URL shortener with
analytics
Make every connection count. Create branded links, design beautiful QR codes, and turn every click into a clearer picture of your audience.
- 1K links free
- 5 custom domains free
- No credit card
Shorten your link
Your next big idea deserves a shorter link.
- Instant short links and downloadable QR codes
- Anonymous links cannot be edited or measured
- Your own domain and full analytics need a free account
Free forever plan
1K branded links. 50K monthly tracked clicks.
Custom domains included
Connect 5 domains with automatic SSL.
No credit card required
Get started in minutes. Upgrade when you are ready.
Full analytics included
Click insights, conversion tracking, and easy exports.
Made for the way you work
From a first campaign to your next big launch. Find the workflow that fits your team.
Everything you need to manage links
One workspace for branded links, meaningful insights, and everything in between.
Advanced analytics
Every click is recorded, de-botted and aggregated, and the raw log stays yours to export.
- Country, city, device, browser and referrer breakdowns
- Raw click stream with bots separated from humans
- CSV and XLS export, plus a shareable public stats page
Custom domains
Your brand on the front of every link, with the certificate handled for you.
- One DNS record, then an automatic certificate
- A free subdomain to start with if you have no domain yet
- Per-domain default redirect code, 404 target and root redirect
Team collaboration
Bring the people who publish links into the same workspace, with roles that fit.
- Roles from viewer through owner, set per member
- Per-link permissions and folder-level defaults
- An audit log of who changed which link, and when
QR codes
Print-ready codes for the same links, so a poster can be re-pointed after it is printed.
- Themes, logos, colours and frames in the QR studio
- SVG and PDF export at any size for print
- Scans land in the same analytics as every other click
POST /api/links{ "originalURL": "https://…" }
API access
Everything the dashboard does is a documented REST call, on every plan including free.
- Scoped API keys, secret or create-only public keys
- A live OpenAPI document generated from the routes
- Signed click webhooks and an MCP server for AI assistants
Link management
Folders, tags, saved views and bulk edits, so a few thousand links stay findable.
- Folders with inherited defaults and saved filter views
- Bulk create, bulk edit and CSV import from another shortener
- Archive instead of delete, so a printed link never dies
From a link to your next big win
Create. Share. Understand. Grow. Your workflow, without the extra work.
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Shorten
Paste a destination, pick a domain and a slug — or let the AI suggest one — and you have a link. The box at the top of this page is the same endpoint the dashboard uses.
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Track
The moment someone clicks, the click is in your dashboard: country, city, device, browser, referrer, and the raw row behind the chart.
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Manage at scale
Folders, tags and saved views keep thousands of links in order. Import a CSV from your old shortener, bulk-edit what you brought, and change any destination without reprinting anything.
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Collaborate
Invite your team, give each person a role, and let the audit log answer who changed what. Add SSO when the company asks for it.
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Connect with your favourite tools
Bring your favourite tools together. Explore ready-to-use connectors and workflows powered by our API.
Better connections. For every team.
Pick a team to see what it gets out of the box.

Marketing teams
Campaign links that stay measurable from the first draft to the quarterly report.
What marketing teams get- UTM builder and saved presets, so every campaign is tagged the same way
- A/B split a printed link across up to ten destinations with sticky assignment
- Conversion tracking that ties a click to what happened afterwards
- Campaign templates that stamp defaults onto every new link in a folder

Sales teams
One short link per prospect, and a clear answer to whether they opened it.
What sales teams get- Per-rep folders with their own defaults and permissions
- Bulk-create a link per account from a CSV in one upload
- See the click stream per link — when it was opened and from where
- Password-protect or expire a link once a deal moves on

Developers teams
A REST API, webhooks and an MCP server, documented from the routes themselves.
What developers teams get- Create, edit, search and delete links with a scoped API key
- OpenAPI document generated live from the running instance
- Signed click webhooks with retries and a delivery log
- MCP server so an AI assistant can create links on your behalf

Support teams
Short, readable links in tickets and macros — and the ability to fix one after it ships.
What support teams get- Change a destination after a help article moves, without editing old tickets
- Tags and folders that mirror your help centre structure
- Deep links that open your mobile app, with a web fallback that always works
- Shared stats pages so a colleague can check a link without an account
Trusted at scale
Link management for marketing teams, developers and businesses tracking what matters.
99.9% is the uptime we target, and the status page is public — it reports what the monitors measured, not what we would like them to say.
50 requests a second is the API rate limit on the free plan, and the same API backs the box at the top of this page.
730 days of click history is kept on the free plan; the top tier keeps it indefinitely.
Go beyond the everyday short link
More control over your links. More ways to understand your audience. Explore the details that make a difference.
159 free tools, no sign-up
URL, metadata, campaign, QR and developer tools that do real work in the browser against our API — redirect tracer, Open Graph checker, UTM audit, QR contrast checker, DNS and SSL lookups and more. No email capture.
Explore this featureGeo targeting down to the city
Rules cascade continent → country → state → city, with the full ISO 3166-2 subdivision set and a curated city list built in. Most platforms stop at country; the ones that go further usually charge for it.
Explore this featureEnd-to-end encrypted links
The destination is encrypted in the browser before it is saved and decrypted in the visitor's browser after the redirect. The server, and therefore we, never see it.
Explore this featureDestination monitoring with a shareable status page
Monitored destinations are visited every ten minutes and domains have DNS and SSL re-read every six hours; click spikes, click drops and expiring certificates raise alerts to the in-app bell, email or a webhook. Each domain can publish a public status page at a private URL you can revoke.
Explore this featureAn API reference generated from the routes
The reference is produced from the route handlers themselves, so it lists every endpoint this installation actually serves — with the parameters the code reads and a runnable curl example — rather than a hand-written page that drifts.
Explore this featureSign in with your DNS provider to connect a domain
Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Namecheap, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Netlify, Porkbun, Hetzner, Linode, Gandi, Name.com and Route 53 write the records for you after a sign-in; six more hosts get a guided walkthrough. Nameservers are read first so the right provider is preselected.
Explore this featureCompetitor pricing and features are summarised from each vendor's public pricing and documentation pages and can change at any time. Prices and the September 2026 feature rows were checked on 24 Sep 2026 (USD); each vendor's comparison page names the official page behind every cell. "Not listed" means the vendor's public pages did not list the feature on that date, not that the vendor lacks it. Check the vendor's own site before making a decision — and tell us at hello@shortfreeurl.com if anything here is out of date.
What can ShortFreeURL do for you?
One link shortener, endless possibilities
A few questions, answered
Still stuck? The help centre goes deeper, and support answers the rest.
Is the free plan really free, or is it a trial?
It is a plan, not a trial. There is no expiry date and no card required to create the account. You keep the links you have made; if you outgrow the monthly click allowance you either move up a tier or wait for the month to roll over.
Do I need my own domain to start?
No. Every account can take a free subdomain at sign-up and start shortening immediately. You can connect your own domain later and keep the links you already made.
How do I connect a custom domain?
Add the domain in the dashboard, create the single DNS record it shows you, and wait for the check to go green. The certificate is issued automatically — there is nothing to upload unless you specifically want to bring your own.
Can I change where a link points after I have shared it?
Yes, and this is the main reason to use a shortener at all. The short URL is permanent; the destination behind it is a field you can edit at any time, including on links already printed on packaging or posters.
What exactly do you record about the people who click?
Click time, the country and — where the geo database can tell — the city, the device type, the browser, the operating system and the referring page. Measurement needs no cookie; the only cookies a redirect sets are the functional ones that keep an A/B assignment or a password unlock sticky. Turn on IP hiding and the raw address is never stored against the click.
Are bots counted in my click totals?
They are separated. Known crawlers, link previewers and scanners are flagged as bot traffic and reported apart from human clicks, so a link shared in a chat app does not read as a hundred visits.
Is there an API, and is it on the free plan?
Yes to both. The REST API is available on every plan, including free, at the rate limit shown on the pricing page. An OpenAPI document is served from the running instance so a generated client always matches the routes that exist.
Can I import the links I already have somewhere else?
Yes. There is a CSV import that takes the export from another shortener, maps the slug, destination and tags, and tells you which rows it could not take before it writes anything.
What happens to my links if I stop paying?
The account drops to the free plan. Existing links keep redirecting; what changes is the allowances and the features above the free tier. Nothing is deleted because a subscription lapsed.
Do QR codes expire, and can I change them after printing?
The QR encodes the short link, not the destination, so the code on a printed sheet never has to change. Re-point the link and every existing scan of that code goes to the new page. Codes export as SVG and PDF for print.
Can several people work in the same account?
Yes. Invite teammates, give each one a role, and use per-link permissions and folder defaults where a person should only touch part of the workspace. Every change is written to an audit log.
How do I know a claim on this page is true?
Every feature here has a page describing it, the pricing page shows which plan it lands on, and the comparison pages say plainly where a rival does something we do not. Where an integration is not built, its card says "Planned" rather than pretending.
Put your own name on your links today — Free
Free plan: 1K links, 5 custom domains and 50K tracked clicks a month. Paid plans start at $4 a month and you can buy every one of them without a sales call.
- No credit card to create an account
- Free plan with no expiry date
- Import your existing links by CSV
- Cancel or downgrade from the dashboard

