🆚 Bitly vs. YOURLS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

URL shortener
Content management system

About

Bitly is a URL shortening and link management platform that converts long URLs into short redirects while providing tools to organize, track, and optimize shared links across digital channels.

It offers branded short links with custom domains, detailed click analytics by location and referrer, dynamic QR code generation, link-in-bio landing pages, bulk link creation through an API, targeting by country or device, password protection, expiration dates, and integrations with multiple platforms such as WordPress, Shopify, ChatGPT, and Salesforce.

YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) is a self-hosted URL shortener built in PHP.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️5 links per month
Core
(100 links/month)
$120/year
Growth
(500 links/month)
$35/month
Premium
(3K links/month)
$300/month
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

URL Shorteners › Rank #1
URL Shorteners › Rank #23
CMS › Rank #185

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Bitly URL shortener is 586 times more popular than YOURLS.
Total websites

Market share

URL Shorteners

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Bitly is more popular than YOURLS in all countries.
United States
Indonesia
Brazil
United Kingdom
Italy
India
Thailand
Germany
Spain
France

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Bitly is more popular than YOURLS in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Sports
General News
Internet Services
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
#651,285
#669,382
#2,200,742
#2,784,184
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See also

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