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.

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01 · 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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

20 of the 60 sites closest to a.co match.

  1. 01
    Bitly bitly.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    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.

    Compare Bitly with a.co →
  2. 02
    Short.io short.io English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Short.io with a.co →
  3. 03
    ShrinkMe shrinkme.io English 2 trackers

    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

    Compare ShrinkMe with a.co →
  4. 04
    Linkmake linkmake.in Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Linkmake

    Make your link safe using Link Protector

    Compare Linkmake with a.co →
  5. 05
    exe.io English No trackers

    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.

    Compare exe.io with a.co →
  6. 06
    cutt.ly Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Cuttly: URL Shortener, Branded Domains, Short Link Analytics

    URL Shortener with branded short links & QR Codes. Shorten long URLs instantly, track every click. Link in Bio, Campaigns, Surveys and Teams in one platform.

    Compare cutt.ly with a.co →
  7. 07
    lootlabs.gg English No trackers

    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.

    Compare lootlabs.gg with a.co →
  8. 08
    Jason Kottke kottke.org English No trackers

    kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products

    Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.

    Compare Jason Kottke with a.co →
  9. 09
    Geniuslink geniuslink.com English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Geniuslink with a.co →
  10. 10
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English No trackers

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

    Compare YouTube with a.co →
  11. 11
    Rakuten rakuten.com Top 1K No trackers

    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.

    Compare Rakuten with a.co →
  12. 12
    Continental continental.com English No trackers

    Home | Continental - Continental AG

    Our Goal: Healthy Mobility - clean, safe and connected. Our heart beats for this. Learn more about it on our homepage.

    Compare Continental with a.co →
  13. 13
    umi.ru Russian 1 tracker

    Конструктор Сайтов Онлайн | Создать Сайт Бесплатно Самому на Русском Языке | Лучший Бесплатный Конструктор Интернет Сайтов

    UMI — бесплатный онлайн конструктор сайтов на русском языке. Создайте сайт сами с нуля, легко и быстро, без программистов и лишних затрат.

    Compare umi.ru with a.co →
  14. 14
    Yandex yandex.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Yandex with a.co →
  15. 15
    Hosting a2hosting.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Hosting with a.co →
  16. 16
    archive.is Top 1K No trackers

    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

    Compare archive.is with a.co →
  17. 17
    Cookpad cookpad.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Choose your Region - Cookpad

    Thousands of authentic recipes from around the world, recommended and tested by home cooks. Save your favourites and share your own on Cookpad.

    Compare Cookpad with a.co →
  18. 18
    Sitemaps sitemaps.org Top 10K No trackers

    sitemaps.org - Home

    The Sitemaps protocol enables webmasters to information earch engine about pages on their site that are available for crawling.

    Compare Sitemaps with a.co →
  19. 19
    United States Army army.mil Top 10K English 2 trackers

    The Official Home Page of the United States Army

    The latest news, images, videos, career information, and links from the U.S. Army

    Compare United States Army with a.co →
  20. 20
    WebDAV webdav.org Top 10K No trackers

    WebDAV Resources

    Central resource site for the WebDAV community.

    Compare WebDAV with a.co →

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

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,199
Vector
384-d
Query
42 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

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