ipstack drop-in replacement

Endpoints

Example response

This is what the request above returns. Field names, nesting and types follow ipstack. Only the data behind them is ours.

{
  "ip": "8.8.8.8",
  "type": "ipv4",
  "continent_code": "NA",
  "continent_name": "North America",
  "country_code": "US",
  "country_name": "United States",
  "region_code": "CA",
  "region_name": "California",
  "city": "Mountain View",
  "zip": "94043",
  "latitude": 37.3860513423541,
  "longitude": -122.0838495895254,
  "msa": null,
  "dma": null,
  "radius": null,
  "ip_routing_type": null,
  "connection_type": null,
  "location": {
    "geoname_id": 5375480,
    "capital": "Washington",
    "languages": [
      {
        "code": "en",
        "name": "English",
        "native": "English"
      },
      {
        "code": "es",
        "name": "Spanish",
        "native": "español"
      },
      {
        "code": "fr",
        "name": "French",
        "native": "français"
      }
    ],
    "country_flag": "https://www.mygeocode.com/assets/img/flags/us.svg",
    "country_flag_emoji": "🇺🇸",
    "country_flag_emoji_unicode": "U+1F1FA U+1F1F8",
    "calling_code": "1",
    "is_eu": false
  },
  "time_zone": {
    "id": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "current_time": "2026-10-04T00:11:48-07:00",
    "gmt_offset": -25200,
    "code": "PDT",
    "is_daylight_saving": true
  },
  "currency": {
    "code": "USD",
    "name": "United States Dollar",
    "plural": null,
    "symbol": "$",
    "symbol_native": "$"
  },
  "connection": {
    "asn": 15169,
    "isp": "Google LLC"
  }
}

Details and differences

No key is needed for the first 2,500 requests a day. To use a My Geocode key, put it where your ipstack key went: the access_key query parameter. The X-API-Key header, Authorization: Bearer and HTTP Basic authentication (the key as the user name) work on every host too, so client libraries that authenticate their own way keep working unchanged.

Answers carry the fields ipstack returns and nothing else, so a response can be dropped into code that already parses ipstack. Our additional data (ground elevation and a bogon flag for reserved ranges) is available on request: add mg_extras=1 to the query or send X-MG-Extras: 1.

• The time_zone block is filled in: id, current local time, offset, abbreviation and whether summer time is in effect.
• A wrong key answers error 101 invalid_access_key. A missing key answers 101 missing_access_key only when requests without a key are switched off.
• region_code is a short code for the United States, Canada and Australia; elsewhere the dataset only has the full name.
• Bulk lookups take up to 50 comma separated addresses, as ipstack does (more answers 302 too_many_ips), and each address counts as one request, as ipstack counts them.
• output=xml answers in ipstack’s XML.
• location.capital, location.languages and location.calling_code are filled in.
• The security block is sent when the request has security=1, as ipstack sends it. Its is_crawler, crawler_name and crawler_type come from the address ranges search engines and AI crawlers publish, and location.geoname_id from GeoNames.

If your client depends on a field or behaviour that is not listed here, tell us. Compatibility gaps get fixed quickly because they are usually small.

Other drop-in hosts

• Google Maps
• Bing Maps
• HERE
• Mapbox
• Geocode.Farm
• Nominatim (OSM)
• OpenCage
• LocationIQ
• Geoapify
• TomTom
• MapQuest
• Geocodio
• PositionStack
• ip-api
• ipinfo
• Open-Elevation

How the drop-ins work, the overview, and the JavaScript library drop-ins.