CoAlias alternatives in 2026: do the request math before you pick a plan
CoAlias puts custom domains on no-code apps, with every plan capped by monthly request volume: 4,000 requests on the free trial, 40,000 at $30 a month, 2 million at $120. Domainee is the main alternative: 50 domains and 100 GB of bandwidth free, then $0.20 per domain per month, with no request ceiling on any tier.
That's the short version. The long version is mostly arithmetic, and it's arithmetic almost nobody does before signing up, because "unlimited domains" is printed in big letters and "40,000 requests per month" is printed in small ones.
I build Domainee, so read this the way you'd read any vendor comparing itself to a competitor. Every CoAlias number below comes from their published pricing, and where CoAlias is genuinely the better pick, I say so.
Why people search for a CoAlias alternative
Four reasons come up again and again:
- The request caps. Every CoAlias plan meters monthly requests. The Dev plan ($30/mo) includes 40,000. A single page view on a modern app fires dozens of requests: the document, stylesheets, script chunks, fonts, images, API calls. So 40,000 requests is not 40,000 visits. It's a few hundred to a couple thousand page views, per month, across EVERY domain you've connected.
- The trial is tight. 10 domains, 4,000 requests a month, no wildcards. Enough to see the product work. Not much more.
- Wildcards are tiered. One wildcard on Dev, two on Basic, four on Growth. If wildcard subdomains are core to your architecture, you're counting them against a quota.
- Spikes are the failure mode. Request-metered pricing punishes exactly the thing you want to happen: one of your customers' pages taking off. A single viral page on a no-code app can burn through the Dev cap in an afternoon.
If any of that is why you're here, the rest is for you.
What CoAlias actually charges, plan by plan
The published numbers:
| Plan | Price/mo | Domains | Requests/mo | Wildcards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial | $0 | 10 | 4,000 | 0 |
| Dev | $30 | Unlimited | 40,000 | 1 |
| Basic | $60 | Unlimited | 400,000 | 2 |
| Growth | $120 | Unlimited | 2,000,000 | 4 |
Up-front pricing with no sales call is genuinely to CoAlias's credit. Plenty of competitors in this space hide everything behind "contact us." The full side-by-side is at /alternatives/coalias.
The request math
Assume a typical no-code page fires 25 to 75 requests per view. A Bubble or Webflow page usually sits at the high end of that range. Then:
- Trial (4,000 req/mo): roughly 50 to 160 page views a month, total, across all ten domains
- Dev, $30 (40,000 req/mo): roughly 500 to 1,600 page views a month, which is 15 to 50 views a day across your entire customer base
- Basic, $60 (400K req/mo): 5,000 to 16,000 page views a month
- Growth, $120 (2M req/mo): 25,000 to 80,000 page views a month
These are estimates, and caching changes the picture for repeat visitors. But the shape holds. "Unlimited domains" ships with a traffic ceiling that a modest product can hit, and a successful one definitely will.
Now the same money on the other meter. Domainee bills bandwidth in GB, not requests. At around 2 MB per page view, the free tier's 100 GB covers on the order of 50,000 page views. For $0. And $120 a month at Domainee's per-domain rate covers roughly 600 connected domains, with 400 GB of bandwidth included before overage pricing ($0.05/GB) starts.
Per-request pricing charges you for how chatty your pages are. Per-GB pricing charges you for what's actually expensive to serve: egress. Chatty pages with small payloads cost close to nothing; heavy pages cost what they cost. Either way, there's no hard stop when a customer's launch goes well.
Meet Domainee
Domainee is a custom domains API for SaaS with a native MCP server — 50 domains and 100 GB free.
Your user brings their own domain, you call one endpoint (or click once in the dashboard), and Domainee returns the CNAME target and handles SSL issuance and renewal from then on, with DNS health monitoring and webhooks on every state change. There's no plugin to install. The domain points at whatever origin URL serves your app: a Bubble app, a Webflow export, a Next.js deployment, anything with an HTTPS origin.
The side-by-side:
| CoAlias | Domainee | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 10 domains, 4,000 req/mo | 50 domains, 100 GB/mo, forever |
| Metering | Requests | Bandwidth (GB) |
| Domains | Unlimited on paid plans | $0.20/domain/mo, graduated down to $0.10 |
| Traffic included | 4K to 2M requests by tier | 100 GB free; 400 GB on usage pricing, then $0.05/GB |
| Setup | Bubble plugin, platform integrations | Dashboard or REST API, any origin |
| SSL | Included | Let's Encrypt, issued and renewed automatically |
| AI agents | No | MCP server, 11 tools |
| In-app domain sales | No | Buy-a-Domain API, 500+ TLDs, $1 flat fee |
Every pricing number is published at /pricing. If you want to model your own numbers, the custom domain cost calculator does the math for any provider.
Where CoAlias is genuinely better
Three honest cases.
If you live inside Bubble and want zero setup, CoAlias wins on ergonomics. Their Bubble plugin is a real advantage. Domainee has no plugin; you connect domains from the dashboard or the API, and if touching an API even once is a dealbreaker, that matters.
If you have many domains and almost no traffic, flat pricing is the right shape. A thousand parked or barely-visited hostnames cost $30 on CoAlias Dev. On Domainee's per-domain meter that's meaningfully more. As long as the traffic stays under the request cap, CoAlias is cheaper for that workload.
And if your traffic is small and perfectly predictable, the caps will never bite you, in which case they're not a real cost.
If none of those describe you, keep reading.
Switching from CoAlias
The migration is unglamorous, which is the point:
- Sign up at /sign-up. The free tier needs no card and covers 50 domains.
- Add each hostname via the dashboard or
POST /v1/domains. Domainee returns the CNAME target. - Update the CNAME at the customer's DNS (or have them do it; the record is one line).
- SSL issues automatically once DNS points at the edge, and monitoring starts on its own.
- Remove the domain from CoAlias after the cutover.
The quickstart has the copy-paste version. For platforms serving many builders, the website-builders guide covers the multi-tenant pattern, and /whitelabel covers keeping your infrastructure invisible to your customers' visitors.
FAQ
Does Domainee work with Bubble, Webflow, and other no-code tools? Yes. Domainee points a custom hostname at any HTTPS origin, so it doesn't care what built the app. The difference from CoAlias is setup style: no plugin, you connect domains from the dashboard or the API.
Is the free tier actually free? 50 custom domains and 100 GB of bandwidth a month, free forever, no credit card. It's not a trial and it doesn't expire.
What happens when a customer's page goes viral? Nothing dramatic. Domainee meters bandwidth, so there's no request ceiling to hit. On usage pricing, 400 GB is included and overage runs $0.05/GB. The spike costs a known number of dollars instead of an outage or a forced upgrade.
Can I run CoAlias and Domainee side by side while migrating? Yes. Domains are independent of each other, so you can move hostnames one at a time and leave the rest where they are until you're done.
What to do next
If the request caps are the reason you searched "CoAlias alternative": start with the free tier and move your ten trial domains over in an afternoon. If you're still comparing the whole field, the full roundup is at /blog/best-custom-domain-apis, the complete provider list is at /alternatives, and the same deep-dive treatment of Entri's pricing is at /blog/entri-alternative-2026, with Approximated's at /blog/approximated-alternative-2026 and SaaS Custom Domains' at /blog/saas-custom-domains-alternatives-2026.