What Is My IP?
Find the public IP address visible to an external service from your current network connection.
What Is My IP? online
See the public IP address your connection presents to the internet — the one websites, logs and firewalls see — along with the connection details the echo service reports.
How to use this tool
- Open the page. The check runs automatically against an IP echo service.
- Read your public IPv4/IPv6 address and the reported network details.
- Optionally re-check after toggling a VPN or switching networks to watch the address change.
Common uses
Confirming a VPN is actually routing your traffic, giving a remote-support technician the address to allowlist, debugging "your IP has been blocked" messages, and checking whether your ISP has you behind carrier-grade NAT.
How it works
When your browser asks a website for anything, the request arrives from your public IP — for most home and office connections, the address of the router's WAN side, shared by every device behind it. This page asks the echo service at ident.me what address the request came from and shows the answer, with whatever geolocation and network data the service attaches. The address shown is a property of your network path, not of your device.
Worked example
Run the check on a laptop at a desk and you might see a single IPv4 address, say 203.0.113.24. Toggle a VPN on and re-run: the address becomes the VPN exit node's, often in another country — that difference is the entire visible effect of a VPN to the sites you visit. On a dual-stack connection you may see an IPv6 address instead; some services report one, some the other, depending on which path the request took.
Privacy and browser processing
Your address is requested from the ident.me echo service and shown in your browser; this site does not store it.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as my device's IP (192.168.x.x)?
No. 192.168.x.x is your private address inside your local network, meaningful only there. The address shown here is the public one your whole network shares on the internet — the one that appears in server logs.
Why does the location shown not match where I am?
IP geolocation is a database guess built from registry and routing data; it is often right to the city, sometimes only to the country, and VPNs move it deliberately. Treat it as approximate — it is what sites infer about you, not a GPS fix.
My address changed since yesterday. Is that normal?
Yes. Most ISPs assign addresses dynamically, and routers renegotiate on reconnects. If you need a stable address for allowlisting, ask your ISP about a static IP or use a VPN with a dedicated address.
Can a website see more than this?
Sites also see your browser's user agent, language and (with permission) much more, but the IP is the one identifier every connection necessarily reveals. A VPN or Tor changes the IP; nothing removes it, because replies must have somewhere to go.
Is my IP stored here?
The address is fetched from ident.me to your browser and displayed; this site does not store it. The echo service sees your request — unavoidably, since answering it is the service.