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👤 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
50B/mo
API requests
IPinfo
1M+
active accounts
IPinfo 2024
846
probes in 119 countries
IPinfo
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, 2022) — 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 (2022)IPinfo 2024 review — 1M+ accounts, 846 probes, 40 staffLatka — IPinfo about $3.7M revenue estimate (third-party)IPinfo homepage — customer logos (Cloudflare, Cisco, Microsoft, Snowflake)Ben Dowling (@coderholic) on X
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, 2022). Accounts, probes and request metrics are IPinfo's own published figures. We never score you.