How to Find Your Public IP Address Online

To find your public IP address, open What Is My IP — there's nothing to type or click. The page looks up your connection automatically and shows your IP address along with your approximate location, timezone and internet provider as soon as it loads.

What a public IP address is

Your public IP address is the address your router or device presents to the rest of the internet — it's what a website, game server or anyone else out there sees when your traffic reaches them. It's different from the private IP address your device uses on your home or office network (things like 192.168.x.x), which never leaves your local network. If several devices share one internet connection, they usually all share the same public IP, since it belongs to the connection, not to any one device.

Public IP addresses aren't fixed forever for most home and mobile connections — your provider can reassign a new one periodically or when you reconnect, which is why "what's my IP" is a question worth an instant lookup rather than something to just remember.

How to find your IP with Toolbench

1. Open What Is My IP.
2. The tool runs itself — there's no input box and no button to press. It briefly shows "Working…" while it fetches your connection details, then replaces that with the result.
3. Read the result: your IP, its Version (IPv4 or IPv6), an approximate City, Region and Country, a Postal code and Coordinates, your Timezone, and your connection's ISP, Organization and ASN.
4. Click Copy to copy the whole block, or use Send to → to pass it straight into another Toolbench tool.

What the result looks like

The tool prints one line per field, skipping any field it couldn't determine. A typical result looks like this:

IP           203.0.113.42
Version      IPv4
City         Chicago
Region       Illinois
Country      United States (US)
Postal code  60601
Coordinates  41.8781, -87.6298
Timezone     America/Chicago (UTC-6)
ISP          Example Broadband Inc
ASN          AS64512

(The address and location above are placeholders — 203.0.113.x is a block reserved by RFC 5737 specifically for documentation examples like this one. Your own result will show your real IP and connection.) Note that Organization only appears as its own line when it's different from the ISP name — many connections report the same value for both, so the tool leaves that line out rather than repeat it.

Where this information comes from

Everything in the result is looked up from a third-party IP geolocation service at the moment the page loads — nothing is stored or saved anywhere by Toolbench, signed in or not. Location fields (city, region, postal code and coordinates) come from a geolocation database that maps IP address ranges to approximate locations; they're typically accurate to the city or region level, not your exact street address, and can be off entirely for some mobile, satellite or corporate connections.

Tips and common mistakes

• Your IP can change. Most home and mobile connections get a new public IP periodically from their provider. If an IP you noted down earlier doesn't match what this tool shows now, that's expected — it hasn't necessarily broken anything.
• A VPN or proxy changes what this tool sees. If you're connected through a VPN, proxy or Tor, the tool shows that service's exit IP and location, not your actual one — that's normal, and often the point of using one.
• City-level location isn't exact. IP geolocation maps address ranges to approximate places; it's useful for a general sense of "about where," not for pinpointing a device.
• Everyone behind the same router sees the same public IP. If a phone and a laptop on the same WiFi both run this tool, they'll show an identical IP address and location — that's expected, since the public IP belongs to the connection, not the device.
• Looking up a different IP or domain is a separate tool. What Is My IP only shows your own connection; to check any other address or hostname, use IP Address Lookup below.

Related tools

• IP Address Lookup — look up the location and network for any IP address or domain, not just your own connection.
• Password Generator — another quick step toward staying more private online.

Frequently asked questions

Is my IP address personal information?

It can reveal your approximate location and your internet provider, so it's reasonable to treat it as semi-private. It doesn't, by itself, identify you by name — but combined with other data it can be one more piece used to track or profile a connection.

Why does the location shown not match my exact city?

IP geolocation maps blocks of addresses to the location they were originally assigned to or are believed to serve, which can be a nearby city, your ISP's regional hub, or even a different city entirely for mobile and satellite connections. It's an approximation, not GPS.

Does this tool work for IPv6 addresses?

Yes. The Version field reports whether your connection is using IPv4 or IPv6, and the same lookup runs either way.

Is my IP address saved anywhere when I use this tool?

No. The lookup runs fresh each time the page loads and nothing about it is stored by Toolbench, whether you're signed in or not.

Why would two devices on the same WiFi show the same IP?

Because a public IP address belongs to the internet connection, not to an individual device. Every device sharing that router's connection to the internet appears with the same public IP, even though each has its own separate private IP on the local network.