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An Ipregistry alternative for VPN and proxy detection

Ipregistry answers is_vpn, is_proxy and is_residential_proxy as yes or no, on every plan. VPNDetection names the VPN with a confidence and the last day we saw it, and splits proxies by kind. 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.

Better
Worse
About the same

VPN providers: VPNDetection745With addresses in our data.; IpregistryNot published
VPN IPs: VPNDetection17,692,482IPv4.; IpregistryNot publishedIts VPN database lists 4.1M records, with no count of addresses.
Anonymous IPs: VPNDetection135,884,611IPv4 on a VPN, Tor, a relay or a proxy, proxies over the last 90 days.; IpregistryNot publishedIts threat database's "over 620M malicious IP addresses" counts abuse and attack sources with the proxies and Tor.
Hosting IPs: VPNDetection503,292,338IPv4 in hosting and CDN networks.; IpregistryNot published
Which VPN: VPNDetectionNamed on every paid plan, as vpn.provider: a stable ID a rule can key on.; IpregistryNo field names the service. is_vpn says yes or no.
How sure, and how recent: VPNDetectionconfidence (high, medium or low) and last_seen on every match.; IpregistryNo confidence or dates.
Residential proxies: VPNDetectionis_resproxy, with first and last seen, hits, days seen and how many providers resell the address.; Ipregistryis_residential_proxy, with no dates.
Datacenter, mobile and public proxies: VPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy and is_pubproxy, each a flag of its own.; IpregistryOne is_proxy flag for HTTP, SOCKS, web and residential proxies alike.
Tor: VPNDetectionis_tor, from the public Tor set, rebuilt daily.; Ipregistryis_tor, and is_tor_exit for exit nodes.
Hosting: VPNDetectionis_hosting, with the hosting company named.; Ipregistryis_cloud_provider, for hosting and CDNs together.
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.; Ipregistry20,000 credits once, at sign-up, with every field. Then from $29 a month, or packs from $10.

Ipregistry's figures are from its datasets page and its threat detection 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 Ipregistry does more

Ipregistry sells IP data at large on every plan: location to the city, the company and carrier behind an address, abuse and attack flags, and daily downloads of each dataset.

For VPN and proxy detection, ours says more for less: the VPN by name with a confidence and a last-seen date, residential, mobile and datacenter proxies each on their own, and every field from $19 a month for 250,000 lookups.

Moving from Ipregistry

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.

Ipregistryis_vpnVPNDetectionis_vpn, vpn.providerOurs adds which VPN.
Ipregistryis_residential_proxyVPNDetectionis_resproxy, resproxy.last_seen
Ipregistryis_proxyVPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy, is_pubproxyOne flag per kind.
Ipregistryis_tor, is_tor_exitVPNDetectionis_tor
Ipregistryis_relayVPNDetectionis_relay, relay.providerIts covers iCloud Private Relay alone.
Ipregistryis_cloud_providerVPNDetectionis_hosting, is_cdn, hosting.providerHosting and CDNs apart, the hosting company named.
Ipregistryis_abuser, is_attacker, is_threatVPNDetectionNo counterpartNo counterpart.
Ipregistrylocation.city, location.regionVPNDetectionNo counterpartWe don't return a place below the country.

Ipregistry's side is from its response fields documentation, its pricing page and its datasets page, read on 2026-11-13. Ipregistry 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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