AdminKit vs whatismyipaddress.com and ipinfo.io
ipinfo.io's free tier covers only country-level geolocation and ASN data — city-level location, carrier data and privacy detection need a paid plan starting at $26/month (ipinfo.io/pricing, read 2026-10-23) — while AdminKit's what-is-my-IP tool is free with CGNAT detection and resolver visibility built in; whatismyipaddress.com's current page content could not be independently verified for this comparison, which this page states plainly rather than guessing at its features.
Two different categories, named honestly
ipinfo.io and whatismyipaddress.com are both well-known names in “what is my IP,” but per ipinfo.io’s own homepage, read 2026-10-23, it positions itself as “IP Data Intelligence for Developers & Enterprises” — a data product meant to be integrated into other software via API, flat files or SDKs. Its free “IPinfo Lite” tier, per ipinfo.io’s pricing page, gives unlimited requests for country-level geolocation and ASN data only; city-level geolocation, carrier data and privacy (VPN/proxy/Tor) detection require a paid Core, Max or Enterprise plan starting at $26/month. That makes ipinfo.io a different category of product from a free, human-facing lookup page — not a worse one, just built for a different job (code integration, not a one-off manual check).
AdminKit’s what-is-my-IP tool pairs the IP lookup with a security framing: it flags CGNAT when detected and shows which DNS resolver you’re using via the companion DNS resolver test, free, with no account and no API key. AdminKit’s planned blocklist (DNSBL) status check would extend this report further, but is not live yet.
A note on whatismyipaddress.com
whatismyipaddress.com is one of the most recognized free consumer IP-lookup sites, and is named here for completeness. However, every attempt to fetch its public pages for this comparison was blocked (HTTP 403) at last-checked time, so AdminKit has not independently verified its current feature set, ad presence, or sign-up requirements from the site’s own pages. In keeping with the rule that every claim here must come from a competitor’s own public page, no feature-specific claims are made about it — its rows in the table above are marked “unknown” rather than guessed.
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| Feature | AdminKit | whatismyipaddress.com | ipinfo.io |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free public IP + approximate location lookup, no account | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| CGNAT detection shown in the result | ✓ | — | — |
| Developer API with paid city-level / ASN / privacy-detection tiers | — | — | Core/Max/Enterprise (own pricing page) |
| Blocklist (DNSBL) status in the same report | Coming with the API | — | — |
| City-level geolocation on the free tier | — | — | ✗ |
AdminKit vs whatismyipaddress.com
Free public IP + approximate location lookup, no account
CGNAT detection shown in the result
Blocklist (DNSBL) status in the same report
AdminKit vs ipinfo.io
CGNAT detection shown in the result
Developer API with paid city-level / ASN / privacy-detection tiers
Blocklist (DNSBL) status in the same report
City-level geolocation on the free tier
Last checked
Sources: ipinfo.io — homepage, ipinfo.io — pricing
Frequently asked questions
Is AdminKit's IP lookup the same category of product as ipinfo.io?
No. Per ipinfo.io's own homepage, it markets itself as "IP Data Intelligence for Developers & Enterprises" — a paid API and data-file product for integrating IP intelligence into other software. AdminKit's what-is-my-IP tool is a free, no-account, human-facing security check, not a developer data API, and does not claim API-tier data parity with ipinfo.io.
Why doesn't this page make specific claims about whatismyipaddress.com?
Every automated fetch of whatismyipaddress.com's pages for this comparison returned an HTTP 403 (blocked), so AdminKit could not read its current page content directly at last-checked time. Rather than guess, the comparison table marks whatismyipaddress.com's rows as unverified instead of asserting features it has not confirmed from the site's own pages.
Does AdminKit's free tier match ipinfo.io's free tier?
They solve different problems. ipinfo.io's own pricing page states its free "IPinfo Lite" tier gives unlimited API requests for country-level geolocation and ASN data, aimed at integrating into code. AdminKit's my-ip tool is a free, ready-to-read page for a human, showing your own IP, approximate location and CGNAT status, with no API key or integration step.
Does this page use ipinfo.io's or whatismyipaddress.com's logo or brand assets?
No. Both names are used only to identify and compare publicly available services (nominative use). AdminKit is not affiliated with or endorsed by either site.
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