⚡ Geolocation in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, geolocation tools are used on 0.4% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is IPinfo with an impressive share of 30.8%, followed by GeoJS with 23.1% and ipapi.co with 15.4%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Geolocation Tools

Below is a more detailed list of 10 geolocation tools used on sites from South Africa, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
IPinfo
Seattle, Washington, United States

A data service that provides IP address information via free and paid APIs.

Free$49+/month
2
GeoJS
Australia

A highly available REST/JSON/JSONP IP Geolocation lookup API.

Free
3
ipapi.co
Henderson, Nevada, United States

Provides a REST API to find the location of an IP address.

Free$15+/month
4
MaxMind
Malden, Massachusetts, United States

A provider of IP address intelligence, geolocation and fraud detection tools.

Free$374+/year
5
ipify
Texas, United States

An API service that provides a free IP address API and a paid IP geolocation API.

Free$15+/month
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
7
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
8
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
9
ipdata
Newark, Delaware, United States

Provides an IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API.

Free$10+/month
10
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

👉 See Also

Data is based on the analysis of 17,874 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on .
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.