# ipapi.com, free, GET /api/check: IP company lookup API

> Real-time Geolocation & Reverse IP Lookup REST API. Scalable IP lookup trusted by 30,000+ businesses worldwide. Accurately geolocate users by IPv4 or IPv6 address.

ipapi.com's Free plan for the IP company lookup API costs $0.00 per 1,000 IP addresses. ipapi.com's docs list 2 of the 10 fields on our checklist: Country, Region and city.
We haven't run ipapi.com through [our IP company lookup API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-company-lookup-api.txt) yet.
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-com/free-get-api-check
- [IP company lookup API: the 15 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-company-lookup-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ipapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.ipapi.com/api/check`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ipapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.apilayer.com/ipapi/docs/ipapi-ip-to-geolocation-api-v-1-0-0?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing#/default/lookupOrigin
- Sold by: ipapi.com (https://ipapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 20%
- Country: ✓
- Region and city: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Standard Lookup

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Real-time Geolocation & Reverse IP Lookup REST API. Scalable IP lookup trusted by 30,000+ businesses worldwide. Accurately geolocate users by IPv4 or IPv6 address.

## Data

- Keep data: "You shall not: [...] use, store, or access any ipapi API Data & Services, or the ipapi API after the termination of this Agreement, " [...] "You do not permit Your end users to store, distribute, or otherwise exploit ipapi API Data & Services for any other purposes."
- Use data: "You are hereby permitted to receive, process, and display ipapi API Data & Services to individual end-users of your application(s), provided such end users use ipapi API Data & Services strictly for their own personal use" [...] "You are permitted solely to use ipapi API Data & Services for reference by Your end users. Except as expressly provided herein, under no circumstances whatsoever may You transfer or permit the transfer of ipapi API Data & Services outside of your application(s)." [...] "You shall not: reproduce, copy, modify, distribute, market, display, transfer, sublicense, assign, prepare derivative work(s) or adaptation(s) based on, sell, exchange, barter or transfer, rent, lease, loan, time-share, resell, or in any other manner exploit ipapi API Data & Services or the ipapi API, make access to ipapi API Data & Services or the ipapi API available to unauthorized parties, or otherwise post or distribute ipapi API Data & Services in any public forum"

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 requests a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: not carried over to the next month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: nothing required. Optional: fields, hostname, security, language
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/check

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone, non-commercial use only

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

IP address, hostname, IP type, continent code, continent name, country code, country name, region code, region name, city, ZIP code, latitude, longitude, MSA, DMA, radius, IP routing type, connection type, GeoName ID, capital, languages, country flag, country flag emoji, country flag emoji Unicode, calling code, EU member

## ipapi.com's plans (8)

- [ipapi.com, free, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/free-get-api-check/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete
- [ipapi.com, $12.99 monthly, Standard, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/12-99-monthly-standard-get-api-check/llms.txt): $0.26 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [ipapi.com, $59.99 monthly, Business, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/59-99-monthly-business-get-api-check/llms.txt): $0.12 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [ipapi.com, $99.99 monthly, Business Pro, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/99-99-monthly-business-pro-get-api-check/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [ipapi.com, $143.88 yearly, Standard, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/143-88-yearly-standard-get-api-check/llms.txt): $0.24 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [ipapi.com, $635.88 yearly, Business, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/635-88-yearly-business-get-api-check/llms.txt): $0.106 per 1,000, 60% complete
- [ipapi.com, $1,019.88 yearly, Business Pro, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/1019-88-yearly-business-pro-get-api-check/llms.txt): $0.043 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [ipapi.com, contact us, Custom, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/contact-us-custom-get-api-check/llms.txt): 80% complete

## ipapi.com's calls (3)

- `GET /api/check`: [ipapi.com, free, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/free-get-api-check/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/{ip}`: [ipapi.com, free, GET /api/{ip}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/free-get-api-ip/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/bulk`: [ipapi.com, $59.99 monthly, Business, POST /api/bulk](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/59-99-monthly-business-post-api-bulk/llms.txt)

## ipapi.com's APIs (1)

- [ipapi.com: IP company lookup API pricing, 8 plans, GET /api/check](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipapi-com/free-get-api-check/llms.txt)

## ipapi.com: IP company lookup API alternatives

- [VPNDetection, $990 yearly, Scale, GET /{ip}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/vpndetection/990-yearly-scale-get-ip/llms.txt): $0.041 per 1,000, 70% complete, 1 day
- [IPGeolocation.io, $2,490 yearly, Premium (annual billing), GET /v3/ipgeo](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/ipgeolocation-io/2490-yearly-premium-annual-billing-get-v3-ipgeo/llms.txt): $0.042 per 1,000, 80% complete, 24 hours
- [IPHub, $2,532 yearly, Basic 5,000,000 requests / month, annually, GET /ip/{ip}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/iphub/2532-yearly-basic-5000000-requests-month-annually-get-ip-ip/llms.txt): $0.042 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Aiwen IP, CNY 3,096 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/aiwen-ip/cny-3096-yearly/llms.txt): $0.042 per 1,000, 40% complete, 1 day

## 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://docs.apilayer.com/ipapi/docs/api-documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.apilayer.com/ipapi/docs/getting-started?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://docs.apilayer.com/ipapi/docs/options?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.com/billing-overages-documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing
- https://ipapi.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-company-lookup-api-pricing