- Free allowance
- Free plan, USD 0.00 a month: 100 lookups a month with location data and HTTPS and no support
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota100 lookups a month on the Free plan
- Evidence
- documented22 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 | Free plan, USD 0.00 a month: 100 lookups a month with location data and HTTPS and no support unit requests; metered on request-count; Standard is USD 12.99 a month (USD 11.99 billed yearly) for 50,000 lookups, then USD 0.0010392 each; Business USD 59.99 for 500,000 with Bulk Lookups; Business Pro USD 99.99 for 2,000,000. An answer that errors is not counted. |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) 100 lookups a month on the Free plan source
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| Binding | volume-quota 100 lookups a month is exhausted first; no rate is stated. |
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| Identity | email a sign-up with first name, last name, email, password and a billing address (address, postal code, country, city); no card number is asked on the free sign-up form |
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| Egress | not applicable: JSON or XML answers, not metered in bytes |
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| Per-object cap | one IP per request on the Free plan; Bulk Lookups are listed from the Business plan |
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| Retention | not applicable: a lookup API |
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| Interface | rest GET http(s)://api.ipapi.com/api/{ip}?access_key={key} answers JSON or XML; a call without a key answers HTTP 401 with error code 101 missing_access_key |
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| Tooling | any HTTP client |
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| Composes with | 100 lookups a month is a test allowance only; the paid plans from USD 12.99 a month are the working route. Bulk path: Bulk Lookups on Business, USD 59.99 a month, and above; none free. APILayer, the vendor, also sells ipstack, which has its own record. |
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| Reliability | usage notices are sent at 75%, 90% and 100% of the monthly allowance; a call without a key answers HTTP 401 with error code 101 |
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| Notes | Free requests: 100 a month. Rate limit: not stated. Bulk path: Bulk Lookups from the Business plan; none free. |
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| Evidence note | documented The pricing, FAQ, home and sign-up pages were quoted on 2026-11-02 and a keyless call answered HTTP 401; no keyed lookup was made, so the answers and any rate limit on the Free plan are unverified. |
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