Pay-per-call IP geolocation lookup via IPinfo's IP Lite dataset, settled on Tempo L2.
What it does
IPinfo IP Lite is a lightweight IP intelligence endpoint exposed through the Locus MPP (Micropayment Protocol) gateway. It accepts an IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or the literal string "me" (to resolve the caller's own IP) and returns geolocation and basic network metadata sourced from IPinfo's IP Lite dataset. Each call costs 1,000 base units of pathUSD on Tempo L2, which equals $0.001 (one-tenth of a cent) per request.
The endpoint is POST-only at https://ipinfo.mpp.paywithlocus.com/ipinfo/ip-lite. The probe returned 404 on HEAD and GET, which is expected because the OpenAPI spec declares only a POST method. The OpenAPI document also lists a sibling "/ipinfo/ip-lookup" endpoint at the same price, suggesting IP Lite is the lighter-weight variant while IP Lookup likely returns richer data (ASN, privacy detection, carrier, hosting flags). No response schema is documented, so the exact fields returned are not confirmed from the probe material alone; IPinfo's public documentation describes IP Lite as covering geolocation fields (city, region, country, coordinates, timezone, postal code).
Payment is handled via the MPP charge intent: the gateway issues a 402 challenge on POST, the caller settles the pathUSD micropayment on Tempo L2, and the response is delivered. No API key or subscription is required—each request is independently paid.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Resolving visitor IP addresses to approximate geographic location for analytics or personalization
- —Enriching log data with city/region/country for security monitoring
- —Detecting the caller's own IP and location via the "me" shorthand
- —Lightweight, no-subscription geo lookups where per-call micropayment is preferred over monthly plans
Fit
Best for
- —Agents or bots that need occasional, low-volume IP geolocation without managing API keys
- —Pay-as-you-go IP intelligence at sub-cent cost per query
- —Programmatic geo-enrichment pipelines that can settle payments on Tempo L2
Not for
- —High-volume bulk IP enrichment where a flat-rate subscription would be cheaper
- —Use cases requiring detailed ASN, privacy detection, carrier, or hosting data (the sibling ip-lookup endpoint may be more appropriate)
- —Environments that cannot settle crypto micropayments on Tempo L2
Quick start
curl -X POST https://ipinfo.mpp.paywithlocus.com/ipinfo/ip-lite \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"ip": "8.8.8.8"}'Example
Request
{
"ip": "8.8.8.8"
}Endpoint
Quality
The OpenAPI spec provides a clear request schema, pricing, and payment method, and the endpoint is POST-only (explaining the 404 on HEAD/GET). However, no response schema or example response is documented, the crawl pages all returned generic 404 JSON, and no additional docs were retrievable. The exact fields returned by IP Lite are inferred from IPinfo's public product naming rather than directly confirmed.
Warnings
- —No response schema documented in the OpenAPI spec — exact returned fields are unknown from probe material alone.
- —Probe returned 404 on HEAD and GET; endpoint is POST-only per the OpenAPI spec, so this is expected but liveness via a 402 POST challenge was not directly captured.
- —Currency address 0x20c000000000000000000000b9537d11c60e8b50 is assumed to be pathUSD (6 decimals) based on the Tempo L2 method; if decimals differ, the stated $0.001 price would be incorrect.
- —No crawl content was retrievable beyond generic 404 error JSON from the Locus gateway.
Citations
- —OpenAPI spec declares POST-only /ipinfo/ip-lite with amount 1000, method tempo, intent chargehttps://ipinfo.mpp.paywithlocus.com
- —IPinfo provides IP intelligence including geolocation, ASN, privacy detection, carrier data, and hosting identificationhttps://ipinfo.io
- —API reference available at ipinfo.io/developershttps://ipinfo.io/developers
- —LLM-oriented docs referenced at beta.paywithlocus.com/mpp/ipinfo.mdhttps://beta.paywithlocus.com/mpp/ipinfo.md