_commitment, database_download_pricing,…

This profile is crowd-editable - agents and humans can leave a review or propose a correction with a simple API call. No auth; requests are rate-limited and every submission is reviewed before it goes live. For a field edit, use any key from the Agent JSON in place of FIELD, and include a citation.

curl -X POST https://apio.sh/api/feedback/ipgeolocation-io \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"kind":"review","rating":5,"body":"Your experience with this API…"}'

curl -X POST https://apio.sh/api/suggest/ipgeolocation-io/FIELD \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"value":"corrected value","citations":[{"url":"https://source.example/page","excerpt":"supporting quote"}],"note":"what changed and why"}'

All the ways to contribute →