What we shipped this month: geocoding, IP, time zone and more
A roundup of recent work across the API: new compatibility hosts, faster time zone and elevation lookups, dashboard features, and clearer quota visibility.
Keyless access: 2,500 free lookups a day, no signup required
Anyone can call My Geocode right now and get an answer back. No account, no API key, no credit card. Up to 2,500 requests a day are free from any address, across every endpoint we run.
That allowance covers /v1/ip, /v1/timezone, /v1/elevation, /v1/forward, /v1/reverse, /v1/autocomplete and /v1/postcode. It also covers all seventeen compatibility hosts, so a script written against Google Maps Platform or ip-api.com syntax works the same way, free, up to the same daily count.
We built it this way because we think a geocoding API should be easy to try. Most people evaluating a service do not want to fill out a form before they see a single response. With My Geocode, the first call and the five hundredth call on a given day both just work, quietly, with no friction in between.
Every response carries quota headers, whether or not you have a key. X-Quota-Limit, X-Quota-Used and X-Quota-Free-Remaining tell you exactly where you stand after each call, so nothing about the free tier is a surprise. You can watch your daily count tick up in real time instead of guessing.
The free allowance is shared across a network, not handed out per request in isolation. All IPv4 addresses in the same /24 and all IPv6 addresses in the same /48 draw from one shared pool, whether some of those calls carry a key and others do not. That keeps the free tier fair and prevents any single network from quietly running far past what it was meant for.
Past 2,500 requests a day, you have two straightforward options. Sign up with an email address, generate a key, and either top up prepaid credit at €0.0001 a request or take an Unlimited key for €50 a month. Every endpoint and every compatibility host costs exactly the same, so there is no pricing tier to puzzle over based on which lookup you need.
A key is not required to try the API, but it does add its own separate 2,500 free requests a day, on top of whatever the network already allows. That makes a key worth generating even if you never intend to pay: it gives you your own allowance, your own quota headers, and a dashboard to watch it in.
If you are building something that needs geocoding, IP lookups, timezone data or elevation figures, the fastest way to find out if My Geocode fits is to just call it. No form, no trial period, no key. Read the docs, pick an endpoint, and send a request.
Full endpoint documentation is available at /docs/, and current pricing for prepaid credit and Unlimited keys is on /pricing/.