We looked through thousands of URL_Shortener APIs and put together a list of the most popular & cheapest ones available.

A URL shortener solution to generate, share and track links for every form of communication


Bitly is the most widely trusted link management platform in the world. By using the Bitly API, you will exercise the full power of your links through automated link customization, mobile deep linking, and click analytics.

 Key Features:
 
- Proven API
Quickly and reliably integrate branded links as part of automated workflows of every kind, at virtually any volume. Learn more about our integrations and API

- Link Management
Securely shorten and manage millions of short, powerful links at scale for all your programmatic initiatives. Learn more about link management

- Branded Links
Help each link you generate work harder by ensuring customers know they’re being sent from a trusted source. Learn more about branded links



Bitly API

Shorten and manage thousands to hundreds of millions of URL's with a robust link shortener API

**URL Shortener API**
_Shorten and manage thousands to hundreds of millions of URL's with a robust link shortener API_

- Manage millions of URL's simultaneously
- Robust analytics and tracking on URL's
- Integrate deep links, retargeting, and more
- Lightning fast REST API

**Increase conversion and marketing effectiveness with Abstract's URL Shortener API**

- **Create and manage hundreds of millions of URL's simultaneously**
Abstract's URL Shortener API is built with scale in mind. Whether you're shortening and managing 100 or 100 million URL's, Abstract can handle the creation, tracking, and management of them without a sweat.
- **Robust analytics to track URL usage and performance**
It's critical to understand how your URL's are used and performing once they're shortened. Abstract provides multiple reporting and analytics options through the API as well as the dashboard so you're never in the dark about the performance of your URL's.
- **Deep link support for iOS, Android, and more**
Manage deep linking to your mobile applications from your short URL's with native support for iOS and Android, as well as other platforms. Deep links can be managed with the API or the easy-to-use dashboard.
- **Multiple custom domains for short URL's**
Your links should reflect your brand, so you can use and manage multiple custom domains for your shortened URL's. By combining it with Smart URL Routing, you can even use different custom domains for different purposes.
- **Smart URL routing options**
Creating highly customizable routing and destination options based on the requesting device's type, location or timezone, and more. Create highly bespoke experiences for your users that maximize conversion via your shortened URL's.
- **Retargeting options baked in**
Further maximize conversion and the ROI of your shortened URL traffic by tagging visitors for retargeting once they click through your shortened URL's.

URL Shortener API

 API to add, edit links as well as download click statistics.

## Use one of the available APIs to increase and organize your link management in a more efficient way
Start using the API to add, edit links as well as download click statistics. The API also allows you to add and edit links in your own domain. On our website, you can use several APIs depending on your subscription. Each team you create has its own API key, so link management can be organized in your own way.

## Link analytics, branded urls, URL shortener
Don't let the links limit you. Make your links support your brand. The new standard of shortening links. A new standard for link analytics. Discover unique redirects analytics - work with your team together building your brand engagment. Manage your links like a pro.

**URL Shortener**
Free custom URL Shortener with many features that gives you better quality for links shortening. Shortened URLs will never expire. We do not display ads during direct redirecting to the original url.

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Link Analytics Platform
Track each shortened link and measure its performance to understand it. Detailed analytics provides you info about clicks, social media clicks, page referrer, devices, brands, browsers, systems, geo location, bots.


## Link shortener that supports your brand
Create your own brand short links with cutt.ly
Make your links generate more clicks and support your brand. Learn more about your link's click-through rates in extensive click analytics. Check who clicks your links and how, on what devices and from what locations.

A short link in your own domain.

Unleash the potential of your links. Make your audience receive links that are friendly and readable. Keep your links short, but convey much more content so your customers can see you better.




Cutt.ly links API

Simple and efficient short link creation.

URLBae allows you to seamlessly track your audience with simple and easy-to-remember yet powerful links and provide your customers a unique tailored experience. Want an Instagram Bio Page? We can do that too! QR Code for Crypto? We have you covered. All completely free!

An API key is required for requests to be processed by the system. Once a user registers, an API key is automatically generated for this user. The API key must be sent with each request. If the API key is not sent or is expired, there will be an error. Please make sure to keep your API key secret to prevent abuse.


UrlBae API

The TinyURL API allows you to programmatically access our service to shorten long URLs into TinyURLs.

The Tiny-URL Open API is a service that allows users to shorten URLs. Rather than provide a single URL shortener, Tiny-URL connects to over 80 other services. The API uses RESTful protocol and responses are formatted in either XML, JSON or TXT. The API requires an API key. This customization helps you to fully realize the potential of TinyURL through automated link customization.



TinyURL API

Automatically create, track and share short links with a custom domain name.

Rebrandly is a fresh approach to short links, which allows you to create cool, descriptive links using a custom branded domain name. Unlike other URL shorteners, Rebrandly links are simple to pronounce, easy to remember, and they promote your brand. With the Rebrandly API you can automate all these steps to ease your work-flow. 

**The Rebrandly API allows you to easily:**
- Manage your account info.
- Manage your branded shorts links and their associated incoming traffic.
- Manage your tags and their associated incoming traffic.
- Manage your retargeting scripts.
- Manage your branded domains.

**Keep in mind that the Rebrandly API doesn't support:**
- Search for domain names.
- Purchase a new branded domain.
- Manage your billing/invoicing info.
- Manage your workspaces and teammates.

In case you want to use any live apps, Rebrandly Web API is currently consumed by over 20,000 developers worldwide for internal and external projects.


Rebrandly API

Kutt API gives you all the functionality of Kutt to create, delete and get URLs from anywhere..

The Kutt API is a free and open source modern URL shortener based on the functionality of Kutt. 

**Kutt API Features:**
- Free and open source. 
- Setting custom domain. 
- Using custom URLs for shortened links 
- Setting password for links. 
- Private statistics for shortened URLs. 
- View and manage your links. 

Kutt API

URL Shortener service with an API which provides extensive analytics backend.

### What is URL Shortener?
URL Shortener API provides full privacy and ownership on your short url service. Ability to generate thousands of URLs with a powerful API and get all the stats without anyone else having access to it.

#### Why you should use short URLs?

When we receive a message, ad or promotion with long URLs that mainly contains a bunch of characters and numbers in it, we have less tendency to trust and click on it. Customized links especially shortened with domain names help us to recognize the brand and trust it easily.

#### Easy to track your content performances with URL Shortener API
Recently, more and more URL Shortener services provide analytics tools to track link click rates, referrals, conversion rates and user behaviour. Especially in the social media platforms, those insights help businesses to know their customer base and their interactions better.

#### What are features of URL Shortener API?
- We do not charge any extra fee for using a custom domain in your short url service.
- If for any reason may you decide to unsubscribe from this service, your short links will still keep on functioning (if otherwise is requested).

The Top 15 Url shortener Apis for Developers