administrative-divisons-db API vs Country API

Two free Geocoding APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.

The verdict

Choose administrative-divisons-db API if you want faster responses.
Choose Country API if its data fits your use case better; on access and reliability it's level with administrative-divisons-db API.

	administrative-divisons-db API	Country API
What it does	Get all administrative divisions of a country.	Get your visitor's country from their IP.
Provider	kamikazechaser	Country
API key	Not needed	Not needed
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Yes
Status today	Online · 745 ms	Online · 2995 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Up	Up
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

Get all administrative divisions of a country.

Administrative regions as a JSON API over Github/Cloudflare CDN

Strengths

Get your visitor's country from their IP.

Country is a free IP-to-country geolocation API that returns a user’s country based on their IP address.

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key (both qualify).
Calling from a web page? You need CORS. Otherwise route requests through your own server or a serverless function.
Going to production? Favour HTTPS, a strong uptime record and a provider with clear rate limits and terms. Check each API's docs before you commit.
Still unsure? Both are free to try: send one request to each and compare the data you get back.

Neither needs an API key; you can call both straight away.