IPify Due Diligence
Run due diligence on IPify: check compliance and get alerts when suppliers change.
United States · www.ipify.org · 6 vendors
Ipify (ipify.org) offers a free and open-source API that provides users with their public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. It also offers an IP Geolocation API to retrieve detailed location information, which is utilized for various applications including content personalization, targeted advertising, and cybersecurity.
Resilience scores
- Digital Sovereignty: 83
- Digital Resilience: 8
- Financial Resilience: 6
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Services catalogue
1 service in catalogue across 1 category; runs on 6 sub-vendors.
- IP Address API
Insights
Last updated 2026-08-15 · revision 2
6 direct vendors, 114 subvendors
Direct vendors by controlling owner country (sample)
- United States: 5
- Sweden: 1
Subvendors by controlling owner country (sample)
- United States: 81
- Canada: 3
- Czech Republic: 1
Compliance
6 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.
GDPR (source) — Evidence found
Evidence: https://geo.ipify.org/privacy-policy, https://www.ipify.org, https://geo.ipify.org/terms-of-service
SOC 2 (source) — No public evidence
Evidence: https://geo.ipify.org/privacy-policy, https://geo.ipify.org/docs, https://www.ipify.org
PCI DSS (source) — No public evidence
Evidence: https://geo.ipify.org/privacy-policy, https://geo.ipify.org/payment-security-and-policy
Financials
Three-year financials
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Financial Resilience Score: 6/10
IPify is a hybrid entity: a free, open-source public IP API project self-funded by its creator Randall Degges since 2014, coupled with a small commercial IP Geolocation API business (GEO IPIFY). No financial statements are published, as the entity is privately held, not SEC-registered, and has no investor relations disclosures. Qualitatively, the operation appears to have an extremely low cost structure, with the free core service running as a stateless Go binary on Heroku serving 30+ billion requests/month. From a resilience standpoint, IPify benefits from no debt, no investor pressure, and a creator-funded model with a strong brand moat as one of the most widely embedded public-IP endpoints on the internet. However, meaningful risks exist including key-person dependency, single-vendor infrastructure concentration on Heroku/Salesforce, competitive pressure on the paid geolocation product from established players like MaxMind and IPinfo, and a capped monetization ceiling due to the free-by-design core product. The lack of any disclosed revenue, headcount, or entity structure makes independent verification of commercial scale impossible.
Key strengths: Extremely low cost structure — stateless Go binary on Heroku, No debt, no investors, no burn pressure — creator-funded, Strong brand moat with 30+ billion requests/month, Complementary paid Geolocation API monetizes free traffic funnel, Open-source resilience (MIT/Unlicense)
Risk factors: Key-person risk — effectively supported by one individual, No disclosed revenue base — impossible to assess liquidity/runway, Single infrastructure provider concentration (Heroku/Salesforce), Competitive pressure from MaxMind, IPinfo, ipapi, ipgeolocation.io, IP2Location, Monetisation ceiling — core product is free by design, Governance/entity opacity — legal entity behind 'GEO IPIFY' not clearly disclosed
Revenue by product/service
- IP Geolocation API / Database (paid): 100%
- ipify Public IP API (free): 0%
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