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An ipdata alternative for VPN and proxy detection

On ipdata, is_vpn comes with the Business plan at $120 a month, a yes or no beside a VPN score. VPNDetection names the VPN with a confidence and last seen on every paid plan, from $19 a month for 250,000 lookups, and its VPN flag is free with no cap.

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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.

Better
Worse
About the same

VPN providers: VPNDetection745With addresses in our data.; ipdataNot published
VPN IPs: VPNDetection17,692,482IPv4.; ipdata~2.6MRefreshed daily, as its threat documentation states.
Anonymous IPs: VPNDetection135,884,611IPv4 on a VPN, Tor, a relay or a proxy, proxies over the last 90 days.; ipdataNot publishedIts "4M+ malicious IP addresses" a day count abuse and attack sources with the proxies and Tor.
Hosting IPs: VPNDetection503,292,338IPv4 in hosting and CDN networks.; ipdataNot published
Which VPN: VPNDetectionNamed on every paid plan, as vpn.provider: a stable ID a rule can key on.; ipdataNo field names the service. is_vpn, from Business at $120 a month, says yes or no.
How sure, and how recent: VPNDetectionconfidence (high, medium or low) and last_seen on every match.; ipdataA vpn_score from 0 to 100. No dates on the VPN flag.
Residential proxies: VPNDetectionis_resproxy, with first and last seen, hits, days seen and how many providers resell the address.; ipdataNo residential proxy flag. is_proxy covers HTTP, SOCKS and transparent proxies.
Datacenter, mobile and public proxies: VPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy and is_pubproxy, each a flag of its own.; ipdataOne is_proxy flag for every kind.
Tor: VPNDetectionis_tor, from the public Tor set, rebuilt daily.; ipdatais_tor.
Hosting: VPNDetectionis_hosting, with the hosting company named.; ipdatais_datacenter, for any datacenter or cloud address.
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.; ipdata1,000 city-level lookups a day, then country and network without limit, with no VPN flag. Commercial use on it needs a visible credit to ipdata.

ipdata's figures are from its threat intelligence documentation, 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 ipdata does more

ipdata's answer carries more beyond anonymity: location to the city, the mobile carrier, the company behind an address, and the blocklists it appears on, with their dates.

For VPN detection, ours costs less and says more: the VPN by name with a confidence and a last-seen date from $19 a month, where ipdata's yes or no starts at $120, and residential, mobile and datacenter proxies each on their own.

Moving from ipdata

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.

ipdatais_vpn, scores.vpn_scoreVPNDetectionis_vpn, vpn.provider, vpn.confidenceA named provider and a confidence rather than a score.
ipdatais_proxyVPNDetectionis_resproxy, is_dcproxy, is_mobproxy, is_pubproxyOne flag per kind.
ipdatais_torVPNDetectionis_tor
ipdatais_icloud_relayVPNDetectionis_relay, relay.providerOurs covers company web gateways too.
ipdatais_datacenterVPNDetectionis_hosting, is_cdn, hosting.providerOurs names the hosting company.
ipdatais_known_attacker, is_known_abuser, blocklistsVPNDetectionNo counterpartNo counterpart.

ipdata's side is from its threat intelligence and VPN detection documentation and its pricing page, read on 2026-11-13. ipdata 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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