⚡ Geolocation

IP Geolocation services determine the approximate location of a user based on their IP address, providing data such as country, region, city, and Internet service provider.

These services are used for content customization, targeted advertising, fraud prevention, and security.

According to our research, geolocation tools are used on 0.4% of all websites.
91.8% of these sites use only one geolocation tool, 7.7% use two, and 0.5% use three or more of them.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading geolocation tools in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is IPinfo with a share of 24.9%, followed by GeoJS with 24% and ipify with 16%.

IPinfo 24.9%
GeoJS 24%
ipify 16%
ipapi.co 15.8%
MaxMind 9%
IP-API 6.7%
IP2Location 4.4%
Ipstack 2.1%
ipdata 1.8%
🗺️ Jsonip 1.3%
DB-IP 1.2%
ipgeolocation.io 1.1%
Abstract IP Geolocation API 0.3%
ipapi 0.2%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of tools that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

GeoJS is #1 in the United Kingdom ^(-1)
ipify is #1 in the United States ^(-2)
ipapi.co is #2 in India ^(-2)

✨ Best Geolocation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 14 geolocation tools we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	IPinfo Seattle, Washington, United States A data service that provides IP address information via free and paid APIs. Free$49+/month	24.9%
2	GeoJS Australia A highly available REST/JSON/JSONP IP Geolocation lookup API. Free	24%
3	ipify Texas, United States An API service that provides a free IP address API and a paid IP geolocation API. Free$15+/month	16%
4	ipapi.co Henderson, Nevada, United States Provides a REST API to find the location of an IP address. Free$15+/month	15.8%
5	MaxMind Malden, Massachusetts, United States A provider of IP address intelligence, geolocation and fraud detection tools. Free$374+/year	9%
6	IP-API Bucharest, Romania An IP geolocation API that offers a limited free tier and a paid pro service. Free€13.3/month	6.7%
7	IP2Location Bayan Baru, Malaysia A geolocation service that provides databases and a real-time API to determine a user's location. Free$99+/year	4.4%
8	Ipstack Vienna, Austria A subscription-based IP geolocation API service that provides geolocation data, including city, region, country, and time zone information. Free$9.99+/month	2.1%
9	ipdata Newark, Delaware, United States Provides an IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API. Free$10+/month	1.8%
10	🗺️ Jsonip Seattle, Washington, United States A free API that returns a client's IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) as a JSON object. Free	1.3%
11	DB-IP Perros-Guirec, France A geolocation service that provides IP Geolocation API and downloadable databases to determine a user's location. Free€49.90+/year	1.2%
12	ipgeolocation.io Citra, Florida, United States Provides an IP Geolocation API that is free for non-commercial use up to 30K requests per month. Free$19+/month	1.1%
13	Abstract IP Geolocation API San Francisco, California, United States Provides geolocation data, including city, postal code, region, country, along with proxy & VPN detection and IP reputation score. Free$19+/month	0.3%
14	ipapi Vienna, Austria Ipapi.com provides an API that allows customers to look up information associated with IP addresses, such as location and connection data, ISP information, time zone, currency, and security assessment data. Free$6.99+/month	0.2%

Data is based on the analysis of 3,320,618 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.