- Free allowance
- A free tier with an API key and no credit card; its allowance is not published; a keyless single lookup answers HTTP 401; plans from EUR 10 a month for 100,000 requests
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaunverified: the free tier's allowance is not published
- Evidence
- documented12 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 | a free tier with an API key and no credit card; its allowance is not published; a keyless single lookup answers HTTP 401; plans from EUR 10 a month for 100,000 requests unit requests; metered on unstated; unverified: the free allowance; no page states a number. Medium is EUR 20 a month for 300,000 requests and Large EUR 49 for 1,000,000. |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) unverified: the free tier's allowance is not published source
- per-object-cap up to 100 IPs per batch request source
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| Binding | volume-quota the free allowance is unpublished; the paid plans are metered in requests a month. |
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| Identity | email first name, last name, email and password on the sign-up form; no credit card required |
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| Egress | not applicable: JSON answers, not metered in bytes |
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| Per-object cap | one IP per GET /api/v1/ip/{ip}; POST /api/v1/ip/batch takes up to 100 IPs |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest GET https://ip-api.io/api/v1/ip/{ip}?api_key={key} answers JSON with location, ISP, ASN and suspicious_factors; POST https://ip-api.io/api/v1/ip/batch takes up to 100 IPs, and the key is optional there |
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| Tooling | any HTTP client or the official SDKs |
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| Composes with | Location plus VPN, proxy, Tor and threat flags in one answer; the free allowance is unpublished, so the paid plans from EUR 10 a month are the stated working route. Bulk path: POST /api/v1/ip/batch, up to 100 IPs, one credit per unique IP. |
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| Reliability | a keyless single lookup answers HTTP 401 Valid API key is required; anonymous batch requests are rate limited per IP with no published limit |
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| Notes | Free requests: unverified; no page states the free allowance. Rate limit: anonymous batch requests are rate limited per IP, limit not published. Bulk path: POST /api/v1/ip/batch, up to 100 IPs, key optional, one credit per unique IP. |
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| Evidence note | documented The home, product, bulk and sign-up pages were quoted on 2026-11-02 and a keyless single lookup answered HTTP 401; no keyed lookup was made and no page states the free allowance, so it is unverified. |
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