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IPv4 Price Index

Median market price per IPv4 address, aggregated from 641 publicly reported transactions. Updated October 26, 2026

$22.50
Median $/IP — last 30 days (70 sales)
$19.88
Median $/IP — last 90 days (254 sales)
€0.50/mo
Lease reference — per IP/month (ip4.market)

Median sale price trend ($/IP)

05/26$19.2506/26$20.0007/26$19.0008/26$19.0009/26$20.0010/26$22.50

Price by block size — buy vs lease

Block$/IP (30d)$/IP (90d)Purchase cost (90d median)Lease at €0.50/IPLease payback*
/16 (65,536 IPs)—$13.75 (4 sales)$901,120€32,768/mo—
/17 (32,768 IPs)$14.50 (3 sales)$14.25 (5 sales)$466,944€16,384/mo—
/18 (16,384 IPs)$14.00 (1 sales)$13.50 (3 sales)$221,184€8,192/mo—
/19 (8,192 IPs)$14.75 (7 sales)$14.00 (27 sales)$114,688€4,096/mo—
/20 (4,096 IPs)$15.00 (3 sales)$15.85 (20 sales)$64,922€2,048/mo—
/21 (2,048 IPs)$17.00 (3 sales)$17.00 (27 sales)$34,816€1,024/mo—
/22 (1,024 IPs)$19.50 (12 sales)$19.00 (44 sales)$19,456€512/mo—
/23 (512 IPs)$22.00 (12 sales)$21.00 (44 sales)$10,752€256/mo—
/24 (256 IPs)$25.50 (29 sales)$25.40 (80 sales)$6,502€128/mo—

*Lease payback omitted: purchase prices are USD market data and the lease is billed in EUR, and no exchange rate recent enough to convert them is available. A figure derived from a stale rate would be worse than none.

*Months of leasing that equal the median purchase price. Below that horizon, leasing is cheaper — and keeps capital free.

Cite this index. This data is free to reference with attribution and a link: "IPv4 Price Index — ip4.market (https://ip4.market/ipv4-price-index/)". CC BY 4.0.

Methodology & sources

Sale prices are aggregated from publicly reported IPv4 transactions, primarily the IPv4.Global prior-sales disclosures (Hilco Streambank). We store every disclosed transaction (date, block size, RIR, total and per-address price), deduplicate, and compute medians (not averages) per block size over rolling 30/90-day windows to resist outliers. Coverage: 2026-03-11 → 2026-10-26. The lease reference price is the live flat rate on the ip4.market leasing marketplace. This page updates weekly (automated). No figures are estimated or interpolated — every data point traces to a disclosed transaction.

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