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Good work on the pricing and free tier. Much cheaper than your competitors (we're busy testing out ipinfo.io). But would recommend you add a bit more data in your API response if you already have it or can built it out easily. For example, any geocoding, ASN name, whether its a proxy or a VPN etc.

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Sounds good, this has been a common request and is definitely on the road map. I am trying to create a very fast service and data querying slows it down. With that being said I am thinking about adding a query parameter like `?info=true` that would end up providing more information. Like the examples you gave above.

I'm not so sure that low latency is the most important thing in each case. Personally, in our case, we wouldn't care - specifically we're only requesting (detailed) information per IP on a small set of specific events (i.e. login, signup) and additionally those calls to ipinfo/ipdetective would be async anyway. So perhaps there are two use cases here: 1. low latency, high volume). 2. Higher latency but lower volume or don't care about minimising latency to below 20ms.

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