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Top 10 Map APIs: Google Maps, Bing Maps, Mapbox and other geolocation APIs

October 12, 2018 By emmanuel Leave a Comment

Top 10 Best IP Geolocation APIs: Whois, IP Geolocation FullContact and more

IP Geolocation APIs (Application programmable interface) helps lots of businesses and marketing experts to know the physical location of a person or network. These APIs are very useful as they help developers integrate more customized features into their application for users in different parts of the world

In this article, we created a list of the Top 10 Best IP Geolocation APIs currently being used. In coming up with this list, we ranked these APIs based on the following criteria:

  • API Features: We evaluated the various features that make the APIs appealing for businesses, developers and users
  • Ease of Use: In considering this we delve into their API documentation and thoroughly examine how easy it is to understand. We also checked out their developer communities to see the level of activity.
  • Prices: We reviewed the cost of integrating each of the APIs into our application

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Eventually, we came up with the following list of Top 10 Best IP Geolocation APIs

  • Google Maps Geocoding API
  • City Geo-Location Lookup
  • Google Maps Time Zone
  • geolocation
  • IP Geolocation – IPWHOIS.io
  • YandexGeocoder
  • IP Geolocation
  • Telize
  • Reverse Geocoding and Geolocation Service
  • Free IP Geolocation

Table of Contents

  • 1 Top 10 Best IP Geolocation APIs
  • 2 1.  Google Maps Geocoding API
  • 3 2. City Geo-Location Lookup
  • 4 3. Google Maps Time Zone
  • 5 4. Geolocation
  • 6 5. IP Geolocation – IPWHOIS.io
  • 7 6. YandexGeocoder
  • 8 7. IP Geolocation
  • 9 8. Telize
  • 10 9. Reverse Geocoding and Geolocation Service
  • 11 10. Free IP Geolocation
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Top 10 Best IP Geolocation APIs

API API Features Ease of Use Price
Google Maps Geocoding API Allows developers to easily convert user-generated address inputs into geographical coordinates Very Easy Basic – $ 0.00

Pro – $ 5.00

Ultra – $ 400

City Geo-Location Lookup Allows developers to get longitude and latitude of any city Not Easy Free
Google Maps Time Zone Allows developers to request the time zone information for a specific latitude/longitude pair and date. Easy Basic – $ 0.00

Pro – $ 5.00

Ultra – $ 400

geolocation Allows developers to track and monitor web traffic on their website based on user location Not Easy Basic – $ 0.00

Pro – $ 4.99

Ultra – $ 9.99

Mega – $15.99

IP Geolocation – IPWHOIS.io Allows developers to filter out bot traffic and customize content based on visitor’s location, Additionally, this API can be used to perform bulk IP geolocation, and more. Easy Pro – $ 10

Bussiness – $ 50

Unlimited – $149

YandexGeocoder This API allows developers to get the geolocational coordinates of objects from their address and vice versal Easy Free
IP Geolocation IP Geolocation allows developers to detect all requests coming from  visitors and locate them anywhere in the world, down to the city they are in, based on their IP address Not Easy Basic – $ 0.00

Pro – $ 15.00

Ultra – $ 25.00

Telize This API allows developers to get visitor IP addresses and query location information from any IP address. Not Easy Basic – $ 7

Pro – $ 22

Ultra – $ 50

Mega – $100

Reverse Geocoding and Geolocation Service This API returns the nearest or largest cities within a given radius range (meter) for any location with latitude/longitude values. Population data is based on 2017. Not Easy Free
Free IP Geolocation This API allows developers to look up the location of an IP Address and other data. Easy Free

1.  Google Maps Geocoding API

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API Features: Allows developers to easily convert user-generated address inputs into geographical coordinates. Developers can also use this API to find the address of a given place ID. A place ID is a unique identifier that is used with Google APIs

Ease of Use: Google has a very large developer community, They have also provided well-written documentation with code samples and relevant examples.

Price: This API is not Free

Basic $0.00 500 / month (Free Quota) Then $0.01 each
Pro $5.00 1000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.005 each
Ultra $400 10000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.004 each

2. City Geo-Location Lookup

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API Features: Allows developers to get longitude and latitude of any city worldwide from just their IP address

Easy of use: Not easy, there is very low information about this API, beginners might struggle to use this API as there is no official documentation

Price: Free

3. Google Maps Time Zone

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API Features: Allows developers to request the time zone information for a specific latitude/longitude pair and date.

Easy of use: Google has a very large developer community, They have also provided well-written documentation with code samples and relevant examples.

Price: This API is not free

Basic $0.00 500 / month (Free Quota) Then $0.01 each
Pro $5.00 1000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.005 each
Ultra $400 10000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.004 each

4. Geolocation

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API Features: Geolocation allows developers to track and monitor web traffic on their website based on user location. uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol for managing authentication and authorization flows between the API and third-party applications.

Easy of Use: Not easy, there is very low information about this API, beginners might struggle to use this API as there is no official documentation.

Price: This API is not free

Basic $0.00 1000 / month (Free Quota) Then $0.01 each
Pro $4.99 10000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.001 each
Ultra $ 9.99 100000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.001 each
Mega $ 15.99 1000000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.001 each

5. IP Geolocation – IPWHOIS.io

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API Features: Allows developers to filter out bot traffic and customize content based on visitor’s location, Additionally, this API can be used to perform bulk IP geolocation, and more. This API is a single purpose API, with a RESTful architecture. It supports a JSON response format and JSONP, URI Query String/CRUD request format.

Ease of use: Very easy, This API is well documented with a growing developer community so developers can be sure to have all their questions in their developer community forums

Price: This API is not free.

Pro – $ 10

Bussiness – $ 50

Unlimited – $149

6. YandexGeocoder

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API Features: This API allows developers to get the geolocational coordinates of objects from their address and vice versal. It employs an API Key, HTTP authentication model and is a single purpose API, with a RESTful architecture. It supports XML response format and JSONP, URI Query String/CRUD request format.

Ease of use: Not easy, there is very low information about this API, beginners might struggle to use this API as there is no official documentation.

Price: Free

7. IP Geolocation

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API Features: IP Geolocation allows developers to detect all requests coming from  visitors and locate them anywhere in the world, down to the city they are in, based on their IP address. This API is a single purpose API, with a RESTful architecture. It supports a JSON response format and JSONP, URI Query String/CRUD request format.

Ease of use: Not easy, there is very low information about this API, beginners might struggle to use this API as there is no official documentation.

Price: This API is not free

Basic $0.00 100000 / month (Free Quota) Then $0.00005 each
Pro $15.00 150000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.00001 each
Ultra $25.00 Unlimited Unlimited

8. Telize

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API Features: This API allows developers to get visitor IP addresses and  query location information from any IP address. Telize employs an API Key, HTTP authentication model and is a single purpose API, with a RESTful architecture. It supports XML response format and JSONP, URI Query String/CRUD request format.

Ease of use: Not easy, there is very low information about this API, beginners might struggle to use this API as there is no official documentation.

Price: This API is not free

Basic $7.00 1000 / month (Free Quota) Then $0.0005 each
Pro $22.00 5000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.0002 each
Ultra $50.00 20000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.0001 each
Mega $100.00 100000/month (Free Quota) Then $0.00005 each

9. Reverse Geocoding and Geolocation Service

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API Features: Reverse Geocoding and Geolocation Service returns the nearest or largest cities within a given radius range (meter) for any location with latitude/longitude values. Population data is based on 2017. his API is a single purpose API, with a RESTful architecture. It supports a JSON response format and JSONP, URI Query String/CRUD request format.

Ease of use: Not easy, there is very low information about this API, beginners might struggle to use this API as there is no official documentation.

Price: This API is free

10. Free IP Geolocation

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API Features:  Free IP Geolocation API allows developers to look up the location of an IP Address and other data. It employs an API Key, HTTP authentication model and is a single purpose API, with a RESTful architecture. It supports XML response format and JSONP, URI Query String/CRUD request format.

Ease of Use: Free IP Geolocation is well documented, developers can easily reference this documentation with relative ease.

Price: This API is offered free

That’s Rakuten RapidAPI’s list of Top 10 Best IP Geolocation APIs . We hope you’ll find an API that you can integrate into your application.

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