# `low_confidence`: a comparison was withheld because the location was not the person’s

The IP is a VPN exit, a relay or a datacenter egress, so its country belongs to the operator and comparing it would produce a difference that means nothing.

- Appears in: `flag`
- Billing: Free. The consistency analysis is arithmetic over answers already paid for and never costs a credit of its own.

Withholding is deliberate: answering `differ` here would manufacture evidence against everyone who uses a VPN.

The distance comparison is withheld on the same principle whenever the IP location is not graded high confidence.

**What to do.** Read `is_anonymous`, `is_relay` and `is_datacenter` on the IP block if you want to act on the network itself.

```json
{
    "comparison": "ip_address_country",
    "left": {
        "signal": "ip",
        "field": "country",
        "value": "NL"
    },
    "right": {
        "signal": "address",
        "field": "country",
        "value": "US"
    },
    "result": "not_compared",
    "withheld": "low_confidence",
    "flag": null
}
```

Reference: https://spaw.co/docs/reasons/low_confidence