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An IPLocate alternative for VPN and proxy detection

IPLocate answers every field free, up to 1,000 lookups a day, its is_vpn, is_proxy and is_tor as yes or no. VPNDetection names the VPN with a confidence and last seen, flags residential proxies, and answers the VPN, Tor and relay flags free with no daily 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.

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VPN providers: VPNDetection745With addresses in our data.; IPLocateNot published
VPN IPs: VPNDetection17,692,482IPv4.; IPLocateNot published
Anonymous IPs: VPNDetection135,884,611IPv4 on a VPN, Tor, a relay or a proxy, proxies over the last 90 days.; IPLocateNot published
Hosting IPs: VPNDetection503,292,338IPv4 in hosting and CDN networks.; IPLocateNot published
Which VPN: VPNDetectionNamed on every paid plan, as vpn.provider: a stable ID a rule can key on.; IPLocateNo field names the service. privacy.is_vpn says yes or no.
How sure, and how recent: VPNDetectionconfidence (high, medium or low) and last_seen on every match.; IPLocateNo confidence or dates.
Residential proxies: VPNDetectionis_resproxy, with first and last seen, hits, days seen and how many providers resell the address.; IPLocateNo residential proxy flag. privacy.is_proxy covers reported proxies.
Datacenter, mobile and public proxies: VPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy and is_pubproxy, each a flag of its own.; IPLocateOne privacy.is_proxy flag for every kind.
Tor: VPNDetectionis_tor, from the public Tor set, rebuilt daily.; IPLocateprivacy.is_tor, for exit nodes.
Hosting: VPNDetectionis_hosting, with the hosting company named.; IPLocateprivacy.is_hosting, with the provider, its cloud region and service in hosting.
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.; IPLocate1,000 lookups a day, every field. Paid plans from $25 a month for 100,000.

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

IPLocate answers more about hosting: the cloud region and service behind an address, such as AWS's us-east-1 and EC2. Its free 1,000 lookups a day carry every field, location to the city among them.

For VPN and proxy detection, ours says more: the VPN by name with a confidence and a last-seen date, residential, mobile and datacenter proxies each on their own, and no daily cap on the VPN, Tor and relay flags.

Moving from IPLocate

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.

IPLocateprivacy.is_vpnVPNDetectionis_vpn, vpn.providerOurs adds which VPN.
IPLocateprivacy.is_proxyVPNDetectionis_resproxy, is_dcproxy, is_mobproxy, is_pubproxyOne flag per kind.
IPLocateprivacy.is_torVPNDetectionis_tor
IPLocateprivacy.is_icloud_relayVPNDetectionis_relay, relay.providerOurs covers company web gateways too.
IPLocateprivacy.is_hosting, hosting.providerVPNDetectionis_hosting, hosting.provider
IPLocatehosting.region, hosting.service, privacy.is_abuserVPNDetectionNo counterpartNo counterpart.

IPLocate's side is from its data types documentation and its pricing page, read on 2026-11-13. IPLocate 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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