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ipstack vs ipTwist: What are the differences?
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; ipTwist: The reliable, secure, and simple IP geolocation API. It offers a simple and affordable IP geolocation service. Developers can build logic to identify website visitors, e-commerce customers, and countless other identification via IP address. Determining identity from an IP address helps reduce risk in web applications around the world.
ipstack and ipTwist belong to "IP Address / WHOIS API" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by ipstack are:
- 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
On the other hand, ipTwist provides the following key features:
- IP address geolocation
- city, state, country, zip code, latitude, longitude, and timezone included
- freemium plan
ipstack is an open source tool with 4.67K GitHub stars and 766 GitHub forks. Here's a link to ipstack's open source repository on GitHub.