Simple, Transparent Pricing

With a free account and API key, 1,000 requests per day, every day, with the full response. This is not a trial and it does not expire. Without an account, the API still answers 30 requests per day, but only with ownership and location data — see the anonymous tier.

Yes, explicitly. The free tier may be used for any purpose, including commercial products, SaaS applications, plugins, client work and internal business tools. If 1,000 requests a day are all your application needs, you never have to buy anything. The only restriction is one account per person or company: creating several accounts to multiply the free quota is not allowed (terms, section 2.9).

If you build a plugin or integration where each of your users signs up for their own ipapi.is account and key, every one of them gets their own free tier.

No. There are three ways to use the API, and two of them involve no recurring payment:

• Free tier — 1,000 requests per day with an account. $0.
• One-time credits — pay once, 30,000 requests per dollar, any amount from $1, never expire. For example, $20 buys 600,000 requests you can use over months or years.
• Subscription — a fixed daily quota billed monthly, for steady high volume. Cancel anytime.

All three return exactly the same data.

Pick any amount from $1 in the dashboard and pay with Stripe or PayPal; every dollar is credited as 30,000 requests. Credits never expire. Each day your free 1,000 requests are spent first and only the rest comes out of your credits. See the calculator.

No. Every database — IP to Hosting, Geolocation, ASN, VPN, Company, Abuser and Reverse DNS — is a recurring monthly subscription. It is billed every month until you cancel it and is not a one-time purchase.

The minimum term is one month: when you subscribe you pay for at least one full month. If you only need the data once, you can subscribe, download the current release, and cancel before it renews — but you are still charged for that first month, and it is not refundable.

API subscriptions can be cancelled at any time; your access continues until the end of the billing period you already paid for.

Database subscriptions have a one-month minimum term. Cancelling stops all future monthly renewals, but the month you are currently in is not refunded or pro-rated — you always pay for at least one full month. See the refund question below.

No. With an account and API key, the free tier returns exactly the same response as every paid plan — the same fields, the same data quality. The only difference is the daily volume. The reduced response with ownership and location only applies to requests without an API key.

Yes! The Business subscription ($200/month) includes access to all ipapi.is databases and allows you to run the complete ipapi.is API in your own infrastructure. The self-hosted server ships as a single native Linux binary with no runtime dependencies and requires only 4 GB of RAM. See the Business subscription page for details.

Database subscriptions are non-refundable. Each database is delivered as an immediate download the moment you subscribe, so you receive a complete copy of the data right away. Once you hold that copy, we have no way to verify it is no longer in use — so a refund is not possible, not even a partial or pro-rated one. By subscribing you pay for a minimum of one month and accept that this charge is final. This is also set out in the Terms of Service.

For one-time API credits and API subscriptions, refunds are likewise generally not provided, as these are digital products — but if something has gone wrong, please contact us and we will look into it.