- Free allowance
- Free API: IP to country, state and city, limited to 500 requests a day with no key; IP to City Lite, IP to Country Lite and IP to ASN Lite databases as monthly CSV and MMDB downloads with no account
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota500 free API requests a day
- Evidence
- documented14 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 API: IP to country, state and city, limited to 500 requests a day with no key; IP to City Lite, IP to Country Lite and IP to ASN Lite databases as monthly CSV and MMDB downloads with no account unit requests; metered on request-count; the Lite downloads are not metered; the City Lite release of October 2026 has 7,786,864 records against 40,982,099 in the paid IP to Location database |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 500 free API requests a day source
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| Binding | volume-quota the API meter of 500 a day is the only limit; the Lite files are unmetered but monthly and less accurate than the paid data |
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| Identity | anonymous no account and no key for the free API or the Lite downloads; the download page asks only to accept the licensing terms |
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| Egress | not applicable |
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| Per-object cap | the October 2026 City Lite CSV is listed at 660.7 MB and is served as an 85,827,400-byte gzip; the MMDB is listed at 121.1 MB (85827400 bytes) |
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| Interface | rest free API: GET api.db-ip.com/v2/free/{ip} with no key, JSON; Lite files at download.db-ip.com/free/dbip-{city,country,asn}-lite-YYYY-MM.{csv,mmdb}.gz, served with no account and honouring HTTP range requests |
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| Tooling | any HTTP client; any MMDB reader for the MMDB files |
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| Composes with | anonymous on both paths: the monthly City Lite file serves unmetered local lookups and the free API covers 500 remote lookups a day; DB-IP Lite is also redistributed by the ip-location-db project on GitHub. Bulk path: the monthly Lite downloads |
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| Reliability | Lite data is updated monthly and has reduced coverage and accuracy (accuracy index 77 against 96 for the paid database) |
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| Notes | Free requests: 500 API requests a day, no key; Lite downloads unmetered. Rate limit: none published beyond the daily count. Bulk path: monthly IP to City Lite, IP to Country Lite and IP to ASN Lite downloads (CSV, MMDB), no account. |
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| Evidence note | documented the free API page and the Lite download pages were quoted on 2026-10-30; a keyless API lookup answered HTTP 200 with city data and a ranged read of the City Lite CSV answered HTTP 206 with no account. The 500-a-day API meter was not exhausted to observe it. |
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