Show My IP
Your public IP address, type, approximate location, and ISP — detected the moment this page loaded.
Detected client-side via a direct lookup. Nothing on this page is logged or sent to a third party by us.
This is the address that identifies your connection to every website you visit right now — the same number this page, and every other site currently open in your browser, already sees. "Show my IP" is really asking one specific, answerable question: what does the internet currently see when it looks back at my connection? The box above answers it directly, then breaks down what each part of that answer actually means.
What each piece of your result actually means
Four things are shown above, and they come from two different places. The IP address itself is detected directly — your browser asks a lookup service, and the address you see is exactly the one that service received. The type (IPv4 or IPv6), approximate location, and ISP are enriched in a second, separate lookup, because getting accurate location and network-ownership data requires a provider that specializes in IP-to-organization mapping — which is also why that second row can take an extra second to populate after the address itself appears.
- IP Type — whether your connection resolved over the older IPv4 protocol or the newer IPv6. Most dual-stack home networks are capable of both; which one shows here reflects which path your device and this server negotiated at that moment.
- Approximate Location — city or metro-region level, sourced from where your ISP has registered that address block with a regional internet registry such as ARIN or RIPE NCC, not GPS. Expect it to be in the right general area, not pinpoint-accurate.
- ISP / Network — the organization that owns the address block your IP falls in. This is usually your home ISP or mobile carrier, or, if you're using one, your VPN provider.
Why "show my IP" gives different results in different situations
A single device doesn't have one fixed public IP address — it has as many as it has ways of reaching the internet. Run this same check under different conditions and you should genuinely expect different numbers back:
| Scenario | What typically changes |
|---|---|
| Home Wi-Fi vs. mobile data | Two entirely separate networks (your ISP vs. your carrier) — expect two different addresses. |
| VPN on vs. off | With the VPN on, this page should show the VPN server's IP, type, and ISP — not yours. |
| Same Wi-Fi, laptop vs. phone | IPv4 will usually match (shared via NAT); IPv6 may differ per device. |
| Router restart | May or may not change the result — depends entirely on how your ISP handles DHCP leases. |
| Public Wi-Fi (café, airport) | A completely different address tied to that venue's ISP, unrelated to your home or mobile address. |
None of this means the tool is unreliable — it means the question "what's my IP" doesn't have one fixed answer; it has one answer per network path, and this page always reports the one you're actually using right now.
Using this to confirm a VPN or proxy is actually working
This is one of the most practical uses of a "show my IP" check: connect your VPN, then reload this page. The ISP field should switch from your real provider's name to the VPN provider's name, and the location should shift to the server location you selected. If your real ISP or real city still shows up with the VPN active, that's a leak — most commonly a WebRTC or DNS leak that bypasses the VPN tunnel for certain requests. Confirm it properly with a dedicated IP leak test, WebRTC leak test, and DNS leak test, since each checks a different leak path a simple IP display can't fully cover on its own.
What showing your IP does not reveal
It's worth being precise about the ceiling here, since this is where a lot of overstated claims circulate online:
- Not your name. An IP address maps to a network, not a person, and identity resolution requires your ISP's subscriber records.
- Not your street address. Location data here is regional, sourced from ISP address-block registration — see how public IP addresses are structured for the full breakdown of why.
- Not your browsing history. Your IP tells a site how to send data back to you; it says nothing about other sites you've visited, unless those sites are actively colluding to cross-reference it — see how targeted advertising tracks you across sites.
Related checks worth running next
A raw IP address is one data point among several that determine how exposed your connection really is. These go deeper into the specific leak paths and identifiers this page doesn't cover:
- IPv6 leak test — confirms your IPv6 address isn't bypassing your VPN's IPv4 tunnel.
- DNS leak test — checks which DNS resolver your queries are actually going through.
- What Is My Public IP Address? — the full technical breakdown: public vs. private IP, static vs. dynamic, and how NAT works.
Why does "show my IP" give a different answer on Wi-Fi vs. mobile data?
Because they're two completely separate connections to the internet. Your Wi-Fi router gets a public IP address from your home ISP, while your phone on mobile data gets an entirely different public IP address from your carrier's cellular network — often one shared across thousands of other mobile subscribers behind carrier-grade NAT. Switching between the two on the same device will show two different results, and that's expected behavior, not a bug in the tool.
Can two devices on the same home network show different public IPs?
For IPv4, almost never — every device behind the same router shares one public IPv4 address through NAT. For IPv6, it's a different story: many home routers hand out a unique public IPv6 address to each device rather than sharing one, so it's entirely normal for your laptop and your phone to display different IPv6 addresses even while sitting on the exact same Wi-Fi network.
Why does this page sometimes show IPv4 and sometimes IPv6?
Modern browsers and operating systems generally prefer IPv6 when both are available end-to-end, and fall back to IPv4 when any part of the path — your ISP, your router, or the destination server — doesn't support it. Which one this page displays reflects the fastest, most direct route your device happened to resolve at that moment, not a setting you control here.
Is showing my IP address safe to do?
Yes. Every website you visit already sees your public IP address the moment you load the page — that's a basic requirement of how the internet routes traffic back to you. A "show my IP" tool doesn't expose anything additional; it simply displays the same address that was already visible to us, and to every other site you've had open today.
Why does the location shown here not match my exact city?
IP-based location lookups are built from where your ISP has registered a given address block, not from GPS or cell-tower data — so precision tops out at roughly city or metro-region level, and can be off by a neighboring city or more depending on how your provider structures its network.
Does a VPN change what this page shows?
Yes — with a properly configured VPN, this page will display the VPN server's IP address, type, and location instead of your own, because your traffic is routed through that server before reaching us. If it still shows your real address or real ISP with the VPN active, that's a leak, and worth confirming with a dedicated IP leak test.