kevinjyc

We pushed major upgrades to our infrastructure, that's why I created a new submission.

Would be nice to know your opinion to our product..

SmartIP.io is the IP Geolocation API which allows for fast lookup, consistent response time worldwide and extremely detailed JSON response.

I tried my best to define a pricing structure which would suit as many customer segments as possible.

What you guys think?

I think it is all down to the usage and performance needed. If you need high resiliency and performances, using a third party API like smartip.io is the way to go.

If the requirements are less strict then using a local db like MaxMind would be the right choice.

As a side note, we offer very simple and well documented libraries in C#, Typescript and PHP.

Let me provide some key points:

1. We are different because most of all other services segment the data based on tiers. We return the entire dataset even for free users.

2. Our Free tier is huge compared to other services.

3. We are fast. Our response time is in the region of 50ms, which is really good for the amount to information we return. We don't cache our response, we always return fresh data.

About MaxMind, you are right about how easy would be to have an in-house solution. But a highly scalable, distributed infrastructure like ours guarantees the same response time from multiple locations across the world. Also, having the solution in-house would need updating and maintainig the database periodically as well.

We support IPv6 lookups as well.

I confirm we updated the API to return a 402 error message when the user reached the limit of the her pricing tier. Thanks again for this suggestion.

This is a great suggestion! We will definitely consider it! Thanks for your support.

We offer additional datapoints which ipstack doesn't.

We expose high detailed ASN data which include company name, company type, ASN network, web domain.

Also we expose a crypto datapoint, which flags if an IP is an active Bitcoin node.

Thanks a lot @somada141! Apologies for any confusion.

Let me clarify: the Free tier covers the first 250k API requests made in a single month. If the number of requests in a month goes beyond the threshold, the API will start returning Forbidden errors. The counter gets reset at the first of each month.

If your service gets more than 250k hits a month, then you will be a perfect match for our "Pro" tier.

This pricing structure, puts us on a league of our own, offering to the developers a huge package of free API calls every single month. Nobody else does it!