MaxMind
IP dataUS provider of GeoIP2 geolocation databases and APIs with a published per-country accuracy breakdown, plus the free GeoLite2 tier.
GeoIP2 Country database, annual subscription billed monthly (34.83 USD/month; 418 USD/year). The pay-per-query web service (GeoIP Country) starts at 0.0001 USD per query, with a 20 USD minimum purchase and a 25,000 USD maximum.
MaxMind is the US company, headquartered in Malden, Massachusetts, behind the GeoIP2 and GeoLite2 databases, built for developers and fraud teams who need to resolve country, region, city, ISP, autonomous system number, connection type, mobile carrier, or proxy/VPN/Tor detection from an IP address. It offers two routes in: a downloadable database for unlimited local lookups with no network latency, and a pay-per-query web service with a claimed 99.99% uptime record over eleven years.
It is one of the few vendors in this space that publishes how it measures its own accuracy: rather than a single figure, it gives a per-country breakdown of the share of IPs placed correctly within a 50 km radius at city level — from 100% in Andorra to 61% in the United States and 52% in Algeria — while warning it cannot guarantee any future accuracy level. The GeoIP2 Country database starts at 34.83 USD a month billed annually, and the web service from 0.0001 USD per query with a 20 USD minimum purchase. The free GeoLite2 tier is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, requires crediting MaxMind, and the vendor itself warns it "does not reliably identify any geographic level more precise than zip/postal code." MaxMind states it complies with the GDPR and has an EU representative.
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- Claimed accuracy
- El proveedor no da una cifra global de precisión; publica un desglose por país del porcentaje de direcciones IP ubicadas correctamente dentro de un radio de 50 km a nivel de ciudad para la base GeoIP2/GeoLite City (ejemplos declarados: 100% en Andorra, 87% en Albania, 61% en EE. UU., 52% en Argelia), y advierte que "no puede garantizar ningún nivel de precisión futuro concreto".
- Update frequency
- cada día laborable (de lunes a viernes) para la mayoría de las bases
- Free tier
- GeoLite2: bases y servicio web gratuitos para desarrollo, uso personal o comunitario, bajo licencia Creative Commons Atribución-CompartirIgual 4.0, con la advertencia del propio proveedor de que no localiza de forma fiable por debajo del nivel de código postal.
- IPv6 coverage
- Licence
- Suscripción mensual o anual para las bases GeoIP2; pago por consulta para el servicio web (desde 0,0001 USD/consulta); GeoLite2 gratuita bajo Creative Commons Atribución-CompartirIgual 4.0.
- GDPR compliance
