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Authentication
Keyless endpoints, API tokens, and scopes — how requests prove who they are (or don’t have to).
Rate limits
Every limit in one place: free endpoints, plan tiers, and how to handle 429 responses.
MCP Server
Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client and let AI agents shorten links and read analytics.
SDKs
Official libraries for JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, and Go — zero dependencies, keyless one-liners.
Free shorten API
Shorten a URL with one POST request — no account, no API key.
Free QR API
Styled QR codes from a single GET URL — every design option, no key.
Links API
Create, list, update, bulk-create, and delete short links.
Analytics API
Clicks, uniques, countries, devices, browsers, referrers — bots filtered.
Webhooks
Real-time events with HMAC-signed deliveries.
The important facts
- Free plan — 50 new links and 5,000 tracked clicks per month, custom slugs, folders, tags, and QR codes included. No credit card.
- Links don’t break — account links keep redirecting even past plan limits; we never take a working link down over billing.
- Privacy-first analytics — raw IP addresses are never stored; visitor counts are a privacy-conscious estimate and Do Not Track is respected.
- Anonymous links — you can shorten without an account, but unclaimed anonymous links are removed after a year of inactivity and can’t be edited or tracked.
