⚡ Geolocation in China

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.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, geolocation tools are used on 0.1% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 83K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is ipify with an impressive share of 35.2%, followed by IPinfo with 28.6% and ipapi.co with 14.3%.

ipify 35.2%
IPinfo 28.6%
ipapi.co 14.3%
MaxMind 11%
IP2Location 5.5%
GeoJS 4.4%
ipgeolocation.io 2.2%
Abstract IP Geolocation API 1.1%
ipdata 1.1%
IP-API 1.1%
Ipstack 1.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. ipify ^(-2)
3. ipapi.co ^(-1)
4. MaxMind ^(-1)
5. IP2Location ^(-2)
7. ipgeolocation.io ^(-5)
8. Abstract IP Geolocation API ^(-5)

✨ Best Geolocation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 11 geolocation tools used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	ipify Texas, United States An API service that provides a free IP address API and a paid IP geolocation API. Free$15+/month	35.2%
2	IPinfo Seattle, Washington, United States A data service that provides IP address information via free and paid APIs. Free$49+/month	28.6%
3	ipapi.co Henderson, Nevada, United States Provides a REST API to find the location of an IP address. Free$15+/month	14.3%
4	MaxMind Malden, Massachusetts, United States A provider of IP address intelligence, geolocation and fraud detection tools. Free$374+/year	11%
5	IP2Location Bayan Baru, Malaysia A geolocation service that provides databases and a real-time API to determine a user's location. Free$99+/year	5.5%
6	GeoJS Australia A highly available REST/JSON/JSONP IP Geolocation lookup API. Free	4.4%
7	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	2.2%
8	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	1.1%
9	ipdata Newark, Delaware, United States Provides an IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API. Free$10+/month	1.1%
10	IP-API Bucharest, Romania An IP geolocation API that offers a limited free tier and a paid pro service. Free€13.3/month	1.1%
11	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	1.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Geolocation in other countries

🗃️ 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 83,408 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 14 geolocation tools across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.