IPinfo competitors and alternatives

The alternatives, briefly

Kaidn compared with IPinfo

Accurate IP context: location, network, carrier and company data, with privacy and VPN detection on the higher tiers.

IPinfo is a data company, and a careful one. If your problem is needing to know that an address is on a particular carrier, in a particular city, belonging to a particular organisation, they are excellent and this page is not an argument against them.

It exists because "IP intelligence" gets used to mean two unrelated things, and buying the wrong one wastes a quarter.

Describing is not deciding#

Their output describes: this address is in Lagos, on this network, operated by this company, and on the right plan, using a VPN.

Ours judges a person: allow, review or block, with the checks that fired and what each one counted for. IP context feeds into that, and so does whether the email domain was registered last week, whether the phone is a VoIP line already seen elsewhere, and whether this device signed up four times today.

Neither is better. But if you buy description when you needed judgement, you will build the judgement yourself, and that build is longer than it looks. It is not the API call. It is the weighting, the thresholds, the review queue, and the six months of tuning that follow.

Network data, and the thing we do differently#

We both surface the network an address belongs to. We use it differently, and this is the closest our products come to overlapping, so it is worth being precise.

Theirs is authoritative registry data: which network an address belongs to and who operates it. That is a fact, and facts are what a data company should sell.

Ours is reputational and comes from our own traffic: how traffic from that network has actually behaved across the operators we score. That is not a fact about the network. It is an observation about our traffic, only possible because we sit on decisions rather than lookups. And it is worth exactly nothing without their kind of data underneath it.

The honest overlap#

Their privacy detection on the higher tiers does overlap with part of what we do. If that is all you need from a risk point of view, one vendor is simpler than two.

The overlap ends at the address. Nothing in an IP feed will tell you that these eleven accounts withdraw to the same destination, because that information does not exist in an IP address and never will.

Describing and deciding, in one screen#

The difference is not rhetorical. It is what the response leaves you holding.

{
  "ip": "3.5.140.1",
  "city": "Seoul",
  "country": "KR",
  "org": "AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.",
  "privacy": { "vpn": false, "proxy": false, "hosting": true }
}

Every field is true and none of them is a decision. hosting: true is bad news on a consumer signup form and completely normal for an API client, and nothing in that payload knows which one you are.

{
  "verdict": "block",
  "score": 95,
  "reasons": ["datacenter_ip", "device_reuse", "disposable_email"],
  "checks": [
    { "check": "ipRisk", "weight": 45, "reason": "datacenter_ip", "evidence": { "asn": "amazon" } },
    { "check": "deviceReuse", "weight": 15, "reason": "device_reuse", "evidence": { "accountCount": 3 } },
    { "check": "emailRisk", "weight": 35, "reason": "disposable_email", "evidence": { "is_disposable": true } }
  ]
}

The address contributed 45 of the 95. The other 50 came from information no IP feed holds.

If you want the geography without the verdict#

Kaidn will not replace a geolocation database and does not try to. But if all you want is the address on its own, there is a lookup that does not spend a scored event:

curl -s -X POST https://api.kaidn.io/v1/check/ip \
  -H "x-api-key: $KAIDN_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ip":"3.5.140.1"}'

Treat that as a convenience, not as a reason to drop a data vendor. For registry-grade accuracy on what an address is, buy it from a company whose whole business is being right about that.

Where we would send you elsewhere#

If you need location data as a self-hosted database rather than an API, MaxMind has been doing that longest. If you only care about proxy-or-not and want to spend as little as possible, proxycheck.io is a few euros a month. And if you are at low volume and want the same shape as IPinfo more cheaply, price ipdata before committing.