# IP-DB, free: IP company lookup API

> Returns the 0-100 abuse confidence score with its breakdown, matching blacklists, DNSBL listings, network type (residential, datacenter, vpn, tor), owner, abuse contact and community report counts.

IP-DB's Free plan for the IP company lookup API costs $0.00 per 1,000 IP addresses. We check each provider's docs for 10 fields. IP-DB's docs list 6: Owner's name, Owner's domain, ASN, Network range, Country, Region and city.
You get up to 30,000 calls a month.
We haven't run IP-DB through [our IP company lookup API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-company-lookup-api.txt) yet.
We rank 606 plans for IP company lookup APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.167 or less per 1,000 IP addresses. This plan and 54 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 IP addresses of the 606 plans. [203 IP company lookup API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-company-lookup-api.txt) [IPKit's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipkit/free/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 94.1 out of 100.
[IPKit](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipkit/free/llms.txt), [thenetworkery](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/thenetworkery/free/llms.txt) and [IPLogs](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/iplogs/free-get-v1-lookup-ip/llms.txt) are the best IP company lookup API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ip-db/free
- [IP company lookup API in 2026: the best of 80+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-company-lookup-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ip-db.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://ip-db.com/api/v1/check/{ip}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ip-db.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://ip-db.com/en/api-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- Sold by: IP-DB (https://ip-db.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-14

## In the answer

- Completeness: 60%
- Owner's name: ✓
- Owner's domain: ✓
- ASN: ✓
- Network range: ✓
- Country: ✓
- Region and city: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 IP addresses: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Returns the 0-100 abuse confidence score with its breakdown, matching blacklists, DNSBL listings, network type (residential, datacenter, vpn, tor), owner, abuse contact and community report counts.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 minutes
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You may not use the service for unlawful purposes, to harass other users, or through automated abuse that circumvents API limits." "WHOIS, geolocation and blacklist data is compiled from third-party sources and may change in real time. No guarantee is made that this data is 100% accurate or current, it should not be used as the sole basis for critical decisions."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 30,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: ip
- Method: GET
- Path: /check/{ip}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a free account

## The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

abuse confidence score, abuse contact, ASN, ASN domain, ASN DROP listing, ASN name, ASN organization, blacklist sources, city, country code, country, distinct reporters, DNSBL listings, IP address, IP version, private address, ISP, last reported at, lifted listing, network type, prefix neighbourhood, report URL, score breakdown, score label, total reports

## IP-DB's plans (1)

- [IP-DB, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ip-db/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 60% complete, 30 minutes

## IP-DB's calls (1)

- `GET /check/{ip}`: [IP-DB, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ip-db/free/llms.txt)

## IP-DB's APIs (2)

- [IP-DB IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ip-db/free/llms.txt)
- [IP-DB IP geolocation API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ip-db/free/llms.txt)

## IP-DB: IP company lookup API alternatives

[IP-DB alternatives: other IP company lookup API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/ip-db-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 IP addresses. Each plan in the list gives live data or data at most an hour old.

- [WhoisRequest, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/whoisrequest/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% complete, live
- [FluentEDI, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/fluentedi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [How.is, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/how-is/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% complete, live
- [WhoisFreaks, free, GET /v1.0/ip-whois](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/whoisfreaks/free-get-v1-0-ip-whois/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-14.

- https://ip-db.com/en/api-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ip-db.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ip-db.com/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ip-db.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing