Assembly Line

Alternatives to Bitly in 2026

2 commercial products, led by Rebrandly and Short.io. 30 open-source projects you can run yourself, led by YOURLS, Kutt and Sink.

Open source

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    YOURLS YOURLS

    πŸ”— The π˜₯𝘦 𝘧𝘒𝘀𝘡𝘰 standard, self hosted, powerful and customizable, URL shortener in PHP

    Complete system Production-ready You want branded short links on your own domain on cheap PHP and MySQL hosting.

    β˜… 12k MIT PHP Active, pushed today
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    Kutt thedevs-network

    Free Modern URL Shortener.

    Complete system Production-ready You want a modern self-hosted Bitly alternative with a clean interface.

    β˜… 11k MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 15 days ago
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    Sink miantiao-me

    ⚑ A Simple, Speedy, Secure, and Serverless Link Shortener with Analytics, Running Entirely on Cloudflare.

    Complete system Usable You already use Cloudflare and want branded short links with analytics at near-zero hosting cost.

    β˜… 7.2k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 7 days ago
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    Shlink shlinkio

    The definitive self-hosted URL shortener

    Complete system Production-ready You need an API-first shortener for marketing or product links on your own infrastructure.

    β˜… 5.4k MIT PHP Active, pushed today
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    Rustypaste orhun

    A minimal file upload/pastebin service.

    Complete system Production-ready You want a 0x0.st-style upload endpoint on your own server for sharing logs, snippets and files from the terminal.

    β˜… 1.2k MIT Rust Active, pushed 2 days ago
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    Chhoto URL SinTan1729

    A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust

    Complete system Usable You want short links on your own domain with as little resource use and as few features as possible.

    β˜… 997 MIT Rust Active, pushed yesterday
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    Url-Shorten-Worker xyTom

    A URL Shortener created using Cloudflare worker

    Complete system Usable You want personal short links on Cloudflare's free tier with almost no setup.

    β˜… 1.8k MIT JavaScript Slowing, pushed 8 months ago
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    JSONCrush KilledByAPixel

    Compress JSON into URL friendly strings

    Building block Usable You want to store small app or game state in a URL without a backend.

    β˜… 1.7k MIT JavaScript Slowing, pushed 9 months ago
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    Shlink-web-client shlinkio

    A React-based client application for Shlink

    Integration Production-ready You run Shlink and want a graphical admin, either at app.shlink.io or self-hosted.

    β˜… 401 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 2 days ago
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    Suri surishortlink

    Your own short links as an easily deployed static site

    Template or starter Usable You want personal short links on your own domain with no server or database.

    β˜… 396 MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 13 days ago
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    Lua luadotsh

    Open-source, next-generation, and scalable URL shortener designed for modern teams.

    Complete system Usable A marketing team wants a self-hosted Bitly-style tool on a Laravel stack.

    β˜… 344 AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 42 days ago
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    Spoo spoo-me

    spoo.me is an open-source & API first link management infra

    Complete system Production-ready You want an API-first shortener with analytics, either using spoo.me or self-hosting the same code.

    β˜… 265 AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed yesterday
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    Stub Snazzah

    A self-hostable modified fork of Dub: An open-source link shortener.

    Complete system Experimental You want a Dub-style shortener for a single user on your own infrastructure.

    β˜… 217 AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 2 days ago
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    UrlHub realodix

    βœ‚οΈ URL shortener web application based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

    Complete system Usable You run Laravel hosting already and want a shortener you can extend in PHP.

    β˜… 542 MIT PHP Slowing, pushed 4 months ago
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    Sleeky Flynntes

    🎨 A sleek and simple frontend & backend theme for YOURLS

    Integration Usable You run YOURLS and want a cleaner look or a public-facing shortening form.

    β˜… 522 MIT SCSS Slowing, pushed 7 months ago
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    Bitly philnash

    πŸ—œ A Ruby wrapper for the bit.ly API

    Integration Production-ready A Ruby application needs to create or track Bitly links.

    β˜… 448 MIT Ruby Slowing, pushed 9 months ago
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    Shortlink flyfish-dev

    Self-hosted short link and live QR platform with ownership, review, branded QR codes, analytics, and an auditable path to AI-assisted operations.

    Complete system Experimental A Chinese-speaking marketing or operations team prints QR codes and needs to change their targets later.

    β˜… 169 AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 21 days ago
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    Polr cydrobolt

    :aerial_tramway: A modern, powerful, and robust URL shortener

    Complete system Experimental Rarely; choose Shlink, YOURLS or Kutt for a maintained shortener.

    β˜… 5.1k GPL-2.0 PHP Quiet, pushed 2 years ago
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    Snapp urania-dev

    Yet Another Url Shortner. A simple excercise to learn Svelte.

    Complete system Experimental A small team wants branded links with workspaces and permissions on its own server.

    β˜… 402 MIT Svelte Slowing, pushed 11 months ago
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    REMS-For-Organisations bearlike

    πŸš€ Streamline club management with our all-in-one system: bulk mailer, certificate generator & more. Perfect for student organizations.

    Complete system Usable A student society needs event certificates and mailings without paying for several SaaS tools.

    β˜… 162 MIT HTML Active, pushed 8 days ago
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    Ishortn.ink AmoabaKelvin

    URL Shortening, Link Analytics & QR Code Platform

    Complete system Usable You want a Next.js-based shortener with analytics that you can self-host or use hosted.

    β˜… 153 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 42 days ago
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    Uptooda zenden2k

    Uptooda is a program for uploading images, screenshots and other files to a few dozen file hosting services. It can make screenshots, record videos from the screen, and has an integrated image editor.

    Complete system Usable You regularly capture and upload screenshots or video thumbnails on Windows and want one tool for it.

    β˜… 149 Apache-2.0 C++ Active, pushed yesterday
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    OpenShort.link idhamsy

    OpenShort.link is the all-in-one, open-source, serverless URL shortener. It runs 100% on Cloudflare and offers one-click installation.

    Complete system Experimental A blogger or marketer already on Cloudflare wants a free-to-run shortener on their own domain.

    β˜… 113 AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 27 days ago
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    FZBypassBot rjriajul

    A Elegant Fast Multi Threaded Bypass Bot for Bigger Deeds. Try Now !!

    Complete system Experimental Rarely; it exists to skip shortener and file-host ad pages, often for download sites.

    β˜… 110 MIT Python Active, pushed 2 months ago
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    Rdt-li nrjdalal

    rdt.li self hostable, feature rich, minimalistic and open source URL shortener. Built with Next.js, Drizzle, NextAuth and Postgres.

    Complete system Experimental You want a simple Next.js shortener to deploy on Vercel with a Postgres database.

    β˜… 252 MIT TypeScript Slowing, pushed 3 months ago
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    Url-link buildlabs-io

    Open-source URL shortener with built-in analytics, powered by FastAPI & Next.js

    Complete system Experimental You want a modern-looking shortener with analytics and Google sign-in on your own server.

    β˜… 109 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 21 days ago
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    Supaflare supaflare

    URL shortener / redirection service powered by Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV and Cloudflare Pages.

    Complete system Experimental You want a personal redirect service at no hosting cost and are comfortable wiring up Supabase and Cloudflare.

    β˜… 238 MIT Vue Slowing, pushed 7 months ago
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    Emojied sekunho

    A URL shortener that uses emojis, only emojis.

    Complete system Experimental You want a fun shortener or a small Rust web app to learn from.

    β˜… 196 AGPL-3.0 Rust Slowing, pushed 11 months ago
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    SuperBin Zhoros

    Super Bin - Pastebin, File Sharing and URL Shortener with Password, Curl and QR support

    Complete system Usable You want one small self-hosted tool for sharing text, files and links.

    β˜… 191 AGPL-3.0 Go Slowing, pushed 5 months ago
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    Gh-pages-url-shortener nelsontky

    Minimal URL shortener that can be entirely hosted on GitHub pages.

    Template or starter Experimental You want a novelty, zero-cost personal shortener and do not need analytics.

    β˜… 1.4k GPL-3.0 HTML Quiet, pushed 2 years ago

Commercial

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    Rebrandly Rebrandly

    Best link shortener for marketing teams. Create branded short URLs, track campaign performance, and boost clicks with custom domains. Start for free.

    Complete system Production-ready You care most about branded domains for links and want a cheaper option than Bitly's higher tiers.

    Commercial
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    Short.io Short.io

    Free URL shortener with custom branded domains, analytics, and QR codes. Create up to 1,000 branded short links at no cost. No credit card required.

    Complete system Production-ready A small business wants branded short links on its own domain at low or no cost.

    Commercial

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