short.io
Short.io
Who runs Short.io, 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
- Bitly
Measured from Short.io’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Short.io01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Short.io
Short.io short.io
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.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Short.io 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
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 15 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Short.io
None of the 60 sites closest to Short.io match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Short.io 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 and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 65 ms
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Astro page source: data-astro-cid-
- Live chat & support
- Intercom page source: widget.intercom.io
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=6697123577ef2d18158693a542298d760d7b72ca202c28e85…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a3bf9c1f62be-HAM
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
- Reviews
- Trustpilot page source: widget.trustpilot.com
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.messagingengine.com include:amazonses.com include:…
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:spf.messagingengine.com include:amazonses.com include:…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS rick.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: rAOMqVkDGHqKOew1M59pN-C0UUzy9W5o72dUWD61JT8
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=sw8hts1fr67e51py12lxnprjr1n5nj
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Cloudflare 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on short.io 7/20
- Atlassian · not on short.io 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on short.io 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on short.io 5/20
- PHP · not on short.io 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on short.io 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on short.io 5/20
- OpenAI · not on short.io 5/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on short.io 4/20
- Zendesk · not on short.io 4/20
- Stripe 4/20
- HubSpot · not on short.io 3/20