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What Is My IP

See the public IP address your connection is using right now, whether it is IPv4 or IPv6, the approximate location attached to it, and what your browser reveals about itself. One optional click adds your ISP, ASN and a separate IPv4 and IPv6 check.

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Server-assisted. What you enter here (a domain, URL or test payload) is sent to our server to run the check. We don't save it, but our web server logs record the request, including a domain or address you entered, for about 14 days. Details

How to use the what is my ip

  1. Your IP appears automatically when the page loads; press Refresh after switching networks or a VPN.
  2. Check the version badge: IPv4 looks like 203.0.113.9, IPv6 like 2001:db8::1.
  3. Click Show network details to see your ISP, ASN and whether you have both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. This asks two third-party services and only runs when you click.
  4. Copy the address or your user-agent string when a support team asks for it.

Features

  • Public IP read straight from the request, with IPv4/IPv6 detection and non-public addresses flagged
  • Approximate country, region, city and time zone supplied by the hosting platform, no cookies involved
  • Optional ISP, organisation, ASN and dual-stack (IPv4 + IPv6) check via ipwho.is and ipify, on demand only
  • Browser, operating system, device type, language, screen size and the raw user agent
  • Works on the live site and explains itself when run on a local machine or behind a proxy

What a public IP address is

Every device on the internet sends traffic from an address. At home, your router usually has one public address from your provider and hands out private addresses (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x) to your devices. Websites only ever see the public one, which is what this page shows.

Many providers now use carrier-grade NAT, where thousands of customers share a public IPv4 address, and increasingly they hand out IPv6 instead. If you see an IPv6 address first, your connection preferred IPv6 to reach VoltKit; the network-details check tells you whether an IPv4 address exists as well.

How accurate is the location?

IP geolocation maps address blocks to the organisation that registered them, then to the place that organisation says the block is used. It is usually right about the country, often right about the city, and sometimes off by hundreds of kilometres, especially on mobile networks and VPNs. It is unrelated to the location permission a browser asks for, which uses GPS, Wi-Fi and cell data with your consent.

IPv4 versus IPv6

IPv4 addresses are four numbers from 0 to 255 separated by dots (203.0.113.9) and there are only about four billion of them, which is why they are shared and rationed. IPv6 addresses are eight groups of hexadecimal digits (2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334), with runs of zeros collapsed into ::, and there are effectively unlimited numbers of them, so every device can have its own. Most modern networks support both; your browser picks IPv6 when it can, which is why this page may show an IPv6 address even though your router also has an IPv4 one.

How to find your IP address on any device

This page is the quickest way to see your public address from any device. To see the private address a device uses on your own network:

  • Windows: open Command Prompt and run ipconfig; look for IPv4 Address under your active adapter.
  • macOS: System Settings → Network → your connection → Details, or run ifconfig in Terminal.
  • Android: Settings → Wi-Fi → tap the network → Advanced or the gear icon shows the IP address.
  • iPhone and iPad: Settings → Wi-Fi → tap the (i) next to the network.
  • Linux: run ip addr or hostname -I in a terminal.
  • Router: the public address is usually on the router's status page, typically at 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1.

Can I hide or change my IP address?

A VPN routes your traffic through its own server, so websites see the VPN's address instead of yours; proxies and the Tor network work on the same principle with different trade-offs in speed and trust. Restarting a home router sometimes assigns a new address from your provider, but many providers now keep the same one for long periods or share one among many customers. Reload this page after connecting to a VPN to confirm what websites now see.

Where the data comes from

The main address and location are read from headers the hosting platform adds to your request; VoltKit does not query anyone to show them. The optional details button contacts ipwho.is (ISP, organisation, ASN, location) and api4/api6.ipify.org (which protocol versions you have). Those services then see your address under their own privacy policies, which is why the lookup never runs automatically.

Frequently asked questions

Is my IP address personal data?

In many jurisdictions it is. VoltKit reads it from the request only to display it back to you; the page does not store it, and our analytics providers' handling is described in the privacy policy.

Why does my location look wrong?

The address block may be registered to your provider's head office, you may be on a VPN or mobile network, or the geolocation database is out of date. This is normal for IP-based location and is why every location here is labelled approximate.

Why does it show a loopback or private address?

You are opening VoltKit from a development server on your own machine or through an internal proxy, so the request itself comes from a local address. The network-details button still finds your real public address because that lookup goes out to the internet.

Can I see both my IPv4 and IPv6 address?

Yes. The page first shows whichever address your browser used to reach VoltKit; the network-details check contacts an IPv4-only and an IPv6-only endpoint so you can see whether you have both.

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