# CheckIP.me, free, GET /{ip}, Full API: Look up any IP address: IP geolocation API

> Location: country, region and city. This comes from network registration data, so the country is almost always right, but the city can be off by tens of kilometers.

CheckIP.me's Free plan for the IP geolocation API costs $0.00 per 1,000 IP addresses. We check each provider's docs for 8 fields. CheckIP.me's docs list 7: Country, Region and city, Postal code, Coordinates, Time zone, ASN, Owner's name.
CheckIP.me limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run CheckIP.me through [our IP geolocation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-geolocation-api.txt) yet.
We rank 429 plans for IP geolocation APIs by price. Half the plans cost $0.214 or less per 1,000 IP addresses. This plan and 27 others tie for the lowest price per 1,000 IP addresses of the 429 plans. [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.
[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/checkip-me/free-get-ip-full-api-look-up-any-ip-address
- [IP geolocation API in 2026: the best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-geolocation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://checkip.me/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.checkip.me/{ip}`, Full API: Look up any IP address
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.checkip.me/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- Sold by: CheckIP.me (https://checkip.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 88%
- Country: ✓
- Region and city: ✓
- Postal code: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Time zone: ✓
- ASN: ✓
- Owner's name: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Simple API: Look up any IP address · Simple API: Get one field for any IP as plain text

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Location: country, region and city. This comes from network registration data, so the country is almost always right, but the city can be off by tens of kilometers.

## Data

- Freshness: 30 days
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.033 (120 an hour)
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

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

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

IP address, continent, continent code, country, country code, region, region code, city, postal code, latitude, longitude, timezone, currency name, currency code, currency symbol, ISP, ASN

## CheckIP.me's plans (1)

- [CheckIP.me, free, GET /{ip}, Full API: Look up any IP address](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/checkip-me/free-get-ip-full-api-look-up-any-ip-address/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, 30 days

## CheckIP.me's calls (2)

- `GET /{ip}`, Full API: Look up any IP address: [CheckIP.me, free, GET /{ip}, Full API: Look up any IP address](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/checkip-me/free-get-ip-full-api-look-up-any-ip-address/llms.txt)
- `GET /{ip}`, Simple API: Look up any IP address: [CheckIP.me, free, GET /{ip}, Simple API: Look up any IP address](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/checkip-me/free-get-ip-simple-api-look-up-any-ip-address/llms.txt)

## CheckIP.me's APIs (2)

- [CheckIP.me IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, GET /{ip}, Full API: Look up any IP address](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/checkip-me/free-get-ip-full-api-look-up-any-ip-address/llms.txt)
- [CheckIP.me IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan, GET /{ip}, Simple API: Look up any IP address](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/checkip-me/free-get-ip-simple-api-look-up-any-ip-address/llms.txt)
- [CheckIP.me IP geolocation API pricing, 1 plan, GET /{ip}, Full API: Look up any IP address](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/checkip-me/free-get-ip-full-api-look-up-any-ip-address/llms.txt)

## CheckIP.me: IP geolocation API alternatives

[CheckIP.me alternatives: other IP geolocation API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/checkip-me-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 a month old.

- [IPFlare, free, POST /bulk-lookup](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipflare/free-post-bulk-lookup/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, 1 day
- [Country.is, free, POST /](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/country-is/free-post/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 88% complete, 1 day
- [ip.guide, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ip-guide/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 75% complete, 1 day
- [BigDataCloud, free, Base, GET /data/ip-geolocation-full](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/bigdatacloud/free-base-get-data-ip-geolocation-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% 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 2026-11-11.

- https://api.checkip.me/162.252.86.22?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://api.checkip.me/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://checkip.me?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://checkip.me/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://checkip.me/contact?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://checkip.me/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing