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 API contracts indexed 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 and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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

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33.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts

IP Intelligence Geolocation Fraud Prevention Risk Scoring VPN Detection Proxy DetectionISP DataGeoIP

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 33.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 57.5 — up to +10.6 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Data Marketplaces (data providers on cloud data platforms)	builds-on	26.8 (thin)	-	-
Cisco DevNet Ecosystem (builders on Meraki, Catalyst, ISE, ThousandEyes, Splunk)	builds-on	26.8 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

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

MaxMind GeoIP City API

City-level IP geolocation lookup with postal, subdivisions, and coordinates

MaxMind GeoIP Country API

Country-level IP geolocation lookup

MaxMind GeoIP Insights API

Most comprehensive IP data lookup including anonymizer/VPN/proxy detection, user type, static IP score, and connection details

MaxMind minFraud Factors API

Most detailed fraud scoring with component-level risk factor decomposition

MaxMind minFraud Insights API

Extended fraud scoring with over 80 data points on IPs, emails, devices, and payment cards

MaxMind minFraud Score API

Basic fraud scoring returning a single risk score (0-99) and IP risk score

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

MaxMind GeoIP Web Services GeoIP City API

OPEN COLLECTION

MaxMind GeoIP Web Services GeoIP City GeoIP Country API

OPEN COLLECTION

MaxMind GeoIP Web Services GeoIP City GeoIP Insights API

OPEN COLLECTION

MaxMind GeoIP Web Services GeoIP City minFraud Factors API

OPEN COLLECTION

MaxMind GeoIP Web Services GeoIP City minFraud Insights API

OPEN COLLECTION

MaxMind GeoIP Web Services GeoIP City minFraud Score API

OPEN COLLECTION

MaxMind API pricing

Not yet checked against MaxMind's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
GeoIP Country	$0.0001 per query
GeoIP City Plus	$0.0003 per query
GeoIP Insights	$0.002 per query
minFraud Score	$0.005 per query
minFraud Insights	$0.015 per query
minFraud Factors	$0.02 per query
GeoIP Databases - Country (Monthly)	$34.0 per month
GeoIP Databases - City (Monthly)	$134.0 per month

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Maxmind Plans Pricing

10 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Maxmind Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

MaxMind

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Maxmind Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Maxmind Context

0 classes · 48 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

MaxMind API Rules

66 rules · 61 errors 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Maxmind Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Maxmind Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Maxmind Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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: '0.23'
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 API — frequently asked questions

Does MaxMind have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from MaxMind, including MaxMind GeoIP City API, MaxMind GeoIP Country API and MaxMind GeoIP Insights API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the MaxMind API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for MaxMind, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the MaxMind API?

MaxMind uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Maxmind Authentication.

How much does the MaxMind API cost?

APIs.io lists 10 pricing plans for MaxMind, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the MaxMind API ready for AI agents?

MaxMind has a Kin Score of 33.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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