# IPQualityScore, free: IP geolocation API

> Proxy detection APIs provide websites and apps with a real-time IP address lookup to detect proxies, VPNs, & TOR connections. Enrich any IP address with risk data to better identify malicious IP addresses, anonymous IPs, residential proxies, and botnets. The IP address API also provides geo-location, connection type, & ISP data.

IPQualityScore'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. IPQualityScore's docs list all 8: Country, Region and city, Postal code, Coordinates, Time zone, ASN, Owner's name, VPN and proxy.
We haven't run IPQualityScore through [our IP geolocation API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-geolocation-api.txt) 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.](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/ipqualityscore/free
- [IP geolocation API in 2026: the best of 20+ compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-ip-geolocation-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.ipqualityscore.com/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://www.ipqualityscore.com/api/json/ip/{key}/{ip}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.ipqualityscore.com/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.ipqualityscore.com/documentation/proxy-detection-api/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- Sold by: IPQualityScore (https://www.ipqualityscore.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Country: ✓
- Region and city: ✓
- Postal code: ✓
- Coordinates: ✓
- Time zone: ✓
- ASN: ✓
- Owner's name: ✓
- VPN and proxy: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Repeat free: never
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Email Validation · Phone Validation · URL Scanner

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

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

## In their words

- Their pitch: Proxy detection APIs provide websites and apps with a real-time IP address lookup to detect proxies, VPNs, & TOR connections. Enrich any IP address with risk data to better identify malicious IP addresses, anonymous IPs, residential proxies, and botnets. The IP address API also provides geo-location, connection type, & ISP data.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Usage of the IPQS Site, IPQS APIs, IPQS Services, and/or data is permitted provided that the Client does not engage in the following activities: Reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code from any of IPQS' Site, IPQS APIs, IPQS Services or any related software [...]. Interfere with, abuse, or disrupt usage of IPQS' Site, IPQS APIs, IPQS Services or the servers or networks providing the APIs. Create an API Client that functions substantially the same as the IPQS APIs and/or IPQS Services and offer it for use by third parties without written approval. Use the IPQS Site, IPQS APIs, and/or IPQS Services to replicate or compete with core products or services offered by IPQS without written approval. Use the IPQS Site, IPQS APIs, and/or IPQS Services for any activities where the use or failure of the APIs could lead to death, personal injury, or environmental damage [...]. Resell or republish IPQS data, IPQS API responses, IPQS API access, and/or IPQS Services to any third-party or sublicense Usage of IPQS' Site, IPQS APIs, and/or IPQS Services for use by a third party. Use IPQS data in any manner intended to evade, bypass, or contravene data privacy or consumer protection laws [...]. Use any IPQS data, including data containing appended Personally Identifiable Information (PII), for malicious, fraudulent, or unlawful purposes [...] or for direct marketing to individuals without that individual’s prior written consent. Bid on, purchase, or otherwise target IPQS brand keywords or confusingly similar variations [...] in paid search, search engine marketing, SEO manipulations, domain registrations, or other acquisition channels. [...] Client will not use the IPQS Services for any purposes enumerated in the FCRA in lieu of obtaining a Consumer Report.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 35
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: ip. Optional: strictness, user_agent, user_language, fast, mobile, allow_public_access_points, lighter_penalties, transaction_strictness, custom tracking variables
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/json/ip/{key}/{ip}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: companies, with a business email address

## The 32 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, message, proxy, VPN, Tor, active VPN, active Tor, ISP, organization, ASN, host, country code, region, city, postal code, time zone, latitude, longitude, crawler, connection type, recent abuse, abuse velocity, bot status, mobile, fraud score, operating system, browser, device brand, device model, recent data matches, recent unique user values, request ID

## IPQualityScore's plans (8)

- [IPQualityScore, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [IPQualityScore, $139.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/139-99-monthly/llms.txt): $27.998 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [IPQualityScore, $599.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/599-99-monthly/llms.txt): $59.999 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [IPQualityScore, $1,149.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/1149-99-monthly/llms.txt): $15.333 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [IPQualityScore, $1,199.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/1199-88-yearly/llms.txt): $19.998 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [IPQualityScore, $5,999.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/5999-88-yearly/llms.txt): $49.999 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [IPQualityScore, $11,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/11988-yearly/llms.txt): $13.32 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [IPQualityScore, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## IPQualityScore's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /api/json/ip/{key}/{ip}`: [IPQualityScore, free](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/free/llms.txt)

## IPQualityScore's APIs (3)

- [IPQualityScore Email verification API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/ipqualityscore/free/llms.txt)
- [IPQualityScore IP geolocation API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/ip-geolocation-apis/ipqualityscore/free/llms.txt)
- [IPQualityScore Phone validation API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/ipqualityscore/free/llms.txt)

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20260822002624/https://www.ipqualityscore.com/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.ipqualityscore.com/documentation/proxy-detection-api/advanced-options?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.ipqualityscore.com/documentation/proxy-detection-api/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.ipqualityscore.com/documentation/proxy-detection-api/response-parameters?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.ipqualityscore.com/email-verification?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.ipqualityscore.com/plans?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.ipqualityscore.com/solutions/phone-validation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing
- https://www.ipqualityscore.com/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ip-geolocation-api-pricing