What Is My IP Address?
This is the public IP address your browser is presenting to the internet right now — the one every website you visit actually sees. Below it you’ll find a plain-English read-out of your browser, timezone, languages and network hints, and a clear explanation of what an IP does and does not reveal about you. The IP is read from your request; everything else is read in your browser. Nothing is logged.
216.73.216.149This is the address every website sees when you connect — read from your request and shown back to you only. It is not stored by this tool.
Every value above is read in your browser, with no network request. None of it is sent anywhere by this page. We deliberately do not use WebRTC to probe your local network address.
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- Your public IP address is the one your browser presents to every website you visit — it is assigned by your internet provider (or your VPN/proxy), not chosen by you.
- This page reads that address from the request your browser just made; everything else on the page — user agent, timezone, languages, screen, network hints — is read in your browser with no extra network calls.
- A public IP can reveal your rough region and your internet provider, but not your name, street address or precise location on its own.
- If you use a VPN or proxy, the IP shown here is the exit server’s address, not your home address — that is the point of a VPN.
- The address here is what the public internet sees. It is usually different from the private LAN address (like 192.168.x.x) your device holds behind your router.
Public IP vs private IP
When you ask “what is my IP?” you almost always mean your public IP address — the single address your internet service provider (ISP) assigns to your network and the one shown at the top of this page, because it is what the website you are visiting receives. Separately, your router hands every device on your home or office network a private IP — typically something like 192.168.1.5, 10.0.0.12 or an address in the 172.16–31.x.x range. Those private addresses are reused on millions of networks and are never visible to websites. Your router performs NAT (Network Address Translation) to let all of your devices share the one public IP.
IPv4 vs IPv6
An IPv4 address is four numbers from 0 to 255 separated by dots, like 203.0.113.42. There are only about 4.3 billion of them, which the internet exhausted years ago. IPv6 addresses are written as eight groups of hexadecimal digits separated by colons, like 2001:0db8:85a3::8a2e:0370:7334, and the pool is effectively unlimited. Many connections now carry both at once (“dual-stack”), so the address you present can differ depending on which protocol a site prefers. Neither format is inherently more private — this tool simply detects and labels whichever family your address belongs to.
What your IP does — and does not — reveal
- It does reveal your internet provider and a rough geographic area — often the city or region of the ISP’s network, which can be a long way from where you physically are. Sites use this for coarse geolocation, rate limiting and fraud checks.
- It does not reveal your name, your street address, your phone number or your exact GPS location. An IP identifies a connection, not a person.
- Only your ISP can map a public IP back to a specific subscriber account, and in most jurisdictions that takes a legal request.
VPNs, proxies and CGNAT
If you connect through a VPN or proxy, the IP shown here is the exit server’s address, not your home address — hiding your real IP behind a shared one is exactly what a VPN is for. That is why the location implied by your IP may suddenly jump to another city or country when a VPN is on. Separately, many ISPs now use Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT), where many customers share a single public IPv4 address, so even your “public” IP may not be uniquely yours. In all of these cases the address the website sees — the one on this page — differs from both your device’s private LAN address and, with a VPN, from the address your ISP actually assigned you.
Privacy note: your IP address is, by design, visible to every server you connect to during normal browsing — that is how responses find their way back to you. It is not a secret and it is not a password. If you want to change which address sites see, use a reputable VPN or proxy; if you want to limit what can be correlated with it, pair that with the browser hygiene (fewer trackers, consent controls) that this page’s other read-outs can help you reason about.
Frequently asked questions
What is my IP address?
Your IP (Internet Protocol) address is the number that identifies your connection on the internet. There are really two kinds. Your public IP is the single address your home or office network presents to the outside world — it is assigned by your internet service provider (ISP), and it is the one shown at the top of this page because it is what the website you are visiting actually receives. Your private IP is a separate, local-only address your router hands to each device on your network (commonly something like 192.168.1.5 or 10.0.0.12); it is not visible to websites and is reused on millions of networks. When people ask "what is my IP", they almost always mean the public one.
What does my IP address reveal about me?
Less than most people fear, but not nothing. A public IP can be mapped to a rough geographic area — often the city or region of your ISP’s network, which may be some distance from where you actually are — and it identifies your internet provider. Websites use it for things like coarse geolocation, rate limiting and fraud checks. What it does not contain is your name, your home street address, your phone number or your exact GPS location. Only your ISP can tie an IP to a specific subscriber account, and in most places that requires a legal request. So an IP is an identifier of a connection, not a direct identifier of a person.
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
IPv4 is the original format: four numbers from 0 to 255 separated by dots, like 203.0.113.42. It allows about 4.3 billion addresses, which the internet long ago outgrew. IPv6 is the newer format, written as eight groups of hexadecimal digits separated by colons (like 2001:0db8:85a3::8a2e:0370:7334), and it provides a practically unlimited pool of addresses. Many networks now give you both at once (dual-stack). This tool detects which family the address you are presenting belongs to and labels it. Neither format is inherently more or less private on its own — what matters is whether the address is shared, rotated or routed through a VPN.
Why is the IP shown here different from the one in my router settings?
Because they are two different addresses doing two different jobs. The address in your router or your device’s network settings (192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x or 172.16-31.x.x) is a private address used only inside your local network. Your router performs Network Address Translation (NAT), rewriting all your devices’ private addresses so they share the single public IP your ISP assigned. The public IP is what the internet sees and what this page shows. On top of that, many providers now use Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT), where many customers share one public IPv4 address — so even your "public" IP may be shared with other subscribers.
Does this tool store or send my IP address anywhere?
No. The IP is read from the request your browser already made to load this page, shown back to you, and not written to any database or sent to a third party by this tool. Every other detail on the page — your user agent, timezone, languages, screen size and so on — is read entirely in your browser and never leaves it. The tool makes no geolocation lookup and no external API call. Bear in mind that your IP is, by design, visible to every server you connect to on the normal course of browsing; a VPN or proxy is what changes which address they see.