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IPinfo Privacy Detection Extended API

Enterprise-only API providing detailed privacy detection metadata for IP addresses, including VPN, proxy, Tor, and hosting detection with confidence scores and risk indicators.

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Field note

What it does

The IPinfo IP to Privacy Detection (Extended) API is a customized API service for enterprise customers. It provides detection methodology related metadata to support risk scoring, confidence metrics, and IP reputation aspects behind each IP address that IPinfo detects to be anonymous. IPinfo uses multi-modal detection methods including internet measurement, IP address behavior and characteristics, and internet records metadata. The API returns fields such as vpn, proxy, tor, relay, hosting, service, confidence, coverage, census, census_ports, device_activity, inferred, vpn_config, whois, and first_seen.

Capabilities

Available capabilities

Risk Metadata Confidence Scoring VPN Detection Proxy Detection Tor Detection Hosting Detection

Confidence Levels

Provides confidence levels from 1 to 3 based on detection source strength.

Coverage Metric

Indicates proportion of range with direct evidence of VPN activity.

Enterprise Only

Offered as a customized API service available only to enterprise customers.

Multi-modal Detection

Uses internet measurement, IP behavior, and records metadata for robust detection.