[kevinjyc]

Let me provide some key points:

1. We are different because most of all other services segment the data based on tiers. We return the entire dataset even for free users.

2. Our Free tier is huge compared to other services.

3. We are fast. Our response time is in the region of 50ms, which is really good for the amount to information we return. We don't cache our response, we always return fresh data.

About MaxMind, you are right about how easy would be to have an in-house solution. But a highly scalable, distributed infrastructure like ours guarantees the same response time from multiple locations across the world. Also, having the solution in-house would need updating and maintainig the database periodically as well.