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A vpnapi.io alternative for VPN and proxy detection

vpnapi.io answers four yes-or-no flags: VPN, proxy, Tor and relay. VPNDetection names the VPN, splits proxies into residential, mobile, datacenter and public, says when each was last seen, and names the hosting company. 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.; vpnapi.ioNot published
VPN IPs: VPNDetection17,692,482IPv4.; vpnapi.ioNot published
Anonymous IPs: VPNDetection135,884,611IPv4 on a VPN, Tor, a relay or a proxy, proxies over the last 90 days.; vpnapi.ioNot published
Hosting IPs: VPNDetection503,292,338IPv4 in hosting and CDN networks.; vpnapi.ioNot published
Which VPN: VPNDetectionNamed on every paid plan, as vpn.provider: a stable ID a rule can key on.; vpnapi.ioNo field names the service. security.vpn says yes or no.
How sure, and how recent: VPNDetectionconfidence (high, medium or low) and last_seen on every match.; vpnapi.ioNo confidence or dates.
Residential proxies: VPNDetectionis_resproxy, with first and last seen, hits, days seen and how many providers resell the address.; vpnapi.ioInside security.proxy, which covers every kind.
Datacenter, mobile and public proxies: VPNDetectionis_dcproxy, is_mobproxy and is_pubproxy, each a flag of its own.; vpnapi.ioThe same security.proxy flag.
Tor: VPNDetectionis_tor, from the public Tor set, rebuilt daily.; vpnapi.iosecurity.tor.
Hosting: VPNDetectionis_hosting, with the hosting company named.; vpnapi.ioNo hosting flag. network.autonomous_system_organization names the network.
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.; vpnapi.io1,000 requests a day free. Paid plans from $19 a month for 10,000 a day.

We found none of these figures on vpnapi.io'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 vpnapi.io does more

vpnapi.io is cheap at volume, $29 a month for 50,000 requests a day, and returns a city and coordinates with every answer.

Its answer is four yes-or-no flags, though. It names no VPN, doesn't tell one kind of proxy from another and gives no confidence or dates, which is what lets a rule be narrower than blocking every VPN and proxy.

Moving from vpnapi.io

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.

vpnapi.iosecurity.vpnVPNDetectionis_vpn, vpn.providerOurs adds which VPN.
vpnapi.iosecurity.proxyVPNDetectionis_resproxy, is_dcproxy, is_mobproxy, is_pubproxyOne flag per kind.
vpnapi.iosecurity.torVPNDetectionis_tor
vpnapi.iosecurity.relayVPNDetectionis_relay, relay.provider
vpnapi.ionetwork.autonomous_system_number, network.autonomous_system_organizationVPNDetectionasn.asn, asn.name
vpnapi.ionetwork.networkVPNDetectionasn.prefix
vpnapi.iolocation.country_code, location.time_zoneVPNDetectionlocation.country, location.timezone
vpnapi.iolocation.city, location.region, location.latitude, location.longitudeVPNDetectionNo counterpartWe don't return a place below the country.

vpnapi.io's side is from its API documentation and its pricing page, read on 2026-11-12. vpnapi.io 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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