IPQualityScore alternatives
IPQualityScore sells fraud detection across several signals on one lookup credit: proxy and VPN detection, email verification and device fingerprinting all draw from the same monthly quota, and the IP answer carries a fraud score alongside the connection facts. The services below are the other options in the same category, each with the figures its own public pages state as of 2026-09-10. Spaw is listed first because this is Spaw's site; the side-by-side comparison has the full table.
| service | pricing model | free tier | price per 1,000 at ~10k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spaw | Pay-as-you-go credit packs, or optional monthly plans that deposit the same credits every month for less; both through Stripe Checkout, credits from either never expire | 10 free credits every month, no card required | $7.80 (Growth pack: 5,000 credits for $39), or $5.80 on the Growth monthly plan (5,000 credits for $29 a month) |
| AbuseIPDB | Plans with daily request allowances: Individual free "Forever!", Basic $25/mo or $228/year, Premium $99/mo or $1,068/year, Enterprise custom | Individual: free forever with no credit card, 1,000 check and report requests, 100 block checks and 5 bulk reports a day | not on the pages read |
| IPinfo | Monthly plans by API request quota: Lite $0/mo, Core $26/mo for 150,000 requests, Max $163/mo for 250,000, Enterprise custom for "1M+". Database downloads are listed separately, "Starting at $1,000/month". | IPinfo Lite at "$0/mo", free forever with no credit card, giving unlimited API requests at country level only | not on the pages read |
| MaxMind | Per query, by service, with no minimum published: "If you estimate your volume of queries to be over $2,500 a month, contact us to discuss rates." | A no-cost trial is offered ("Experience the functionality and benefits of our GeoIP web services at no cost"); no free monthly allowance is stated on the page checked | $0.10 per 1,000 for Country ($0.0001 a query), $0.30 for City Plus ($0.0003) and $2.00 for Insights ($0.002) |
Spaw
Verification API that bills per answered lookup across six signals on one key and one balance: Email verification, Phone intelligence, IP intelligence, Address verification, Business verification against open registers, and Cross-signal consistency, which runs any subset of the first four in one call and names where they agree and where they do not. The IP side answers from local databases and compiled public feeds: where an address is, who runs it, and whether it is a visitor at all.
Developers who want every public IP feed compiled, dated and named for them, with a risk score whose weights are published so it can be recomputed or ignored.
AbuseIPDB
AbuseIPDB is a reputation service built on abuse reports its own users submit: a check returns an abuse confidence score with the report count, country, usage type, ISP and a Tor flag, and plans are sold as daily request allowances rather than credits.
Teams that want to know whether other operators have complained about an address recently, and to contribute their own reports back.
IPinfo
IPinfo is an IP data company that sells geolocation, ASN, privacy detection and company data as monthly API plans and as database downloads, collected through its own measurement network rather than assembled from third-party feeds.
Teams that want city-level geolocation from a vendor that measures the internet itself, and are willing to buy a plan tier per field they need.
MaxMind
MaxMind sells GeoIP as three per-query web services — Country, City Plus and Insights — and as downloadable databases, with proxy and anonymiser detection reserved for the Insights tier.
Teams that want geolocation at the lowest published per-query price and are content to buy Insights, at twenty times the City Plus rate, for anonymiser detection.
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