Free tool
What is my IP address
See the public IP address that websites see when you connect, and the language and browser details your browser sends.
This tool is free, needs no account and does not store what you enter.
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- What is my IP address
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Looking up your connection…
What the tool shows
Every device that uses the internet reaches websites through a public IP address. This page reads the address your request arrived from and shows it to you, along with the language setting and the browser string that your browser sends with every request. Nothing is stored.
The address you see is the one that websites see. If you are on a home connection, it belongs to your internet provider and is shared by your router. If you are on a company network or a VPN, it belongs to that network. If your traffic goes through a proxy, it is the proxy's address, and that is exactly how you check that a proxy works.
How to check that a proxy is working
Use this page as a quick test of a proxy or a browser profile.
- Open this page without a proxy and write down the address.
- Turn the proxy on in your browser, system or anti-detect profile.
- Reload the page. The address should now be different, and it should belong to the country you chose.
- If it is the same, the proxy is not being used. Check the proxy settings of the tool you are testing.
What an IP address can and cannot tell a website
An address tells a website roughly which network you are on and, through lookup databases, roughly which country or region it is registered in. It does not give your name or your exact home, and those databases are not always right. Websites also read other signals, such as your language, your time zone, cookies and your browser, which is why a proxy alone does not make a visitor look like a local.
When you use a proxy for work such as localisation testing, make the other signals fit the country too: set the browser language, the time zone and, where relevant, the geolocation permission.
IPv4 and IPv6
Addresses come in two families. IPv4 addresses look like four numbers separated by dots, and IPv6 addresses are longer and contain letters and colons. If you see an IPv6 address, your connection supports it, and some sites will prefer it. Many proxies, including most of ours, use IPv4, so the address you see through them will be IPv4.
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Which proxy type fits any country
The right type depends on how strict the destination is, how much traffic you will send and how long you need the address. A short comparison of the types we sell:
Datacenter IPv4. The default choice for most jobs. These are dedicated IPv4 addresses hosted in a datacenter, fast and inexpensive, and the best fit for high-volume reading of public pages, monitoring and automation. Some websites treat datacenter ranges more cautiously than consumer connections, so test your target before you commit to a long rental.
ISP proxies. Static addresses that are registered to an internet service provider rather than a hosting company. They keep the speed of datacenter hardware and look more like an ordinary home or office connection, which helps with destinations that are strict about hosting ranges.
Shared IPv4. A shared address is used by more than one customer and costs less. It suits light tasks, quick checks and testing where a clean, exclusive address is not essential.
IPv6. IPv6 addresses are very cheap and plentiful, and they work well with destinations that serve IPv6 traffic, such as many large search, video and social platforms. Many smaller sites are still IPv4 only, so check that your target supports IPv6 before you buy.
Mobile proxies. Addresses from mobile carrier networks. Many phones share the same carrier address, so websites tend to be tolerant of this traffic, which makes mobile proxies the right choice for testing mobile ads, apps and landing pages. They cost more than datacenter addresses.
Residential proxies. Addresses from home internet connections, billed by the amount of traffic you use and not by the IP. They suit light, bursty jobs on sites that block datacenter and ISP ranges. Heavy traffic gets expensive quickly, so estimate your monthly volume first.
If you are unsure, rent one address of the type you think you need, run your real task against it for a day, and look at the success rate. Because rental periods start at a few days, trying a type costs very little.
Using proxies responsibly in any country
A proxy is a networking tool and it is lawful in most places, but what you do with it still has to be lawful and fair. Follow the laws that apply to you and to the place you send traffic to, read the terms of the sites you visit, honour robots rules and rate limits, and never use an address to access accounts or data that are not yours. ProxyOnly cannot give legal advice, and our acceptable use policy applies to every order.
In practice that means reading public pages, checking your own sites and ads, and testing your own products. If a task would be unwelcome to the site owner when done by hand, it is unwelcome when done through a proxy too.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my IP address differ from my device's address?
Your device has a private address on your network. Websites see the public address of your router, VPN or proxy.
Does this page store my IP address?
No. It reads the address of the current request and shows it to you.
Why does a lookup site show a different country?
Lookup databases are built separately and update at different times. Compare more than one.
Ready to try it?
Create an account, add funds from US$1 and pick your country and proxy type.