Comment by reincoder

Thank you very much; I really appreciate your feedback. This is not the first time I have heard this. The solution is to try to take as much advantage as you can from the free tier.

# Check out the free IP databases

https://ipinfo.io/products/free-ip-database

The free databases come with commercial usage permission, and because they are databases, you can make unlimited lookups from them. The databases provide full accuracy and are updated daily. They are just a subset of our IP geolocation database that only provides IP to Country information.

# Complement the database with the API service

If you only want city-level information, switch to the API service. Use the database to look up IP-to-country information as many times as you want. However, use the API service only when necessary.

Additionally, if you include a credit link to us, we will double your API limit to 100k/month. Visit https://ipinfo.io/contact/creditlink.

# Cache data

All of our API libraries have native caching support. We strongly recommend that users reduce their number of requests by caching the response. I highly recommend you check out our libraries: https://github.com/ipinfo

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The only challenge with the free IP databases is that you need to host the database somewhere to lookup the IP to Country information. Having an API service with nearly unlimited lookups for IP to Country information will be fantastic.

If you know someone who has an IP to Country as API service please, let me know. We only require an attribution for using our database. If you have a similar service that is popular but don't want to maintain it let us know as well, we can takeover the site and host it ourselves with the IP to Country data.