IPinfo
👤 Ben Dowling (Ex-Facebook engineer, ex-Calm CTO. Hit a personal pain looking up IPs, shipped a free API on Stack Overflow — devs came to him.)🌐 siteXLinkedIn
IP data — location, company, VPN and abuse detection — as an API and bulk data, built from internet measurements.
Will it work? · our read
Owns its supply. A weekend IP API grew into a data business — because IPinfo makes the data, not resells it. Enterprises pay for accuracy; free tiers still pin the low-end floor.
01How the money moves
Free, no-signup IP API posted on Stack Overflow pulls in developers
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Devs hit rate limits and self-serve upgrade to paid API tiers
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Enterprises (Cloudflare, Cisco) pay an estimated 5-6 figures for bulk IP data
02The numbers
about $3.7M/yrEstimatebootstrapped, no VC
2025
the sentence on the page
, Washington , United States ipinfo.io IP Address Intelligence Software Valuation $11.2M 2025 Revenue $3.7M (Est.) Funding $0 Team 34 Founded 2013 Company Revenue Valuation and Funding Founder and…
Requests doubled 2023->2024; the probe network is the data moat. IPinfo 2024 review
Ben states "multiple millions per year, growing about 50%" (SaaS Club, 2021) — first-party but not a precise number. The about $3.7M figure is Latka's third-party estimate, flagged.
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SaaS Club — Ben Dowling interview (2021) — "multiple millions in revenue per year", growing about 50% a year.IPinfo — 2024 in review — "more than 1 million active accounts", "846 probes in 119 countries", 40 employees.Latka — third-party estimate of about $3.7M revenue; treat as an estimate, not a company figure.IPinfo homepage — customer logos: Cloudflare, Cisco, Snowflake, Google, Docker.Ben Dowling (@coderholic) on X — founder.
Revenue is a third-party Latka estimate (about $3.7M, EST, unverified). First-party, Ben states only "multiple millions per year, growing about 50%" (SaaS Club, 2021). Accounts, probes and request metrics are IPinfo's own published figures. We never score you.