- Free allowance
- Keyless GET /ipgeo/{ip} returns country, region, city, coordinates, timezone, currency, ISP, ASN and proxy and hosting flags as JSON; a lookup of 8.8.8.8 answered HTTP 200 with no key, no account and no credit card
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymousno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- measured9 sources; a live request was made and its output kept
- Freshness
- stale on 2027-01-02checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2027-01-02
| Free tier | keyless GET /ipgeo/{ip} returns country, region, city, coordinates, timezone, currency, ISP, ASN and proxy and hosting flags as JSON; a lookup of 8.8.8.8 answered HTTP 200 with no key, no account and no credit card unit requests; metered on unstated; unverified: no request quota, rate limit or terms page is published on the host; a public API directory describes it as unlimited and free. |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate unverified: no rate limit or quota is published on the host source
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| Binding | none no limit is published, so none could be named; the service caches answers for 900 seconds. |
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| Identity | anonymous no key, account or header: a plain GET answered HTTP 200 |
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| Egress | not applicable: JSON answers, not metered in bytes |
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| Per-object cap | one IP address per request, in the URL path |
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| Retention | not applicable: a lookup API; answers are cached for 900 seconds (cache-control max-age=900; cached true in the body) |
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| Interface | rest GET https://api.techniknews.net/ipgeo/{ip} answers JSON with Access-Control-Allow-Origin *; the host root lists IP, IPgeo, Radiodata and Speedtest endpoints |
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| Tooling | any HTTP client; the JSON field names follow the ip-api.com shape (status, country, countryCode, regionName, city, zip, lat, lon, timezone, isp, org, as) |
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| Composes with | Free keyless IP to location, ISP, ASN and hosting-flag lookups with no published quota; one IP per call. Bulk path: none listed. |
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| Reliability | a lookup of 8.8.8.8 answered HTTP 200 in about 560 ms and the answer was served from a cache (cached true); no rate-limit header is returned |
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| Notes | Free requests: no quota stated on the host (a public API directory says unlimited). Rate limit: not stated. The service caches answers for 900 seconds. Bulk path: none listed. |
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| Evidence note | measured One keyless lookup of 8.8.8.8 was probed on 2026-11-02 and the host root page was read; no quota, rate limit or terms page exists on the host, so those values stay unverified. |
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