Redirection vs SEOPress (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Redirection and SEOPress share a 3.0 GPA, both have a free plan, and Redirection has no paid plan to buy, against $4.08 a month when paid by the year for SEOPress.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Redirection grades higher on the free plan. SEOPress grades higher on features. They get the same grade on value for money, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Redirection
Free WordPress plugin for managing 301 redirects and 404 errors
SEOPress
WordPress SEO plugin with a free edition and site licences from $49
Which one is for you
Pick Redirection if
- Fits if you're moving a site or changing its URLs and need lots of redirects
- Works for anyone fixing 404 errors on a WordPress site without paying
Look elsewhere if
- Too light for your whole SEO setup, as titles, sitemaps and schema need another plugin
- Skip it if your site isn't on WordPress, as there's no standalone app
- Watch out: the current version needs WordPress 6.6 or later and PHP 7.4 or later
Pick SEOPress if
- Fits if you run a WordPress site and want schema and redirects for $49 a year
- Works for agencies wanting one unlimited-site licence at $149 a year
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free, as schema, redirects, local SEO and the site audit are all PRO
- Watch out: rank and backlink tracking need SEOPress Insights, a separate plugin at $99 a year per site
- Pricey if you lean on AI metadata, as credits are a separate plan from $19 a month
- Watch out: prices exclude tax, refunds last 14 days, and a cancelled PRO keeps working without updates
- Skip it if your site isn't on WordPress, as there's no standalone app
How we grade them
| 3.0GPARedirectionVery good | 3.0GPASEOPressVery good | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | AFree, with no paid edition: the whole plugin, its logs, conditional rules, imports and exports, REST API and WP-CLI access come from WordPress.org at no cost. | APRO is $49 a year for one site before tax, about $4.08 a month, and renews at the same price. That's under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter. Five sites are $59 a year and unlimited sites $149. |
| Free plan and trial | AEverything is free and there's no premium version, so there's no cap or locked feature to run into. | BSEOPress Free covers titles, meta, canonicals, robots tags, XML and HTML sitemaps, social tags and content checks for any number of keywords. One site could live on it, but schema and redirects are PRO only. |
| Features | CRedirects with regex and conditions, automatic redirects when permalinks change, 404 logs, redirect logs and Apache or Nginx output. It does redirects fully, but that's a smaller job: no titles, sitemaps or schema. | BMeta and sitemaps, content analysis, schema with conditions, local and WooCommerce SEO, redirects with 404 logs, link suggestions, a site audit and AI metadata. It covers the whole job; rank and backlink tracking sit in a separate plugin. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. A simple redirect is quick, but regex, conditions and server rules take some learning, and you build every redirect yourself. | CNo rating on record. It runs inside WordPress, but titles and meta are set site-wide or page by page, and AI metadata needs an AI provider hooked up or a separate credit plan. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, inside WordPress, with a REST API, PHP hooks and WP-CLI. It writes to Apache .htaccess, exports Nginx rules and imports from other redirect plugins. | BWeb only, inside WordPress. It connects to Search Console, Google Analytics, Tag Manager and Matomo, and works with WooCommerce, Elementor, WPML and Polylang. |
| Best for | free redirects and 404 tracking in WordPress | WordPress SEO on a flat yearly licence |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Redirection and SEOPress. How we grade
Price against what you get
Redirection has no paid plan and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. SEOPress starts at $4.08 a month when paid by the year and scores 2.7.
SEOPress scores higher, and starts $4.08 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other SEO plugins and apps on the chart, none scores higher than Redirection for less, and none scores higher than SEOPress for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Redirection is open source, according to its own site.
- SEOPress also covers rank tracking, site audit, backlink analysis, content optimization, schema markup and internal linking.
At a glance
| Redirection | SEOPress | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free plan |
| Starts at | Free | $49 per year for 1 site, ex VAT |
| Free plan | Everything is free: there is no premium version. Redirects, 404 tracking, logs, conditional rules, import and export, and the REST API and WP-CLI access. | SEOPress Free on WordPress.org: titles and meta, canonicals, robots tags, XML and HTML sitemaps, social tags, content analysis with unlimited keywords and Analytics or Matomo tracking. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | John Godley | SEOPress |
| Price read from | redirection.me | seopress.org |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Redirection
- It runs only inside WordPress; there is no standalone app.
- It manages redirects and 404s only; titles, sitemaps and schema need a separate SEO plugin.
- The current version supports WordPress 6.6 or later and PHP 7.4 or later.
SEOPress
- It runs only inside WordPress; there is no standalone app.
- Rank and backlink tracking need SEOPress Insights, a separate plugin at $99 a year per site.
- AI credit plans are a separate monthly subscription, from $19 a month for 400,000 credits (about 250 meta titles, by SEOPress's estimate).
- Prices exclude tax; refunds are offered for 14 days, and a cancelled PRO keeps working without updates or support.
Key features
Redirection
- Redirect manager
- Create redirects for any URL without editing Apache or Nginx, with regular expressions, query parameter matching and automatic redirects when permalinks change.
- Conditional redirects
- Redirect only for logged-in or logged-out users, a WordPress capability, browser, referrer, cookie, HTTP header, IP address, server or 404 pages.
- 404 tracking
- Logs every 404 error on the site, groups them to show where to focus, and lets them be redirected in bulk.
- Redirect logs
- Records each redirect with visitor, browser and referrer details and a hit count, with search, filters, export and controls to limit IP collection.
- Apache and Nginx output
- Redirects can be saved to .htaccess so Apache handles them, or exported as Nginx rewrite rules.
- Import, export and APIs
- Imports from other redirect plugins and .htaccess, exports to CSV, JSON and Nginx, and can be run through the WordPress REST API, PHP hooks and WP-CLI.
SEOPress
- Titles, meta and sitemaps
- Sets titles, meta descriptions, canonicals and robots tags globally or per page, and builds XML, HTML, image and author sitemaps on the free edition.
- Content analysis
- Checks each post against any number of target keywords in the editor, including in Elementor, Divi, Oxygen and other page builders, on the free edition.
- Schema and local SEO
- PRO adds automatic and manual schema with conditions, breadcrumbs, local business data, Google News and video sitemaps, and WooCommerce product identifiers.
- Redirects and links
- PRO manages 301, 302, 307, 410 and 451 redirects with regex, logs 404s, prompts when a URL changes, suggests internal links and finds broken links.
- AI metadata
- PRO can use OpenAI, DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude or Mistral to write SEO titles, descriptions and image alt text.
- Rankings and backlinks
- The Insights plugin checks Google rankings daily in 51 locations, shows who holds first place, tracks backlinks and exports to CSV, PDF or Excel.
Plans
Redirection
Free$0
The whole plugin from WordPress.org, with no paid features.
SEOPress
SEOPress Free$0
Core on-page settings, sitemaps, social tags, image SEO, IndexNow and content analysis with unlimited target keywords.
SEOPress PRO, 1 site$49
per year for 1 site, ex VAT, renews at the same price
Site audit, schema, local and WooCommerce SEO, redirects and 404 monitoring, Search Console data, AI metadata and white label.
SEOPress PRO, 5 sites$59
per year for 5 sites, ex VAT, renews at the same price
The same PRO features on up to 5 sites.
SEOPress PRO, unlimited$149
per year for unlimited sites, ex VAT, renews at the same price
The same PRO features on any number of sites.
SEOPress Insights$99
per year for 1 site, ex VAT
A separate plugin for daily Google rank tracking in 51 locations, competitor positions, a backlink tracker and emailed reports.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Redirection or SEOPress?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Redirection is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $4.08 a month when paid by the year for SEOPress. Redirection is free, and SEOPress starts at $49 per year for 1 site, ex VAT.
Which has a free plan, Redirection or SEOPress?
As of Oct 23, 2026, both Redirection and SEOPress have a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.