Michel Bardelmeijer is Tech Lead and Sales at redirect.pizza, where he helps DevOps and IT teams solve domain redirect challenges at scale. Michel has guided organizations like SD Worx, Zurich Airport and Harvard through complex redirect scenarios involving thousands of domains.
Have questions about bulk redirects, HTTPS migrations, or domain consolidations? Connect with Michel on LinkedIn or reach out to the redirect.pizza team.
Redirecting twenty subdomains with HSTS and a change log needs no paid plan on Cloudflare, costs US$55 a month on redirect.pizza and US$299 on urllo. None of those numbers is a typo. The difference is in what each provider counts, bundles and requires, not in its starting price. Here's the math for six options.
redirect.pizza, urllo, redirection.io, RedirHub, Domain Forward and Cloudflare each get the same twenty subdomains and the same requirements, so you can compare what you'd pay. You'll also see when your registrar's forwarding is all you need, and why moving pages on a site that stays online is a different job from forwarding a spare domain.
Features and prices checked against providers' documentation on October 7, 2026. We haven't run a comparative uptime or speed test.
Key Takeaways
- A domain, a hostname, a source URL and a redirect rule can be different billing units, so the source list decides the plan.
- Whole-domain forwarding and redirects within a live website need different setups. Check where the redirect logic will run.
- A thousand paths preserved by one rule differ from a thousand individually mapped destinations, and plan limits count them differently.
- The entry price isn't always the real price. HSTS, a change log and SAML SSO are included on some plans and sold as add-ons on others.
- DNS requirements belong in the comparison before any traffic moves. Cloudflare Free and Pro require Cloudflare DNS, and GoDaddy forwarding switches the domain to GoDaddy nameservers if it uses others.
Domain redirect tools at a glance
If you only need to inspect an existing redirect, use a redirect checker. A checker can show where a URL goes. It doesn't host the redirect for you.
What's included and what costs extra
Every option here can serve the redirect over HTTPS with a certificate it manages for you. The differences start after that, with security and admin features. Those decide whether the entry price is the price you'll pay.
Automatic HTTPS gives the redirect a valid certificate. HSTS goes one step further: a browser that receives the header over a valid HTTPS connection uses HTTPS for every later request to that hostname until the max-age in the header expires. It works on top of the certificate, not instead of it, and it still matters on a domain that only redirects, for the reasons covered in redirecting a domain that used HSTS. A change history shows who changed which destination, and when. SAML SSO ties sign-in to your company's identity provider.
"Not listed" means we found no mention on the provider's pricing, feature or security pages on October 7, 2026. That isn't proof the feature is missing, so ask the provider if you need it. Included doesn't mean switched on either: redirect.pizza and Cloudflare both leave HSTS off until you enable it.
The change history column shows whether a log exists, not that the logs are alike. They differ in what they record, how long they keep it and whether you can export it. The twenty-subdomain example further down shows what these differences do to a monthly bill.
Start with what the old address still needs to do
The entire hostname should redirect
An old brand domain, a campaign subdomain or a spare domain can usually point to a managed redirect service. You change the relevant DNS records, and the service receives the web requests, handles the certificate and returns the redirect.
You don't need to keep the old website hosting just to serve those redirects. You do need to retain control of the source domain and its DNS.
Some pages should redirect, but the website must stay online
Suppose example.com/old-product needs to move while the rest of example.com continues serving your shop. Pointing that whole hostname at a forwarding-only service would affect the shop too.
Use your existing hosting or CMS, or a service that integrates with the live site. redirection.io supports agent and managed deployments. urllo offers a website redirector through an edge integration. Cloudflare rules can also run in front of an existing origin. The integration is part of the choice, not a setup detail to discover after subscribing. See redirection.io's deployment options and urllo's website redirector.
The URL structure is changing too
Path forwarding works when the same path exists at the destination:
old.example.com/products/blue-chair → new.example.com/products/blue-chair
If the replacement is /shop/chairs/blue, you need a mapping or a matching rule. Preserving the old path would send the visitor to the wrong address.
For a permanent move, Google treats both 301 and 308 redirects as a signal that the destination should be canonical. The destination still needs to be the appropriate replacement. A redirect type can't fix a bad mapping. Google's redirect guidance
For the wider setup, see URL redirects explained. If you're deciding whether a move is permanent or temporary, start with 301 vs. 302 redirects.
The six options, compared
1. redirect.pizza
redirect.pizza forwards the web traffic for whole domains and subdomains. It handles HTTPS automatically, and you can keep your existing DNS provider by changing the relevant records. See how the DNS setup works and the domain redirect setup steps.
The subscription counts source hostnames. example.com and www.example.com are two. Paths don't use up that allowance, but configured path rules have their own limit: 10 on Free, 100 on Basic, 5,000 on Pro and 25,000 on Business. A thousand individually configured paths therefore need at least Pro. A thousand incoming paths handled by one path-forwarding rule don't require a thousand mappings.
Free covers five hostnames and 250,000 monthly requests, with one team member. Pro adds unlimited team members and traffic, regex matching and dynamic destinations, which can route by country, user agent, path, request method or time. Plan comparison
Every plan, Free included, has HSTS with HTTPS upgrades, an activity log and two-factor authentication. The API, an MCP server and a Terraform provider are on every plan too. Analytics start at Basic.
The constraint to check: for selected URLs on a site that stays online, keep the redirect logic in that site's delivery path. For company sign-in, SAML SSO starts at Business.
2. urllo, formerly EasyRedir
urllo offers managed domain forwarding and a website redirector that runs as a function in a CDN such as Cloudflare, CloudFront or Fastly. In the documented flow, a 200 response from the origin passes through unchanged. A 404 goes to urllo, which returns the matching redirect. That matters if an old page still serves content: adding a mapping alone won't replace that healthy page. Website redirector
Performance starts at US$49 per month for 25 source URLs, with unlimited traffic and team members with roles. Count configured source URLs, not just domains.
Performance add-ons cost US$50 a month for advanced matching, US$100 for enhanced security controls and US$150 for team identity and audit. Enterprise includes the add-ons. Pricing
The constraint to check: urllo includes automatic SSL/TLS certificates on every plan, but HSTS and HTTPS upgrades sit in its US$100 security add-on, and audit logs in the US$150 identity and audit add-on. redirect.pizza includes HSTS, HTTPS upgrades and an activity log on every plan, with HSTS enabled through configuration. urllo add-on details, redirect.pizza HSTS settings
3. redirection.io
redirection.io can run through an agent in your infrastructure or through managed instances hosted by the provider, with automatic certificates. Its traffic logs help investigate broken routes before changing the rules. Managed deployment
Pricing combines a project's rule allowance with deployment limits. Starter costs €25 a month for 100 rules or €100 for 1,000 rules, when billed monthly. Managed Starter includes five instances and 100 GB of monthly traffic. Extra instances cost €0.50 to €1.50 each per month, subject to the provider's capacity proposal. Pricing
Each hostname needs a managed instance, so apex and www use two. Free includes ten rules, one instance and 1 GB. Its managed instance can return redirects or 404 responses, but can't proxy the remaining content of a live website.
redirection.io sets response headers with rules as well. Its HSTS recipe adds the header with one rule, and each rule keeps a history of who changed it.
The constraint to check: free managed instances may shut down after a few hours without traffic. Rules are applied consistently again once the nodes have restarted. For a rarely visited reserved domain, that's a relevant difference from paid managed hosting. These restrictions apply to the hosted Free option, not every redirection.io deployment. Managed-instance limits
4. RedirHub
RedirHub combines domain forwarding with branded links, QR destinations and website migration mappings. That's useful when one team owns those tasks and wants to manage them together. Its security page lists HTTPS enforcement, which upgrades HTTP visitors to HTTPS, but no HSTS setting.
Its paid plans separate connected domains from managed links. Core starts at US$49 per month, with 25 domains, 2,500 managed links and three team members. Pro starts at US$119 and includes unlimited team members, an audit log and destination monitoring. The pricing table includes www variants in its domain allowance, while other subdomains count separately.
SAML SSO is a US$200 monthly add-on to Pro and is included in Enterprise. It should be included in any comparison where company sign-in is a requirement. Current pricing
The constraint to check: RedirHub's security page presents access logs, role-based access control and data storage in US and EU regions as compliance-ready infrastructure. Neither that page nor the pricing page names a SOC 2 report or an ISO 27001 certification. If your procurement team requires one, ask RedirHub before you shortlist it.
5. Domain Forward
Domain Forward provides hosted forwarding with automatic HTTPS and publishes separate allowances for source hostnames, requests and team members.
Its free plan includes five source hostnames, 200,000 monthly requests and two users. Premium is US$15 per month for 30 hostnames and 10 million requests, still with two users. Ultimate is US$99 for 200 hostnames and 50 million requests, with unlimited users.
That makes Premium an option for a smaller portfolio managed by one or two people. The feature boundary matters: wildcard subdomains and dynamic destinations are listed under Ultimate. Plans and feature limits
The constraint to check: three administrators or wildcard routing changes the plan even if your portfolio fits within 30 hostnames. The pricing page doesn't explicitly state whether apex and www share an allowance. Confirm that before treating its five free hostnames as five complete domains.
6. Cloudflare
Cloudflare can run redirects at its edge, including in front of a website that remains online. The source traffic must pass through its proxy.
There are two main tools. Single Redirects match requests with rules and support wildcard patterns. Bulk Redirects use lists of source and destination URLs. Free includes ten Single Redirect rules per zone and 10,000 URL entries across Bulk Redirect lists per account. These are different quotas, not competing domain allowances. Redirect features and limits
On the admin side, an HSTS setting and audit logs are available on every plan. Dashboard SSO is free on every plan as well, once you set up a Cloudflare Zero Trust organization and verify your company email domain.
Cloudflare is a practical option if your team already works with its DNS and rules. It can also make sense for a new setup, provided someone will own that configuration.
The constraint to check: on Free and Pro, full setup is the only option, so Cloudflare becomes the authoritative DNS provider for the domain. Business and Enterprise also support a partial CNAME setup that keeps your existing DNS provider, subject to its setup requirements.
What the same redirect setup costs
Starting prices hide differences in what gets counted and what's included. Here are three ways those differences affect a decision.
Five domains, including www
You want both oldbrand.example and www.oldbrand.example to work for each of five domains. That's ten source hostnames at redirect.pizza. Free's five-hostname allowance is insufficient, even if there are only five destinations. Basic covers that at US$14.95 a month for up to 15 source hostnames, with HSTS and the activity log included, as long as one team member, one million monthly requests and its feature set are enough.
Adding paths doesn't add hostnames. Adding another subdomain does. Other services use different billing rules, so carry the actual source-address list into the comparison.
Twenty campaign subdomains, one destination each
Take twenty separate hostnames, such as offer01.example.com through offer20.example.com. Each needs one fixed 301 redirect from its root URL to its own destination. Assume one administrator, 50,000 requests a month, less than 100 GB of combined request and response traffic, and no web server of your own. No SSO, wildcard matching or extra path mappings are required.
For this example, the last column adds two requirements: an HSTS header on each redirect hostname and a record of who changed what.
Prices are shown as published for monthly billing, without currency conversion. redirect.pizza shows prices in the visitor's local currency, and these are its US prices. redirection.io lists its prices in euros. Taxes and checkout charges aren't estimated. Domain registration and your team's setup work are outside the table.
The redirection.io range is €25 plus fifteen instances at €0.50 to €1.50 each. It's calculated from the published bounds, not a quote for this order. Confirm capacity and the applicable rate.
For Cloudflare Free, the DNS requirement applies to the whole example.com zone, not just the twenty campaign subdomains. If the main site uses that domain, its DNS moves too. Its website hosting can stay where it is.
For this setup, Cloudflare has the lowest subscription cost, as long as the whole zone moves to Cloudflare DNS. If your DNS stays where it is, redirect.pizza covers the same twenty subdomains for US$55 a month, with HSTS and the activity log included.
The same twenty subdomains, now with SSO
For the same twenty sources, adding SAML SSO produces these monthly totals:
- redirect.pizza: US$219, on Business, with SAML, HSTS and the activity log included.
- urllo: US$199, combining US$49 Performance with the US$150 team identity and audit add-on, which also brings the audit logs. Adding HSTS through the US$100 security add-on makes it US$299.
- RedirHub: US$319, combining US$119 Pro with the US$200 SSO add-on. Pro includes the audit log. HSTS isn't listed.
- Cloudflare: no SSO charge. Dashboard SSO is free on every plan but requires a Cloudflare Zero Trust organization and a verified company email domain, and Free still requires Cloudflare DNS for the zone.
See redirect.pizza pricing, urllo add-ons, RedirHub add-ons and Cloudflare dashboard SSO.
Domain Forward lists sign-in with Google, GitHub and Microsoft, without mentioning SAML on its pricing page. For redirection.io, confirm the terms for administrator SSO before adding it to this comparison. A feature missing from a pricing page isn't proof that it's unavailable.
If you also need a record of changes, compare the logs themselves. redirect.pizza lists an activity log on every plan. urllo keeps 365 days of audit logs in its US$150 add-on. RedirHub lists its audit log from Pro, so the US$319 setup includes it. Cloudflare keeps audit logs for 18 months on every plan, but its dashboard shows the last 90 days. Older entries come through the API. Check event coverage, retention and export before treating these logs as equivalent.
When your registrar's forwarding is enough
For a single domain with one destination, the forwarding included with registration may do everything you need. Test the actual service before adding a separate subscription.
HTTPS support varies. GoDaddy documents automatic HTTPS forwarding. Its forwarding setup also moves the domain to GoDaddy nameservers if necessary and updates and locks the apex A record. Review the existing DNS records before enabling it, especially if the domain still has mail or other services.
Test these addresses on the source domain:
- the apex over both HTTP and HTTPS
- the www version over both HTTP and HTTPS
- an old path that still receives visitors
- a URL with a query string, such as a campaign parameter.
Check the status code and final destination. A redirect to the homepage can pass a basic test while still losing a useful product path. Also distinguish support for an HTTPS destination from a valid certificate on the HTTPS source.
A separate redirect service becomes useful when you need capabilities the registrar doesn't provide: mappings, monitoring, analytics, shared administration or consistent management across several registrars. HTTPS is one requirement to verify, not a reason to dismiss every registrar.
Choosing a bulk or enterprise domain redirect service
For bulk domain redirects, build the source inventory before choosing a plan. Include apex domains, www variants, other subdomains and any paths requiring exceptions. Record where DNS is managed. Importing a list of redirects doesn't, by itself, make traffic reach the new service. For a wider site move, use the domain migration SEO checklist alongside that inventory.
Then test a representative group. Include a plain domain redirect, a preserved path, an individually mapped path and a tracked campaign URL. Check HTTPS and the final destination for each. Confirm you can export the configuration again before committing the full portfolio.
Enterprise requirements belong in that same evaluation. Identify who can change destinations, how access is removed when someone leaves, whether changes are logged, and which support and SLA terms apply to the plan. If a procurement team needs a SOC 2 report or ISO certificate, request the current document and check its scope. A logo in a feature table doesn't answer those questions.
What the providers publish is a starting point. redirect.pizza names ISO 27001 certification and a SOC 2 Type 2 report, both available on request. urllo states an annual SOC 2 Type 2 attestation and shares the report with Enterprise customers. Cloudflare offers SOC 2 and ISO documents to account super administrators. On the pages we checked, redirection.io, RedirHub and Domain Forward name neither a SOC 2 report nor an ISO 27001 certification.
Performance comparisons need equal conditions too. A provider's advertised response time and another provider's result from a different region aren't a useful ranking. Test representative source URLs from the regions your visitors use, with the same method and redirect depth.
Start from your source addresses and the setup they need. Cloudflare is the cheapest route in these examples, if its DNS requirement fits. If your DNS stays where it is, compare the plans that include the controls you need, not the entry prices. For redirects within a live website, settle the deployment model before you compare subscriptions.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The hosted providers compared here can serve the redirect and manage its source certificate. You still need control of the source domain and the DNS records that send traffic to the service. With redirection.io, choose managed instances if you want the provider to host the redirect.
It can be. Count the source addresses, expected traffic and required features first. A free plan covering five hostnames may serve two domains with both apex and www, plus one other hostname. It doesn't necessarily cover five domains with both variants. redirect.pizza's Free plan covers five source hostnames and 250,000 requests a month, with HSTS and the activity log included. Cloudflare's free capacity is counted through rules and list entries, with Cloudflare DNS required.
redirect.pizza includes HSTS on every plan, Free included, and Cloudflare offers an HSTS setting on every plan for proxied hostnames. urllo sells HSTS and HTTPS upgrades in a US$100 add-on to its Performance plan. redirection.io documents a header rule that sets it. On October 4, 2026, we found no HSTS setting on the pricing or security pages of RedirHub or Domain Forward.
urllo is the current name of EasyRedir. Use urllo's current plans and documentation when comparing alternatives. Older EasyRedir prices and team limits may no longer describe what a new customer can buy.
A suitable tool lets you implement the correct permanent redirects, serve them over valid HTTPS and send old URLs to their appropriate replacements. Choose enough matching and mapping control for your migration. Google supports both 301 and 308 for permanent moves. A longer feature list can't compensate for sending every old page to an unrelated homepage.
Related Reads
- URL Redirects Explained
- 301 vs. 302 Redirects
- How to Set Up a Domain Redirect
- Domain Migration SEO Checklist
Try the source URLs that matter
For managed domain forwarding, try redirect.pizza with the test group from your inventory. Free covers five source hostnames. For regex matching or SAML SSO, start a 14-day trial of Pro or Business, no credit card required.
