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by Firegarden 3965 days ago
Can you please confirm that the free versions are not 'good enough'? http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/
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If you want to compare the accuracy of different products, you can do so on this page:

https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city-database-accuracy

To get the actual product comparisons, you'll need to enter a country in the input box. For instance:

https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-city-database-accuracy?cou...

You can try refining the distances to see how the different products compare. If you fiddle with it a bit, you'll see that the results do vary from country to country. So, "good enough" will depend on some combination of your tolerance for error + which countries you care about.

It's accuracy but not free
I'm not sure I understand. You can use the links provided and compare those results to the results you get from the free version.
"GeoLite2 City" is the free version. It's one of the 3 products in the chart.