What Is My IP Address?

Look up the public IP address your device is currently browsing from.

This is the one tool on ZeroServer.tools that makes an external network request. To answer “what is my IP”, your browser calls the free, keyless api.ipify.org public IP-echo API directly — not our own server (we don't have one). Every other tool on this site runs 100% offline.

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Looking up your IP address…

How this IP lookup works

Every device connected to the internet is assigned a public IP address by its internet service provider, and that address is what remote servers see when your browser makes a request. This tool asks api.ipify.org, a free and widely used public IP-echo service, what address your request arrived from, then displays it back to you — the same approach every “what is my IP” site uses under the hood.

Your public IP can differ from the private IP shown by your router or operating system (addresses like 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x), and it can change if you reconnect, switch networks, or use a VPN or proxy — refresh above at any time to re-check it.

Built and maintained by Meet Shah · Last updated 19 July 2026

What this tool is used for

Finding your public address to add to an allowlist.
Checking whether a VPN is actually routing your traffic.
Confirming which address a service will see you as.
Checking whether your address has changed after a router restart.
Getting an address to quote in a support ticket.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between my public and local IP?: The public one is what the internet sees — your router's address, shared by every device behind it. The local one is assigned by your router from a private range and is not routable outside your network, which is why two houses can both use 192.168.1.5.
How accurate is IP geolocation?: Country level is usually right; city level is often wrong by tens of kilometres, and sometimes by a country when traffic exits through a distant peering point. It resolves to the ISP's registered location, not to you, which is why mapping an IP to an address is unreliable.
Does a VPN hide everything?: It hides the address, not necessarily the identity. WebRTC has historically leaked the local address, DNS requests can bypass the tunnel, and browser fingerprinting works regardless. A VPN changes who sees your traffic, not how identifiable you are.
Is an IP address personal data?: Under GDPR, yes — including a dynamic one, because it is identifiable in combination with records the ISP holds. That is why log retention policies exist and why an address in a screenshot is worth replacing with a documentation-range one.
Why does my address keep changing?: Most residential connections use dynamic addressing, so the ISP reassigns on lease renewal or reconnection. A static address is normally a business product, which is why self-hosting from home usually needs a dynamic DNS service to stay reachable.

Common errors and gotchas

Assuming it is your device's address, when it is the address of whatever NAT or proxy you sit behind.
Expecting it to be stable, since most consumer connections use a dynamic address.
Confusing a public address with a location, which geolocation infers roughly at best.
Adding it to a long-lived allowlist, which then breaks when the address changes.
Overlooking that this page makes an external request, unlike the rest of the site.