Free plan available · No credit card required

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.

YOUR BRAND. YOUR LINK.
go.yourbrand.com/hello
Example branded link · Make it yours with a free account
  • 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.

Where short links do real work

Made for the way you work

From a first campaign to your next big launch. Find the workflow that fits your team.

Retail & e-commerceMedia & publishingHealthcareFinancial servicesEducationTravel & eventsRestaurants & hospitalityReal estateNon-profitsSoftware & SaaSPrint & packagingAgenciesSocial media teamsEvents
The platform

Everything you need to manage links

One workspace for branded links, meaningful insights, and everything in between.

Clicks over time · example

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
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yourbrand.co/summer

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
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MKJDATOne workspace. Your whole team.

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
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Example QR code

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
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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
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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
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See it in action

From a link to your next big win

Create. Share. Understand. Grow. Your workflow, without the extra work.

  1. 01

    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.

    Read more about shorten
  2. 02

    Track

    The moment someone clicks, the click is in your dashboard: country, city, device, browser, referrer, and the raw row behind the chart.

    Read more about track
  3. 03

    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.

    Read more about manage at scale
  4. 04

    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.

    Read more about collaborate
Built for every team

Better connections. For every team.

Pick a team to see what it gets out of the box.

marketing team connecting people and ideas with links

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
Connections in motion

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.

Why teams switch

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.

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Geo 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.

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End-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.

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Destination 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.

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An 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.

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Sign 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.

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See the full comparison table

Competitor 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.

Endless possibilities

What can ShortFreeURL do for you?

One link shortener, endless possibilities

Custom domainsBranded short linksDynamic QR codesReal-time clicksConversion trackingLocation trackingGeo-targetingDevice redirectsMeta PixelLinkedIn Insight Tag
QR code logosSocial previewsExpiring linksDevice detectionReferrer trackingApp store linksOpen in appGoogle AdsTikTok PixelX Pixel
Bulk importUTM tagsPassword protectionGDPR compliantGA4 integrationLink rotatorsWhatsApp rotatorA/B testingREST APIBot detectionPinterest TagSnap Pixel
PDF hostingCSV exportLink cloakingZapierWebhooksGoogle SheetsTeam sharingSmart linksMicrosoft AdsReddit PixelDestination monitoringScoped API keys
Questions

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