- Free allowance
- Free plan: 50K IP geolocation queries a month with an API key (plus 500 Domain WHOIS and 50 Hosted Domain queries), 11 IP attributes; keyless: 1,000 queries a day with no registration
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota50K queries a month with a free key; 1,000 a day keyless, reset at 00:00 UTC; the free plan stops when queries run out
- Evidence
- documented13 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-01checked 2026-10-31 (live); stale on 2026-12-01
| Free tier | Free plan: 50K IP geolocation queries a month with an API key (plus 500 Domain WHOIS and 50 Hosted Domain queries), 11 IP attributes; keyless: 1,000 queries a day with no registration unit requests; metered on request-count; the keyless quota resets at 00:00 UTC daily and is served from the US East region only |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 50K queries a month with a free key; 1,000 a day keyless, reset at 00:00 UTC; the free plan stops when queries run out source
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| Identity | email name, work email and password with an arithmetic question; one plan per email address; the keyless route needs nothing |
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| Egress | not applicable |
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| Per-object cap | not stated: single-IP lookups |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest GET api.ip2location.io/?ip=IP&format=json, keyless or with key=KEY; JSON answer with country, region, city, coordinates, ZIP, time zone, ASN and a public-proxy flag |
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| Tooling | any HTTP client; vendor SDKs for PHP, Python, .NET and others |
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| Composes with | 1,000 keyless lookups a day with no account, or 50K a month with a free key; the LITE database (separate record) covers unmetered local lookups. Bulk path: none on the free API plan |
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| Reliability | the free plan stops answering when its queries run out (no overage); the keyless route is served from one US East region |
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| Notes | Free requests: 50K a month with a free key, or 1,000 a day keyless. Rate limit: none published beyond the quotas. Bulk path: none on the free API; the separate IP2Location LITE download is the bulk route. |
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| Evidence note | documented the pricing page and the signup form were quoted on 2026-10-30, and a keyless lookup answered HTTP 200 naming its 1,000-a-day limit. No account was opened, so the 50K keyed quota is documented only. |
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