# httpstatus.io review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Bulk checker for HTTP status codes, headers and redirect chains Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. httpstatus.io is a free web tool that checks up to 100 URLs at a time and shows each one's status code, response headers and full redirect chain, with the latency of every hop. Requests can be sent as Googlebot, Bingbot or a chosen browser, with custom headers or basic authentication. A paid API, priced in euros, does the same checks one URL per request for scripts and no-code workflows. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** Crafted Code - **Website:** https://httpstatus.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Too light for a site audit, as it takes 100 URLs a batch and doesn't crawl. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, httpstatus.io has a free plan, and paid plans start at €10 one-time for 10,000 API calls; monthly API plans from €15. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** The web checker is free, with batches of up to 100 URLs. The API's Free Plan gives a one-time 500 calls at 1 request per second, not for commercial use. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Web checker | €0 | Status codes, headers and redirect chains for up to 100 URLs per batch in the browser. The help page says it will stay free. | | Basic Plan | €10 one-time for 10,000 API calls, used as you go | API credits that never expire and can be topped up, at 2 requests per second. | | Starter Plan | €15 per month for 20,000 API calls, billed monthly | A hard limit of 20,000 calls a month at 2 requests per second. | | Standard Plan | €35 per month for 50,000 API calls, billed monthly | 3 requests per second; calls above 50,000 cost €0.00070 each. | | Pro Plan | €65 per month for 100,000 API calls, billed monthly | 5 requests per second; calls above 100,000 cost €0.00065 each. | | Premium Plan | €150 per month for 250,000 API calls, billed monthly | 10 requests per second; calls above 250,000 cost €0.00060 each. Larger needs get a quote. | Read from https://httpstatus.io/api on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with httpstatus.io before buying. ## Key features - **Bulk status checks:** Paste up to 100 URLs to see each status code and redirect count, then filter by status code, redirect type or request URL. - **Redirect chains and latency:** Follows up to 10 redirects and shows every hop's headers, response body and round-trip time. - **Custom request settings:** Send requests as Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot or a chosen browser, with basic authentication or headers such as cookies and Accept-Language. - **Canonical domain check:** Tests whether the http, https, www and non-www versions of a domain all redirect to one canonical version. - **Exports:** Sends URLs, status codes, redirect targets and errors to Google Sheets or to CSV and XLS files. - **URL checking API:** Returns redirect chains, IP addresses, latency, TLS certificate checks and page metadata such as title, robots and canonical tags as JSON. ## Good for - SEOs checking redirects in bulk after a site migration - Seeing how a URL answers Googlebot or other user agents - Developers adding status and redirect checks to scripts or no-code workflows ## Worth knowing - The web checker takes 100 URLs per batch and does not crawl a site; the help page points to crawlers for larger jobs. - API prices are in euros and exclude VAT, and the API's free 500 calls are one-time and not for commercial use. - Starter stops at 20,000 calls a month; higher plans bill overage per call instead of stopping. - It has no fixed IP address, so a staging site cannot allow it by IP; the help page suggests a secret request header. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. httpstatus.io checks up to 100 URLs at a time in the browser for free, showing each status code, its headers and every redirect hop with its latency, and can send requests as Googlebot or Bingbot. It doesn't crawl a site, though, and anything scripted runs through a paid API priced in euros, whose free 500 calls are one-time and not for commercial use. - **Value for money: A.** The web checker is free, with batches of up to 100 URLs, and the help page says it will stay free. The API starts at €10 once for 10,000 calls that don't expire, or €15 a month for 20,000. - **Free plan and trial: A.** The browser checker costs nothing, with no cap beyond 100 URLs per batch. The API's free plan is a one-time 500 calls at 1 a second, and not for commercial use. - **Features: D.** Status codes, headers, redirect chains of up to 10 hops, custom user agents, a canonical domain check and exports to Sheets, CSV or XLS. That's one narrow job: it checks the URLs you paste and doesn't crawl a site. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. You paste a list of URLs into the page and the results come back, with nothing to install. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with a JSON API and connections to Google Sheets, Make, Airtable, n8n, Pipedream, Retool, Baserow and NocoDB. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from httpstatus.io's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among technical SEO tools - httpstatus.io's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 73 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 62 of 83) and worst on features (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/technical-seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** httpstatus.io sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. At $11.21, paid once, it costs less than the weekend it would take to replace, which is the argument for keeping it. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Sheets, Make and Airtable among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Sheets, Make, Airtable, n8n, Pipedream, Retool, Baserow, NocoDB **Tags:** Site audit, Public API ## Alternatives - [Screaming Frog SEO Spider](https://toolgpa.com/tools/screaming-frog): Desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/httpstatus-io-vs-screaming-frog) - [Redirection.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/redirection-io): Redirect manager and traffic log monitor for websites. 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