Business Subscription

The Business subscription is the complete ipapi.is package. It combines our highest standard API tier with unrestricted access to every database we produce — and it is the only plan that allows you to run the entire ipapi.is API on your own servers, powered by our high-performance native API server.

What's Included

Databases for Download

The Business subscription gives you access to all of the data that powers the ipapi.is API — the same databases that are sold individually. Purchased separately, the seven databases cost more than twice the price of the entire Business subscription.

Database	Powers in the API	Formats
IP to Geolocation	The location object	CSV MMDB
IP to ASN	The asn object	CSV MMDB JSON
IP to Hosting	The datacenter object and is_datacenter	CSV MMDB
IP to Company	The company object	CSV MMDB
IP to VPN	The vpn object and is_vpn	CSV MMDB
IP to Abuser	is_abuser, is_proxy and is_tor	CSV MMDB
Reverse DNS New	The PTR record (reverse DNS hostname) of every IPv4 address	RDNSZ

Every database ships with documentation and free samples are available on each database page, so you can evaluate the data quality before subscribing.

Included: The Reverse DNS Database

The Reverse DNS Database is the result of a complete monthly sweep of the routable IPv4 address space — over one billion resolved PTR records. Reverse DNS hostnames are one of the most information-dense signals that exist for an IP address: a single PTR record such as ec2-3-137-190-186.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com reveals the hosting provider, service type and region of an IP address, while dynamic-077-183-045-122.pool.telefonica.de immediately identifies a residential connection.

The database is delivered in the compact .rdnsz format together with a reader tool for lookups, dumps and exports. Sold individually for $149 per month, it is included in the Business subscription at no extra cost.

Full Database Dumps

Beyond the individual databases, Business subscribers can download the full database dump: every dataset behind the API in a single archive, available in CSV and MMDB format. The dumps also contain smaller datasets that are not sold separately — proxy, Tor, crawler, mobile and satellite classification data.

• Full Dump (CSV) — every dataset as plain CSV files, ideal for importing into your own data pipeline, warehouse or database.
• Full Dump (MMDB) — the same datasets in MMDB format for fast IP lookups from any programming language. Includes mmdb_query.js, a tool that reproduces the full API output locally.

Every dump ships with README files documenting each file and column, plus the license terms.

Self-Hosting: The ipapi.is API on Your Own Servers

The Business subscription allows you to operate the complete ipapi.is API inside your own infrastructure. The self-hosted server returns responses identical to api.ipapi.is — same routes, same query parameters, same JSON output — and lookups on your own hardware are unlimited: no metering, no rate limits.

The distribution is our native API server: a single, statically linked Linux binary written in Go with no runtime dependencies — no Node.js, no package installation, no build step. It memory-maps a precompiled database and starts serving in under a second.

# Install once — the step-by-step guide is in your dashboard
sudo systemctl enable --now ipapid

# The same API, now on your own hardware
curl 'http://127.0.0.1:3899/?q=8.8.8.8'

Why Self-Host?

• Data privacy & compliance — IP addresses of your users are never sent to a third party. All lookups stay inside your infrastructure, which greatly simplifies GDPR and compliance reviews.
• Latency — a lookup against a server in your own datacenter or VPC completes in well under a millisecond, with no network round trip to an external API.
• Volume — self-hosted lookups are unlimited. If you process tens of millions of lookups per day, self-hosting is by far the most economical option.

Requirements

• A Linux server on x86-64 (tested on Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04; any modern distribution with systemd works)
• 4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB recommended
• Approximately 4 GB of free disk space
• Outbound HTTPS access to ipapi.is for daily database updates

A production deployment takes about five minutes. After subscribing, the self-hosting guide with your personal download commands is available in your account dashboard — and if you need help, we assist with the setup.

Database Update Frequency

All database packages — the individual databases, the full dumps and the precompiled self-hosting database — are rebuilt and republished every day. The underlying datasets have different refresh cycles: fast-moving data such as the IP to Abuser Database and the IP to VPN Database changes daily, while slower-moving data such as the IP to Geolocation Database changes roughly once per week.

The Reverse DNS Database is a complete re-crawl of the IPv4 address space and is republished monthly. For self-hosted deployments, the bundled update script downloads new databases automatically and swaps them into the running server with zero downtime.

How to Get Started

1. Create a free account — it includes 1,000 API requests per day, so you can evaluate the data quality first.
2. Subscribe to the Business plan ($200/month) from your dashboard — payment via Stripe or PayPal, cancel anytime.
3. All database downloads and the self-hosting guide unlock immediately in your dashboard.

The Terms of Service and Privacy Policy apply to the Business subscription. For custom requirements — larger volumes, contracts, a Data Processing Agreement — contact us.