Alternatives and competitors
Sites like TinyURL
The 20 closest URL shortener alternatives to TinyURL, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to TinyURL? The closest matches are cutt.ly, Bitly and Linkmake. 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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- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About TinyURL
TinyURL tinyurl.com
URL Shortener, Branded Short Links & Analytics | TinyURL
Summary by Claude
TinyURL is a URL shortening service that converts long web addresses into short links, with paid options for branded custom domains and click analytics.
- Who it’s for
- Individuals, marketers and businesses sharing links
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to TinyURL’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 TinyURL
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to TinyURL, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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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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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free image hosting website
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Australian social media landing page service
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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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DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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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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Page Not Available - Likee
Likee is a Short Video Community that allows you to explore more content of your interests and make more like-minded friends.
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American media company
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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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curl
command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax
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Infolinks - Premium Direct Demand and Supply
Discover what Infolinks smart ads can do for you and start making money from site or blog today! Join now free of charge and monetize your content with us.
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WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt
Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.
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TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
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Similarweb: AI-Powered Digital Data Intelligence Solutions
Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data company providing real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trends to accelerate business growth.
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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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RuTracker.org
website providing torrent files and magnet links
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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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privacy-focused online search engine
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to tinyurl.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones TinyURL uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What TinyURL is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f84bea555c73-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:se…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:se…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Yp8nBgqtatID18UEVvPMs0qisMJ2CmcJR2/Fuau…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=koRGOiDnSuSNELGLaRqlhmyrKy7NGt58rV-rFHpN668
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=6nzev667vdzi0ht45dp76uk1gki9wp
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what TinyURL adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on tinyurl.com 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- nginx · not on tinyurl.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on tinyurl.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on tinyurl.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on tinyurl.com 5/20
- Zendesk · not on tinyurl.com 5/20
- Zoom · not on tinyurl.com 5/20
- PHP · not on tinyurl.com 4/20
- Atlassian 4/20
- OneTrust · not on tinyurl.com 4/20
- Slack · not on tinyurl.com 4/20
- OpenAI · not on tinyurl.com 4/20