# ipapi.co, free: IP company lookup API

> ipapi.co provides a REST API to find the location of an IP address.

ipapi.co's Free Trial plan for the IP company lookup API costs $0.00 per 1,000 IP addresses. ipapi.co's docs list 5 of the 10 fields on our checklist: Owner's name, ASN, Network range, Country, Region and city.
In [our IP company lookup API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-company-lookup-api.txt), the best plan from ipapi.co scores 52.5 out of 100. ipapi.co ranks 13th of 15 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 398 plans for IP company lookup APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.112 per 1,000 IP addresses or less. [See the best free IP company lookup API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-company-lookup-api.txt)
[IPHunter's €99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/iphunter/99-99-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 IP addresses. IPHunter's €99.99 monthly plan covers up to 11,520,000 IP addresses a day.
[FreeIPAPI's €9.90 monthly plan (/api/bulk/json)](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/freeipapi/9-90-monthly-unlimited-post-api-bulk-json/llms.txt) covers any number of IP addresses. FreeIPAPI's €9.90 monthly plan costs less up front than IPHunter's €99.99 monthly plan.
[DNSlytics](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/dnslytics/free/llms.txt), [ipwhois.io](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipwhois-io/free/llms.txt) and [IPBot](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipbot/free-anonymous-get-v1-ip-ip/llms.txt) are the best IP company lookup API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/free
- [IP company lookup API: the 15 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-company-lookup-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ipapi.co/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://ipapi.co/{ip}/{format}/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ipapi.co/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://ipapi.co/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing#location-of-a-specific-ip
- Sold by: ipapi.co (https://ipapi.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Owner's name: ✓
- 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

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: ipapi.co provides a REST API to find the location of an IP address.

## Data

- Keep data: "(v) cache, store, or retain any data or information, including but not limited to the location of an IP address, obtained from the Services beyond the minimum time necessary for immediate use, which shall not exceed 24 hours." [...] "You are expressly prohibited from creating any persistent copy, database, or archive of the data obtained from the Services, regardless of format or storage medium." (after "You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to):")
- Use data: "Under no circumstances are you permitted to resell or license the Content. Your use of the Content is limited to your internal use and the internal use of your Clients." [...] "You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to): [...] (ii) use the Services to develop a database, a similar service, or other information resource for sale to, distribution to, display to, or use by others, or (iii) store in a retrieval system accessible to the public, transfer, publish, distribute, display to others, broadcast, sell, or sublicense the Services, or any portion thereof" [...] "You agree not to disclose, distribute, sublicense, lease, rent, loan, resell or otherwise transfer the data received from the Services or API [...] to any third party." [...] "You may not access the Services in a manner intended to avoid incurring fees or exceeding usage limits or quotas." [...] "You agree that you will not use the Services or any information received through the Services in whole or in part (i) as a factor in establishing a consumer's eligibility for credit, (ii) as a factor in establishing a consumer's eligibility for insurance, (iii) for employment purposes, (iv) in connection with a determination of an individual's eligibility for a license or other benefit granted by a governmental authority, or (v) in connection with any permissible purpose as defined by the FCRA."

## Plan

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

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.04 s

## The call

- You send: ip, format
- Method: GET
- Path: /{ip}/{format}/

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a work email

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

IP address, network, IP version, city, region, region code, country code, country code ISO3, country name, country capital, country TLD, country area, country population, continent code, in EU, postal code, latitude, longitude, latitude and longitude, timezone, UTC offset, country calling code, currency, currency name, languages, ASN, organization

## ipapi.co's plans (14)

- [ipapi.co, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.098 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/199-monthly/llms.txt): $0.033 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/399-monthly/llms.txt): $0.027 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $144 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/144-yearly/llms.txt): $0.20 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $240 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/240-yearly/llms.txt): $0.133 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $468 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/468-yearly/llms.txt): $0.078 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $948 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/948-yearly/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $1,908 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/1908-yearly/llms.txt): $0.026 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, $3,828 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/3828-yearly/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [ipapi.co, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/contact-us/llms.txt): 50% complete

## ipapi.co's calls (1)

- `GET /{ip}/{format}/`: [ipapi.co, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/free/llms.txt)

## ipapi.co's APIs (1)

- [ipapi.co: IP company lookup API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-co/free/llms.txt)

## ipapi.co: IP company lookup API alternatives

- [IPWho.org, $3 monthly, Launch Special, GET /ip/{ip}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipwho-org/3-monthly-launch-special-get-ip-ip/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [DB-IP, €6,598.80 yearly, Premium 1M Extended API, GET /v2/{apiKey}/{ipAddress}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/db-ip/6598-80-yearly-premium-1m-extended-api-get-v2-apikey-ipaddress/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [IPDetective, $50 monthly, Premium, GET /ip/{ip}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipdetective/50-monthly-premium-get-ip-ip/llms.txt): $0.021 per 1,000, 30% complete
- [sthan.io, $522 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/sthan-io/522-yearly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 30% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://ipapi.co/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.co/api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.co/bulk/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.co/faq/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.co/free/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.co/json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.co/pricing/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.co/terms/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing