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An IP2Proxy alternative for VPN and proxy detection

IP2Proxy's web service takes no new registrations, and on IP2Location.io, where its sign-up links now lead, VPN detection starts on Plus at $249 a month; the full proxy object, with the provider and last seen, is on Security at $499. VPNDetection answers every field on every paid plan, from $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.; IP2Location576On its VPN provider coverage list.
VPN IPs: VPNDetection17,692,482IPv4.; IP2Location20,776,664IPv4.
Anonymous IPs: VPNDetection135,884,611IPv4 on a VPN, Tor, a relay or a proxy, proxies over the last 90 days.; IP2Location40,055,244IPv4: every proxy type it counts but data centers and crawlers, added up.
Hosting IPs: VPNDetection503,292,338IPv4 in hosting and CDN networks.; IP2Location795,969,952IPv4: its hosting, data center and CDN count.
Which VPN: VPNDetectionNamed on every paid plan, as vpn.provider: a stable ID a rule can key on.; IP2Locationproxy.provider names the VPN, on Security at $499 a month.
How sure, and how recent: VPNDetectionconfidence (high, medium or low) and last_seen on every match.; IP2Locationproxy.last_seen as a count of days, on Security, and a fraud_score from 0 to 99. No confidence on a VPN.
Residential proxies: VPNDetectionis_resproxy, with first and last seen, hits, days seen and how many providers resell the address.; IP2Locationproxy.is_residential_proxy, on Security.
Datacenter, mobile and public proxies: VPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy and is_pubproxy, each a flag of its own.; IP2Locationproxy.is_data_center covers hosting, datacenter and CDN together, and is_public_proxy and is_web_proxy the rest. No mobile proxy flag.
Tor: VPNDetectionis_tor, from the public Tor set, rebuilt daily.; IP2Locationproxy.is_tor, on Security. Plus answers is_proxy alone.
Hosting: VPNDetectionis_hosting, with the hosting company named.; IP2LocationInside proxy.is_data_center, with CDNs.
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.; IP2Location50,000 queries a month that detect open proxies only. VPN detection starts on Plus at $249 a month.

IP2Location's figures are from its VPN provider coverage list and its IP2Proxy PX12 page's addresses by proxy type, read 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 IP2Location does more

IP2Location's answer goes down to the city and flags spammers, scanners and botnets, and tells corporate and consumer privacy networks, search crawlers and AI crawlers apart.

For VPN detection it costs far more to start: Plus at $249 a month, and the provider's name only on Security at $499. Ours answers every field on every plan from $19, with a confidence on each VPN and a date where it gives a count of days.

Moving from IP2Location

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.

IP2Locationis_proxyVPNDetectionis_vpn, is_resproxy, is_dcproxy, is_pubproxy, is_torOne flag per kind.
IP2Locationproxy.is_vpn, proxy.providerVPNDetectionis_vpn, vpn.providerOn every paid plan.
IP2Locationproxy.is_residential_proxyVPNDetectionis_resproxy
IP2Locationproxy.is_data_centerVPNDetectionis_hosting, is_dcproxy, is_cdnHosting, datacenter proxies and CDNs apart.
IP2Locationproxy.is_public_proxy, proxy.is_web_proxyVPNDetectionis_pubproxy
IP2Locationproxy.is_torVPNDetectionis_tor
IP2Locationproxy.last_seenVPNDetectionvpn.last_seen, resproxy.last_seenA date rather than a count of days.
IP2Locationfraud_score, proxy.threatVPNDetectionNo counterpartNo counterpart.

IP2Location's side is from IP2Location.io's documentation and pricing page and the IP2Proxy web service page, read on 2026-11-12. IP2Location, IP2Location.io and IP2Proxy are their owner's trademarks; 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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