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What is my IP address?and what a website makes of it
Your public address, read the moment you opened this page, with the network behind it and a plain verdict on how a site that scores traffic will treat it. No button to press, no account, no upsell before the answer.
Your public address
How it works
Three steps,and you already did the first one
Nothing is installed and nothing is scanned. Your browser connected, and the answer is what that connection told us.
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Your browser makes an ordinary request
The same kind every website you open makes. It carries no special payload: your address is not something the page asks for, it is the return address on the envelope.
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Our edge writes down where it came from
The address that reached us, the country our edge resolved it to, and the headers the request arrived with, including any proxy that announced itself along the way.
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We look the address up and say what it is
Which network owns it, which ISP runs it, and whether it sits in a datacenter range. That last one is what decides how most sites treat you.
What it means
The address is not the interesting part.What it says about you is.
Every site you open learns your address by necessity. What separates a connection that passes quietly from one that gets challenged is what the address belongs to.
Your address is your return address
It is not a secret you leaked. Every connection needs somewhere to send the answer back to, so every site you open learns it by necessity. The question worth asking is not whether a site can see it, but what it can tell about you from it.
Datacenter or consumer is the line that matters
Sites that score traffic do not care about your city. They care whether your address belongs to a hosting provider or to a home ISP, because automation lives in the first and customers live in the second. A datacenter address gets challenged for things a residential one sails through.
A proxy that adds a header is not hiding you
Transparent proxies attach X-Forwarded-For with your real address in it, which means every site can read exactly what we read here. If that line shows an address in front of yours, whatever you are behind is not private.
Geolocation is a registry lookup, not a reading of your device
It maps an address block to wherever the network that owns it says the block is used. It is usually right about the country, often wrong about the city, and it knows nothing about your device's own location services. IPv6 blocks frequently have no city on file at all.
Questions
IP address FAQ
The questions people actually type after this one, answered against what we can measure rather than what sells a subscription.
What is my IP address?
It is the public address your connection uses on the internet, assigned by your ISP, your mobile carrier, or by whatever proxy or VPN you route through. The number at the top of this page is the one our servers saw when your browser connected, which is the same one any other site sees.
Why does my IP address change?
Most consumer ISPs hand out addresses from a pool and rotate them, often on reconnect or after a fixed lease. Mobile networks change yours as you move between towers, and carrier-grade NAT means you may share one address with thousands of other subscribers. A static address is something you buy deliberately, not something you get by default.
Can someone find my exact location from my IP?
No. An address maps to the network that owns it, which usually places you in the right country and often in the right region, but the city is an estimate and the coordinates are the middle of an allocation rather than a street. Your ISP knows which subscriber line an address was on at a given moment, and that record is available to law enforcement with process, not to a website.
Why is my IP address showing a different country?
Either you are routed through something that exits elsewhere, which is what a VPN or proxy does on purpose, or the geo database is out of date for your block. Reassigned ranges can carry their old country for months. Our edge country and the database country are both shown above, so a disagreement between them is visible rather than hidden.
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
They are two generations of addressing. IPv4 looks like 45.12.30.7 and there are not enough of them left, which is why carriers share them between subscribers. IPv6 looks like 2a02:908:1658:e8a0::1 and there are effectively unlimited ones. If your browser reached us over IPv6, a site that only speaks IPv4 will see a completely different address for you, usually one shared with your neighbours.
Does this page prove I am not using a VPN?
No, and any page that claims to is selling you something. We can tell you an address sits in a datacenter range and that a proxy announced itself in the headers, because we measured both. A VPN that exits through residential addresses is built to be indistinguishable from an ordinary connection at this layer, so an absence of evidence here is not evidence of absence.
How do I change or hide my IP address?
Route your traffic through something else. A VPN sends everything through one exit; a proxy sends one application or one browser profile through an exit you choose per request, which is why scraping and multi-account work use proxies rather than VPNs. Either way the site sees the exit address instead of yours, and what it makes of that depends entirely on whether the exit reads as a datacenter or as a real consumer connection.
Do you log the addresses that visit this page?
The check runs and the answer comes back to you. We are not building a profile from it, and there is nothing on this page that ties the lookup to an account. The full policy is in the privacy page.
If you need a different one
Change the address,not just the country label
A datacenter exit changes your address and announces itself doing it. If the point is to look like an ordinary visitor, the exit has to be one.
The upgrade
Residential proxies
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Clean pools with city-level targeting and sticky sessions, running on the same network that just probed your list. You stop re-checking a file every morning, because the addresses are not shared out from under you.
Elsewhere on HProxy
Free proxy list
Thousands of live residential, datacenter and mobile IPs, verified around the clock. Something to test.
Datacenter and ISP
Dedicated IPs priced per address rather than per gigabyte, for work that needs a stable, fast exit.
Mobile proxies
Carrier IPs for the targets that treat everything else as a bot.
API and docs
The same checker and the same pools, wired straight into your own code.
Pricing
Every product on one page, with the volume ladder spelled out.