What Is My IP Address?
Your public IP address as the rest of the internet sees it, plus the details your browser reveals to every site you visit.
Your IPv4 address
Your IPv6 address
Your address is echoed back by ipify.org or icanhazip.com. This site has no server and stores nothing.
Public address versus the one on your device
The address shown above is your public address: the one your router presents to the internet, and the one every server you connect to logs. It is almost never the address configured on your laptop or phone.
Your device holds a private address from a range reserved for internal use — usually 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x or 172.16–31.x.x. Your router performs NAT, rewriting the source address of everything leaving the network so dozens of devices share one public address. That is why every device in your home shows the same result on this page.
- Public address — assigned by your ISP, visible to every site, shared by your whole network.
- Private address — assigned by your router, meaningful only inside your network.
- On mobile data your ISP may add a second NAT layer (CGNAT, 100.64.0.0/10), so even your router has no public address of its own.
Why you may have no IPv6 address
IPv4 has 4.3 billion addresses and ran out years ago; IPv6 has 2¹²⁸ of them and is what the exhaustion problem is being solved with. Most networks run both at once, which is called dual stack.
If the IPv6 panel above says your connection is IPv4 only, your ISP or your router has not enabled it. Nothing is broken — the entire IPv4 internet still works — but sites that are IPv6-only are unreachable, and you are behind whatever address-sharing your provider uses.
What an IP address does and does not reveal
An IP address identifies a network connection, not a person. Public databases map it to an ISP and an approximate location: usually the right country, often the right region, and rarely the right street. The city shown by geolocation services is frequently where your ISP terminates the connection rather than where you are.
What it does allow is correlation. Every site you visit sees the same address, so it works as a coarse identifier across sites, and your ISP can link it to your account. A VPN replaces it with the VPN provider's address, which moves that trust rather than removing it.
How this page finds your address
Your browser cannot see its own public address. By the time a packet reaches the internet, NAT and your ISP have rewritten the source address, and nothing sends that rewritten value back to the device. Only a machine on the far side of the connection knows it.
This page therefore asks a public IP echo service — ipify, falling back to icanhazip — from your browser, and displays the reply. That request goes to a third party rather than to us: this site is static files with no server behind them, so nothing here receives, logs or stores your address. The browser details in the second table are read locally and are not sent anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my IP address different from the one shown in my network settings?
Your device holds a private address handed out by your router, such as 192.168.1.42. The router translates it to a single public address for everything leaving the network, and that public address is what this page shows.
Why does my IP address keep changing?
Most home connections get a dynamic address that the ISP can reassign, typically after a reboot or a reconnection. A static address that never changes is usually a paid business option.
Can someone find my home address from my IP?
Not from the address alone. Geolocation databases resolve it to a country and an approximate region, often the location of your ISP rather than yours. Only your ISP holds the subscriber record, and it needs a legal request to release it.
Does a VPN hide my IP address?
Yes, in the sense that sites see the VPN server's address instead of yours. Reload this page while connected and it will show the VPN's address. Your VPN provider then sees the traffic your ISP used to see.
Why does the page show no IPv6 address?
Because your connection does not currently have IPv6 connectivity. Many ISPs and older routers are still IPv4 only. It does not affect browsing, since the IPv4 internet is fully reachable either way.
Do you log my IP address?
No. This site is served as static files with no application server, and the lookup runs from your browser to a public echo service. We never receive the value; only that service and any network in between do.
Related tools
- Subnet CalculatorEnter an address and a prefix to get the network, broadcast, mask, wildcard, host range and host count — and split the block into equal subnets.
- IP Address ConverterConvert an IPv4 address between dotted decimal, its 32-bit integer value, binary and hexadecimal. Paste any notation and the rest are derived.
- CIDR to Subnet MaskConvert a prefix length such as /24 into its subnet mask and back again, with the full reference table for every prefix from /0 to /32.
- JWT DecoderPaste a JSON Web Token to read its header and payload. Timestamp claims are expanded into readable dates, and the token never leaves your browser.