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An ip-api.com alternative for VPN detection

ip-api.com's free endpoint answers proxy, hosting and mobile, but for non-commercial use only and over plain HTTP. VPNDetection's Unlimited answers the VPN, Tor and relay flags for commercial use too, over HTTPS, with a key or without one. Paid plans add the provider and every kind of proxy, from $19 a month.

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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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Worse
About the same

VPN providers: VPNDetection745With addresses in our data.; ip-api.comNot published
VPN IPs: VPNDetection17,692,482IPv4.; ip-api.comNot published
Anonymous IPs: VPNDetection135,884,611IPv4 on a VPN, Tor, a relay or a proxy, proxies over the last 90 days.; ip-api.comNot published
Hosting IPs: VPNDetection503,292,338IPv4 in hosting and CDN networks.; ip-api.comNot published
Which VPN: VPNDetectionNamed on every paid plan, as vpn.provider: a stable ID a rule can key on.; ip-api.comNo field names the service.
How sure, and how recent: VPNDetectionconfidence (high, medium or low) and last_seen on every match.; ip-api.comNo confidence or dates.
Residential proxies: VPNDetectionis_resproxy, with first and last seen, hits, days seen and how many providers resell the address.; ip-api.comInside proxy, one flag for proxies, VPNs and Tor exits together.
Datacenter, mobile and public proxies: VPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy and is_pubproxy, each a flag of its own.; ip-api.comThe same proxy flag. mobile marks any cellular connection.
Tor: VPNDetectionis_tor, from the public Tor set, rebuilt daily.; ip-api.comInside proxy.
Hosting: VPNDetectionis_hosting, with the hosting company named.; ip-api.comhosting, for hosting, colocated or datacenter space, with the network's isp and org.
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.; ip-api.com45 requests a minute over plain HTTP, for non-commercial use only. Pro, for commercial use and HTTPS, is €13.30 a month on a 12-month term.

We found none of these figures on ip-api.com'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 ip-api.com does more

ip-api.com's Pro plan is cheap for unlimited requests, €13.30 a month on a 12-month term, and its answer carries a city, coordinates and reverse DNS.

Its answer is three yes-or-no flags, though. Ours names the VPN with a confidence, splits residential, mobile, datacenter and public proxies, says when we last saw each, and lets a commercial project start for free.

Moving from ip-api.com

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.

ip-api.comproxyVPNDetectionis_vpn, is_tor, is_relay, is_resproxy, is_dcproxy, is_mobproxy, is_pubproxyOne flag per kind, rather than one for all.
ip-api.comhostingVPNDetectionis_hosting, hosting.providerOurs names the hosting company.
ip-api.comas, asname, isp, orgVPNDetectionasn.asn, asn.name, asn.domain
ip-api.commobileVPNDetectionNo counterpartNo counterpart: ours flags mobile proxy pools, not every cellular address.

ip-api.com's side is from its JSON API documentation, its terms and its Pro plan's page, read on 2026-11-12. ip-api.com 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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