BigDataCloud offers IP geolocation, reverse geocoding, and network intelligence APIs with a free tier and usage-based paid plans.
BigDataCloud is an API company focused on IP geolocation, reverse geocoding, and network intelligence data. Its founders describe the idea originating in 2016, with the company formally established in 2018, and it is headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia, as a small, independent team.
The company's core technical approach maps the physical routing structure of the internet, identifying public router interfaces and calculating their geographic service areas from verified ground-truth data, an approach covered by a granted US patent held by BigDataCloud.
BigDataCloud's products are aimed at developers and businesses that need to determine where a user or IP address is located, validate contact and location data, or detect network-level risk signals such as VPNs and proxies.
The flagship IP Geolocation API returns not just a location estimate but a confidence area polygon, a set of coordinates outlining the realistic geographic boundary in which a given IP address is likely operating, derived from the company's router service-area analysis.
Beyond geolocation, BigDataCloud offers a reverse geocoding API for converting coordinates into addresses, and a network-by-IP-address API that surfaces ASN and ISP information for a given IP.
Its network intelligence layer can identify VPN, proxy, Tor exit node, and bot-like traffic at the network level, and every plan, including the free tier, provides access to all endpoints and response fields along with GraphQL support for fetching only the specific fields a developer needs.
BigDataCloud offers a free Base plan covering 10,000 API requests per month with no credit card required to get started, alongside four paid tiers priced by monthly request volume.
The Bronze plan costs 29.95 dollars per month for 100,000 requests, the Silver plan costs 249 dollars per month for 1 million requests, the Gold plan costs 1,999 dollars per month for 10 million requests, and the Platinum plan costs 9,999 dollars per month for unlimited requests.
All paid plans include the same full set of endpoints and fields as the free tier, GraphQL access, and a stated 99.999 percent SLA, with overage charges available for usage beyond a plan's included request volume.
Yes. BigDataCloud offers a free Base plan covering 10,000 API requests per month with no credit card required to sign up.
BigDataCloud uses a patented approach that maps public internet routers and their service areas, and returns a confidence area polygon showing the realistic geographic boundary for each result rather than claiming a single exact point.
It is a set of coordinates forming a closed polygon that represents the realistic boundary within which a given IP address is likely located, based on BigDataCloud's router service-area analysis.
Yes. Its network intelligence features can flag VPN usage, proxy connections, Tor exit nodes, and bot-like traffic at the network level.
Every plan, from the free Base tier through Platinum, includes all API endpoints and response fields; plans differ only by monthly request volume and price.
Yes. All plans include GraphQL access, allowing developers to request specific fields in a single query to reduce payload size.
BigDataCloud is headquartered in Adelaide, South Australia, and operates as a small, independent company.
BigDataCloud holds a granted US patent (No. 11,792,110 B2) covering aspects of its router-mapping approach to IP geolocation.