What is my IP address?
See your public IP address instantly. Free what-is-my-IP tool shows IPv4 or IPv6 as seen from the internet — auto-detect on page load, no signup.
Your IP address is the numeric label assigned to your connection on the public internet. When you visit a website, send email, or stream video, remote servers see this address — not your laptop's private Wi-Fi address like 192.168.1.42. A what-is-my-IP tool answers the practical question: what address am I showing to the rest of the world right now? Qikot detects yours automatically when the page loads, using the same our servers that powers our uptime and DNS tools.
IPv4 addresses look like four numbers separated by dots (for example 203.0.113.52). IPv6 addresses are longer hexadecimal strings separated by colons, designed to replace IPv4 as the pool of four-billion addresses ran out. Many home broadband connections still show IPv4; mobile carriers and modern ISPs increasingly assign IPv6. Qikot reports whichever public address your request arrives with, labeled clearly as IPv4 or IPv6 so you know what you are looking at.
Your public IP is not the same as your physical location, though rough geolocation databases often map IPs to cities or regions for analytics and fraud prevention. VPNs, corporate proxies, and mobile networks change the address you present without moving your device. Developers use my-IP checks to verify allowlists, debug API access rules, and confirm VPN split-tunnel behavior before opening a support ticket with their hosting provider.
Private addresses — 10.x.x.x, 172.16–31.x.x, and 192.168.x.x — exist only inside local networks. Routers perform NAT (network address translation) so dozens of phones and laptops share one public IP. That is why your phone and laptop on the same home Wi-Fi often share the same public address in a my-IP test, while each device has a different private address in router settings.
Qikot does not store your IP in a user database or require an account. The lookup runs once per page load on our servers using standard connection headers and approximate network location data — no separate third-party IP geolocation API. Results are not cached between visitors — each person sees their own address. For domain-to-IP research (what address does example.com resolve to?), use our separate IP lookup tool, which queries DNS rather than your connection.
Common reasons to check your IP include whitelisting yourself on a firewall before SSH access, verifying a VPN is active before sensitive work, sharing your address with a client who needs to allowlist your agency office, or troubleshooting why a SaaS admin panel blocked your login. After changing networks — coffee shop to office, Wi-Fi to cellular — run the test again because the public address often changes.
Pair this tool with our ping test and website down checker when diagnosing reachability: knowing your IP helps support teams correlate logs, while uptime checks confirm whether a site responds from the broader internet. All Qikot tools are free, public, and built for quick answers without installing software or creating accounts.