geoPlugin
- Free allowance
- No free plan: the legacy keyless service at geoplugin.net answers HTTP 403 and says the API is no longer available for free use; the pricing page says there is no free trial and the cheapest plan, Basic, allows 100 requests a day at USD 10 a month.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota100 requests a day on the Basic plan, reset at midnight UTC; cached responses do not count
- Evidence
- documented28 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | No free plan: the legacy keyless service at geoplugin.net answers HTTP 403 and says the API is no longer available for free use; the pricing page says there is no free trial and the cheapest plan, Basic, allows 100 requests a day at USD 10 a month. unit none; metered on none; Basic is shown as USD 10 a month, or USD 8 a month with the annual option; Starter is USD 25 (1,000 a day), Professional USD 50 (5,000 a day), Business USD 100 (20,000 a day) and Enterprise USD 200 (100,000 a day), each with a cheaper annual price. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota The plan's daily count is the only stated limit for the keyed API; past it calls continue but may be throttled. |
| Identity | card registration takes an email address and a password (full name optional) or Google sign-in; every API plan is paid by card or PayPal, and there is no free plan or trial |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated for the keyed API |
| Interface | rest GET https://api.geoplugin.com/?ip=ADDRESS&auth=KEY and GET https://api.geoplugin.com/me?auth=KEY, with an optional lang parameter; JSON with geoplugin_* fields; a call with no key answers HTTP 400 No API key provided; the legacy http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp answers HTTP 403 endpoint: https://api.geoplugin.com/ |
| Tooling | any HTTP client |
| Composes with | No free route: the cheapest keyed plan is Basic, 100 requests a day for USD 10 a month, and cached responses do not count against the daily limit. Bulk path: none stated |
| Reliability | Third-party reports of the same 403 message date from 2025-09-01. |
| Notes | Free requests: none; the legacy free endpoint answers HTTP 403. Rate limit: no per-minute limit is stated for the keyed API; the daily count is 100 on Basic. Not stated for the keyed API. Bulk path: none stated. |
| Evidence note | documented The legacy endpoint's HTTP 403 answer was read through a fetch, and a keyless call to the keyed API answered HTTP 400. Two third-party reports (2025-09-01 and 2026-02-22) give the same 403 message. No keyed lookup was made. |
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Evidence 28
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=8.8.8.8 | the legacy geoplugin.net endpoint answers HTTP 403 |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=8.8.8.8 | the legacy endpoint states that the API is no longer available for free use |
| 2026-11-02 | forums.concretecms.org/t/geolocation-service-is-discontinued | a third-party forum thread was created on 2025-09-01 |
| 2026-11-02 | forums.concretecms.org/t/geolocation-service-is-discontinued | that thread reports the geoPlugin message that the API is no longer available for free use, so the free service had closed by 2025-09-01 |
| 2026-11-02 | github.com/viking-gps/viking/issues/357 | a third-party issue was opened on 2026-02-22 |
| 2026-11-02 | github.com/viking-gps/viking/issues/357 | that issue shows the same HTTP 403 JSON answer from geoplugin.net/json.gp |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | there is no free trial and the cheapest plan allows 100 requests a day |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | Basic is shown at 10 and 8 a month for 100 requests a day |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | the page has a monthly and an annual option, the annual one saving 20% |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | Starter is 25 and 20 a month for 1,000 requests a day |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | Professional is 50 and 40 a month for 5,000 requests a day |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | Business is 100 and 80 a month for 20,000 requests a day |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | Enterprise is 200 and 160 a month for 100,000 requests a day |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | the daily limit resets at midnight UTC and cached responses do not count |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | past the daily limit calls continue but may be throttled |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | plans are paid by card or PayPal |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/pricing | the closing button of the pricing page is labelled Start Free Trial and links to the registration page |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/docs | the documented API needs an API key from the developer dashboard |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/docs | the documented request URL carries the key in the auth parameter |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/auth/register | registration takes an optional full name, an email address and a password |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/auth/register | Google sign-up is offered |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/webservices/json | the pricing blurb on the JSON web service page says no credit card is required |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/aup | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/aup | not published |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/faq | the FAQ still describes the free lookup limit of 120 requests a minute |
| 2026-11-02 | www.geoplugin.com/ | the home page still says no API key is required |
| 2026-11-02 | probe: https://api.geoplugin.com/?ip=8.8.8.8 | a keyless call to api.geoplugin.com answered HTTP 400 |
| 2026-11-02 | probe: https://api.geoplugin.com/?ip=8.8.8.8 | the keyed API answers No API key provided to a call with no key |
More fields 2
| bulk path | none stated |
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| free requests | none |
Unknown values 1
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer