Ipregistry review
IP dataIP geolocation, company, carrier and proxy/VPN/Tor detection via API or local database, with 20,000 free non-expiring credits.
- Claimed accuracyIpregistry describes itself as a provider of 'accurate IP data' and 'fresh and accurate results', and claims to cover 'over 3 million unique locations and thousand cities'; it does not publish an accuracy percentage or state whether the claim applies at country, region, or city level.
- Update frequencyDaily
Refers to the cheapest paid plan, Starter, billed month to month for 100,000 credits; paying annually brings it down to $24/mo ($290/year). The free tier of 20,000 non-expiring credits is not counted here.
Ipregistry sells IP geolocation data, company and network operator information, and proxy, VPN and Tor detection, mainly via a JSON/XML API plus SDKs for twelve languages with caching and batch lookups. It also offers CSV and MMDB database downloads, rebuilt daily, for local, latency-free lookups. The operating company, Elaunira SARL, is based in Cagnes-sur-Mer (France) and states it launched the service in 2019, now serving over 51,000 customers.
Its commercial model is credit-based per lookup rather than a fixed fee per data tier: the free plan of 20,000 credits never expires and already includes every response field, more generous than the industry norm of trimming fields on free tiers. Ipregistry does not require visible attribution on any plan either, though its terms say a link to the site 'would be highly appreciated'; the data is licensed, not sold, and redistribution of the content is prohibited without written authorisation. As with the rest of the sector, it publishes no accuracy figure or scope (country, region or city): it only speaks of 'fresh and accurate results' and coverage of 'over three million unique locations'. Pricing scales with credit consumption, which climbs fast at high traffic: from 100,000 credits on the entry plan to 2.45 million on the Scale plan ($399/mo), plus non-expiring prepaid credit packs.
Features
- Data included
- Delivery
- Claimed accuracy
- Ipregistry describes itself as a provider of 'accurate IP data' and 'fresh and accurate results', and claims to cover 'over 3 million unique locations and thousand cities'; it does not publish an accuracy percentage or state whether the claim applies at country, region, or city level.
- Update frequency
- Daily
- Free tier
- 20,000 free credits upon sign-up, with no expiration ('no time limit'), including all response fields (city-level geolocation, ASN, company, carrier, VPN/proxy/Tor detection). Does not require visible attribution.
- IPv6 coverage
- Licence
- The data is licensed, not sold ('licensed, and not sold'); redistribution, reproduction, or resale is prohibited without Ipregistry's written authorization. Credit model: pay-as-you-go with no expiration, or a monthly/annual subscription with pre-allocated credits.
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