ipstack.com

Ipstack

Who runs Ipstack, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest IP geolocation API alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
ipapi.co

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Ipstack

Ipstack ipstack.com

Accurate, real-time IP geolocation trusted by developers worldwide. Get country, city, and coordinates via a simple REST API. Free to start.

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Ipstack tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

11 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Ipstack

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ipstack, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than IpstackNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    ipapi.co Top 10K English No trackers

    ipapi - IP Address Lookup and Geolocation API | No SignUp

    Enterprise IP Location by Kloudend, Inc - built on AWS, trusted by Fortune 500. Geolocation API for JSON, XML in PHP, JS, Java, Python, Node & more.

    Compare ipapi.co with Ipstack →
  2. 02
    IP-API.com ip-api.com Top 1K English No trackers

    IP-API.com - Geolocation API

    Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address

    Compare IP-API.com with Ipstack →
  3. 03
    IP Geolocation ipgeolocation.io English 2 trackers

    Free IP Geolocation API and Accurate IP Geolocation Database

    IPGeolocation.io APIs and Databases with accurate location, time zone, and threat intelligence to enrich user insights and enhance security.

    Compare IP Geolocation with Ipstack →
  4. 04
    Free IP API freeipapi.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Free & Fast IP Geolocation API (JSON & XML) - Free IP API

    Free, Fast and Reliable IP Geolocation, Countries, Timezones and Phone codes API for commercial and non-commercial usage, Available in JSON and XML formats.

    Compare Free IP API with Ipstack →
  5. 05
    IPinfo ipinfo.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    IP Data Intelligence for Developers & Enterprises | IPinfo

    IPinfo, the trusted global leader in IP address data and intelligence. Powering applications and security solutions for developers and businesses.

    Compare IPinfo with Ipstack →
  6. 06
    IP2Location ip2location.com English 2 trackers

    IP Address to IP Location and Proxy Information | IP2Location

    Power global business decisions with IP2Location. Identify network metadata and proxy traffic to optimize localization, analytics, and fraud detection.

    Compare IP2Location with Ipstack →
  7. 07
    ipdata ipdata.co English 2 trackers

    ipdata: IP Geolocation API | 100B+ Requests Served

    Look up the location of any IP address with ipdata’s IP geolocation API. Geolocation, threat and VPN detection in under 40 ms, used by 90,000+ developers.

    Compare ipdata with Ipstack →
  8. 08
    MaxMind maxmind.com English 2 trackers

    Industry leading IP Geolocation and Online Fraud Prevention | MaxMind

    Customize content and comply with regulations using in-depth IP address data. Prevent fraud and chargebacks, manage cyber risk, and flag proxy users.

    Compare MaxMind with Ipstack →
  9. 09
    ipify.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    ipify - A Simple Public IP Address API

    ipify API is a simple public IP address API, easy enough to integrate into any application in seconds.

    Compare ipify.org with Ipstack →
  10. 10
    IP ip.sb Top 10K English 1 tracker

    IP Address Lookup / IPv4 / IPv6 - IP.SB

    IP.SB shows your public IPv4 and IPv6 address, hostname, ISP, ASN and location, with a free IP geolocation API.

    Compare IP with Ipstack →
  11. 11
    ifconfig.me Top 10K English No trackers

    What Is My IP Address? - ifconfig.me

    Get my IP Address

    Compare ifconfig.me with Ipstack →
  12. 12
    ipleak.net English No trackers

    IP/DNS Detect - What is your IP, what is your DNS, what informations you send to websites.

    What is your IP, what is your DNS, check your torrent IP, what informations you send to websites.

    Compare ipleak.net with Ipstack →
  13. 13
    Mapbox mapbox.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

    Mapbox | Maps, Navigation, Search, and Data

    APIs and SDKs for AI-powered maps, location search, turn-by-turn navigation, and geospatial data in mobile or web apps. Get started for free.

    Compare Mapbox with Ipstack →
  14. 14
    MapTiler maptiler.com English 1 tracker

    Maps for developers | MapTiler

    Mapping platform designed for developers. Publish interactive maps in your web applications and on mobile devices.

    Compare MapTiler with Ipstack →
  15. 15
    Hola hola.org Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Stream, shop, play - no matter where in the world you are!

    Compare Hola with Ipstack →
  16. 16
    WhoisXML API whoisxmlapi.com English 3 trackers

    WhoisXML API: #1 for Domain, WHOIS, IP, DNS & Threat Intelligence

    WhoisXML API offers domain, WHOIS, IP and DNS data feeds, APIs, and research & monitoring tools for greater enterprise security and data-driven business.

    Compare WhoisXML API with Ipstack →
  17. 17
    Clicky clicky.com English No trackers

    Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative | Real-time Web Analytics | Clicky

    Clicky's privacy-friendly web analytics is simply the best Google Analytics alternative. Monitor, analyze, & react to your website's traffic in real-time.

    Compare Clicky with Ipstack →
  18. 18
    Tavily tavily.com English 2 trackers

    Tavily

    Tavily is the real‑time search engine for AI agents — Fast and secure APIs for web search and content extraction.

    Compare Tavily with Ipstack →
  19. 19
    Glympse glympse.com English 3 trackers

    Streamline operations and enhance productivity with real-time location intelligence - Glympse

    Glympse helps you act in real time to coordinate people, vehicles, and assets in motion. Glympse helps businesses coordinate people, vehicles, and assets in motion through live location intelligence, proactive communication, operational workflows, and shared visibility. Whether coordinating a technician arrival, a product delivery, a roadside response, or movement across a complex industrial site, […]

    Compare Glympse with Ipstack →
  20. 20
    Foursquare foursquare.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

    Location Intelligence Platform | Foursquare

    Foursquare is the industry-leading geospatial intelligence platform. Power your business with 100M+ POIs, foot traffic data, and location-based solutions for marketers, developers, and analysts.

    Compare Foursquare with Ipstack →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Ipstack’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Ipstack uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ipstack adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 13 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
384-d
Query
49 ms

Competitor map

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CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://ipstack.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Tag managers
Marketing automation
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Live chat & support
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CDN
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Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.1)
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)