What is my IP address?

Your public IP address is

216.73.216.238

This is the address websites see when you connect to them. Below are its approximate location and network, plus the HTTP headers and TLS details your browser sent. Run curl https://ipthing.net for the same data as JSON.

IP Address 216.73.216.238
Country US
Region Ohio
City Columbus
Postal Code 43215
Coordinates 39.9612,-82.9988
Timezone America/New_York
Organization AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.
Visitor
X-Forwarded-For
X-Real-IP
Method GET
Referer https://www.ipthing.net/
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Accept */*
Accept-Encoding gzip, br, zstd, deflate
Accept-Language
Host ipthing.net
Protocol HTTP/2.0
Scheme https
Remote Address 216.73.216.238:45450
Request URI /
Content Length 0
Has Cookies false
Request Timestamp 2026-09-25 07:10:29 UTC
TLS Version TLS 1.3
TLS Cipher Suite TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
TLS Server Name ipthing.net
TLS Negotiated Protocol h2

What is an IP address?

An IP (Internet Protocol) address is the number that identifies your connection on the internet. Every site you visit sees it, and it is how replies find their way back to you. Your internet provider usually assigns it, and it can change over time.

Why is this different from the IP on my device?

Your computer or phone usually has a private address, such as 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x, that only works on your home or office network. Your router shares one public address between every device behind it. The address shown above is that public one.

Why does it show a different location or provider?

IP location is estimated from registry and network data, so it is often only accurate to the city or region. If you use a VPN, proxy, Tor or iCloud Private Relay, you will see the address and location of that service instead of your own.

IPv4 and IPv6

IPv4 addresses look like 203.0.113.7; IPv6 addresses look like 2001:db8::1. IPThing accepts both. If your connection has IPv6, your device will usually prefer it, so you will see your IPv6 address; otherwise you will see your IPv4 address.

Check your IP from the command line

curl https://ipthing.net

This returns JSON with your IP address, location and request details, which is useful in scripts and on servers without a browser. Add -4 or -6 to check your IPv4 or IPv6 address specifically.

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