Alternatives and competitors
Sites like cutt.ly
The 20 closest URL shortener alternatives to cutt.ly, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to cutt.ly? The closest matches are Bitly, Linkmake and Strikingly. 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.
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01 · Entity
About cutt.ly
cutt.ly
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.
Summary by Claude
Cuttly is a URL shortening service that creates short and branded links with click analytics, plus QR codes, link-in-bio pages, surveys, campaigns, team accounts and an API.
- Who it’s for
- Marketers, creators and businesses
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to cutt.ly’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 cutt.ly
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to cutt.ly, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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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Linkmake
Make your link safe using Link Protector
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How To Make a Website – Free Website Builder | Strikingly
Strikingly is the best free website builder for anyone to create a gorgeous, mobile-friendly website easily. Quick, simple and stylish. Make your own free website today.
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Walink | Create Free WhatsApp Links & QR Codes (wa.link)
WhatsApp link and QR code generator: make a wa.link that opens a chat with your account, with a prefilled message. Get branded Premium Links you can edit and track.
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Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
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Customer.io: Customer Engagement Platform For Better Outcomes
Customer.io is a customer engagement platform for creating personalized journeys and better business outcomes across email, push, SMS, and in-app messaging.
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Pushy - Lightning-Fast & Highly-Reliable Push Notifications
Pushy is a reliable push notification gateway for time-sensitive, mission-critical apps.
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curl
command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax
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Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.
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AI-Powered Omnichannel Customer Engagement Platform | SaleSmartly
Trusted by 300,000+ businesses. Unify WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram & more in a shared inbox with AI agents, CRM & automation to capture, convert & retain customers.
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American media company
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CapCut AI Video Editor: Smart Online Video Editing with Advanced AI Tools
Edit YouTube and Instagram videos with CapCut's AI-powered video editor, smart templates, and creative effects. Download CapCut on desktop, mobile, or edit online.
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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.
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All-in-One Data Privacy Compliance Solution for Websites & Apps - Termly
Termly is your all-in-one compliance solution for data privacy laws worldwide. Privacy policy generator, cookie consent, terms, and more.
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about.me | your personal homepage
Create a free, one-page website in minutes with about.me. Showcase your work, links, and story on a personal homepage that's all about you.
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Meeting Scheduling Software and AI Meeting Tools | Calendly
Calendly connects and simplifies all of the work around meetings, from scheduling, payments, and meeting prep to notetaking, contact management, and follow-up.
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Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
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GIPHY - Be Animated
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
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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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Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. For math, science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music…
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to cutt.ly’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones cutt.ly uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What cutt.ly is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://cutt.ly/scripts/jquery.js?v=03112023
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://cutt.ly/scripts/bootstrap.min.js?v=2302202301
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630d332c1c20da-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP cookie PHPSESSID
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ruben.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=teSYBNU4BseciatKpSeK42EJZMvlH2appyW2-nQPUCw
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what cutt.ly adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on cutt.ly 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on cutt.ly 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on cutt.ly 8/20
- OpenAI · not on cutt.ly 8/20
- HubSpot · not on cutt.ly 7/20
- Zendesk · not on cutt.ly 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on cutt.ly 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on cutt.ly 6/20
- nginx · not on cutt.ly 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Atlassian · not on cutt.ly 5/20
- OneTrust · not on cutt.ly 5/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- Stripe · not on cutt.ly 5/20