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An IPHub alternative for VPN and proxy detection

IPHub answers one number, block, and leaves you to act on it. VPNDetection tells you what the address is: the VPN by name, each kind of proxy with when it was first and last seen, and the company that hosts 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.; IPHubNot published
VPN IPs: VPNDetection17,692,482IPv4.; IPHubNot published
Anonymous IPs: VPNDetection135,884,611IPv4 on a VPN, Tor, a relay or a proxy, proxies over the last 90 days.; IPHubNot published
Hosting IPs: VPNDetection503,292,338IPv4 in hosting and CDN networks.; IPHubNot published
Which VPN: VPNDetectionNamed on every paid plan, as vpn.provider: a stable ID a rule can key on.; IPHubNo field names the service.
How sure, and how recent: VPNDetectionconfidence (high, medium or low) and last_seen on every match.; IPHubblock is 0, 1 or 2. Its 2 is a lower-confidence answer, which it says may flag innocent users. No dates.
Residential proxies: VPNDetectionis_resproxy, with first and last seen, hits, days seen and how many providers resell the address.; IPHubresidentialProxy in proxyType, on its Professional plan.
Datacenter, mobile and public proxies: VPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy and is_pubproxy, each a flag of its own.; IPHubproxyType also names proxy, hosting, relay and cloudGaming. There's no mobile type.
Tor: VPNDetectionis_tor, from the public Tor set, rebuilt daily.; IPHubtor in proxyType.
Hosting: VPNDetectionis_hosting, with the hosting company named.; IPHubhosting in proxyType. block is 1 for any non-residential 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.; IPHubA free plan, 1,000 lookups a day.

We found none of these figures on IPHub'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 IPHub does more

IPHub's bulk call takes up to 100,000 addresses at once, where ours takes 1,000, and it marks cloud gaming services, which we don't.

Ours says what the address is rather than whether to block it: the VPN by name, each kind of proxy with first and last seen, and the hosting company, so a rule can be as narrow as one provider. The VPN, Tor and relay flags are free with no daily cap, where IPHub's free plan stops at 1,000 lookups a day.

Moving from IPHub

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.

IPHubblockVPNDetectionis_vpn, is_hosting, is_resproxy, is_dcproxyYour rule decides from what the address is.
IPHubproxyType.residentialProxyVPNDetectionis_resproxy, resproxy.last_seen
IPHubproxyType.proxyVPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy, is_pubproxyOne flag per kind.
IPHubproxyType.torVPNDetectionis_tor
IPHubproxyType.hostingVPNDetectionis_hosting, hosting.providerOurs names the hosting company.
IPHubproxyType.relayVPNDetectionis_relay, relay.provider
IPHubasn, ispVPNDetectionasn.asn, asn.name
IPHubcountryCode, countryNameVPNDetectionlocation.country, location.country_name
IPHubproxyType.cloudGaming, hostnameVPNDetectionNo counterpartNo counterpart.

IPHub's side is from its API documentation and its pricing page, read on 2026-11-12, which showed no paid plan's price. IPHub 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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