Censys IP geolocation API pricing: POST /
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88% complete: 7 of the 8 fields on our checklistSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 IP addressesWe haven't run Censys through our IP geolocation API benchmark yet.This plan is free. 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. Apixies' free plan scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 89.6 out of 100.IPWho.org's $99 monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 IP addresses a month: about $1.05.Api.co.id's Rp99,000 (about $5) monthly plan covers any number of IP addresses, and costs less up front than IPWho.org's $99 monthly plan.Apixies, getmyip.pro and IPFlare are the best IP geolocation API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Censys' 6 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $79 monthly, Censys StarterCensys Starter$158.00 per 1,000
- $599 monthly, Censys Starter ProCensys Starter Pro$149.75 per 1,000
- Contact us, Security OperationsSecurity Operations
- Contact us, Adversary InvestigationAdversary Investigation
- Contact us, CoreCore
Call:
POST / one of Censys' 3 callsGET /Free$0.00 per 1,000v3/ global/ asset/ host/ {host_ id} POST /Free$0.00 per 1,000v3/ global/ asset/ host GET /Contact us, Security Operationsv3/ global/ asset/ enrichment/ host/ {host_ ip}
API: IP geolocation API one of Censys' 2 APIs
- Censys IP company lookup API
GET /v3/ global/ asset/ host/ {host_ id} - Censys IP company lookup API
POST /v3/ global/ asset/ host - Censys IP geolocation API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 7 of the 8 fields on our checklist. Country, Region and city, Postal code, Coordinates, Time zone, ASN, Owner's name.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month. Each result uses one credit. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of each month.
- One call. You send
host_toids POST /. You can also sendv3/ global/ asset/ host at_andtime organization_. The call returns where each IP address is.id - Who can get it: anyone with a free Censys account. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Censys: IP geolocation API alternatives
Censys alternatives: other IP geolocation API providers by price
The table starts with Censys' cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 IP addresses closest to Censys'.
| Censys, $599 monthly, Censys Starter Pro, POST /v3/global/asset/host | Osint, $4.20 pack | AI Rook, $5 pack | RelayShield, pay as you go, Pay per call over x402 | Atlorium, top-up, Pay as you go (API), GET /api/IpInfo/{ip}, IP profile, extended | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 IP addresses | $149.75 | $84.00 | $100.00 | $100.00 | $119.39 |
| Completeness | 88% | 63% | 50% | 25% | 100% |
| Billing | monthly | pay first | pay first | pay as you go | pay first |
| Pay | $599 | $4.20 | $5 | per call | any amount |
| Enough for | 4,000 results a month | 50 calls | 50 calls | 1 call | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | unknown | 1 month | unknown | stored | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone buying a Starter Pro subscription, for its own internal, first-party business use | anyone aged 18 or over who can enter a binding contract, with an email-verified account | anyone with a Base wallet | anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana | anyone with an account aged 18 or over (14 to 18 with a legal representative's written consent), the terms' 1.5 |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-13.
- censys.com/developers
- censys.com/pricing
- censys.com/self-service-subscription-terms-of-service
- docs.censys.com/docs/data-access-tiers-entitlements
- docs.censys.com/docs/host-enrichment
- docs.censys.com/docs/platform-credits-enterprise
- docs.censys.com/docs/platform-credits-free-starter
- docs.censys.com/docs/platform-starter-subscriptions
- docs.censys.com/llms.txt
- docs.censys.com/reference/v3-globaldata-asset-host-list-post
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Country
- Region and city
- Postal code
- Coordinates
- Time zone
- ASN
- Owner's name
- VPN and proxy, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 IP addresses | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | result |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Get a host · Get a web property · Get a certificate · Retrieve multiple web properties · Retrieve multiple certificates |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Retrieve information about multiple hosts. You can retrieve up to 100 hosts per call. A host ID is its IP address. |
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| Keep data | the term of your subscription: the license runs "during the term of Customer's Subscription" and "all rights, obligations and licenses [...] shall cease" on its cancellation or lapse |
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| Use data | "Censys grants Customer a nonexclusive, non-transferable license (without the right to sublicense) during the term of Customer's Subscription to access and use the Service and the Censys Data only for Customer's internal, first-party business use. The Service is not provided for, and may not be used for, the enrichment of any third-party product or service." "The Service and the Censys Data are provided for Customer's internal use only and may not be used to enrich, augment, supplement or otherwise support any product or service offered to third parties. Customer shall not, directly or indirectly: (a) use the Service, the Censys Data or any Censys Property or Confidential Information [...] to create any service, software, product or system, or (b) provide the Service, the Censys Data or any Censys Property, in whole or in part, to any third party, including as a stand-alone product, service, application, file, report or database." "Customer shall not redistribute or resell the Censys Data." "Customer shall not, directly or indirectly: (a) use or enable any third party to use any Censys Data, Censys Property, or Confidential Information, or any derivatives of any of the foregoing, as prompts or inputs, or otherwise to train any artificial intelligence, machine learning or language models or similar technology or systems, [...] (c) encumber, sublicense, transfer, distribute, sell, rent, lease, loan, time-share or use the Service in any service bureau arrangement or otherwise for the benefit of any third party, (d) copy, edit, alter, adapt, combine, create derivative works of or otherwise modify the Service, the Censys Data or any Censys Property, [...]" |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 credits a month |
| Enough for | 100 results a month |
| Expires | at the end of each month |
| Concurrent | 1 |
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| Batch | 100 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | host_ids. Optional: at_time, organization_id |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v3/global/asset/host |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a free Censys account |
The 44 fields the plan's answer can hold
IP address, organization name, organization handle, organization address, organization street, organization city, organization state, organization postal code, organization country, organization abuse contacts, organization admin contacts, organization tech contacts, network name, network handle, network CIDRs, network allocation type, network created date, network updated date, ASN, ASN name, ASN description, ASN organization, BGP prefix, ASN country code, city, province, country, country code, continent, postal code, latitude, longitude, timezone, registered country, registered country code, DNS names, forward DNS records, reverse DNS names, labels, service count, service port, service protocol, service scan time, service labels