Frequently Asked Questions

Yes! You can make up to 2,000 requests per day for free — no credit card required. The free tier includes all core features like geolocation, WHOIS/ASN info, and country-level data. It's designed for development, testing, and smaller production apps.

Very accurate. We use a range of proprietary and open source data, and our own proprietary correction layer data, all of which are regularly updated, resulting in high precision, especially for city-level targeting.

Yes. IPWHO is open-source, and you can deploy it to your own VPS or container. This is perfect if you need full control. However, there are a lot of costs in establishing and delivering a high availability, low latency service like IPWho and our pricing is low enough to make self-hosting unattractive for most.

We update the data sources very frequently to ensure fresh and accurate data. Country metadata and static mappings (currency, language, etc.) are kept in sync manually as needed to reflect real-world geopolitical changes.