- Free allowance
- 1,000 requests a day free forever with an API key, no credit card, the same data as paid plans; free IP to Country and IP to ASN databases (CSV, MMDB) on GitHub, updated daily, no sign-up
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1,000 requests a day with a free key; 50 requests a day per IP address without an API key; the day resets at 00:00:00 UTC
- Evidence
- documented19 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | 1,000 requests a day free forever with an API key, no credit card, the same data as paid plans; free IP to Country and IP to ASN databases (CSV, MMDB) on GitHub, updated daily, no sign-up unit requests; metered on request-count; a keyless request answered with x-ratelimit-limit 50 |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 1,000 requests a day with a free key source
- volume-quota (binding) 50 requests a day per IP address without an API key; the day resets at 00:00:00 UTC source
- request-rate 100 requests per second from a single IP address, within the plan limits source
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| Identity | email email address and password, or GitHub or Google sign-in; no credit card; the databases need no sign-up |
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| Egress | not applicable |
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| Per-object cap | the free ip-to-country.mmdb is 17,278,592 bytes; the batch API (1,000 IPs at once) needs paid credits (17278592 bytes) |
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| Retention | storage of API results is not stated |
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| Interface | rest GET iplocate.io/api/lookup/{ip} with a key (keyless calls answered with a 50-request limit header); database files in the GitHub repository iplocate/ip-address-databases, served through Git LFS |
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| Tooling | any HTTP client; any MMDB reader (GeoLite-compatible format) |
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| Composes with | 1,000 keyed lookups a day with privacy, hosting, company and abuse data, plus daily country and ASN files for local lookups with no account. Bulk path: the free GitHub databases; the batch API needs paid credits |
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| Reliability | a rate of up to 100 requests per second per IP address applies within the plan limits, and a request past a quota answers HTTP 429 |
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| Notes | Free requests: 1,000 a day with a key; a keyless call carried a 50-request limit. Rate limit: none stated within the quota. Bulk path: free daily IP to Country and IP to ASN files on GitHub. |
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| Evidence note | documented the pricing page, the free-database docs, the GitHub repository and the signup page were quoted on 2026-10-30; a keyless lookup answered HTTP 200 with x-ratelimit-limit 50 and a ranged read of the MMDB on GitHub answered HTTP 206. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 1000 requests / day
- volume-quota 50 requests / day
- request-rate 100 requests
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