What Is My IP Address?
Your public IP address is the address your internet provider assigns to your connection, and it is what every website, mail server and online service sees when your traffic reaches them. It is shared by every device on your network. This page shows both your current IPv4 and IPv6 address, your ISP, its ASN and an approximate city.
What is my IP address, and who can see it?
Every server you contact sees your public IP address, because it is the return address your packets are answered to. What that address reveals is your ISP and an approximate location. It does not reveal your name, your street address or your identity.
The addresses shown on this page are fetched by your browser directly from ipify.org, one request over IPv4 and one over IPv6, and then looked up in our IP database. DNSX sets no cookies on this page and does not sell or share the result. Like every request to the site, the visit lands in our server usage log (IP address, endpoint, user agent and country code), which is deleted after 90 days.
What is the difference between my public and private IP address?
A public IP address is assigned by your ISP, is routable on the internet, and is shared by every device behind your router. A private IP address comes from a reserved range (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16), is assigned by your router, and is never routed on the public internet. This page shows the public address.
How do I tell if my VPN is working?
A working VPN replaces the address the internet sees with one belonging to the VPN provider. If this page reports your VPN provider's organization and Autonomous System Number, and a location matching the server you selected, your traffic is going through the tunnel. If it still reports your home ISP's name, the VPN is not carrying it.
Check the IPv6 result as well as the IPv4 result. A common leak is a VPN that tunnels IPv4 only, while the operating system keeps reaching IPv6 destinations directly over the native connection. That exposes your real address to any dual-stack site.
What is CGNAT, and am I behind it?
Carrier-Grade NAT is an ISP sharing one public IPv4 address among many subscribers. If your router's WAN address falls inside 100.64.0.0/10 (the shared address space RFC 6598 reserves for this) but this page reports a different public address, your connection is behind CGNAT. A private WAN address such as 10.x.x.x on a modem in bridge mode is another common sign.
CGNAT is why inbound connections and port forwarding fail on some connections. The public address is not yours alone, so there is no port on it that the ISP can map back to your router. The usual remedies are requesting a static or dedicated IPv4 address from the ISP, or using IPv6, which is not subject to CGNAT.
What does my IP address reveal about me?
Approximate Location
Your IP is mapped to a city and region based on your ISP's network. The country is almost always right. The city is approximate, and often the location of the ISP's nearest hub rather than yours.
Internet Service Provider
The organization that assigned your IP address and provides your internet connection. Identified through ASN and RDAP registration data.
Connection Type
Whether your address is announced by a known hosting provider or VPN service, based on the network name. Residential and mobile addresses carry no flag.
IP Version
Whether you're connecting via IPv4 (like 203.0.113.1) or IPv6 (like 2001:db8::1). Many ISPs now support both protocols.