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What is my IP address?

Websites see your public IP address. It reveals your internet provider and an approximate location, usually the country and often the city. With a VPN on, they see the VPN server’s address instead. This page shows the address and country they see right now.

  1. IP address
  2. WebRTC leak
  3. DNS leak

Your public IP address

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Check whether your VPN works

  1. Switch your VPN off and open this page. The address shown is the one your internet provider gave you.
  2. Switch your VPN on and choose a server.
  3. Press Check again. The page should report that the address changed, and the country should match the server you chose.

The first address is kept only in this page’s memory so the two can be compared. It disappears when you close or reload the page.

If the address did not change, the usual causes are:

  • The VPN is not connected, or it dropped the connection without telling you.
  • Split tunnelling excludes your browser, so its traffic goes outside the tunnel on purpose.
  • Your browser reached us over IPv6 and the VPN only tunnels IPv4. See below.

If the address does change, your browser can still reveal your own address another way. Check that with the WebRTC leak test.

Next test: WebRTC leak

What an IP address tells a website

Which address a website sees

Without a VPN

  1. Your devicehas a private address that only exists inside your home network
  2. Your routershares one public address between all devices behind it
  3. The website

    Sees: that public address, and with it your internet provider and roughly where you are.

With a VPN

  1. Your devicehas a private address that only exists inside your home network
  2. Your routershares one public address between all devices behind itEncrypted tunnel
  3. VPN serverrun by the VPN provider
  4. The website

    Sees: the address of the VPN server and the country registered for it, not yours.

A website can seeA website cannot see from the IP address alone
Your internet provider or the network you are onYour name
An approximate location, usually the country and often the region or cityYour street address
That two visits came from the same addressWhich person or device in the household it was

Can someone find your address from your IP address? quotes what Google says a site learns from it.

Websites recognise you in other ways too, through logins, cookies and browser fingerprinting. Changing your IP address with a VPN does not change those. Do you need a VPN? goes through what a VPN does and does not solve, and the provider overview lists the facts we could verify for each provider.

What a VPN changes, and what it costs

The address above belongs to your internet provider, unless a VPN is already on. With a VPN on, websites see the address and country of the VPN server instead, and your internet provider no longer sees which sites you open. A VPN does not make you anonymous: the VPN provider sees your traffic in place of your internet provider, and accounts you are logged in to and cookies still identify you.

What a VPN costs today: the three lowest prices

Per provider the lowest advertised price per month, which goes with the longest term, paid up front. Dollar prices are compared in euro at the ECB reference rate of 2026-10-30. Cheapest is not the same as best: this is not a ranking.

We currently earn nothing from these links: the buttons go to the providers' normal websites. How this works

  1. Private Internet Access €1.79 / mo · 36 months Checked 2026-11-02
    See price at Private Internet Access
  2. PureVPN Standard $2.15 ≈ €1.92 / mo · 24 months · $58.20 up front, covers 27 months Checked 2026-11-02
    See price at PureVPN
  3. CyberGhost VPN €2.19 / mo · 24 months · €56.94 up front, covers 26 months Checked 2026-11-02
    See price at CyberGhost VPN

Advertised prices · Belgium

A VPN changes the address shown above, but providers advertise a low first-term price that often rises at renewal, and the same plan can cost something different per country. What a VPN really costs compares first-term and renewal prices, and Same VPN, different price per country shows what we recorded per country.

IPv4 and IPv6

This site is reachable over both IPv4 and IPv6. Your browser picks one, and the large address at the top is the one it picked. The button “Show IPv4 and IPv6 separately” shows both.

That matters for a VPN check: if your internet provider gives you IPv6 and your VPN neither tunnels nor blocks it, a website reached over IPv6 still sees your real address. So an IPv4 result that shows the VPN server does not prove your IPv6 address is hidden. If the version above is IPv6 and the address does not change when the VPN is on, that is exactly this problem. So show both addresses with the VPN on: neither should belong to your own provider.

IP address location: how accurate is it?

An IP address does not contain a location. Geolocation databases guess one by matching address blocks to the places where internet providers say they use them. That is why the result is reliable for the country, less so for a region and often wrong for a city. This page shows only the country, taken from the database our CDN uses; it does not look up a city or a street.

The same guess is what makes a VPN work against country checks: a streaming service or shop looks your address up in such a database, so the country follows the server you connect to. When a lookup site and this page disagree, they are using different databases, not measuring different things.

What happens with your address on this page

Your browser asks our server for your address, the server answers, and the page displays it. The request is not written to our logs, in line with our privacy policy. We set no cookies and store nothing in your browser.

Frequently asked questions

Is the address shown here the same as the one on my device?Usually not. Your phone or laptop normally has a private address that only exists inside your home or office network, such as 192.168.1.20. Your router shares one public address between all devices behind it, and that public address is what websites see and what this page shows.
How do I find the location of an IP address?This page shows the location of yours: the country websites see for you. For another address you need a geolocation database, which gives at best an approximate country, region or city and sometimes a wrong one. No database gives a street or a name: only the internet provider knows which customer had which address. With a VPN on, the location shown is the server’s, not yours.
Can someone find my home address from my IP address?Not from the IP address alone. Public lookup databases map an address to an internet provider and an approximate area, often a city or region and sometimes the wrong one. Only your internet provider knows which customer had which address at which time.
Why is the country wrong?The country comes from a geolocation database used by our CDN, Cloudflare. Such databases are estimates. They can lag behind when address blocks change hands, and some VPN providers register addresses in one country while the server is physically in another.
Does this page test for DNS or WebRTC leaks?No. It only shows the address your browser used to load this page. A DNS leak, where your lookups still go to your internet provider’s resolver, and a WebRTC leak, where the browser reveals an address through its real-time communication interface, need separate tests.
Do you keep my IP address?No. Our server sends the address back to your browser and does not write it to a log or a database. Our CDN, Cloudflare, necessarily processes it to deliver the page, as it does for every page on this site.

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