Spaw vs ipgeolocation.io
ipgeolocation.io sells geolocation and a separate security API on monthly credit plans, with location built from its own measurements and a security answer that flags VPN, proxy, residential proxy and Tor with provider names, confidence scores and a 0 to 100 threat score.
The table uses ipgeolocation.io's public pricing and documentation pages as checked on 2026-09-12, and Spaw's own pricing page. A row those pages carry no value for is marked "not on the pages read" rather than guessed at, and that is a statement about the reading and not about what ipgeolocation.io publishes.
| spaw | ipgeolocation.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay-as-you-go credit packs whose credits never expire, or optional plans, billed monthly or yearly, that deposit the same credits every month for less and roll unused plan credits over up to three months' allowance; both through Stripe Checkout. One credit buys five answered IP lookups | Monthly credit plans, "A standard unified IP lookup uses 1 credit": Starter "$19/month" for "150000 API Credits Per month", Plus "$49/month" for 500,000, Pro "$79/month" for 1,000,000, Business "$129/month" for 2,000,000, Premium "$249/month" for 5,000,000, Enterprise "Contact Sales"; annual billing gives "2 months free". "Paid monthly plans reset every month. Paid annual plans reset every year". |
| Free tier | 100 free credits every month, no card required | "1000 API Credits Per day for life" with no credit card, "a hard limit of 1000 requests per day" and "No overages on Free"; the free plan returns "core location without the radius and confidence fields" |
| Price per 1,000 at about 10k | $1.80 per 1,000 IP lookups at 5 to the credit (Starter pack: 1,000 credits for $9), or $1.40 on the Starter monthly plan (1,000 credits for $7 a month) | not on the pages read |
| Price per 1,000 at about 100k | $1.56 per 1,000 IP lookups at 5 to the credit (Growth pack: 5,000 credits for $39), or $1.16 on the Growth monthly plan (5,000 credits for $29 a month) | not on the pages read |
| Addresses no feed covered billed | One credit buys five answered addresses whatever their flags say; a flag no feed could evaluate answers null rather than false, and the answer costs the same | not on the pages read |
| Reserved and private ranges billed | No: reserved, private, loopback, CGNAT, documentation and multicast ranges answer reason reserved_range and are free, unallocated space is free, and so are repeats within 7 days | not on the pages read |
| 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. | Its own collection: the security page describes "telemetry from active honeypots, proprietary blocklists, VPN and proxy enumeration, and real-time behavioral analysis", answering "VPN, proxy, residential proxy, and Tor flags, plus provider names, confidence scores, and last-seen dates", flags for "known attackers, bots, spam, and cloud IPs", an is_anonymous field and a "threat score from 0 to 100". Security fields are on paid plans. |
| 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. | Detection data "updated continuously"; locations "refreshed continuously"; the pricing page says "Proprietary crawlers run 24/7 across the globe" |
| 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. | Its own: locations "are built from multiple independent signals, including active measurements, that are cross-checked and refreshed continuously", resolving to "city and locality level"; paid plans return "an accuracy radius and a confidence value". No numeric accuracy claim is published. |
| Bulk limit | 100,000 addresses per bulk job, with an HMAC-signed completion webhook | not on the pages read |
| Batch API | 1,000 addresses per synchronous request; repeats inside the list are looked up once | "The bulk endpoint accepts up to 50,000 IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in a single request" |
| Rate limit | 50 requests per second per key on the IP endpoints | "There are no rate limits on any plan"; the free plan has a hard limit of 1,000 requests a day |
| Official SDKs | Python, Node.js, PHP | not on the pages read |
| Data retention | No history row and no log line carrying the address. What a lookup leaves is keyed and never holds the address: the 7-day marker that makes a repeat free and, under the same keyed hash, the count behind seen_by_you; privacy: true skips both. The account's own outcome reports are kept as salted hashes for 90 days. Bulk input lists and result files are deleted with the job after 30 days. | not on the pages read |
checked 2026-09-12 · sources: ipgeolocation.io pricing, ipgeolocation.io IP location API, ipgeolocation.io IP security API
When ipgeolocation.io fits better
Teams that want an accuracy radius with every city answer and a single threat score from a vendor that runs its own honeypots.
- Paid plans return an accuracy radius and a confidence value per lookup; the free plan does not
- The security answer names the VPN or proxy provider and a last-seen date
- One bulk request takes up to 50,000 addresses
- Detection data comes from the vendor's own honeypots, enumeration and behavioural analysis
When Spaw fits better
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.
- ipgeolocation.io's location and threat data are proprietary; Every dataset behind a Spaw IP answer is a public feed named in the response with the date it was synced, and the risk score is a published sum of weights anyone can recompute
- ipgeolocation.io answers a proprietary 0 to 100 threat score; Spaw's risk_score is arithmetic over named signals with published weights, and risk_signals shows every term
- Both name the VPN provider; Spaw also says when an answer is inferred rather than listed (Cloudflare WARP) and answers residential proxies as not detectable from open data rather than claiming them
- ipgeolocation.io sells monthly credits that reset; Spaw sells pack credits that never expire at five IP lookups to the credit, and reserved, private, documentation and unallocated ranges are free
Questions
Does Spaw charge for addresses its feeds do not cover?
Spaw bills per answered address, five to the credit: the answered lookup that opens a block costs 1 credit and the next four cost nothing. Reserved, private, loopback, CGNAT, documentation and multicast ranges answer reason reserved_range and are free, unallocated space is free, and so is a repeat of the same address within seven days. A flag no feed could evaluate answers null rather than false: the address is still billed, and the null tells you the signal was not checked instead of pretending it was. ipgeolocation.io does not publish how it bills them.
Can I run a log file or an export through Spaw?
Yes. A bulk run takes up to 100,000 addresses from the dashboard or the API and returns one row per input address, in input order, with every flag, the risk score and the signals that made it. Five answered addresses cost a credit, repeats inside the list are looked up once, reserved ranges cost nothing, and the finish is announced on an HMAC-signed webhook.
Is there a free tier?
Every Spaw account receives 100 free credits at the start of each month with no card on file, and unused free credits accumulate. ipgeolocation.io offers: "1000 API Credits Per day for life" with no credit card, "a hard limit of 1000 requests per day" and "No overages on Free"; the free plan returns "core location without the radius and confidence fields".
Try Spaw on your own list
Free credits every month, no card. Upload a list, keep your columns, and download only the rows you want. See the pricing page for every rule, or the ipgeolocation.io alternatives.
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