What is my IP?
Your public address, both versions where available, plus a sober account of what an IP does and does not give away.
Guide
How to use it
- The addresses load automatically, IPv4, and IPv6 if your connection has it.
- Copy either with its button.
- Checking a VPN? Note the address before connecting, connect, then press Check again, a changed address means the tunnel is working.
- Remember it is your network’s address: everyone on your home WiFi shows the same one.
Examples
Readings and what they mean
One IPv4 shared by the whole household, assigned by your ISP, and often changing every few weeks (dynamic addressing). Nothing about the number itself identifies a person.
The address shown belongs to the VPN’s server, often in another city or country. That mismatch with your real location is the entire product working.
Phones typically sit behind carrier-grade NAT: thousands of customers share one public IPv4. Geolocation of mobile IPs is accordingly vague, sometimes hundreds of miles off.
Method
How it works
The page asks api.ipify.org, a widely used public echo service, what address your request arrived from, once for IPv4 and once via the dual-stack endpoint for IPv6. That is this site’s one disclosed exception to the everything-local rule, an IP check cannot be done locally by definition, and the page states it plainly.
What an IP reveals: your ISP and a rough area (the ISP’s routing region, usually city-scale at best). What it does not: your name, street, or browsing history, those require your ISP’s records, which need legal process to open.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is my IP address private information?
Semi-public by design: every site you visit sees it, it is how responses find their way back. Treat it like a postmark, not a password.
Can someone find my house from my IP?
Not from the IP alone, geolocation databases resolve to the ISP’s service area. Linking an address to a household needs the ISP’s logs and a legal order.
Why does my IP keep changing?
Dynamic assignment: ISPs lease addresses from a pool, and reconnections or router restarts often draw a new one. Static IPs are a paid business add-on.
What is the difference between public and local IPs?
The public one (shown here) faces the internet, local ones (192.168.x.x etc.) exist only inside your network, every device has a local address, the router shares one public.
How do I hide my IP?
A VPN or Tor replaces it with theirs, sites then see the relay’s address. This page is the standard before-and-after check for exactly that.
Does this site log my address?
This page has no server of its own to log to, the lookup goes to ipify (their privacy policy covers that request), and this site never receives it.
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