# AbuseIPDB, free: IP geolocation API

> Geolocation, usage type, ISP, and domain name are sourced from the IPinfo.

AbuseIPDB's Individual plan for the IP geolocation API costs $0.00 per 1,000 IP addresses. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. AbuseIPDB's docs list 2: Country, Owner's name.
We haven't run AbuseIPDB through [our IP geolocation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-geolocation-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We leave this plan out of our price ranking because the provider bans business use. We rank 429 plans for IP geolocation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.214 or less per 1,000 IP addresses. [149 IP geolocation API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-geolocation-api.txt) [Apixies' free plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/apixies/free-sandbox-no-account/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 89.6 out of 100.
[IPWho.org's $99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipwho-org/99-monthly-enterprise-get-ip-ip/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 IP addresses, with no charge per call. You get as many IP addresses as IPWho.org's rate limit allows. [Api.co.id's Rp19,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/api-co-id/rp19000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 IP addresses a month: about $1.05.
[Api.co.id's Rp99,000 (about $5) monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/api-co-id/rp99000-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of IP addresses, and costs less up front than IPWho.org's $99 monthly plan.
[Apixies](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/apixies/free-sandbox-no-account/llms.txt), [getmyip.pro](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/getmyip-pro/free-getmyip-get-v1-ip/llms.txt) and [IPFlare](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipflare/16-80-monthly-unlimited-get-ip/llms.txt) are the best IP geolocation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/free
- [IP geolocation API in 2026: the best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-geolocation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.abuseipdb.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.abuseipdb.com/api/v2/check`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.abuseipdb.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.abuseipdb.com/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing#check-endpoint
- Sold by: AbuseIPDB (https://www.abuseipdb.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 25%
- Country: ✓
- Owner's name: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: REPORT endpoint: 1,000 requests a day · REPORTS endpoint: 100 requests a day · BLACKLIST endpoint: 5 requests a day · CHECK-BLOCK endpoint: 100 requests a day · BULK-REPORT endpoint: 5 requests a day · CLEAR-ADDRESS endpoint: 5 requests a day

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Geolocation, usage type, ISP, and domain name are sourced from the IPinfo.

## Data

- Keep data: "You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Website (including the API and associated data), use of the Website, or access to the Website without express permission by AbuseIPDB."
- Use data: "You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Website (including the API and associated data), use of the Website, or access to the Website without express permission by AbuseIPDB." [...] "You may not use Free plans for commercial purposes, and a single user or organization may not register multiple Free user accounts. For commercial use or use by multiple user accounts related to a single user or organization, you must subscribe to a Basic or higher Paid Plan." [...] "THE USE OF MULTIPLE USER ACCOUNTS TO INCREASE THE TOTAL API QUOTA OR INCREASE REPORTING INFLUENCE, AMONG OTHER THINGS, IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED." [...] "Additionally, you are expressly prohibited from: [...] Scraping, reproducing, republishing, selling, reselling, duplicating, or trading the Website or its content, "

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests a day
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a day
- Expires: The rate limiter resets at 00:00 UTC

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: ipAddress, Accept header "application/json". Optional: maxAgeInDays, verbose
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/v2/check

## About the plan

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

## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

IP address, public IP, IP version, whitelisted, abuse confidence score, country code, country name, usage type, ISP, domain, hostnames, Tor, total reports, distinct reporters, last reported at, reports, report date, report comment, report categories, reporter ID, reporter country code, reporter country name

## AbuseIPDB's plans (6)

- [AbuseIPDB, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [AbuseIPDB, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.083 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [AbuseIPDB, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.066 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [AbuseIPDB, $228 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/228-yearly/llms.txt): $0.063 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [AbuseIPDB, $1,068 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/1068-yearly/llms.txt): $0.059 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [AbuseIPDB, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/contact-us/llms.txt): 25% complete

## AbuseIPDB's calls (1)

- `GET /api/v2/check`: [AbuseIPDB, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/free/llms.txt)

## AbuseIPDB's APIs (2)

- [AbuseIPDB IP company lookup API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/abuseipdb/free/llms.txt)
- [AbuseIPDB IP geolocation API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/free/llms.txt)

## AbuseIPDB: IP geolocation API alternatives

[AbuseIPDB alternatives: other IP geolocation API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/abuseipdb-alternatives.txt)

We list AbuseIPDB's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to AbuseIPDB in price per 1,000 IP addresses.

- [AbuseIPDB, $1,068 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/abuseipdb/1068-yearly/llms.txt): $0.059 per 1,000, 25% complete
- [IPGeo, $29 monthly, Pro, GET /v1/ip/{ip}](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipgeo/29-monthly-pro-get-v1-ip-ip/llms.txt): $0.058 per 1,000, 88% complete
- [Scamalytics, $3,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/scamalytics/3500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.058 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [IPnova, $1,430.40 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipnova/1430-40-yearly/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 63% complete, 1 month (VPN, Tor exit node, datacenter, risk level, risk score: 1 day)
- [WhoisXML API, $299 monthly, Monthly subscription 5,000,000 Queries per month, POST /api/bgservice/request](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/whoisxml-api/299-monthly-monthly-subscription-5000000-queries-per-month-post-api-bgservice-request/llms.txt): $0.06 per 1,000, 88% 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 2026-11-11.

- https://docs.abuseipdb.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.abuseipdb.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.abuseipdb.com/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.abuseipdb.com/legal?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.abuseipdb.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing