Why iCloud Private Relay scores the same as a paid VPN on one IP checker

IP reputation service ipok.io assigns iCloud Private Relay exit nodes the same risk score of 65 out of 100 as paid VPN services like Mullvad, a result the developers say is intentional. The score is a weighted average of multiple vendor ratings, with a minimum floor of 65 applied when two or more sources flag an address as a proxy or VPN. Vendors including Scamalytics and vpnapi.io simultaneously identify Apple Private Relay IPs as relay traffic and label them as VPNs, meaning the floor gets triggered regardless. The team decided against removing the floor because the score is designed to reflect how third-party services treat an IP in the real world, not to render a judgment on the user behind it. A relay tag is included in the results so users can distinguish Private Relay traffic from a paid VPN, even though the headline risk number remains the same.