Comparison
LinkProfit vs Cutt.ly
Two products that meter opposite things. Comparing the prices without comparing the meters gets the answer wrong in both directions.
When to look for an alternative
Cutt.ly is the volume lowcoster of the category, and the pricing reflects it: Free, $12, $25 for the Single plan, $99, and $149 for Team Enterprise with 99 domains and single sign-on. The metering model is the inverse of everyone else — created links are the quota, 30,000 to 50,000 a month, and clicks are unlimited. Nine retargeting pixels, 50/50 A/B testing from $25, link surveys nobody else ships, and 48 interface languages come with it.
We meter the other side: tracked clicks at 100,000, 500,000 and 2,000,000 a month, with link ceilings set well above typical use at 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000. If you generate enormous numbers of links that each receive a handful of clicks — QR sheets, bulk campaigns, per-recipient links — Cutt.ly costs less and will keep costing less. If traffic is concentrated on fewer links, the models swap places.
Two details are easy to miss on the pricing page and both matter. Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates start only at the $25 Single plan, so a custom domain on Free or Starter gets no automatic certificate at all. And analytics retention runs from 30 days at the bottom of the ladder to 730 at the top, so the cheap tiers forget quickly.
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 is metered | 30,000 to 50,000 created links a month; clicks unlimited. | 100,000 / 500,000 / 2,000,000 tracked clicks a month; link ceilings 10,000 / 100,000 / 1,000,000. |
| Plan prices | Free, $12, $25 (Single), $99, $149 (Team Enterprise). Custom plan is annual only and adjusts quotas. | Starter $49, Growth $149, Scale $399, Enterprise by contract. 20% off annually. |
| Automatic SSL on custom domains | From the $25 Single plan only; Free and Starter get no automatic certificate. | Every plan, issued and renewed automatically for subdomains and apex domains alike. |
| Domains at the top tier | 99 on Team Enterprise at $149 a month — more per dollar than we offer at any price. | 30 on Scale at $399, unlimited on Enterprise. |
| Analytics retention | 30 to 730 days depending on plan. | At least 12 months on every plan, 24 months on Scale, set per workspace. |
| 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. | Your name, logo, colours, favicon, login page, email sender and reports; own dashboard domain and no platform mark from Growth. |
| Reselling to clients | None. | Your plans from $5 a month, cards via Stripe Connect, payouts to your bank, platform fee 15% / 12% / 10%. |
| Retargeting pixels | 9 platforms. | Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, X and custom pixels, served from your own domain. |
| A/B testing | 50/50 splits from the $25 Single plan. | Percentage splits on every plan, plus a rotator that shifts weight toward the destination that converts. |
| Link surveys | Unique to Cutt.ly in this category. | Not on the v1 checklist. |
| Interface languages | 48. | 10: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. |
| Client workspaces | Team plans share one account and one bill. | 50 / 250 / 1,000 isolated client workspaces, each with its own users, domains and subscription. |
| Traffic quality controls | Not part of our August 2026 data set. | Up to 20 ordered rules per link plus a workspace set: network type, verified-crawler check, quality score, geography, autonomous system, address list, local hour and first-versus-repeat visit. |
| Conversion and revenue attribution | Not part of our August 2026 data set. | Signed click identifier, first-party cookie on your own domain, server API and browser script, revenue in whole cents inside every breakdown. |
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.
Comparing meters, not prices
A $12 plan and a $49 plan look like a four-fold difference until you notice they are counting different things. Cutt.ly sells the right to create links and gives clicks away; we sell the right to track clicks and set link ceilings high enough that most partners never see them.
Work out which axis your business sits on. Thirty thousand links a month with twenty clicks each is 600,000 clicks — comfortably inside Cutt.ly's model and outside our Starter plan. Two hundred links a month with three thousand clicks each is the same 600,000 clicks and sits nowhere near Cutt.ly's link quota, so their cheapest tier handles it and ours needs Growth.
Neither model is more honest than the other. What matters is that the answer changes with the shape of your traffic, so the comparison has to be done with your own numbers rather than with the headline prices.
Certificates and retention are where the cheap tiers bite
Automatic certificates starting at $25 means a custom domain attached on Free or Starter has no automatic HTTPS. Every current browser marks that clearly, and a short link that shows a security warning does not get clicked — which removes most of the value of having a branded domain in the first place. Certificate handling here is identical on every plan including Starter: attach the domain and it is issued and renewed without anybody touching a file.
Retention from 30 days at the bottom has a similar shape. Unlimited clicks with a one-month memory buys volume without history: a monthly report is possible, a quarterly comparison is not, and a year-over-year figure never exists. Our floor is 12 months on every plan and Scale keeps 24.
At the top of Cutt.ly's ladder both problems disappear and the domain allowance becomes genuinely impressive: 99 domains and single sign-on for $149 a month is more domains per dollar than we sell at any price. If domain count is the buying criterion and branding is not, that row is theirs.
A cost line versus a cost plus a revenue line
Everything above is a comparison of expenses, and on expenses Cutt.ly usually wins. The structural difference is that a Cutt.ly plan can only ever be a cost, because there is no mechanism inside it for somebody else to pay you.
A LinkProfit plan includes client workspaces — fifty on Starter, two hundred and fifty on Growth, a thousand on Scale — and each of those clients can subscribe to a plan you created at a price you chose from $5 a month upwards. Stripe Connect routes their card payments to your account with the platform fee taken at the source: 15% on Starter, 12% on Growth, 7% on Scale.
That is the entire argument. If nobody is paying you for links, buy on price and Cutt.ly is excellent value. If somebody is, the plan fee stops being the number that matters.
Migrating is a CSV, not a project
Cutt.ly is not one of the three importer presets, so an export needs its columns aligned to the slug, destination, title and tags shape our importer expects. After that the import runs at 1,000 rows per batch with slugs preserved character for character — accounts holding tens of thousands of links are exactly why the importer is batched rather than one-shot.
Links on cutt.ly's own domains stay with Cutt.ly; only links on a domain you control can move. For those the cutover is a DNS change, after which the same URLs resolve here with certificates issued automatically — including on Starter, where Cutt.ly would have required the $25 tier for the same thing. Run both services in parallel until traffic on the old endpoint stops.
Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper?
Cutt.ly, in most single-company scenarios. $12 to $25 a month with unlimited clicks is excellent value if you consume the service yourself and create a lot of links. The comparison changes when clients pay you, because that revenue line does not exist on Cutt.ly at all.
Why does the metering difference matter so much?
Because the two products count opposite things. Cutt.ly limits links created and gives clicks away; we limit tracked clicks and set high link ceilings. Many links with few clicks each favours Cutt.ly; fewer links with heavy traffic favours us. Run your own numbers rather than the headline prices.
Is it true that Cutt.ly has no white-label?
Yes, and measurably: zero occurrences of the phrase in the 204 KB pricing page we parsed. The Custom plan adjusts quotas, not branding. There is no dashboard domain, no branding removal and no branded email sender on any tier.
Do I get HTTPS on a custom domain with the cheap plans?
On Cutt.ly, only from the $25 Single plan — Free and Starter get no automatic certificate. On LinkProfit every plan including Starter issues and renews certificates automatically, for subdomains and apex domains alike.
What do I lose by leaving Cutt.ly?
Link surveys, which are unique to them in this category, and 48 interface languages against our 10. If either is central to what you sell, factor it in before switching — neither is on our v1 checklist.
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