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A Bitly alternative that doesn't meter your QR codes

Bitly counts QR codes monthly: two on the free plan, ten at $29. Multi-user access it sells only through its Enterprise sales team. Here, every link has a QR code, and members start at $12 a month.

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  • Straight to the destination: no ad page, no consent wall
  • Free plan with no card and no ads
  • Cookieless analytics hosted in the EU, and opt-in retargeting pixels from Pro
The QR code editor, with colours, a centre logo and a frame applied to a short link

The three limits people leave over

Bitly figures checked on their pricing page, 23 September 2026.

QR codes are metered

Two a month on Bitly's free plan, five on Core, ten on Growth. What a monthly allowance means for a code you are about to print is worth reading on their plan before you commit to it. Here a QR code is part of the link, not a separate allowance.

Team access is Enterprise

User management, group permissions, SSO and the activity log sit on Bitly's Enterprise plan, behind a sales call. Three members with roles are included here at $12 a month.

One domain, then Enterprise

Bitly includes a single custom domain from Growth at $29, and more than one is Enterprise again. Two domains start at $12 here, and ten come with the $29 plan.

Tier by tier

Our column is read from the live plan catalogue, so it cannot drift from the pricing page. Bitly's column was checked by hand on 23 September 2026.

Free plans

Bitly Free Urlicer Free
Short links 5 a month 500 a month
QR codes 2 a month One per link, not metered
Custom back-half 3 a month Not on Free
Change where a link points Paid, from Core On every plan
Click analytics No history on the free plan 30 days
Tracked clicks Unlimited 25,000 a month
API 1,000 requests a month 30 requests a minute
Ads A preview page with an ad and a 7-second wait None

Bitly Core $10 vs Urlicer Pro $12

Bitly Core Urlicer Pro
Short links 100 a month 5,000 a month
QR codes 5 a month One per link, not metered
Custom back-half 100 a month On every link
Custom domain Not included 2
Members Enterprise only 3
Click analytics 30 days 90 days
API 5,000 requests a month 120 requests a minute

The same $29: Bitly Growth vs Urlicer Team

Bitly Growth Urlicer Team
Short links 500 a month 50,000 a month
QR codes 10 a month One per link, not metered
Custom domains 1 10
Members Enterprise only 10
Click analytics 120 days 365 days (a year)
API 25,000 requests a month 600 requests a minute

Bitly's prices are the annual-billing figures shown on their pricing page on 23 September 2026. Ours above are monthly; paid yearly, Pro is $120 and Team is $290. Bitly counts links, QR codes and custom back-halves per month, so an unused month does not carry over. Our link figures are how many can exist on the account at once, which is why the two columns are worded differently.

Limits to know before you switch

  • Tracked clicks are counted per month. Each plan records clicks up to a monthly limit, shown on the pricing page. Past it, links keep redirecting, so nothing breaks; it is the counting that stops until the next month.
  • Location stops at country. We report country, device, browser, referrer and OS on every plan, including free. We do not report cities.
  • No single sign-on. Members are invited by email and given a role.

Switching without breaking anything

1

Leave your old links alone

Short links belong to the domain that serves them, so a bit.ly link can only be redirected by Bitly. Keep the account for as long as those links are in circulation.

2

Make new links here

On ivi.to, or on your own domain from Pro. Anything you print from now on is a link you control.

3

Move the ones that matter

Re-point the links still being shared: profile links, email footers, live campaigns. Paste or upload them in bulk on Pro, or use the API, which is on every plan including free.

Frequently asked questions

Can I import my Bitly links?
Yes, from a Bitly export. Bitly's paid plans export a CSV from the Links page; upload it to bulk create on Pro and the columns are recognised: Destination URL becomes the link, Custom Link the alias, and rows marked deleted are left out. What an import cannot do is take over the bit.ly links themselves: they resolve on Bitly's servers, so leave them in place while they are in circulation. How to move links from Bitly.
Is the QR limit really unlimited?
There is no separate QR allowance. Every short link has a QR code, on every plan, and the link limit is the only limit. Colours, shapes and frames are on every plan. A centre logo starts on Team, which is also where our mark leaves the frame.
Do the links expire?
Links made inside an account do not expire on their own. Links made without signing in are removed after 30 days, so claim them to an account to keep them. From Pro you can also give a link a deliberate expiry date, after which it stops forwarding.
Do I need a credit card to try it?
No. The free plan needs an email address, carries no ads, and has links, QR codes, analytics and the API.
Will this add a cookie banner to my site? Is it GDPR-friendly?
The click analytics set no cookies and do not follow anyone between sites, so there is nothing to ask consent for. The visitor's IP address is never stored: it is hashed with a salt that rotates every day, which also means one visitor cannot be linked from one day to the next. Country, referrer domain, device, browser and OS are counted; individuals are not. Link tracking and GDPR works through the reasoning, and the privacy policy names every processor and what each one receives. Retargeting pixels are separate and opt-in: from Pro you can add Meta, Google Ads, LinkedIn, TikTok or X pixels to links on your own domain, and visitors in the EU, UK and Switzerland are asked before any of them loads.
Where is the data stored?
The application, the database and the click analytics run on one server in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Email is sent from a server in Helsinki. A few named third parties sit outside that, including the payment provider and the safe-browsing check run on destination URLs, and the privacy policy lists each of them by name.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, from Pro, which includes two. Team includes ten. Verification is two DNS records and the certificate is issued and renewed for you. Here is how that works.
Where do these Bitly numbers come from?
Bitly's own pricing page, read on 23 September 2026. Their table is drawn by JavaScript, so it has to be rendered rather than fetched. The longer comparison, including Bitly's Premium and Enterprise tiers, is in the full write-up.

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