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A GetIPIntel alternative for VPN and proxy detection

GetIPIntel answers one probability that an address is a proxy, a VPN or bad. VPNDetection answers what it is: the VPN by name, each kind of proxy, Tor, relays and hosting, each with when we last saw it. Paid plans start at $19 a month for 250,000 lookups.

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Unlimited lookups, with a key or without one. No card to try every field.

Side by side

How much each API covers by its own count, and what it answers for one address, from each company's own pages.

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VPN providers: VPNDetection745With addresses in our data.; GetIPIntelNot published
VPN IPs: VPNDetection17,692,482IPv4.; GetIPIntelNot published
Anonymous IPs: VPNDetection135,884,611IPv4 on a VPN, Tor, a relay or a proxy, proxies over the last 90 days.; GetIPIntelNot published
Hosting IPs: VPNDetection503,292,338IPv4 in hosting and CDN networks.; GetIPIntelNot published
Which VPN: VPNDetectionNamed on every paid plan, as vpn.provider: a stable ID a rule can key on.; GetIPIntelNo field names the service. oflags=i marks iCloud Private Relay and Google One VPN.
How sure, and how recent: VPNDetectionconfidence (high, medium or low) and last_seen on every match.; GetIPIntelOne probability from 0 to 1, with automated action suggested above 0.99. No dates, and it advises caching a score for 6 hours at most.
Residential proxies: VPNDetectionis_resproxy, with first and last seen, hits, days seen and how many providers resell the address.; GetIPIntelA residential proxy score in beta, oflags=r, IPv4 only.
Datacenter, mobile and public proxies: VPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy and is_pubproxy, each a flag of its own.; GetIPIntelInside the one score.
Tor: VPNDetectionis_tor, from the public Tor set, rebuilt daily.; GetIPIntelInside the one score.
Hosting: VPNDetectionis_hosting, with the hosting company named.; GetIPIntelInside the one score.
Free to start: VPNDetectionUnlimited, with a key or without one: the VPN, Tor and relay flags, location and network, with no daily cap. A new account tries every field, 100 lookups a day, no card.; GetIPIntelFree, 500 queries a day and 15 a minute, with a contact email on every query. More by arrangement with its author.

We found none of these figures on GetIPIntel's site on 2026-11-13. Ours are counted from 2026-11-13's build of the data every lookup answers from. No independent list of every VPN address exists to test the APIs against, so each count is the company's own.

Where GetIPIntel does more

GetIPIntel is free, 500 queries a day, and its score also takes in bad behavior beyond anonymity: crawlers, spammers, brute-force attempts and infected networks.

Ours answers the VPN, Tor and relay flags free with no daily cap and no contact email on every query, and its answers are named facts rather than one probability: the VPN by name, each kind of proxy, and when we last saw it.

Moving from GetIPIntel

Most fields have a counterpart here. One GET per address, or a POST for up to 1,000 at once, and an official SDK for 12 languages.

GetIPIntelResidentialProxyVPNDetectionis_resproxy, resproxy.last_seen
GetIPInteliCloudRelayEgress, GoogleOneVPNVPNDetectionis_relay, relay.provider
GetIPIntelCountryVPNDetectionlocation.country
GetIPIntelASNVPNDetectionasn.asn
GetIPIntelBadIPVPNDetectionNo counterpartNo counterpart.

GetIPIntel's side is from its API page, read on 2026-11-12. GetIPIntel is its owner's trademark; we're not affiliated with it.

00 · Unlimited

Unlimited lookups, no sign-up.

Paste it into a terminal. Any address answers its VPN, Tor and relay flags, where it is and which network announces it, with no daily or monthly cap.

curl "https://api.vpndetection.io/146.70.116.130"

{
  "ip": "146.70.116.130",
  "is_vpn": true,
  "is_relay": false,
  "is_tor": false,
  "location": {
    "country": "AT", ...
  },
  "asn": { "asn": 9009, ... }
}

01 · Sign up

Try every field, free.

Your first 100 lookups each day answer every field, the evidence behind each flag included.

The rest answer as Unlimited, with no cap.

No card and no sales call: the key is issued on signup.

A paid plan answers every field on every lookup.

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