01 · Product name
PeeringDB
Public interconnection database. The license lines disagree.
Published by PeeringDB.
In short
PeeringDB is the user-maintained interconnection database at peeringdb.com. On 23 Oct 2026 the homepage called it freely available and a non-profit. The about page said the acceptable use policy prevents commercial use, and that almost one-third of ASNs register. The about footer was version 2.84.0 and listed 66,475 connections to exchanges. A 404 page's footer listed 66,474. The GitHub API license field was BSD-2-Clause. The website says All Rights Reserved. No dollar was printed. Domain and infrastructure is the nearest category. This is not a port scan.
Product pricing strategy
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Free
PeeringDB printed no dollar price on 23 Oct 2026. The homepage, the about page, and the docs index have no checkout. Two rights lines disagree, and both stay. The about footer says All Rights Reserved. The GitHub API license field was BSD-2-Clause, with 474 stars and a push at 2026-10-20T21:49:20Z. All Rights Reserved is the website. BSD-2-Clause is the API field. Do not replace one with the other. The about page says the acceptable use policy prevents commercial use of the database. That is a use limit, not a price. 66475 and 66474 are connection counts on two footers. They are not fees. Version 2.84.0 is the software line on both footers.
Utility and features
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The homepage says PeeringDB is a freely available, user-maintained database of networks, and that it is a non-profit, community-driven initiative. The recent-exchange list that morning was American IX Massachusetts, 5 hours ago; RegPEX, 17 hours ago; BBIX Manila, 23 hours ago; DE-CIX Athens, 23 hours ago; and UNY-IX, 2 days ago. A search for AS13335 returned 403. That request is not a network record.
- About footer is version 2.84.0. 1330 exchanges, 35718 networks, 66475 connections to exchanges, 55069 registered users. © 2004-2026, All Rights Reserved.
- A 404 footer said 66474. The guessed organization path did not open. Its footer still printed version 2.84.0 and 66474 exchange connections.
- API field is BSD-2-Clause. The peeringdb/peeringdb API returned SPDX BSD-2-Clause, 474 stars, pushed 2026-10-20T21:49:20Z.
The about page says the database is freely available and public, and that the acceptable use policy prevents the database being used for commercial purposes and discourages unsolicited communications. It says almost one-third of Autonomous System Numbers register their interconnection data. The footer is © 2004-2026 PeeringDB, All Rights Reserved, version 2.84.0. Global System Statistics on that footer: 1330 Exchanges, 35718 Networks, 5886 Facilities, 76 Campuses, 288 Carriers, 66475 Connections to Exchanges, 62571 Connections to Facilities, 8504 Automated Networks, 55069 Registered Users, 35151 Organizations. A guessed organization path returned 404. That 404 footer still printed version 2.84.0 and 66474 Connections to Exchanges. The GitHub repository peeringdb/peeringdb returned SPDX BSD-2-Clause, 474 stars, and pushed_at 2026-10-20T21:49:20Z. The docs index at docs.peeringdb.com lists API v3. This review did not run a query.
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Quote 66475 from the about footer and 66474 from the 404 footer. Do not average them.
- 2
Say the website footer is All Rights Reserved and the GitHub field is BSD-2-Clause.
- 3
Do not describe an AS13335 PeeringDB record. That search returned 403.
Caveats
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66475 Connections to Exchanges is the about-page footer. 66474 is the footer of a 404. Do not average them, and do not cite the 404 path as a working organization record. A search for AS13335 returned 403, so this listing has no PeeringDB row for that network. The Hurricane Electric page for the same AS is a different site.
The homepage's recent-exchange times, 5 hours, 17 hours, 23 hours, and 2 days, are relative to the morning of 23 Oct 2026. They are not calendar dates. The about page's almost one-third of ASNs is the page's sentence. It is not a count of the 35718 networks in the footer. Domain and infrastructure is only the nearest category. PeeringDB is an interconnection database. A network entry is a registration. It is not a scan of open ports.
Screenshots
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Potential use cases
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- The two exchange-connection counts are about to be averaged. On 23 Oct 2026 the about footer said 66475 Connections to Exchanges, 1330 Exchanges, and 35718 Networks, at version 2.84.0. A 404 footer's line said 66474. Both footers printed version 2.84.0. Quote the footer you mean. Do not cite the 404 path as an organization record.
- The rights line is about to be cleaned up. The about footer says All Rights Reserved. The GitHub API field was BSD-2-Clause, with 474 stars and pushed_at 2026-10-20T21:49:20Z. All Rights Reserved stays the website. BSD-2-Clause stays the field. The about page also says the acceptable use policy prevents commercial use. That is a limit, not a price. No dollar was printed.
- A failed search is about to become a network record. A search for AS13335 returned 403. There is no PeeringDB row for that network in this review. The homepage's recent exchanges, American IX Massachusetts at 5 hours and the rest, are relative times. Domain and infrastructure is the nearest category. PeeringDB is an interconnection database, not a port scan.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
66474 and 66475 become one count
66475 is the about-page footer. 66474 is the footer of a page that returned 404. Averaging them, or dropping the smaller one, hides which footer you read. Version 2.84.0 was on both. The counts were not.
Questions
Is PeeringDB free?
The homepage says it is freely available. No dollar price was printed on 23 Oct 2026. The about footer says All Rights Reserved. The GitHub API field was BSD-2-Clause. The about page says the acceptable use policy prevents commercial use.
Which exchange-connection count was on the page?
The about footer said 66475. A 404 footer's line said 66474. Both printed version 2.84.0. A search for AS13335 returned 403.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
PeeringDB homepage
https://www.peeringdb.com/Documentation
PeeringDB about
https://www.peeringdb.com/aboutDocumentation
PeeringDB repository
https://github.com/peeringdb/peeringdbDocumentation
PeeringDB docs
https://docs.peeringdb.com/