IPGeolocation.io
- Free allowance
- Developer plan: 1,000 API credits a day for life, no credit card; a standard IP lookup costs 1 credit; no overages and no bulk lookup on the free plan
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1,000 credits a day; a standard lookup is 1 credit
- Evidence
- documented16 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 | Developer plan: 1,000 API credits a day for life, no credit card; a standard IP lookup costs 1 credit; no overages and no bulk lookup on the free plan unit credits; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
unverified: behind a sign-up: the full set of response headers of a keyed lookup |
| Identity | email full name, email address and a password of 12 or more characters, or GitHub (Google sign-in is offered); no credit card |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Per-object cap | single lookups; bulk lookup is not available on the free plan |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest every successful response carries an X-Credits-Charged header with the credits billed; a request with no API key answers HTTP 401 and costs nothing |
| Tooling | any HTTP client |
| Composes with | 1,000 single lookups a day with location, country metadata, currency, ASN and time zone; security, company and bulk need a paid plan (Pro USD 79 a month for 1,000,000 credits). Bulk path: none free |
| Reliability | the free plan has no overage: past 1,000 API credits a day the API answers HTTP 429 until the allowance resets at 00:00 UTC, and no rate limit applies per second or per minute |
| Notes | Free requests: 1,000 credits a day, 1 per standard lookup. Rate limit: none published; requests past the credits are refused. Bulk path: none on the free plan. |
| Evidence note | documented the pricing page and the signup form were quoted on 2026-10-30; no keyed lookup was made, so no value is measured. |
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Evidence 16
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | the free plan needs no card |
| 2026-10-30 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | the Developer plan gives 1000 credits |
| 2026-10-30 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | the credits are per day, for life |
| 2026-10-30 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | part of the text of Reliability, above |
| 2026-10-30 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | a lookup costs 1 credit |
| 2026-10-30 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | bulk lookup is not on the free plan |
| 2026-10-30 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | Pro is USD 79 a month |
| 2026-10-30 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | Pro gives 1,000,000 credits a month |
| 2026-10-31 | app.ipgeolocation.io/signup | the signup page restates 1,000 free credits a day |
| 2026-10-31 | app.ipgeolocation.io/signup | GitHub sign-in is offered |
| 2026-10-31 | app.ipgeolocation.io/signup | the signup form asks a full name |
| 2026-10-31 | app.ipgeolocation.io/signup | the password is 12 to 64 characters |
| 2026-11-02 | ipgeolocation.io/help/whats-in-the-free-plan | the free plan resets its 1,000 daily API credits at 00:00 UTC, has no limit per second or per minute, and answers HTTP 429 until the reset with no overage |
| 2026-11-02 | ipgeolocation.io/help/how-ipgeolocation-io-credits-work | every successful response carries an X-Credits-Charged header, and a request with no API key answers HTTP 401 and uses no credits |
| 2026-11-02 | probe: https://api.ipgeolocation.io/v3/ipgeo?ip=8.8.8.8 | a lookup with no API key answered HTTP 401 with a JSON message, so a keyed answer and its headers show only after sign-up |
| 2026-11-02 | ipgeolocation.io/pricing.html | the Developer plan gives 1,000 credits a day for life with no credit card and no overage, and a standard IP lookup uses 1 credit |
More fields 2
| bulk path | none on the free plan |
|---|---|
| free requests | 1,000 a day |
Unknown values 1
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer