myip as an ip-api.com Alternative

ip-api.com free & Pro limits

Reproduced from ip-api's own site, JSON API docs and Pro member portal. Note the shape: a per-MINUTE rate limit rather than a per-day/month cap, and a single Pro plan priced on an annual EUR commitment — kept exactly as printed, not converted to another currency or period.

Both the free endpoint and Pro are API-only — ip-api's own site was checked for a downloadable database product and none was found.

Not published anywhere on ip-api's site or docs: a month-to-month (non-annual) Pro price, any per-second/burst limit on Pro beyond "Unlimited requests", and whether the free and Pro endpoints differ in which response fields they return.

Migrating from ip-api.com's JSON endpoint

ip-api's own docs document the 25 fields below by name and description, but the docs page doesn't publish a full verbatim example response. The JSON below is illustrative — built strictly from those documented field names with example values, not a copied vendor example — so re-open ip-api's own docs before depending on an exact value shape. "message" is included only when status is "fail" and is omitted from this success-path example.

{
  "status": "success",
  "continent": "North America",
  "continentCode": "NA",
  "country": "United States",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "region": "VA",
  "regionName": "Virginia",
  "city": "Example City",
  "district": "",
  "zip": "20149",
  "lat": 39.0481,
  "lon": -77.4728,
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "offset": -14400,
  "currency": "USD",
  "isp": "Example ISP",
  "org": "Example Org",
  "as": "AS64500 Example Org",
  "asname": "EXAMPLE-AS",
  "reverse": "",
  "mobile": false,
  "proxy": false,
  "hosting": true,
  "query": "203.0.113.7"
}

Field by field, the closest myip v2 equivalents:

// ip-api.com JSON response -> myip v2 field shape.
// ip-api's response is a flat object; myip's is grouped into geo/network/
// dns/privacy blocks. Fields with no myip equivalent (continent/region
// display names, district, numeric UTC offset, national currency) are
// dropped; "as" is a raw hint since myip already returns the AS number and
// org name split, and "proxy" is a raw hint since myip splits it into three
// separate isProxy/isVpn/isTor signals instead of one merged flag.
function mapIpApiToMyip(ipapi) {
  return {
    ip: ipapi.query,
    geo: {
      countryCode: ipapi.countryCode,
      countryName: ipapi.country,
      continent: ipapi.continentCode,
      region: ipapi.regionName,
      city: ipapi.city,
      postal: ipapi.zip,
      timezone: ipapi.timezone,
      lat: ipapi.lat,
      lon: ipapi.lon,
    },
    network: {
      // ip-api's "as" is a single "AS " string; parse it
      // yourself if you need myip's separate asn/asName fields.
      asRawHint: ipapi.as,
      asName: ipapi.asname,
      asnOrg: ipapi.isp,
    },
    dns: {
      ptr: ipapi.reverse,
    },
    privacy: {
      // ip-api's one "proxy" boolean folds Tor/VPN/proxy together; myip's
      // isProxy/isVpn/isTor are separate signals — don't assume equivalence.
      isProxyHint: ipapi.proxy,
    },
  };
}

Where ip-api.com has the edge

• A comparatively generous free-tier rate limit for casual, non-commercial use: 45 requests per minute per IP address, with no separate daily or monthly cap published on top of it, and no paid plan required to use it.
• Pro is a single flat-rate subscription with unlimited requests and no published request-volume tiers or per-request overage to plan around.
• Pro publishes an explicit 99.9% SLA. myip has no published SLA or uptime guarantee.

To be fair about our own limits

• myip's geolocation comes from scheduled offline-database imports, not a live per-request lookup — unlike the RDAP network/registry data in the same response, which is fetched from the registry and cached.
• There is no published SLA or uptime guarantee.
• There is no downloadable database product on myip either — same as ip-api itself, every lookup on both sides is an API call.

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Frequently asked questions

What is ip-api.com's free-tier rate limit?

45 HTTP requests per minute from an IP address, per ip-api's own site and API docs. Going over it gets your requests throttled with an HTTP 429 until the window resets. No separate daily or monthly cap is published alongside it.

Does ip-api.com's free endpoint allow commercial use?

No — ip-api states plainly that it does not allow commercial use of the free endpoint, and points to its Pro service for commercial use instead. Pro explicitly allows commercial use.

How is ip-api.com's Pro plan priced?

€13.3 per month, when paying for 12 months — ip-api's own published figure, in euros, on an annual commitment. Only that 12-month-term rate is published; no separate month-to-month price is available on the fetched page.

Does ip-api.com offer a downloadable IP database?

No — ip-api's own site was checked for a downloadable database product and none was found. It is an API-only service, on both the free endpoint and Pro.

How current are the ip-api.com figures on this page?

Retrieved from ip-api.com's own site and docs on 2026-07-28 and not re-verified live by this page — check the linked vendor pages for the current figure before relying on it. myip's own numbers above are the exception: fetched live on every page load, so they never go stale.