Frequently asked questions

It is the address at the top of the home page. That is your public IP address: the one your internet connection uses and the one every website you visit can see.

Your device shows its private address, which only works inside your home or office network and usually starts with 192.168. or 10.. Websites see the public address that your router uses on your behalf. Both are correct. See public vs private IP addresses.

Most home and mobile connections use dynamic addresses. Your provider lends you one and can assign a different one when your router restarts, when the lease runs out, or when you move between Wi-Fi and mobile data. This is normal. If you need one that stays the same, ask your provider about a static IP address.

Many connections run both versions of the Internet Protocol side by side. Your device picks one for each site automatically. Having both is common on modern networks. See IPv4 vs IPv6 explained.

The page tests each version separately. "Not detected" means your browser could not reach the test address for that version within a few seconds. For IPv6, that usually means your provider or router does not have it switched on. A VPN, a firewall, or a content blocker can also cause it. Everything else on the site still works.

Yes. Everyone on your home network shares one public address. Many providers, and nearly all mobile networks, also share each public address between many customers using carrier-grade NAT. See what is CGNAT.

IP geolocation is an estimate. It usually points to your provider's equipment, which can be in a nearby town or, on mobile networks, a regional hub much further away. Nothing is wrong with your connection. See what your IP address reveals.

No. An IP address maps to a provider and an approximate area, not to a street address or a name. Only your internet provider knows which customer had an address at a given time, and it generally discloses that only through a legal process.

For most people, no. Every site and service you use already sees it. On its own it does not give anyone access to your devices. The realistic risks are limited: someone could flood your connection with traffic, or learn your rough location. If that concerns you, see how to change or hide your IP address.

You should see the VPN server's address, provider, and location instead of your own. Check both the IPv4 and IPv6 lines. If one still shows your own address, that part of your traffic is going around the VPN, and you should enable IPv6 support or leak protection in the VPN app.

No. Your address is read from your request, shown to you, and not saved by this site. Lookups you run with the tools are not saved either. Like any site, our hosting provider processes addresses briefly to deliver pages and protect against abuse. The details are in the Privacy Policy.

Request https://webiptool.com/ip. It returns your address as plain text and nothing else. For JSON with network and location details, use https://webiptool.com/api/ip. To force one protocol, tell your client which to use: in curl, add -4 or -6. Examples are on the API page.

It is free and needs no key. Requests are limited per IP address to keep the service available for everyone. If you exceed the limit you get an HTTP 429 response with a Retry-After header. The current limits are listed on the API page.

Details about your own connection come from Cloudflare, the network that serves this site. Results in the IP Lookup tool for other addresses come from IPinfo and cover the country and the network operator. DNS results come from Cloudflare's public DNS service, queried directly from your browser.

That is a private address. It is reused by millions of separate networks, so there is no owner or location to look up. The tool tells you which reserved range it belongs to instead. The Subnet Calculator can show you the size of the block.

No. Those tools send traffic to other people's systems, and we do not run them from this site. The tools here only read public records or do their work in your browser.