IP intelligence APIs compared
Where an address is, who runs it, and whether it is a visitor at all: datacenter ranges, Tor exits, named VPN and relay exits, verified crawlers and public blocklists.
Below are the 4 services Spaw is measured against for IP intelligence, each with the figures its own public pricing and documentation pages state. Every row carries the date that vendor's pages were read, which is its own and need not match the others'; a row those pages carry no value for reads "not on the pages read" rather than a guess. Corrections are welcome at [email protected].
| service | pricing model | free tier | price per 1,000 at ~10k | feeds behind the flags | checked |
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| 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) | Public feeds, each named in the answer with the date it was synced: DB-IP Lite and RFC 8805 geofeeds for location, the five registries' delegated statistics for allocation, Spamhaus DROP and ASN-DROP and abuse.ch Feodo Tracker for blocklists, the Tor Project's exit list and Onionoo, the Mullvad, NordVPN and Private Internet Access server lists plus the open X4BNet lists, Apple's iCloud Private Relay egress list, the cloud providers' own published ranges, and the verification files Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity, DuckDuckGo and Ahrefs publish for their crawlers. | own pricing page |
| Spaw vs 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 | One feed, its own: the abuse confidence score is computed from reports submitted by AbuseIPDB users, and totalReports is "a sum of the reports within maxAgeInDays". A check also returns countryCode, usageType, isp, domain, isTor and isWhitelisted, which "reflects whether the IP is spotted in any of our whitelists". | 2026-09-10 |
| Spaw vs 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 | Its own measurement rather than published lists: the pages describe ProbeNet, "our proprietary internet measurement platform", reaching "44% of the world's ASNs within 1 millisecond" from "more than 1,000 points of presence". Privacy detection (VPN, Tor, proxy, relay) starts on the Core plan, with the service names added on Max; residential proxy detection is Max and above. | 2026-09-10 |
| Spaw vs IPQualityScore | Monthly plans by lookup quota: Free $0 (1,000 lookups a month), Startup "As low as: $99 / Month" (5,000), SMB Basic "$499" (10,000), SMB+ "$999" (75,000), Enterprise custom. "Any valid request sent to our Proxy Detection, Email Verification, or Device Fingerprinting services including lookups performed through a batch CSV file check will consume a lookup credit." | 1,000 lookups a month, capped at 35 a day | not on the pages read | Its own collection rather than published lists: "IPQS gathers data directly from our proprietary honeypots, traps, crawlers, and thousands of live sites opted into our threat intelligence network." The proxy detection answer carries proxy, vpn, tor, active_vpn, active_tor, fraud_score, ISP, organization, ASN, connection_type, recent_abuse, bot_status, is_crawler and the location fields. | 2026-09-10 |
| Spaw vs 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) | Not described on the pages checked. Insights is documented as "Everything in Country and City Plus, + Proxy Detection, and confidence factors, user count and type, static IP score, demographic data, and anonymizers", so anonymiser detection is the top tier only. | 2026-09-10 |
Spaw vs 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.
Where it fits better: Teams that want to know whether other operators have complained about an address recently, and to contribute their own reports back.
Full comparisonAbuseIPDB alternativesAbuseIPDB's own sitechecked 2026-09-10
Spaw vs 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.
Where it fits better: 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.
Full comparisonIPinfo alternativesIPinfo's own sitechecked 2026-09-10
Spaw vs IPQualityScore
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.
Where it fits better: Teams that want one vendor, one credit pool and a single fraud score across IP, email and device signals.
Full comparisonIPQualityScore alternativesIPQualityScore's own sitechecked 2026-09-10
Spaw vs 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.
Where it fits better: 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.
Full comparisonMaxMind alternativesMaxMind's own sitechecked 2026-09-10
What Spaw answers
- Feeds behind the flags
- Public feeds, each named in the answer with the date it was synced: DB-IP Lite and RFC 8805 geofeeds for location, the five registries' delegated statistics for allocation, Spamhaus DROP and ASN-DROP and abuse.ch Feodo Tracker for blocklists, the Tor Project's exit list and Onionoo, the Mullvad, NordVPN and Private Internet Access server lists plus the open X4BNet lists, Apple's iCloud Private Relay egress list, the cloud providers' own published ranges, and the verification files Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity, DuckDuckGo and Ahrefs publish for their crawlers.
- Refresh cadence
- Every feed re-syncs daily, the botnet command-and-control list hourly, and the geofeed crawl weekly. Each response names every dataset it consulted with the date it was last synced, and /status lists them all.
- Geolocation source
- The DB-IP Lite database, overridden wherever the operator publishes the location itself — an RFC 8805 geofeed, Apple's relay list, a VPN provider's server list. location_source says which answered, and location_confidence is graded from a weekly accuracy report rather than asserted.
POST /v1/ip — 1 credit when an address is placed. Free: reserved and unallocated ranges. Every rule is on the pricing page.
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