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
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Short.io, thumbs down if it isn’t.
4 of the 60 sites closest to Short.io match.
- 01
Amplitude | A new era for product teams
From analytics to feedback to code, Amplitude brings AI into every step of building self-improving products. Start free with 2M events per month.
Very close - 02
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
Very close - 03
Product Intelligence Platform for the AI Era | Mixpanel
Mixpanel is the product intelligence platform for the AI era, combining analytics, session replay, experiments, feature flags, and AI-powered insights.
Very close - 04
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.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Short.io’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Short.io 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 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,213
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 83 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Short.io’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
- 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