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I currently use the maxmind webservices for client-side resolution in a commercial application. It's reliable but expensive enough that I'm looking for alternatives. I'm currently experimenting CloudFront's location request headers for a massive savings.

Where maxmind is $0.0003 per query. And my CloudFront concept is $0.0000015 per query.

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Well, if you want to limit your lookups to country level you can use our free IP to Country database [0]. Feel free to ask what is the catch. It's an easy answer, there is none.

The database is updated daily, there is no quality compromise, it is a database so unlimited lookups and it is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 so it permits commercial use with attribution. It is a subset of our paid city level data. If you want city level data, we have the free tier on the API permits 50k lookups per month.

By the way, I already pinged you on Twitter about the database. :/

[0] https://ipinfo.io/products/free-ip-database

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