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What Is My IP Address?

This page shows the public IP address your connection is using right now — the address every website you visit sees, as opposed to the private address your router hands out inside your home or office. If your connection supports it, you will see an IPv6 address as well as the familiar IPv4 form. Knowing your IP is useful when you need to allow-list yourself on a firewall or a database, confirm that a VPN is actually routing your traffic, troubleshoot a service that is blocking you, or check whether your provider has given you a new address. The lookup is answered by our own server from the connection metadata of your request. Your address is never sent to a third-party IP service, we do not show ads, and we do not keep a log of the addresses we report.

Your public IP address

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Read from your connection by our own server, never sent anywhere else, and never logged. The place names beside it are worked out from your connection's approximate coordinates, not from the address.

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How to use the what is my ip address

  1. Open the page — your public IP address is shown immediately, with no button to press.
  2. Copy the address if you need to paste it into a firewall rule or support ticket.
  3. Turn your VPN on or off and reload to confirm the address changes as you expect.
  4. Press “Use my precise location” if you want the city beside it to come from your device rather than your IP.
  5. Use the city, state, zip code, and country tools for the approximate location tied to that address.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a public and a private IP address?
Your public IP is the address the internet sees, assigned by your provider and shared by every device behind your router. Private addresses such as 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x only exist inside your own network. This page shows the public one.
Why do I have both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address?
IPv4 addresses ran out years ago, so networks run both protocols side by side. Which one is used depends on the site you visit and your network. Seeing both is normal and healthy.
Does my IP address change?
For most home connections, yes. Providers hand out dynamic addresses that can change when your router reconnects or after a lease expires. Business connections often pay for a static address that does not change.
Can someone find my home address from my IP?
No. An IP address maps to your provider and, roughly, to a city or region. It does not reveal a street address. Only your provider can tie an address to an account, and normally only under a legal request.
Do you log my IP address?
No. The address is read from your request, sent straight back to you, and marked as uncacheable so no intermediary stores it. We keep no record of it.

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