BitNinja alternative: features and price, compared fairly

BitNinja price, and how it scales

As of November 2026, BitNinja is sold per server, in tiers by the number of hosted users: Solo for one user at $9 per month, Standard for 2 to 40 users at $19, Pro for 41 to 250 users at $29 and Unlimited at $39. The pricing page shows these as a limited-time offer, with lower prices from five servers, and a free VPS plan for small servers with up to 10 users. Every plan includes every module, and there is a 7-day trial. The current figures are on bitninja.com/pricing.

InfraFence is priced per server only: $8.90 on Basic, $18.90 on Pro and $28.90 on AutoMode per month, 20% less billed yearly, and the first server is free. On a hosting server with hundreds of accounts the difference can be large; on a small single-user server BitNinja's entry plans are in the same range or free.

Where BitNinja is stronger

• An in-line web firewall. BitNinja's WAF inspects requests before they reach the site. InfraFence's web firewall scores visitors from the web server logs, so it blocks after the first requests, unless you add its ModSecurity rules on Apache.
• Real-time malware scanning. BitNinja watches the configured folders as files change, and has a database scanner. InfraFence scans on a schedule and checks upload folders every 30 seconds.
• Built for shared hosting. Honeypots, DoS detection with CAPTCHA pages and outbound spam detection are aimed at servers full of hosting accounts.
• A large reputation network. Its defence list is shared by thousands of protected servers.

Where InfraFence is different

• A dashboard for every server, panel or not: VPSs, Docker hosts, Coolify servers and Kubernetes nodes sit next to cPanel servers in one live view.
• Outbound and DNS detection tied to processes. A compromised server calling home is caught by the program that made the query, not only by the address it reached.
• Verified fixes. After every change the agent checks that SSH and your monitored sites still answer, and rolls back by itself if they do not.
• AutoMode. The AI applies safe fixes from a fixed catalogue around the clock and asks before anything risky.
• NIS2 reports. Drafts of the early warning, notification and final report, built from the events.
• ARM64 servers, and a price that does not grow with the number of users on the server.

Running BitNinja and InfraFence together

The agent is designed to run next to BitNinja. Its read-only check detects BitNinja, and the agent leaves BitNinja's firewall and WAF alone and keeps to its own INFRAFENCE chains: both block independently. Both scan files, and InfraFence never deletes or moves a file on its own, so the two scanners do not fight over the same file.

A possible split: keep BitNinja on shared-hosting servers for its in-line WAF and real-time scanning, and add InfraFence everywhere, for one view of the whole fleet, outbound detection, hardening fixes and reports.

Try InfraFence on a server that runs BitNinja

BitNinja keeps running. A read-only check runs before anything is installed.

1. 01

   Create the install token

   In the dashboard, open Servers › Add server. The token works once and expires after one hour.

2. 02

   Install the agent as root

   The check reports BitNinja as detected and explains what the agent does next to it.

   curl -fsSL https://github.com/infrafence/infrafence-agent/releases/latest/download/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --token <TOKEN>

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3. 03

   Watch first, in monitor mode

   Monitor mode detects everything and blocks nothing. See what InfraFence finds that you did not see before, outbound and DNS especially.

4. 04

   Then decide per server

   Keep both where the in-line WAF matters, use InfraFence alone where it covers what you need, and compare the cost per server.