Geo Targetly alternatives: six other ways to redirect or localize by location, priced

Geo Targetly alternatives at a glance

The main Geo Targetly alternatives are three WordPress plugins (If-So, Geo Controller and Advanced GeoIP Redirect), Cloudflare redirect rules, a MaxMind database on your own nginx or Apache server, and plain country URLs with hreflang. For comparison, Geo Targetly's Dev plan, 1,000 pageviews a month, is $12 a month billed monthly on its standard list and $14 in a live price test, as read on October 30, 2026.

Geo Targetly has no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and its pricing page says no refunds are provided.

Each route meters a different thing, so compare them on your own visits, pages and tools rather than on price alone. Geo Targetly says its 14-day free trial, which needs no credit card, gives an estimate of the pageviews you will use. The Geo Targetly button below opens its site, where that trial starts.

WordPress plugins: If-So, Geo Controller and Advanced GeoIP Redirect

If-So needs its free core plugin. Its free tier allows 250 geo sessions a month with all geo features, geo redirects are in the free version, and a session counts once per visit, not on every page load. Its paid prices sat under a sale label on October 30, 2026, so they are left to If-So's page. Geo Targetly vs If-So sets the two side by side.

Geo Controller, once called CF Geo Plugin, is free up to 500 lookups a day. A paid license removes the cap: Monthly costs $19.00 a month for one website, while Personal ($89), Freelancer ($132, up to 5 websites) and Business ($349) are priced by the year. It offers status codes 301, 302, 303, 307, 308 and 404. The CF Geoplugin alternative guide covers the rename.

Advanced GeoIP Redirect is free for country-only redirects from MaxMind's GeoLite database, with a choice of 301 or 302 and a setting that skips bots and crawlers. Pro starts at $29.99 a year for one site and adds caching-plugin support, the GeoIP2 database and device rules.

Cloudflare rules and a MaxMind server rule

Cloudflare Single Redirects are on all four plans, with 10 rules on Free and 50 on Business, and the country field works on each. The state field needs Business or Enterprise, and a rule only reaches traffic proxied through Cloudflare. The price is the whole site plan: Free $0, Business $200 a month billed annually or $250 billed monthly. Cloudflare redirect by country has the steps.

A MaxMind database with the nginx or Apache module is the server route. The nginx module is not built by default, GeoLite is free with an account, and MaxMind says the free GeoLite City is not recommended for commercial use. GeoIP2 Country is $34.83 a month, billed $418 annually.

No tool at all: country URLs and a selector

Google recommends a different URL for each language version of a page, hreflang or sitemaps to say which page fits which location or language, and links so visitors can switch versions. It also advises against automatically redirecting users from one language version to another. The cost is page production, with no tool fee, and the setup works on any platform. The free geo redirect tool guide lists the free routes together.

When Geo Targetly is still the pick

Pick Geo Targetly for several location jobs on a site that is not WordPress. Every plan includes every product on unlimited domains, plus state, city and radius targeting, and it runs on any site that accepts a pasted JavaScript snippet.

The trade-off: Google says to use JavaScript redirects only when server-side or meta refresh redirects are not possible, and Geo Targetly redirects run in the visitor's browser. Cloudflare, Geo Controller and Advanced GeoIP Redirect let you choose the status code.

Take a SaaS company with about 300,000 page visits a month that wants EU visitors to see a region-only cookie banner and local-currency display prices from one dashboard. Geo Consent shows the banner, Geo Currency changes only the displayed price, and each tool counts a pageview on every visit: 600,000 pageviews a month.

That is above Business's 500,000 and inside High Traffic's 2,000,000, at $199 a month billed monthly or $159 a month billed yearly on the standard list ($239 and $191 in the live price test). What the banner must say is a legal question outside this page.

• If-So for a WordPress site under 250 geo sessions a month.
• Cloudflare for a country redirect on a site already on Cloudflare.
• Geo Controller or Advanced GeoIP Redirect for one WordPress site on a yearly license.
• MaxMind for a team that runs its own nginx or Apache server.
• Country URLs for any site that can host a page per country.