| The project directly references us, so it is only fair we provide more context. The idea of a pitch means that there is some sort of price attached to it, which IPinfo Lite does not have. In fact, it is designed as commercially permissive as possible. According to MaxMind, they offer a variety of databases with different pricing tiers of accuracy. Geolite2 as a database service is free but its accuracy is compromised by design. If you want a more accurate version of their database, you have to pay for the GeoIP2 database. Now, this applies to country-level data as well. They have a free, accuracy-compromised country database, and then they have their database with better accuracy available for purchase. We would rather not compromise on accuracy at all and provide the highest possible accurate country-level data for free. We do not have a compromised accuracy variant of any database. We sell the city database and offer the country database for free to anyone. There are three layers of cost here with a self-hosted project. You pay for the VM, you set up the project, and you have to maintain it. So, for some folks, the API service makes sense because the cost maintaining the infrastructure for it is on us. We offer an offline version of the IPinfo Lite database for download: https://ipinfo.io/developers/ipinfo-lite-database |