What Is My IP Address
See the public IP address your connection presents to the internet, together with your ISP, network (AS number) and approximate location.
Detecting your connection…
About What Is My IP Address
When you open this page your browser makes a single request to our EU servers, which read the source address of that connection and report it straight back. If you reach us over IPv6 you see your public IPv6 address; over IPv4, your public IPv4 address. Alongside the address the page shows your reverse DNS hostname, your ISP or organisation with its AS number, an approximate city, region and country, and the browser user agent your device sent.
The address shown is your public IP, assigned by your internet provider or by the exit node of any VPN or proxy you are using. It is not the private address, such as 192.168.1.10 or 10.0.0.5, that your router hands out inside your home or office network; those local addresses are never visible to outside sites. The public IP is what every website, server and API you contact actually sees.
The lookup is served from European infrastructure and your address is not logged or stored, only reflected back to your browser. The location is derived from the self-hosted DB-IP Lite database and is approximate, mapping to your provider's registration rather than your exact position, so treat it as a rough area rather than a pinpoint.
This makes the page a quick way to confirm a VPN is working: if the IP and ISP shown belong to your VPN provider, the tunnel is active, but if they show your home ISP, the VPN is off or leaking. It is equally useful for finding the address you need to add to a firewall, SSH or API allowlist.
How to use it
- 1Open the page; your public IP is detected automatically, with nothing to type in.
- 2Read the large address at the top, which is exactly what websites and servers see.
- 3Review the ISP, AS number, reverse DNS hostname and approximate location shown below it.
- 4Reload the page after connecting or disconnecting a VPN to confirm the address changes.
Common use cases
- -Confirm a VPN or proxy is active and see which IP it presents to the world
- -Find the public IP you need to whitelist on a firewall, SSH server or API allowlist
- -Check whether your connection has IPv6 and what address it uses
- -Verify which ISP and AS number your traffic appears to originate from
- -Troubleshoot geolocation-based content, pricing or access restrictions
Frequently asked questions
- What is my public IP address?
- Your public IP is the address your ISP or VPN assigns to your connection, and it is what remote servers see when you contact them. This tool detects and displays it as the large value at the top of the page.
- What is the difference between a public and a private IP address?
- A public IP is unique on the internet and assigned by your provider, while a private IP such as 192.168.1.10 is used only inside your local network and is not visible to external websites.
- Does this tool log or store my IP address?
- No. The lookup runs on EU infrastructure and your address is not logged or stored; it is only reflected back to your own browser during the request.
- Why is the location shown for my IP wrong?
- IP geolocation is approximate and database-derived, mapping to where your ISP's address block is registered. That can be a different city or region from where you physically are, especially on mobile or VPN connections.
- Why do I see an IPv6 address instead of IPv4?
- If both your connection and our servers support IPv6, your browser prefers it, so the source address reported is your IPv6 address. A connection with only IPv4 will show an IPv4 address instead.