About Best Free URL Shortener

What this site does

Best Free URL Shortener looks at one thing: what URL shorteners include before you pay. Every entry isolates a single question about free tiers, such as whether a custom domain is included, whether ads are shown, how much analytics you get, and which quotas run out first. Paid plans appear only as context for the upgrade decision. For paid plans, head-to-head comparisons and full reviews, see the hub at Best URL Shorteners.

How the data is gathered

• Published numbers only. Limits and prices come from each vendor's own public pricing page, listed on the sources page. Where a page could not be read directly, the entry says so and names the secondary source.
• No star ratings. Third-party review scores are easy to buy and hard to audit, so they are not used.
• Dated and re-checked. Pricing pages are re-verified at least monthly and whenever a vendor announces a plan change. Every page shows its review date.

Who runs it

The site is operated by the team that builds ReSlug, one of the tools compared here, and is part of a group of related reference sites described on the related websites page. Rankings follow the published criteria on the methodology page; where another tool is stronger on those criteria it is ranked higher.

Corrections

If a limit or price has changed, email hello@bestfreeurlshortener.com with a link to the vendor page and it will be re-checked within a few days.