a.co
a.co
Who runs a.co, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest URL shortening alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Bitly
Measured from a.co’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit a.co01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs a.co
a.co
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What a.co tracks
We couldn’t read a.co’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to a.co
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to a.co, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Bitly | Short URLs, QR Codes, and More
Bitly makes it easy to create, share, and track short links and QR Codes. Find what's resonating and scale it into bigger reach, more clicks, and more sales.
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Short.io — URL shortener with custom domains & analytics
Free URL shortener with custom branded domains, analytics, and QR codes. Create up to 1,000 branded short links at no cost. No credit card required.
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ShrinkMe - Most Trusted URL Shortener Network with Highest Payout Rates
Highest Paying URL Shortener 2026 - Some of the reason to choose ShrinkMe.io are Daily Payments, Live Chat Support. Only Minimum Payout, Highest Payout Rates, Easy to use Member Panel and 20% Referral Bonus as well
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Linkmake
Make your link safe using Link Protector
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exe.io - Monetize your traffic with the highest CPMs!
exe.io is a free link shortener: earn for every 1,000 views your links get, at a rate set by the visitor's country, then withdraw your balance.
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Monetize your Gaming Links
Monetize your gaming content with LootLabs. Shorten and share links to earn revenue, track performance, and level up your gaming monetization strategy.
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kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
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Walmart | Save Money. Live better.
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Geniuslink - URL Shortener for Creators and Affiliates
Intelligent URL shortener that routes users to different destinations based on device, operating system, country, and more. Maximize your Amazon earnings.
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Rakuten: Shop. Get Cash Back. Repeat.
Feel the joy of Cash Back! Start your shopping at Rakuten - Shop as usual - Get Cash Back. Shop at over 3500 stores and get paid.
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Home | Continental - Continental AG
Our Goal: Healthy Mobility - clean, safe and connected. Our heart beats for this. Learn more about it on our homepage.
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Yandex — fast Internet search
Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.
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American company directory service and online review forum
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Web Hosting Built to Grow With You | hosting.com
Web hosting that takes you from idea to website to a lasting business. Fast and secure, with free migration, real experts 24/7 and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
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PriceRunner UK - Save by comparing prices from 5,100 stores
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British retailer
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Webpage archive
archive.is allows you to create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles a.co’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones a.co uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what a.co adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 30 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to a.co’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: 62RXbvKz3G2bZFDUxVptmhakCAa1Xqm6Dl8EqacpO8hwZ7avZU8KDw==
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1366.awsdns-42.org
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on a.co 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on a.co 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on a.co 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on a.co 7/20
- Atlassian · not on a.co 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on a.co 6/20
- nginx · not on a.co 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on a.co 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on a.co 4/20
- OneTrust · not on a.co 4/20
- PHP · not on a.co 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on a.co 4/20
- OpenAI · not on a.co 4/20
- Slack · not on a.co 3/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on a.co 3/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on a.co 3/20