Alternatives and competitors
Sites like a.co
The 20 closest URL shortening alternatives to a.co, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 2 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to a.co? The closest matches are Linkmake, Bitly and cutt.ly. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 19 ms
01 · Entity
About a.co
Summary by Claude
a.co is Amazon's official URL shortener, used to create short links that redirect to Amazon product pages and other Amazon content.
- Who it’s for
- Amazon shoppers and sellers sharing product links
- Business model
- Supports Amazon retail sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to a.co’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to a.co
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to a.co, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Linkmake
Make your link safe using Link Protector
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Bitly | Short URLs, QR Codes, and More
Bitly makes it easy to create, share, and track short links and QR Codes. Find what's resonating and scale it into bigger reach, more clicks, and more sales.
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Cuttly: URL Shortener, Branded Domains, Short Link Analytics
URL Shortener with branded short links & QR Codes. Shorten long URLs instantly, track every click. Link in Bio, Campaigns, Surveys and Teams in one platform.
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News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
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product discovery website
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Not available in your region – realtor.com®
Our home search experience isn’t currently available to visitors located in Europe.
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Rakuten: Shop. Get Cash Back. Repeat.
Feel the joy of Cash Back! Start your shopping at Rakuten - Shop as usual - Get Cash Back. Shop at over 3500 stores and get paid.
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Ahrefs—AI Marketing Platform Powered by Big Data
We help marketers drive visibility across AI search, SEO, content, and social – with the largest AI and search databases online.
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- CookieYes
- Google Ads conversion tracking
- Google Analytics
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privacy-focused online search engine
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Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Automattic – Making the web a better place
We are passionate about making the web a better place. 20 years: explore the Automattic timeline or take a literary jaunt with Year Without Pants. WordPress.com Your blog or websitehas a (free!) home on the web.Your story, your way. Beeper Tower of Babelfragmented messaging woesyou need a Beeper. Tumblr Where your interestsconnect you to your people,one post…
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Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
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Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
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Yandex — fast Internet search
Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.
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DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
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Webpage archive
archive.is allows you to create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
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Cloudflare Captcha Page | Register.com
American domain name registrar
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Microsoft 365
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to a.co’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones a.co uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What a.co is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: Xwu22k6vb0c6uWnr1Fx6kbhxjsSs6yb570zaEefa_XuisOfoAZfVRw==
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1679.awsdns-17.co.uk
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what a.co adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on a.co 17/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on a.co 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on a.co 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on a.co 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on a.co 6/20
- Atlassian · not on a.co 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on a.co 5/20
- nginx · not on a.co 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront 4/20
- Adobe · not on a.co 4/20
- DocuSign · not on a.co 4/20
- OpenAI · not on a.co 4/20
- SendGrid · not on a.co 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on a.co 3/20
- PHP · not on a.co 3/20