IP2Location Locates IPs.1Lookup Intelligence Everything.
IP2Location is an established IP geolocation service, but 1Lookup delivers broader intelligence with superior performance and fraud detection. While IP2Location focuses on location data, 1Lookup provides integrated IP intelligence alongside phone and email validation with real-time threat detection.
Integrated Intelligence Platform
While IP2Location provides IP geolocation data, 1Lookup offers validation intelligence combining IP, phone, and email data. Get cross-validation insights, advanced fraud detection, and unified threat intelligence in one platform.
Real-Time Performance
Get with real-time threat intelligence updates vs. monthly database refreshes. Our cloud-native architecture delivers faster, more current intelligence.
Database Licensing vs. Cloud Intelligence
Modern API-first approach vs. traditional database model
| Feature | 1Lookup | IP2Location | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
IP Intelligence Accuracy Slightly higher accuracy with real-time updates | Enterprise IP accuracy | Enterprise typical accuracy | |
Service Integration Multi-service platform vs. IP-only | IP + Phone + Email validation | IP geolocation focus | |
Data Updates Continuous updates vs. periodic refreshes | Real-time threat intelligence | Monthly database updates | |
Pricing Model Transparent pricing vs. licensing complexity | Simple per-query pricing | Database licensing fees | |
Fraud Detection AI-powered fraud detection vs. location data | Advanced AI fraud scoring | Basic geolocation data | |
Geographic Coverage Broader geographic coverage | 195+ countries | 249+ countries | |
Implementation Model Modern cloud approach vs. database licensing | Cloud-native API | Database + API options |
Every lookup returns a risk signal, not just valid or invalid
A number can be perfectly well-formed and still be a burner, a VOIP line opened this morning, or a number other businesses have already reported. 1Lookup returns a risk score, a spam indicator and line type on the same call as the validation, so the decision to block, challenge or allow can be made in one request.
Real-time Risk Scoring
Instant fraud probability assessment for every number
Pattern Recognition
Detect suspicious behavior patterns across millions of numbers
Adaptive Learning
AI that improves fraud detection accuracy over time
Example response
One credit balance
Every product below draws from the same credits, at $0.00200–$0.00495 per credit depending on plan.
- Phone validation1 credit
- Email verification1 credit
- IP intelligence1 credit
- Spam and risk score1 credit
Buy credits once, spend them on whatever you need to check
Most validation tools sell one channel, so a team checking phones, emails and IPs ends up with three vendors, three invoices and three unused balances. 1Lookup bills all of them from a single credit pool on a monthly plan, with no contract, and leftover credits carry into the next quarter instead of expiring at midnight.
Phone, email and IP on one API
One key, one balance, one integration
Phone data refreshed daily
From FCC and carrier sources
No contract
Monthly plans, with three-month credit rollover
A full line profile, not a status code
The same call returns HLR data, subscriber status, porting history, network type and roaming state. That is the difference between knowing a number is formatted correctly and knowing whether a message sent to it will arrive.
Complete Phone Profile
Simple Migration from IP2Location
const ip2location = new IP2Location();
ip2location.open('./IP2LOCATION-LITE-DB11.BIN');
const result = ip2location.getAll(ipAddress);
// Database file management required
`https://api.1lookup.io/v1/validate`,
{
method: 'POST',
headers: {'X-API-Key': key},
body: JSON.stringify({ip, phone, email})
}
);
What migrating from IP2Location actually involves
Both are REST APIs returning JSON, so the move is a URL, a key and a field mapping rather than a rewrite. The call above is the real shape of each request. Where the work usually goes is the response: our field names differ, and anything you were deriving from a status code may already be a field you can read directly.
One endpoint per channel
Phone, email and IP, same key and same balance
Email Support to Dedicated CSM
Support level rises with the plan, not with a separate fee
Try before you migrate
7-day free trial with credits, no contract to unwind
Geolocation vs. Validation Intelligence
Choose based on your intelligence needs
IP2Location is best for:
- • IP geolocation and mapping needs
- • Location-based content delivery
- • Geographic analytics and reporting
- • Traditional database workflows
1Lookup is best for:
- • Full user validation
- • Fraud detection and prevention
- • Real-time threat intelligence
- • Modern cloud-native applications
Location vs. Intelligence
IP2Location excels at geographic mapping. 1Lookup excels at validation intelligence and fraud detection. Choose based on your primary use case.
IP2Location vs 1Lookup FAQ
Common questions about IP2Location and switching to 1Lookup
What is IP2Location?
IP2Location is an IP geolocation provider best known for its downloadable IP address databases and the IP2Location.io API. Given an IP address, it returns details such as approximate location (country, region, city), the owning ISP and ASN, time zone, and signals like proxy, VPN, and hosting used for geo-targeting and fraud screening. It is widely used for localizing content, web analytics, and basic abuse detection. Its focus is IP data specifically, rather than verifying phone numbers or email addresses.
How much does IP2Location cost?
IP2Location offers both licensed geolocation databases and the IP2Location.io API, and pricing is tiered rather than a single flat rate. As of publication, IP2Location.io includes a free tier plus paid API plans that start around $49/month and scale up (roughly $249 and $499/month) as query volume and data detail increase, while the downloadable databases are sold under separate commercial licenses alongside a free LITE version. Your actual cost depends on which product, data fields, and request volume you need, so check IP2Location’s pricing page for an exact quote.
What is the best IP2Location alternative?
The best alternative depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If you only need IP geolocation and ASN data, other dedicated IP-data providers may be comparable. If you need to verify contact data more broadly — confirming that a phone number, email, and IP are all valid and reachable — a verification-focused platform like 1Lookup is a closer fit, because it combines IP intelligence with phone and email validation in a single API and one universal credit system.
How is 1Lookup different from IP2Location?
IP2Location specializes in IP address geolocation data and databases, while 1Lookup is a data-verification API that validates phone numbers, emails, and IPs through one API and a single universal credit system. 1Lookup’s data is updated daily from FCC and carrier sources, and it adds carrier/HLR lookup, reverse lookup, and fraud and IP intelligence. Both are strong at what they do; 1Lookup’s main edge is unifying phone, email, and IP checks in one place, plus a free trial, rather than covering IP data alone. If your use case is purely IP geolocation, IP2Location may be sufficient; if you need cross-channel verification, 1Lookup consolidates it.
Can I try 1Lookup for free?
Yes. 1Lookup offers a 7-day free trial so you can test phone, email, and IP verification through one API before committing. You can validate real records and see how the single universal credit system works across all three checks during the trial. That makes it easy to compare 1Lookup’s results against IP2Location or your current setup.
Upgrade to Intelligence
Move beyond basic IP geolocation to unified validation intelligence. Get IP, phone, and email validation with real-time fraud detection.
7-day free trial • IP + Phone + Email • Real-time intelligence
1Lookup vs IP2Location: the same criteria, side by side
Both products measured on identical criteria, with IP2Location’s numbers taken from its own published pricing.
1lookup1lookup.ioMulti-channel validation- Phone
- IP
ip2location.comIP intelligence- IP
- IP2Location · Starts at
- API: $49/mo Starter for 150,000 IP lookups/mo (~$0.33 per 1,000); databases: from $980/yr Site License for DB1 country-level (new customers; the $99/yr per-server Standard License is limited to existing customers adding servers)
- 1Lookup: $99/mo for 20,000 credits ($4.95 per 1,000, down to $2.00 on Enterprise)
- IP2Location · Cheapest published per 1,000
- $0.33 at their largest published tier
- 1Lookup: $2.00 per 1,000 at 1,000,000 lookups/mo
- IP2Location · Free trial
- 7-day free trial on the Security plan only, no credit card needed; the 50K/mo free API plan is the de facto trial for lower tiers
- 1Lookup: 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise (card required, nothing charged up front)
- IP2Location · Do credits expire?
- Subscription quotas, not credits: pricing FAQ states all unused queries, including purchased overage queries, are forfeited at the next monthly renewal
- 1Lookup: Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year
| Criteria |  1Lookup | |
|---|---|---|
| Contact-data coverage | EmailPhoneIP | EmailPhoneIP |
| Pricing model | Monthly plans with universal credits; core phone, email and IP lookups cost 1 credit, enrichment and intelligence products cost more | Two buying shapes: annual downloadable database licenses on ip2location.com (Site License $980 to $27,980/yr, unlimited servers, the only option open to new customers; Standard License $99 to $2,799 per server/yr, reserved for existing customers adding servers; top tiers DB19-DB26 quote-only) plus ip2location.io API subscriptions (Free $0, Starter $49/mo, Plus $249/mo, Security $499/mo) with metered overage packs. |
| Starting price | $99/mo for 20,000 credits ($4.95 per 1,000, down to $2.00 on Enterprise) | API: $49/mo Starter for 150,000 IP lookups/mo (~$0.33 per 1,000); databases: from $980/yr Site License for DB1 country-level (new customers; the $99/yr per-server Standard License is limited to existing customers adding servers) |
| Free option | Free single lookups via the online tools at 1lookup.io/tools, no account required | API Free plan: 50,000 IP geolocation queries/mo plus 500 WHOIS and 50 hosted-domain queries, 11 data fields, attribution required, resets monthly, service stops at quota; separately, free LITE databases (country to city level with lat/long, ZIP, timezone, plus proxy and ASN) downloadable for personal or commercial use with attribution, account signup but no credit card |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on every plan: $5 of credits on Starter, $20 on Growth, Professional, and Enterprise (card required, nothing charged up front) | 7-day free trial on the Security plan only, no credit card needed; the 50K/mo free API plan is the de facto trial for lower tiers |
| Do credits expire? | Unused monthly credits roll over for 3 months; separately purchased credits last 1 year | Subscription quotas, not credits: pricing FAQ states all unused queries, including purchased overage queries, are forfeited at the next monthly renewal |
Cost per 1,000: IP2Location and 1Lookup
Published rates only, drawn on one shared scale that starts at $0.
- 1Lookup rate card
- IP2Location published tiers
IP2Location, per published tier
150,000 lookups/mo
$0.33300,000 lookups/mo
$0.83600,000 lookups/mo
$0.83
1Lookup, reference band (a range, not a bar from $0)
All 4 plans, 20,000 lookups/mo to 1,000,000 lookups/mo
Cost per 1,000
| Product | Volume tier | Price | Cost per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP2Location | 150,000 lookups/mo | $49/mo (Starter) | $0.33 |
| IP2Location | 300,000 lookups/mo | $249/mo (Plus) | $0.83 |
| IP2Location | 600,000 lookups/mo | $499/mo (Security) | $0.83 |
| 1Lookup | 20,000 lookups/mo | $99/mo (Starter) | $4.95 |
| 1Lookup | 85,000 lookups/mo | $299/mo (Growth) | $3.52 |
| 1Lookup | 250,000 lookups/mo | $799/mo (Professional) | $3.20 |
| 1Lookup | 1,000,000 lookups/mo | $1,999/mo (Enterprise) | $2.00 |
What IP2Location costs at volume
| Volume | IP2Location price | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 150,000 lookups/mo | $49/mo (Starter) | $0.33 |
| 300,000 lookups/mo | $249/mo (Plus) | $0.83 |
| 600,000 lookups/mo | $499/mo (Security) | $0.83 |
| Unmetered lookups, DB11 city/lat-long/ZIP/timezone database | $1,299/yr per server (Standard License, existing customers only); $12,980/yr unlimited servers (Site License, what new customers pay) | - |
For scale: 1Lookup’s plans work out to $4.95 per 1,000 lookups on Starter down to $2.00 per 1,000 on Enterprise, with every lookup type (phone, email, IP, spam) drawing from the same credits. Pricing models differ (subscription vs pay-as-you-go), so compare at your real monthly volume.
IP2Location’s pricing page, as we read it
Every IP2Location figure above is taken from this page. It is reproduced here so you can check the numbers against the source instead of trusting our transcription of them, and the caption links straight to it. Prices change; the capture date says how fresh this is.
Before you sign: IP2Location and 1Lookup on the operational terms
The terms that decide what a year actually costs, rather than what the first month does. A blank means we could not verify it on either product’s published pages, not that the answer is nothing.
| Term | 1Lookup | IP2Location |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum commitment | None. Monthly plans with no contract and no minimum volume; cancel any time | Database licenses (Standard, Site, Redistribution) are yearly subscriptions. The Web Service license is a monthly subscription. |
| Cost per extra seat | — | Standard License is priced per server or computing instance, from $99/year per server (DB1) to $2,799/year per server (DB18) and $399 to $3,999/year per server for IP2Proxy PX1-PX8. Site License is a fixed yearly cost for unlimited servers. No per-user seat charge is published. |
| Going over your quota | — | IP2Location.io API plans bill overage as blocks, not per query: $10 per additional 30K IP Geolocation queries on Starter, $50 per additional 60K on Plus, $100 per additional 120K on Security. The Free plan is listed with no overage charge. Downloadable database licenses have no query quota. |
| API access | Included on every plan and during the free trial; there is no tier that unlocks it | The REST API is licensed separately from the databases under a Web Service License billed on a pay-per-use monthly basis; database licenses do not include API access. |
| Rate limit | 1,000 requests per minute on standard accounts, with higher limits available on request | IP2Location.io keyless free access is capped at 1,000 queries per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC. The Free plan with an API key is 50,000 queries per month. No per-second rate limit is published. |
| Support | Starter: Email Support; Growth: Priority Email & Chat Support; Professional: Chat + Live Meeting; Enterprise: Dedicated CSM | Email via the contact form on ip2location.com; no phone, chat, hours or response times published. IP2Location.io plans list Standard Support on Free and Priority Support on Starter, Plus and Security. |
IP2Location fine print worth reading twice
Published terms that change what IP2Location costs or what you can do with it. Each one links to the IP2Location page it was read on, because a claim about somebody else’s contract should be checkable in one click.
The Standard License is reserved for existing customers adding new servers, so new customers must subscribe to the Site License, which for DB11 is $12,980 per year against $1,299 per server for the Standard License.
Read it on IP2Location’s siteThe Standard License permits installation on one single server or computing instance, so each additional server requires an additional license.
Read it on IP2Location’s siteOn termination the licensee must immediately destroy all copies of the licensed products, so a downloaded database cannot be used after the subscription lapses.
Read it on IP2Location’s siteFees are non-refundable, and a licensee who terminates the agreement receives no refund or compensation; pro-rated refunds apply only when Hexasoft terminates.
Read it on IP2Location’s siteIncorporating the data into a commercial product or offering it externally requires a Redistribution License, which is quote-only with no published price.
Read it on IP2Location’s siteA Site License is mandatory for CDNs, government, financial institutions, advertising networks, VOD platforms, AI entities and gaming studios regardless of how many servers they run.
Read it on IP2Location’s siteSite License subscribers receive weekly database updates and Standard License subscribers only bi-monthly updates; daily updates require either the quote-only Redistribution License or the IP2Location.io API plans.
Read it on IP2Location’s siteDB19 through DB26 and PX9 through PX12 have no published price and require a custom quote.
Read it on IP2Location’s siteThe IP2Location.io Free API plan requires attribution.
Read it on IP2Location’s site
IP2Location’s API reference
Their public developer documentation, so you can judge the integration before you start one.
1Lookup
IP2Location
Where IP2Location wins
- Large free API tier: 50,000 IP geolocation queries/mo at $0, database updated daily on all plans including Free
- Buy-once option heavy users lack elsewhere: flat annual database licenses with no per-query metering, Site License $980/yr (DB1 country) to $27,980/yr (DB18) for unlimited servers; per-server Standard License from $99/yr for existing customers
- Deep IP data: up to 79 IP attributes on the Security plan; VPN, Tor, and residential proxy detection from the Plus plan; fraud score on Security; database packages scale to DB26
- Free LITE databases are usable commercially with attribution, no credit card required
- Cheap metered overage on paid API plans (Starter: $10 per extra 30K lookups, same ~$0.33 per 1,000 rate)
Where 1Lookup wins
- Phone, email, and IP validation in one API with one universal credit balance
- Phone data refreshed daily from FCC and carrier sources
- Carrier/HLR lookup, line type, spam score, and reverse lookup included alongside validation
- Self-serve plans with no contracts and 3-month credit rollover
IP2Location pricing and product facts verified against ip2location.com as of July 2026. Prices change; always confirm on the vendor’s site. 1Lookup numbers come from the live rate card.
Who this is for
A quick, honest read on which tool fits your use case.
Choose 1Lookup if: you want IP intelligence together with phone and email validation and fraud signals in one API, not IP data on its own.
Consider IP2Location instead if: you specifically need IP geolocation and ASN data, including self-hosted downloadable databases, for localizing content or analytics.