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Free IP lookup API — alternative to ipinfo, ipapi, ipstack, whoapi - ipengine.dev
Depends. Evidence is thin and dated — mostly 2020 self-promotional Reddit posts plus the vendor's own pages — so confidence is low. Fine for hobbyists and homelab scripts; risky for production teams needing SLAs, support, or proven customers.
Low. Based on ~8 usable public sources; most search hits were unrelated (patent litigation, hardware appliances, IPython tooling). Confidence low.
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Free
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No SLA, support terms, or enterprise contracts found in sources
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'Completely free' claims date to 2020; confirm current rate limits before building
medium
Runs on Ko-fi donations; avoid hard dependency in production
Value for money: 5/5
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No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
Only self-published 2020 Reddit posts describe it as a completely free ipinfo/ipapi alternative; no independent user reviews were found.
“Its completely FREE”
“ipengine.dev (Free alternative to ip-info; ipinfo; ipapi; whoapi; ipstack)”
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Ipengine (IPWho) vs ipstackDomain and WHOIS-focused API alternative.
Ipengine (IPWho) vs whoapiBased on ~8 usable public sources; most search hits were unrelated (patent litigation, hardware appliances, IPython tooling). Confidence low.
Free IP-lookup API popular with homelabbers; fine for hobby use, unproven for production — no SLAs or named customers.
Based on ~8 usable public sources; most search hits were unrelated (patent litigation, hardware appliances, IPython tooling). Confidence low.
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