What is my IP address?

Use it as an API

The same data is available as JSON at /api/ip, with permissive CORS, so you can call it from a script or a terminal:

• curl https://myiprightnow.com/api/ip
• curl -s https://myiprightnow.com/api/ip | jq -r .ip for just the address

The response is marked no-store, so nothing between you and the edge keeps a copy of it.

What your address does and does not reveal

An IP address identifies a connection, not a person. What a website can tell from it is roughly: which provider you use, which country you are in, and usually which region. What it cannot tell is your name, your street address, or which device you are using — those come from cookies and accounts, not from the address.

Your provider does hold the mapping between an address and a subscriber, which is why addresses matter legally even though they reveal little on their own. A VPN replaces the address a website sees with the VPN's own, moving that knowledge from your provider to the VPN operator rather than eliminating it.

Common questions

What is an IP address?

It is the address other computers use to send data back to you, in the same way a postal address lets someone reply to a letter. Every device connected to the internet has one. The address shown here is your public address — the one websites see — which normally belongs to your router or your provider rather than to your device.

Why is my IP different on my phone and my laptop?

If they are on the same home network they usually share one public address, and the difference you are seeing is between mobile data and Wi-Fi. On mobile data your address comes from your carrier and often changes as you move. Inside a network each device also has a private address, typically starting 192.168 or 10, which is not visible from outside.

Why does the location look wrong?

IP location is inferred from which network owns the address, not from GPS. It is usually right about the country, often right about the region, and frequently wrong about the city — it may point at your provider's nearest exchange rather than at you. If you are on a VPN or a corporate network it will show wherever that network exits to the internet.

What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?

IPv4 addresses look like 203.0.113.42 and there are about 4.3 billion of them, which ran out years ago. IPv6 addresses look like 2001:db8::1 and there are enough for every grain of sand on earth many times over. Most connections now support both, and which one you see here depends on which your network preferred for this request.

Do you store my IP address?

No. The address is read from the request and sent straight back to you, with no database and no logging beyond the ordinary request log our host keeps for security. The response is marked as uncacheable, so no proxy between us holds a copy either.