🆚 IP-API vs. MaxMind
- 📈 MaxMind is noticeably more popular than IP-API.
- 🌎 MaxMind is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 IP-API is more popular in Russia, India, and Brazil.
Statistics based on 3.9M+ analyzed websites. About this data
IP-API
MaxMindType
IP geolocation API
IP geolocation API
About
IP-API is an IP geolocation API that offers a limited free tier and a paid pro service.
MaxMind is an IP intelligence and online fraud detection service that offers IP geolocation data, proxy identification, and transaction risk scoring.
It detects country, city, internet service provider, organization, ASN, connection type, and VPN or proxy status, scores e-commerce transactions through its minFraud API, and provides static IP scoring and user count estimates.
Headquarters
Bucharest, Romania
Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️ 45 requests/minute, non-commercial use only
Pro €159.6/year
Free version ✔️ GeoLite
GeoIP databases
Country $374/year
ISP $484/year
City $1,474/year
Categories
Geolocation › Rank #6
Geolocation › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The MaxMind geolocation service is 1.3 times more popular than IP-API.
Total websites
Market share
Geolocation
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
MaxMind is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while IP-API is more popular in Russia, India, and Brazil.
United States
United Kingdom
Russia
Germany
Australia
Canada
Netherlands
Spain
France
India
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Geolocation category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Geolocation category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Geolocation category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Geolocation category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Geolocation category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Geolocation category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
MaxMind is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while IP-API is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, general news, and education and reference sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Health
Real Estate
Blogs/Wiki
Fashion/Beauty
Finance/Banking
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,976,354 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.