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Bitly

Who runs Bitly, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest URL shortener alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Short.io

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Bitly

Bitly bitly.com

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.

Wikidata: link management platform

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Bitly tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

More than all 20 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
3 tools

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • A/B testing

    Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Bitly

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Bitly, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than BitlyNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

5 of the 60 sites closest to Bitly match.

  1. 01
    Netlify netlify.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

    Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.

    Compare Netlify with Bitly →
  2. 02
    Visme visme.co English Free plan 2 trackers

    Visme: AI Presentation maker, Infographics, and One pager templates

    Create professional presentations, interactive infographics, beautiful design and engaging videos, all in one place. Start using Visme today.

    Compare Visme with Bitly →
  3. 03
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

    Compare GitHub with Bitly →
  4. 04
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

    Compare Semrush with Bitly →
  5. 05
    Retool retool.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool

    Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.

    Compare Retool with Bitly →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Bitly’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Bitly 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 Bitly 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 · 17 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
40 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Bitly’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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CMS
Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_netblocks.google.com include:_netblocks2.google.com i…
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
A/B testing
Hosting
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Th+HeZjMKa3QxX9JqLt67kxMrAsEfB9gz51iuPZ…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: VxdtAjqaA6XhwRJO86fcIZtRDqJAzUqlgS8AwZHmd3o
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=OsqnOPaJcFcYkul1EcF9xRDbjgCiaBgdXHbq2uuC
  • Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 641fdbe43ac1cd41