IP Intel live
Give it an IP, get back the owning ASN, a coarse geolocation, and a datacenter-vs-residential verdict with the evidence behind it. All answered offline from local datasets — no per-request calls to anyone.
// response appears here| ip* | text | IPv4 or IPv6 address to look up | 8.8.8.8 |
curl 'https://ip.benjamin-dreier.de/v1/lookup?ip=8.8.8.8'{
"ip": "8.8.8.8",
"network": "8.8.8.0/24",
"asn": { "number": 15169, "name": "GOOGLE", "country": "US" },
"location": { "country": "United States", "city": "Mountain View" },
"usage_type": {
"classification": "datacenter",
"is_datacenter": true,
"confidence": "medium",
"evidence": ["AS15169 in hosting-ASN list"]
}
}OpenAPI spec → — drop it into your own client or codegen.
IP Intel turns a bare IP address into context: who announces it, roughly where it sits, and — the useful part — whether it belongs to a datacenter/hosting range or a residential connection. Every answer is served from local datasets baked into the service, so there are no per-request calls to third parties and no rate-limit surprises.
It's built for the moments where an IP alone isn't enough: triaging abuse and fraud signups, spotting bots and scrapers arriving from cloud ranges, enriching access logs, or just settling an argument about who owns 8.8.8.8. The datacenter-vs-residential verdict ships with the evidence behind it (the matched hosting-ASN list, for example), so you can decide how far to trust it. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.
| asn.number / name | the Autonomous System that announces the address |
| location.city / country | coarse, city-level geolocation |
| usage_type.classification | datacenter, residential or unknown |
| usage_type.is_datacenter | boolean shortcut for filtering |
| usage_type.evidence | why it was classified that way |
| data_versions | dataset snapshot dates, so results stay auditable |
| 8.8.8.8 | Google Public DNS — classified datacenter (AS15169 GOOGLE) |
| 1.1.1.1 | Cloudflare's resolver — datacenter, AS13335 |
| 9.9.9.9 | Quad9 DNS — another hosting range |
| 140.82.121.3 | GitHub — datacenter / cloud range |
| 2606:4700:4700::1111 | an IPv6 address — lookups work identically |
| 208.67.222.222 | OpenDNS (Cisco) — datacenter |