Does a VPN make me anonymous?

No. A VPN changes your public address for supported traffic, and the route your traffic takes to and from the internet. It does not change the accounts you are signed in to, the cookies already stored, your browser fingerprint, or anything you type into a site yourself.

Why does my IP change?

Your home connection is usually handed a dynamic address, which may change when your router is restarted or when your provider reassigns it. Mobile connections change addresses more often still. A dedicated or static Senton address is the way to keep one that does not change.

What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?

IPv4 addresses take the form of a series of numbers, such as 192.0.2.1, and there are no longer enough of them, which is why providers share and reuse them. IPv6 addresses take the format 2001:db8::1, with a pool large enough that sharing is unnecessary. Many networks use both types.

Does Senton store the IP shown here?

The result is not written to your browser storage, does not appear in the browser address bar, is not associated with your Senton account, and is never passed to an analytics event, an advertising pixel or an error report. Short-lived request logs exist in ordinary web infrastructure, as they do on every website.

Is this a DNS or WebRTC leak test?

No. This tool will only show the IP address used for this single request. It will not test for WebRTC, DNS or IPv6 leaks. For those, visit the Help Center.

Why does my IP still look the same after connecting?

Ensure your connection is established before clicking Check again, rather than relying on a cached page. Any traffic you have excluded through Bypasser uses your normal connection by design, and the browser extension protects your browser only, not the whole device.

Can I hide my IP completely?

Not completely, and anyone claiming otherwise is overselling. A VPN replaces the address that websites see for supported traffic, which is a real change, but your provider still routes the connection and the other identifying signals on your device remain visible.

FREE IP LOOKUP

What is my IP address?

This is a free lookup that reads your public IP address and the approximate location of your connection. Check my IP, and you see what any site can tell about your connection the moment you open it.

This location is approximate only. It may point at your internet service provider, a mobile gateway, an office network or a VPN location rather than at where you actually are.

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Your public IP address

Change my public IP with Senton

A VPN replaces the public IP used by supported traffic with a Senton VPN address.

About this address

Location is an estimate and may be inaccurate. How this lookup handles data

What does this mean?

Your public IP addressThe one websites and online services see when your browser connects. It has to exist, or nothing could be sent back to you.

Approximate locationAn estimate drawn from where the address is registered and how traffic reaches it. It does not necessarily indicate where you are physically located.

Your network providerCould be an internet provider, a mobile carrier, an office gateway, a hosting network or a VPN.

What can a public IP address reveal?

General locationUsually a country, often a region or city estimate. Rarely closer, and not a home address.

Network providerThe provider, carrier, organisation or hosting company the address is registered to.

Network typeSome services classify an address as residential, mobile, business, hosting, VPN or proxy. These judgements are not always right.

Linking sessionsA site may use the address as one signal among many to connect activity across visits, especially alongside cookies.

What an IP address does not reveal by itself

A great deal is written about IP addresses that overstates them. On its own, an address does not normally give a website any of the following.

Your name
Your exact home address
Your passwords
The contents of your messages
Your full browsing history
Your payment details
The files on your device
Your precise GPS position
Which person in a household is online

Internet providers, the accounts you sign in to, cookies and legal processes can each reveal more, entirely separately from the public address itself.

See how a VPN changes the result

Connect, then use “Check again” at the top of this page. The address and the location estimate should both change.

Your normal connection

Websites see the address your provider or network hands out
Location estimates generally point at that network
Your provider or carrier is often identifiable from it
Cookies, accounts and fingerprints are unaffected

Connected through Senton

Supported traffic uses a Senton VPN exit address instead
Location estimates generally point at the location you chose
Websites see the Senton network for protected traffic
Cookies, accounts and fingerprints still identify you
Anything excluded through Bypasser uses your normal connection

Why hide your IP address?

Show less of your own addressSupported traffic presents a Senton address instead of the one your connection normally hands out.

Appear in another locationConnect through one of 50+ countries and location estimates generally follow.

Protect shared networksSupported traffic between your device and the VPN endpoint is encrypted, which matters most on networks you do not control.

Make IP linking harderChanging the public address changes one of the signals a site can use to join your visits together. Only one of them.

IPv4 and IPv6 explained

IPv4Short numeric addresses such as 192.0.2.1. Still the most common, but the supply ran out long ago, which is why providers share and reuse them.

IPv6Longer addresses such as 2001:db8::1, with a pool large enough that sharing is unnecessary. Many networks run it alongside IPv4.

The card above shows the address used for this particular request. A device may hold both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address and use whichever a service prefers.

How this lookup handles your request

Why the address is processedThe answer to “what is my IP” is the address itself, so returning a result means reading it. No version of this tool avoids that.

What the page displaysOnly the address, the IP version, and the country, region, city and time-zone estimate our hosting platform attaches to the request.

No third-party lookupYour address is not sent to an outside IP-intelligence company. Most tools of this kind do exactly that; this one does not.

AnalyticsThe address is never added to an analytics event, an advertising pixel or an error report. Events record that a lookup happened, not what it returned.

StorageThe result is not written to your browser's storage, does not appear in the page address, and is not attached to a Senton account.

LogsOrdinary web infrastructure keeps short-lived request logs, as every website does. Our privacy policy covers how we handle personal data.

Read the privacy policy for the full picture.

Why might the result look wrong?

A VPN or proxy is activeThe result shows the VPN or proxy location rather than your own network. That is the tool working correctly.

Mobile network routingCarriers often route traffic through equipment in another city, so the address genuinely belongs there.

An office or campus networkLarge networks share one public gateway, so everyone on it appears at the same place.

Where the address is registeredThe location on record for a network can differ from where its users actually are.

IPv4 and IPv6 differA service may reach you over one version while another uses the other, and the two can resolve differently.

The database is out of dateAddress databases lag behind network changes, sometimes by weeks.

Explore related privacy tools

Kill SwitchStops traffic on supported platforms if the VPN drops, so your real IP address is not exposed.Dedicated IPAn address reserved for one account, available as a paid add-on.Static IPCome back to the same supported VPN address each time you connect.Geo-SpoofingHelps supported services use the country of your active VPN connection.

What Is My IP — frequently asked questions

Not by itself. It points at a network, not at a doorway. Your internet service provider holds the link between your public IP address and your account, and will only release that link through legal process rather than through a lookup page like this one.

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This tool shows the public IP used for this request only. It does not test for WebRTC, DNS or IPv6 leaks. For those, see the Help Center.