Show HN: Smartip.io – Reliable and Accurate IP Geolocation and Threat API

by kevinjyc • 7 years ago

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kevinjyc2• 7 years ago

Hi all!

SmartIP.io is a new IP Geolocation API and Threat Intelligence service which exposes a huge amount of accurate and reliable IP data for a very convenient price.

We expose both IP and ASN lookups with two simple endpoints, we don't segment data response by Tiers, as most of our competitors do, instead, we return the entire dataset in our responses even in the Free tier.

Our pricing structure is unbeatable as well, signing up, we allow up to 250,000 requests per month for Free! More information on https://smartip.io/#pricing-section

Why should I use a GeoLocation API

Most companies use IP Geolocation APIs to identify their users to enrich the user experience based on their location, currency or timezone. Another use case could be identify threats and prevent frauds in time looking for Proxy connections, TOR nodes or just filtering Crawlers traffic. SmartIP.io can detect if the an IP is a proxy, TOR or even a crawler. More information on https://smartip.io/#feature-section

Why SmartIP.io

Even though the API market is full of Geolocation API already, we realised that they all offer very similar datasets, and they all tend to be really expensive very quickly, segmenting data responses by tiers and adding costs to their customers which do not cost anything to them.

Our approach aims to solve this problem exposing single endpoints which return all information with no segmentation by Tier and with a huge Free tier which allows up to 250,000 requests a month.

We are the only one to expose Crypto data. Our service can identify if a specified IP is running a Bitcoin node with additional information like the port from where the node is running from. We are in the process of expanding this dataset with additional blockchains and more data.

Our features

- Geolocation data: at the moment we are using MaxMind database, but we are in the process of building our own GeoDatabase.

- Currency data

- Timezone data

- Security data: Our service exposes Proxy data, Crawler data and TOR data.

-- Crawler data: we detect the crawler type, the crawler company

-- TOR data: we detect TOR exit node identifier, the published data and the last update date.

-- Proxy data: we detect the proxy type like "proxy anonimyzers", "proxy attackers", etc.

- Crypto data

- We are powered by Microsoft Azure. We are 100% backed by the best cloud solution out there with no self-hosted servers. This guarantees extremely high performances and high SLA.

- Official client libraries available on Github for .NetCore, PHP and Javascript.

- Simple and intuitive Dashboard to manage your API keys and monitor your API calls.

- Once registered, we offer a huge Free Tier which allows up to 250,000 requests a month.

alam2000• 7 years ago

What does it do differently than IP2Location, IP2Proxy and Maxmind?

kevinjyc2• 7 years ago

We are actually using MaxMind at the moment, even though we are in the process of building our own GeoDatabase. Our API differs from the services you specified since we offer many more data points like:

- currency data

- timezones data

- user agent data

- crypto data

On top of that, our API is extremely easy to use with two simple endpoints to get IP and ASN insights. Also, we don't apply any data segmentation to our responses.

Last but not least, our prices put us on a league of our own with a massive Free tier allowing up to 250,000 requests per month. More info on: https://smartip.io/#pricing-section

Show HN: Smartip.io – Reliable and Accurate IP Geolocation and Threat API

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