Free tool
What is my IP address
This is the address your connection is presenting right now, read from your own request. Nothing is stored and nothing is looked up anywhere else.
Your IP address
Using it to test a proxy
Open this page normally and note what it says. Then open it again through the proxy you are setting up. If the address is the same both times, your traffic is not taking the route you think it is, and no amount of reading your configuration will show you that as quickly as this will. If you do not have one to test with yet, the NullVault proxy network starts at one dollar.
What an address can and cannot tell anyone
Country resolves reliably. City resolves sometimes. Anything more precise than that is guesswork dressed up, because the mapping comes from where the address block was registered rather than from where the device actually is. A service promising a street from an IP address is selling confidence rather than data.
Common questions
What is my IP address?
It is the address your connection presents to every site you visit, assigned by whoever provides your internet access. The box above shows the one this page received from you. It is not secret, every server you contact sees it, and it is how a site knows roughly where you are without asking.
Why does my IP address keep changing?
Most home connections are given an address from a pool rather than one that belongs to them, so it can change when the router restarts or the provider rotates its allocation. A mobile connection changes more often still, because carrier addresses are shared among many handsets at once.
Does this show my exact location?
No, and nothing that claims to is telling the truth. An address resolves to a country reliably and to a city only sometimes, because the mapping is based on where the block was registered rather than where the device is. It cannot give a street or a household.
How do I check whether my proxy is working?
Load this page without the proxy and note the address, then load it through the proxy and compare. If the two match, your traffic is not going through the proxy whatever your configuration says. That check takes ten seconds and saves a great deal of debugging.
Do you store the addresses you look up?
No. The address is read from the request, shown back to you and forgotten. There is no record written, no counter kept per address and nothing cached, which is also why the answer is never served from a shared cache.