Ipdata (ipdata.co) is a well-known IP geolocation and threat intelligence API, and some Ipregistry customers used it before switching. At Ipregistry, we believe IP geolocation services can do better in terms of accuracy, price, features, and ease of use. This page explains the differences, with an up-to-date comparison of plans, pricing, and included data.
Ipdata vs Ipregistry
| Features | Ipdata | Ipregistry |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1,500 requests per day, for non-commercial use only. | 100,000 free lookups on signup, with access to every data field. |
| Pricing model | Subscriptions with daily caps: Personal at $10/month (2,500 requests/day), Lite at $30/month (10,000/day), Startup at $50/month (50,000/day), and Business at $120/month (100,000/day). Unused quota is lost, and traffic spikes hit the daily ceiling. | Pay-as-you-go credits starting at $10 for 50,000 lookups. Credits never expire, there is no daily cap, and there is no monthly fee. |
| VPN and proxy detection | Business plan only ($120/month). | Included with every lookup, and Ipregistry distinguishes Tor relay nodes from exit nodes. |
| Company Name and Domain | From the Startup plan ($50/month). |  |
| Bulk Lookups | Up to 100 IP addresses per request call. | Up to 256 IP addresses per request call. |
| Output Format | JSON. | JSON or XML. |
| Response Filtering | Static: a small and predefined set of fields can be selected. | Custom: you can filter to get exactly the fields you need. |
| User-Agent Data |  | |
| Country Borders and Population | | |
| Country Flags | PNG only (low resolution, 30x20 pixels). | SVG and PNG files you can hotlink (4 different flavors). |
| Dashboard and API keys | Usage monitoring. | Usage monitoring plus multiple API keys per account, with per-key origin filtering and rate limiting. |
Why companies prefer Ipregistry over Ipdata
No Daily Caps, No Feature Gates
Ipdata's plans combine a monthly subscription with a daily request cap. If your traffic is bursty, a spike can exhaust the daily quota of a plan you are paying $120/month for, while quiet days leave quota unused. Its free tier is limited to non-commercial use, and key data is gated by plan: company data from $50/month, VPN detection only at $120/month.
With Ipregistry, you buy credits and spend them request by request, at whatever rate your traffic needs. Credits never expire, there is no daily ceiling, and every data field is included at every volume, starting with the 100,000 free lookups you get on signup.
Quick Response Time
Page speed and request response time have a direct impact on your users' experience. The Ipregistry API handles most operations in memory, with nodes deployed around the world on first-class infrastructure, which keeps response times in the low milliseconds from most locations. Rather than quoting a benchmark that will be outdated tomorrow, we suggest the honest test: run a few hundred lookups against both APIs from your own infrastructure and compare the latency distributions.
A Dashboard With Advanced Options
With Ipregistry you have access to a complete and easy-to-use dashboard for monitoring your hourly and daily usage, creating API keys, and editing settings without waiting on support emails.
Ipregistry supports multiple API keys per account, so you can use one key per isolated concern: one for your website, one for your backend, one for a partner integration. Each key has its own settings: domain and IP whitelisting restricts where a key can be used from, and per-key throttling caps how fast it can be consumed.
More Data Points
Ipregistry provides more than 65 data points in a single request: ASN and connection details, IP range, company, carrier, currency, time zone, security signals, and geolocation. Fields are organized by category in a hierarchy that makes usage and understanding a breeze, and custom response filtering returns exactly what you need.
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