⚡ IP Geolocation APIs 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, IP geolocation APIs are detected on 0.2% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 71K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is IPinfo with an impressive share of 40%, followed by ipify with 25.5% and ipapi.co with 20%.

IPinfo 40%
ipify 25.5%
ipapi.co 20%
MaxMind 9.1%
GeoJS 4.5%
IP2Location 3.6%
IP-API 1.8%
Ipstack 0.9%
ipgeolocation.io 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. ipify ^(-2)
4. MaxMind ^(-1)
6. IP2Location ^(-1)
9. ipgeolocation.io ^(-2)

✨ Best Geolocation Services

Below is a more detailed list of 9 geolocation services used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	IPinfo Seattle, Washington, United States An IP address intelligence service that provides free and paid APIs for retrieving geolocation, network, company, and privacy data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Free$49+/month	40%
2	ipify Texas, United States An API service that provides a free IP address API and a paid IP geolocation API. Free$15+/month	25.5%
3	ipapi.co Henderson, Nevada, United States An IP geolocation service that provides REST APIs for retrieving location and network information about IP addresses. Free$15+/month	20%
4	MaxMind Malden, Massachusetts, United States A provider of IP address intelligence, geolocation and fraud detection tools. Free$374+/year	9.1%
5	GeoJS Australia A REST-based IP geolocation service that provides APIs without authentication or rate limits. Free	4.5%
6	IP2Location Bayan Baru, Malaysia A geolocation service that provides databases and a real-time API to determine a user's location. Free$99+/year	3.6%
7	IP-API Bucharest, Romania An IP geolocation API that offers a limited free tier and a paid pro service. Free€13.3/month	1.8%
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	0.9%
9	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	0.9%

👉 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 71,763 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 14 geolocation services across the web.
Of these, 9 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on September 8, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.