About Best Link Shortener

What this site does

Best Link Shortener answers one question: which link shortener fits the channel you are about to paste a link into. Each entry covers a channel (social, email, SMS and WhatsApp, print and QR, affiliate, podcasts and video), explains what that channel punishes, and names a pick and a runner-up from published plan limits. The broader ten-tool ranking lives on Best URL Shorteners; this site is the channel-by-channel reading of the same data.

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 [email protected] with a link to the vendor page and it will be re-checked within a few days.