MaxMind

MaxMind is an IP intelligence and fraud prevention company founded in 2002, serving over 100,000 businesses worldwide. Their GeoIP web services provide accurate IP geolocation data including country, city, ISP, organization, ASN, connection type, and VPN/proxy detection. Their minFraud services offer real-time transaction risk scoring using over 80 data points on IPs, email addresses, devices, and payment cards to help businesses detect and prevent fraud. MaxMind also offers downloadable GeoIP databases and the free GeoLite2 dataset for developers who prefer local lookups over API calls.

MaxMind publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including GeoIP City API, GeoIP Country API, GeoIP Insights API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include IP Intelligence, Geolocation, Fraud Prevention, Risk Scoring, and VPN Detection.

The MaxMind catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

MaxMind’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 13 more developer resources.

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41.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

6 APIs

IP IntelligenceGeolocationFraud PreventionRisk ScoringVPN DetectionProxy DetectionISP DataGeoIP

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 41.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 16.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Maxmind Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

BlogFeed

BlogFeed

BlogPosts

BlogPosts

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: maxmind
name: MaxMind
description: 'MaxMind is an IP intelligence and fraud prevention company founded in 2002, serving over 100,000 businesses
  worldwide. Their GeoIP web services provide accurate IP geolocation data including country, city, ISP, organization, ASN,
  connection type, and VPN/proxy detection. Their minFraud services offer real-time transaction risk scoring using over 80
  data points on IPs, email addresses, devices, and payment cards to help businesses detect and prevent fraud. MaxMind also
  offers downloadable GeoIP databases and the free GeoLite2 dataset for developers who prefer local lookups over API calls.

  '
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/maxmind.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/maxmind/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- IP Intelligence
- Geolocation
- Fraud Prevention
- Risk Scoring
- VPN Detection
- Proxy Detection
- ISP Data
- GeoIP
apis:
- aid: maxmind:maxmind-geoip-city-api
  name: MaxMind GeoIP City API
  description: City-level IP geolocation lookup with postal, subdivisions, and coordinates
  humanURL: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  baseURL: https://geoip.maxmind.com
  tags:
  - GeoIP City
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/maxmind-geoip-city-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/minfraud/api-documentation/
- aid: maxmind:maxmind-geoip-country-api
  name: MaxMind GeoIP Country API
  description: Country-level IP geolocation lookup
  humanURL: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  baseURL: https://geoip.maxmind.com
  tags:
  - GeoIP Country
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/maxmind-geoip-country-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/minfraud/api-documentation/
- aid: maxmind:maxmind-geoip-insights-api
  name: MaxMind GeoIP Insights API
  description: Most comprehensive IP data lookup including anonymizer/VPN/proxy detection, user type, static IP score, and
    connection details
  humanURL: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  baseURL: https://geoip.maxmind.com
  tags:
  - GeoIP Insights
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/maxmind-geoip-insights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/minfraud/api-documentation/
- aid: maxmind:maxmind-minfraud-factors-api
  name: MaxMind minFraud Factors API
  description: Most detailed fraud scoring with component-level risk factor decomposition
  humanURL: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  baseURL: https://geoip.maxmind.com
  tags:
  - minFraud Factors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/maxmind-minfraud-factors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/minfraud/api-documentation/
- aid: maxmind:maxmind-minfraud-insights-api
  name: MaxMind minFraud Insights API
  description: Extended fraud scoring with over 80 data points on IPs, emails, devices, and payment cards
  humanURL: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  baseURL: https://geoip.maxmind.com
  tags:
  - minFraud Insights
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/maxmind-minfraud-insights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/minfraud/api-documentation/
- aid: maxmind:maxmind-minfraud-score-api
  name: MaxMind minFraud Score API
  description: Basic fraud scoring returning a single risk score (0-99) and IP risk score
  humanURL: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  baseURL: https://geoip.maxmind.com
  tags:
  - minFraud Score
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/maxmind-minfraud-score-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/docs/web-services/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.maxmind.com/minfraud/api-documentation/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/maxmind-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/maxmind-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/maxmind-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.maxmind.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dev.maxmind.com/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/maxmind
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maxmind
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.maxmind.com/
- type: BlogFeed
  url: https://blog.maxmind.com/feed.xml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.maxmind.com/en/solutions/fraud-prevention/plans-pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.maxmind.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/maxmind
- type: Plans
  url: plans/maxmind-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/maxmind-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/maxmind-finops.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/maxmind-context.jsonld
- type: BlogPosts
  url: blogs/blogs.json
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

MaxMind

Kin Score

APIs 6

MaxMind GeoIP City API

MaxMind GeoIP Country API

MaxMind GeoIP Insights API

MaxMind minFraud Factors API

MaxMind minFraud Insights API

MaxMind minFraud Score API

Pricing Plans 1

Maxmind Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Maxmind Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Maxmind Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Maxmind Context

Security Posture 2

Maxmind Authentication

Maxmind Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Maxmind Agentic Access

Resources