RESULT DEFINITIONS
Understand your
IP detection result.
ProxyRadar classifies public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for proxy, VPN, Tor and hosting signals. Use the overall result together with the available category flags.
| Signal | What it identifies | What it does not establish |
|---|---|---|
| Overall proxy result | A positive or negative broad classification. Hosting is included in positive results. | The visitor’s identity, intent or behavior. |
| VPN | A known VPN network association. | Complete coverage of every private VPN or residential proxy. |
| Hosting | A hosting/datacenter network association. | That a VPN is running or that a request is abusive. |
| Tor | An identified Tor exit address. | The address of the original user. |
| Public proxy | A known public proxy association. | That a proxy port is currently reachable or usable. |
| Known crawler network | A published Google or Bing crawler range. | Universal bot detection or authentication of an individual request. |
How category values should be read
True means the category was identified. False means the category was not identified. Null means category information was unavailable. More than one category can be true, and an overall positive result can have no true category flags. A false VPN flag never overrides proxy: 1.
What does a negative result mean?
A negative result means the lookup did not identify a proxy. It does not guarantee a residential address, a human visitor or a safe request. Residential proxies, new network use and private endpoints can be difficult to identify.
What happens when a lookup is unavailable?
The API returns an error rather than a successful negative answer. Keep an unknown state in your integration, and decide how your application should respond to it. Failed classifications do not consume a customer’s API query allowance.
Keep your policy separate from the label
Use network results alongside account history, authentication and request behavior. Legitimate customers, business services and crawlers may use VPN or hosting infrastructure. A restriction should reflect the requested action and your published rules.
Read the API reference, explore the traffic policy guide, or check an IP address.
Location and network exposure
Successful JSON responses automatically include available country, region, city, approximate coordinates and ASN organization in enrichment. The explained network exposure score uses versioned rules; it is not fraud probability or a guarantee of safety. Read the complete fields and scoring rules.
IP Geolocation by DB-IP (CC BY 4.0); data is normalized from the monthly City Lite release, checked for updates daily. ASN data is refreshed daily from IPtoASN (PDDL). Missing data stays unknown. These publishers do not provide or endorse ProxyRadar’s risk weights.
Service information
IP checks are processed as described in our Privacy Notice. Applicable open-source data credits and license notices are available in our third-party notices.