The IPinfo alternative when the question is which company, not where

Name: BusinessMCP
Brand: BusinessMCP

IPinfo is the geolocation and network-data specialist. BusinessMCP’s Data API answers a narrower question: is this IP a company, and which one?

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Price: IPinfo: Lite free (country + ASN), Core $26/mo, Max $163/mo, Enterprise custom (where Company is listed) · BusinessMCP: $5 free for 7 days · then prepaid from $10
Switching gets you: IP to company from the first lookup without an Enterprise contract, company firmographics on the same key, and a verdict that declines to name ISP, mobile and SASE traffic.
Stay with IPinfo if: You need city-level geolocation, carrier names, residential-proxy detection or downloadable databases — IPinfo is built for that, and we return a country only.

Feature comparison — pricing verified October 2026. Sources: public pricing pages + published teardowns.
	BusinessMCP	IPinfo
Entry price	$5 free for 7 days · then prepaid from $10	Lite free; Core $26/mo; Max $163/mo; Enterprise custom
IP to company (name + domain)	$0.02 per IP that names a company; every other verdict is free	Company field listed on Enterprise
Network class (ISP, mobile, hosting, VPN, education, government)	Yes	ASN type on Core and above
Geolocation	Country only	City level on Core and above
Hosting / VPN / proxy flags	Hosting, CDN-edge and SASE flags; VPN and Tor as the network class	Privacy detection (Core+); residential proxy (Max+)
Mobile carrier name	No	Carrier name, MCC, MNC (Max+)
Downloadable database	No	Lite and Enterprise
Company firmographics and email checks on the same key	Yes	No
Official MCP server	Yes — same key as REST	Yes — geolocation, ASN, privacy, quota

The full picture

IPinfo is the reference IP-data API: geolocation down to city, ASN ownership and type, privacy detection for VPNs, proxies, Tor and relays, carrier data and downloadable databases. Its pricing page on 28 September 2026 showed a free Lite tier (unlimited country-level lookups plus ASN name and domain), Core at $26/month ($310/year) for 150,000 requests with city geolocation and privacy detection, Max at $163/month ($1,960/year) for 250,000 requests adding carrier, residential-proxy detection and places, and a custom Enterprise tier. In that plan comparison the Company field — name, domain, route and type — carries a tick only under Enterprise; IPinfo’s product page describes company data as a business and custom-plan feature. Either way, it is not in the self-serve price.

BusinessMCP’s Data API does one part of that job. ip_lookup resolves an address against an IP graph we build ourselves every night from public registry, routing and DNS evidence, and returns a verdict (company, non_business, low_confidence or unidentified), the network class, the company name and domain only when the verdict is company, the country, ASN and matched network, and flags for hosting, CDN edges and secure-egress ranges. It costs $0.02 per IP that names a company — every other verdict is free — on the same key as company lookup and email checks.

The verdict is deliberately conservative. Most people now browse from home ISP and mobile lines that name no company, so those return non_business — the correct answer, not a miss. A SASE or secure-egress range belongs to that vendor’s customers, so we flag it and decline to name anyone. If you need to know where an IP is, use IPinfo. If you need to know whether it is a business worth attributing, that is what this was built for.

Why teams switch

Company answers without an Enterprise contract

On IPinfo’s pricing page the Company field sits in the Enterprise column. On the Data API it is the core answer from the first call: $5 free for 7 days to start, then $0.02 per IP that names a company, with ISP, mobile, hosting and unidentified answers free.

A verdict that refuses to guess

Trust company.domain only when the verdict is company — and we only return it then. Carrier and mobile ranges, cloud and CDN-edge space and SASE egress are classified and flagged rather than attributed to whoever holds the registry record, which is the mistake that turns a Comcast subscriber into “Comcast” in a B2B report.

Firmographics on the same key

Once an IP resolves to a domain, company_lookup returns the industry, size, location, phone and LinkedIn for it, and email_pattern returns the address format — the next two calls a B2B team makes, without a second vendor.

Built for agents as well as code

Every tool is also an MCP tool at /api/hub/mcp with the same price and typed errors. IPinfo’s official MCP server is good for geolocation and network questions; ours answers the company question and the follow-ups in one session.

IPinfo pricing, broken down

Plan	Price	Notes
Lite	$0	unlimited country-level API requests, ASN name and domain; database downloads
Core	$26/mo	$310/yr billed annually; 150,000 requests/mo; city geolocation, ASN type, privacy detection; $0.34 per extra 1,000
Max	$163/mo	$1,960/yr billed annually; 250,000 requests/mo; adds carrier, residential-proxy detection, places; $1.30 per extra 1,000
Enterprise	Custom annual	1M+ requests; the tier where the pricing page lists Company, IP whois and database downloads
For comparison: MaxMind GeoIP Insights	$0.002 per query	web service; adds proxy detection and confidence to City Plus ($0.0003, which carries ISP or organization) and Country ($0.0001)
For comparison: ipapi.is	$0 · from $20/mo	1,000 requests a day free; $20/mo for 20,000 a day; one-time credits at 30,000 requests per dollar
For comparison: Snitcher	$49–$529/mo	visitor identification from a website script: $49 for up to 50 identified companies (~$0.98 each) to $529 for 4,001–5,000 (~$0.11 each); REST API included
BusinessMCP Data API	$5 free for 7 days · then prepaid from $10	ip_lookup $0.02 per IP that names a company, every other verdict free; ip_bulk_lookup up to 100 IPs per call

IPinfo prices and the per-tier feature table are from ipinfo.io/pricing on 2026-10-07 (unchanged since 2026-09-28); MaxMind, ipapi.is and Snitcher are from their own pricing pages the same day. Per lookup, every geolocation API here costs far less than our ip_lookup, but it answers where an IP is and who holds its range, and charges whatever the answer; we charge $0.02 only when the answer is a company. Snitcher is the closer comparison per identified company, at roughly $0.11 to $0.98 depending on plan. Some 2026 third-party write-ups still quote older IPinfo tier names and prices; we used the live page. BusinessMCP is prepaid in dollars: a new account gets $5 free for 7 days on first-party tools, once; after that you buy a pack from $10 (larger packs add up to 30% bonus balance) and each call debits its listed price. Nothing is billed in arrears. Prices come from the same file the charge path reads.

Where BusinessMCP is NOT the right choice

An alternatives page you can trust has to cut both ways. Honestly:

Country is the only location field we return — no city, region, postal code, coordinates or timezone. For geolocation, IPinfo (even its free Lite tier at country level) is the better tool.
No carrier name, no per-IP residential-proxy detection, no IP whois and no downloadable database: every answer is an API call against our graph, and bulk is 100 IPs per call.
We name far fewer IPs than a feed that labels every range with its registry holder. Home ISP and mobile lines, cloud, CDN edges and SASE egress return non_business or unidentified on purpose (those answers are free, but they are also not a company).
Per IP looked up, geolocation APIs cost a fraction of ours: MaxMind Insights is $0.002 a query, IPinfo Core overage is $0.34 per 1,000 and ipapi.is sells 30,000 requests for a dollar. We charge only when an IP names a company, but at $0.02 that one answer costs more than a MaxMind Insights query.
The graph is rebuilt nightly, so a range that changed hands today can be a day behind, and we publish no uptime or latency figures for the Data API.
The Data API is a young product from a small company. You get published per-call prices and direct founder support, not an account team, a long track record or an integrations marketplace.

Frequently asked questions

Does IPinfo have an IP to company API?

Yes. IPinfo’s company data returns the company name, domain and type (business, ISP, hosting, government or education). On its pricing page on 28 September 2026 the Company field was listed only under the custom Enterprise plan; its product page describes it as a business and custom-plan feature. Confirm the current packaging with IPinfo.

Do you use IPinfo data?

No. ip_lookup resolves against an IP graph we build ourselves every night from public registry, routing and DNS evidence. We do not resell another vendor’s IP feed.

Why does an IP from a home connection come back non_business?

Because a home ISP or mobile line names no company — the registry holder is the carrier, not the visitor’s employer. Returning the carrier as the company would be wrong, so the verdict says non_business and company is null. We do not publish a match rate, because it depends entirely on whose traffic you send.

What does an IP lookup cost?

$0.02 per IP that names a company. ISP, mobile, hosting, VPN and unidentified answers are free. ip_bulk_lookup resolves up to 100 IPs per call at the same per-IP price. A new account starts with $5 free for 7 days; after that you buy a prepaid pack from $10.

Is there an MCP server?

Yes — the same key works at /api/hub/mcp. IPinfo also runs an official MCP server for its geolocation, ASN and privacy data; the two can sit in one client.

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How to migrate

1
Keep IPinfo for geolocation, carrier and fraud signals — nothing here replaces city-level location.
2
Create a Data API key and send the IPs you want attributed to GET /api/hub/v1/ip/{ip}, or POST /ip/bulk with up to 100 at a time.
3
Treat company.domain as trustworthy only when verdict is company; route non_business and low_confidence answers to your “unknown” path rather than to a company record.
4
Chain company_lookup on the returned domain for firmographics, and store graph_version with each answer so you can tell which night’s graph produced it.

Sources & verification

Every price on this page traces to a public source, last verified October 7, 2026. Spotted a change? Tell us and we'll re-verify.

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