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Re:Ask HN: Is our pricing structure right? by big_chungus on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @06:28PM (#21468724)
The free maxminddb geolite2 does fine for most cases, too. Nice and easy-to-use python module to go with it. I'm pretty sure the city one is ~100MB, so doable to keep a copy on-device.
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Re:Ask HN: Is our pricing structure right? by kevinjyc on Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:22PM (#21477948)
I think it is all down to the usage and performance needed. If you need high resiliency and performances, using a third party API like smartip.io is the way to go.

If the requirements are less strict then using a local db like MaxMind would be the right choice.

As a side note, we offer very simple and well documented libraries in C#, Typescript and PHP.

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