Real public IP
The address is registered to a consumer or business ISP with no anonymiser flags. Websites see your genuine connection and your approximate real location.
Live IP & VPN diagnostics
What is my IP address — and is it really mine?
See the public IP address every website you visit can read right now, then find out in one glance whether it is a genuine ISP address or a proxy, VPN or datacentre IP hiding your real connection.
- No sign-up
- No logs stored
- IPv4 & IPv6
- Results in under a second
- Checks run
- IP · ASN · VPN · Tor · WebRTC
- Page weight
- Under 20 KB, zero trackers
- Cost
- Free forever, no account
Your public IP address
LiveAnalysing your connection…
Detecting your public IP address and checking it against geolocation and proxy databases.
- IP version
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- Country
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- City / region
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- ISP / organisation
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- ASN
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- Time zone
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- Local time
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- Connection type
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- Risk score
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- Postal code
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- Coordinates
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- Continent
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- IPv6 address
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Detection uses ipify for the address, then ipquery.io and ipwho.is for geolocation, ASN and VPN, proxy or Tor flags. Nothing is stored on our side.
How the check works
Three fast steps, no black box
Every result on this page is produced from public, auditable data sources — so you can see exactly why an address is marked real, private or anonymised.
Detect the address
Your browser asks an echo endpoint what address the request arrived from. That is the exact IP a website, game server or email host sees.
Enrich and analyse
The address is matched against geolocation and ASN registries to resolve country, city, ISP, autonomous system and time zone, plus proxy and anonymiser flags.
Return a verdict
You get one clear answer — real public IP, proxy or VPN, datacentre host, or a private LAN address that cannot be routed on the internet at all.
Reading your result
What each verdict means
The badge on your result card is based on registry ownership and anonymiser databases, not guesswork.
Proxy, VPN or datacentre
The address belongs to a hosting provider or is flagged as an anonymiser. Your real IP is masked — good for privacy, but it can trigger CAPTCHAs and streaming blocks.
Private or reserved IP
Ranges such as 10.x.x.x, 172.16–31.x.x and 192.168.x.x only exist inside local networks. They are not routable on the public internet.
Beyond the IP address
What else your browser gives away
Your IP is only part of your online fingerprint. Every request also carries headers and JavaScript-readable properties that can identify you even when the address changes.
The WebRTC row matters most for VPN users: browsers can expose the local network address of your device through peer-to-peer candidate gathering, bypassing the tunnel entirely. If it shows anything other than "No leak detected", disable WebRTC or use a browser extension that blocks it.
Browser & network fingerprint
- WebRTC local IP
- Testing…
- Browser time zone
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- Languages
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- Platform
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- Screen
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- Connection
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- Cookies
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- Do Not Track
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- User agent
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All of this is read locally in your browser and never leaves your device.
Use cases
Why people check their public IP
Verify a VPN
Confirm the tunnel is up and your ISP name and country have actually changed before you log in to anything sensitive.
Whitelist access
Grab the address you need to add to a firewall rule, remote desktop allowlist, database or game server.
Investigate abuse
Trace the source of a suspicious login alert, spam email header or brute-force attempt in your server logs.
Troubleshoot networks
See whether your ISP has put you behind carrier-grade NAT, and whether IPv6 is actually enabled on your line.
Check geo-blocking
Understand which country streaming platforms, banks and shops think you are browsing from.
Developer testing
Validate proxy chains, CDN routing and API allowlists while building and debugging.
Protect privacy
Learn what advertisers and analytics platforms can infer about you from a single number.
Detect leaks
Catch WebRTC and IPv6 leaks that quietly reveal your identity while a VPN is connected.
FAQ
Public IP address questions, answered
Short, practical answers to the questions we get asked most about IP addresses, VPNs and geolocation accuracy.
What is my public IP address?
Your public IP address is the number your internet service provider assigns to your connection so that websites and servers can send data back to you. The big number at the top of this page is the exact address every website you visit can see right now. It is shared by every device behind your router, and it usually changes when your router restarts or your ISP renews the lease.
Is this IP checker free and does it store my data?
Yes, it is completely free and needs no account. The lookup happens in your own browser: your IP is sent to the public geolocation APIs used for the analysis, and we do not run server-side logging, tracking pixels or advertising profiles on the result.
Why does my IP address location show the wrong city?
IP geolocation is an estimate, not GPS. Databases map an address block to the place where the ISP registered it, which can be the nearest large city, a regional exchange or even the ISP head office hundreds of kilometres away. Country accuracy is typically 95–99%, while city accuracy is far lower — especially on mobile networks and CGNAT connections.
How do I know if my VPN is actually working?
Load this page with the VPN disconnected and note the IP, ISP and country. Connect the VPN, reload, and the address, ISP and location should all change and the verdict should report a datacentre or proxy IP. If your real ISP name still appears, the tunnel is leaking. Also check the WebRTC panel below — a leaked local address there can expose your network even behind a VPN.
What is the difference between a real IP and a proxy or VPN IP?
A real (residential) IP belongs to a consumer or business ISP and points at a physical connection. A proxy or VPN IP belongs to a hosting company, so traffic appears to originate from a datacentre. Fraud systems treat the two very differently: datacentre IPs are frequently rate-limited, challenged with CAPTCHAs or blocked by streaming services and banks.
Can someone find my exact home address from my IP?
No. A public IP reveals your approximate area, your ISP and your autonomous system number. Only your ISP holds the subscriber record that ties an address to a street, and that is normally released only under a lawful request. What an IP does expose is enough for ad targeting, content blocking and rough location — which is why many people use a VPN.
Why is my IPv6 address different from my IPv4 address?
Most connections are dual-stack: the ISP issues one IPv4 address (often shared through carrier-grade NAT) and a separate IPv6 prefix. Websites reachable over IPv6 see the IPv6 address, everything else sees the IPv4 one. Both are shown above so you can confirm what each type of server observes.
How often does my public IP address change?
Residential connections are usually dynamic: the address changes when the DHCP lease expires, when the modem reboots or when the ISP re-provisions the segment — that can be hours, days or months. Business lines and servers normally have a static IP that never changes. Mobile networks can change your IP several times a day as you move between gateways.
Check any other IP address
Investigating a suspicious login, a spam email header or a server log entry? Run any IPv4 or IPv6 address through the same geolocation and proxy checks.