Comparison
The Cutt.ly alternative for when the dashboard has to be yours
Cutt.ly is a volume tool: cheap tiers, tens of thousands of links, unlimited clicks. What it will not do at any price is carry your brand or bill your clients.
When to look for an alternative
Cutt.ly is built for people who generate a lot of links and want to pay very little for the privilege. The paid tiers run $12, $25, $99 and $149, the Team Enterprise plan at the top includes 99 domains and single sign-on, and the metering model is the inverse of everyone else: created links are the quota, 30,000 to 50,000 a month, while clicks are unlimited. Nine retargeting pixels, 50/50 A/B testing from the $25 Single plan, link surveys that nobody else in the category ships, and 48 interface languages round it out. Neither surveys nor 48 languages are on our v1 checklist.
Two details deserve attention before you buy on price. Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates only start at the $25 Single plan, so a custom domain on Free or Starter does not get an automatic certificate at all — which in 2026 means browser warnings on links you are asking people to click. And analytics retention runs from 30 days at the bottom to 730 days at the top, so the cheap tiers forget quickly.
The bigger gap for anyone reselling is branding, and here the finding is unusually concrete: we parsed the full 204 KB of the Cutt.ly pricing page and found zero occurrences of the phrase white label. The Custom plan, which sounds like the place customisation would live, adjusts quotas and nothing else. If your intention is to run a link service under your own name and charge for it, no Cutt.ly plan supports that; if your intention is to make a lot of links cheaply, they are hard to beat.
Side by side
Cutt.ly data collected August 12, 2026 from public pricing and documentation pages; verify current terms with the vendor before deciding.
| Capability | Cutt.ly | LinkProfit |
|---|---|---|
| What gets metered | 30,000 to 50,000 created links a month; clicks are unlimited. | Tracked clicks: 100,000 / 500,000 / 2,000,000 a month. Link ceilings 10,000 / 100,000 / 1,000,000. |
| Plan prices | Free, $12, $25 (Single), $99, $149 (Team Enterprise, 99 domains, SSO). Custom plan is annual only and changes quotas only. | $49 Starter, $149 Growth, $399 Scale, 20% off annually, Enterprise by contract. |
| White-label dashboard | None at all, and measurably so: zero occurrences of "white label" in the 204 KB pricing page we parsed. The Custom plan customises quotas, not branding. | Logo, colours, favicon, login page, emails and reports are yours; dashboard domain from Growth. |
| Reselling to clients | None. | Built in: your plans from $5/mo, cards through Stripe Connect, payouts to your bank, fee 15% / 12% / 10%. |
| Automatic SSL on custom domains | From the $25 Single plan only. Free and Starter get no automatic certificate. | On every plan including Starter, issued and renewed automatically. |
| Analytics retention | 30 to 730 days depending on plan. | At least 12 months on every plan, 24 months on Scale. |
| Domain allowance at the top tier | 99 domains on Team Enterprise at $149/mo — more than we offer at any published price. | 30 redirect domains on Scale at $399/mo, unlimited on Enterprise. |
| Retargeting pixels | 9 platforms. | Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, X and custom pixels. |
| A/B testing | 50/50 splits from the $25 Single plan. | Percentage splits on every plan, plus geo, device and language targeting. |
| Link surveys and interface languages | Surveys are unique to Cutt.ly, and the interface ships in 48 languages. | Neither is on the v1 checklist. |
| Client workspaces | Team plans share one account and one bill. | 50 / 250 / 1,000 isolated client workspaces, each with its own users and subscription. |
| Traffic filtering by network type | Not part of our August 2026 data set. | Up to 20 ordered rules per link plus a workspace-wide set: conditions on network type (data centre, VPN, public proxy, TOR, web proxy), verified-crawler check by address, quality score, country, region, city, autonomous system, address list, local hour and first-versus-repeat visit. Actions: pass, 404, 410, redirect, branded stub page, warn. |
| Geography and network detail | 9 retargeting pixels, 50/50 A/B testing from Single and link surveys; city and network level breakdowns were not part of our August 2026 data set. | Region and city with GeoNames identifiers, coordinates with an accuracy radius, network and provider with human clicks separated from total, visitor and proxy type, and activity by the visitor’s own local hour. Place names in 8 languages, resolved for the reader. |
| Conversion and revenue attribution | Not part of our August 2026 data set. | Signed click identifier in the URL and a first-party cookie on your own domain, per-workspace attribution window, server API and a browser script served from your domain, whole-cent amounts, atomic deduplication by order, and revenue in every existing breakdown. |
| Control over what is stored and for how long | Retention runs from 30 to 730 days depending on plan, chosen by buying a plan rather than by setting it. | Retention is a per-workspace setting written into each event, so rows are deleted by the storage engine rather than hidden from reports. Three location detail levels and switches for network, full referring address and traffic-type detection — all applied at write time. |
Quotes and figures in the Cutt.ly column are reproduced in the vendor's original English, exactly as published when the data was collected on August 12, 2026: translating a vendor's own wording would change what it claims.
Domains: certificates are the part that bites
Cutt.ly is generous with domain counts at the top — 99 on Team Enterprise for $149 a month is more than our 30 on Scale at $399, and we are not going to dress that up. The catch is lower down the grid: automatic Let's Encrypt certificates begin at the $25 Single plan, which means a custom domain attached on a cheaper tier has no automatic HTTPS. Every modern browser marks that clearly, and a link that shows a security warning does not get clicked.
On our side certificate handling is identical on every plan, Starter included: attach the domain, the certificate is issued and renewed automatically through Cloudflare for SaaS and our ingress, and nobody touches a certificate file. Subdomains point at cname.linkprofit.com with a CNAME; apex domains use an A record to the IP issued to your account.
Domain counts here are lower on purpose, because a domain is attached to a client workspace rather than sitting in a shared pool — three on Starter, ten on Growth, thirty on Scale. If raw domain count is your buying criterion and branding is not, Cutt.ly gives you more of it per dollar.
White-label and reselling: measured, not asserted
Vendors describe branding capabilities loosely, so for this research we checked the pricing page source rather than the marketing copy. In 204 KB of Cutt.ly pricing HTML the phrase white label appears zero times. There is no branding removal, no custom dashboard domain, no branded sender for notification emails, and the Custom plan negotiates quotas rather than appearance. This is a factual limit of the product, not a criticism of it — Cutt.ly sells to end users, and end users do not care whose logo is in the corner.
Resellers care about nothing else. On LinkProfit the identity your clients see is entirely yours: service name, logo, colours, favicon, login page, transactional emails and the address they are sent from, and the reports your clients export. From Growth the dashboard runs on your own hostname with the powered-by mark removed; on Starter it sits on a linkprofit.com subdomain with the mark still visible.
The commercial layer is what turns branding into a business. Clients subscribe to plans you created, at prices you set from $5 a month upwards, and Stripe Connect routes their payments to your account with the platform fee deducted at the source. On Cutt.ly, and on every other volume shortener in this segment, that entire layer is your spreadsheet.
Price and limits: links versus clicks versus clients
The two products meter opposite things, so a straight price comparison misleads. Cutt.ly charges for links created and gives away clicks; we charge for clicks tracked and set link ceilings well above what most partners use — 10,000 links on Starter, 100,000 on Growth, 1,000,000 on Scale. If you are generating tens of thousands of links a month for QR sheets or bulk campaigns and the traffic per link is small, Cutt.ly costs less and will keep costing less.
If the traffic is large and concentrated, the models swap places, because unlimited clicks with 30 to 730 days of retention buys you volume without memory. Our retention is at least 12 months on every plan and 24 months on Scale, which is what makes year-over-year reporting to a client possible at all.
The decisive number is neither of those. It is that a Cutt.ly plan is a cost, while a LinkProfit plan is a cost plus a revenue line: fifty client workspaces on Starter at $49, each paying you whatever you decided to charge, minus a 15% platform fee that falls to 10% on Growth and 10% on Scale.
Migrating is a CSV, not a project
Cutt.ly is not one of the three importer presets we ship — those cover Bitly, Short.io and Rebrandly — so an export from Cutt.ly needs its columns aligned to the slug, destination, title and tags shape before upload. After that the import behaves identically: 1,000 rows per batch, slugs preserved character for character, links landing in whichever client workspace you choose. Accounts with tens of thousands of links are exactly why the importer is batched rather than one-shot.
Links on cutt.ly itself belong to Cutt.ly and cannot follow you; only links on a domain you control can. For those, the cutover is a DNS change — CNAME to cname.linkprofit.com, or an A record to your issued IP — after which the same URLs resolve here with certificates issued automatically, including on Starter where Cutt.ly would have needed the $25 tier. Keep your Cutt.ly plan running until traffic on the old endpoint has stopped; nothing about the two services running in parallel causes a conflict.
Frequently asked questions
Can I import my Cutt.ly links?
Yes, via CSV with one preparation step. Cutt.ly is not a built-in preset, so match the exported columns to the slug, destination, title and tags shape our importer expects. It then runs at 1,000 rows per batch with slugs preserved, so URLs on your own domains keep working after the DNS change.
Will my clients see the LinkProfit name?
From Growth at $149 a month, no — your dashboard domain, your logo and colours, your email sender, no powered-by mark. On Starter the dashboard is on a linkprofit.com subdomain and shows a small powered-by mark. Cutt.ly shows Cutt.ly branding on every plan, including Team Enterprise at $149.
Cutt.ly is much cheaper. Is it the better deal?
For making a lot of links, yes. $12 to $25 a month with unlimited clicks is excellent value if you consume the service yourself. It stops being the better deal the moment you want to resell: no branding, no client subscriptions, no payouts, and no automatic SSL below $25.
What about surveys and 48 languages?
Those are genuinely theirs. Link surveys are unique to Cutt.ly in this category, and 48 interface languages is far ahead of the field. Neither is on our v1 checklist, so if either is central to your offer, factor that in before switching.
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