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IP2Location vs ipstack: What are the differences?
IP2Location: IP geolocation solution to identify visitor's geographical location. It is IP geolocation solution to identify visitor's geographical location, i.e. country, region, city, latitude & longitude of city, ZIP code, time zone, connection speed, ISP, domain name, IDD country code, area code, weather station code and name, mobile carrier, elevation and usage type information using a proprietary IP address lookup database and technology without invading the Internet user's privacy. The IP2Location solution is available as database, programming API and hosted solution; ipstack: Locate and identify website visitors by IP address. Locate website visitors for free using ipstack - a free, real-time IP address to location JSON API and database service supporting IPv4 and IPv6 lookup.
IP2Location and ipstack can be categorized as "IP Address / WHOIS API" tools.
Some of the features offered by IP2Location are:
- Accurate Geolocation
- Supports IPv4 & IPv6
- Easy Integration
On the other hand, ipstack provides the following key features:
- Know where your customers access your website from and customize user experiences based on IP
- The API covers over 2 million unique locations in more than 200.000 cities around the world
- Years of partnership with large ISPs ensure accurate and consistent data any day of the year
ipstack is an open source tool with 4.69K GitHub stars and 775 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ipstack's open source repository on GitHub.
