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 "id": "linkshortener-io",
 "name": "LinkShortener.io",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "linkshortener.io",
 "category": "Marketing",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Branded short links and dynamic QR codes with click reports by country and device, link-in-bio pages and your own domain on paid plans.",
 "best_for": "marketers and small teams who want branded short links and dynamic QR codes with click reports, and who are fine staying within a monthly link allowance",
 "skip_if": "you need an API to create links from your own software, you create thousands of links a month on a small budget, or you want a product we have tested ourselves",
 "honest_knock": "The Free plan allows only 20 links or QR codes a month and no custom domain. Changing where a live link points needs Pro at $34 a month. The pricing page says there is no public API on any plan.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$13",
  "entry_price_terms": "Basic · Basic $13 a month or $130 a year (350 links or QR codes a month, 1 custom domain)",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-11-12 on linkshortener.io/pricing, US dollars) LinkShortener.io has a Free plan and three paid plans, each with a shared monthly allowance of short links and QR codes. Free costs $0 for 20 a month on the shared tli.sh domain and needs an account but no card. Basic costs $13 a month, or $130 a year, for 350 a month and 1 custom domain. Pro costs $34 a month, or $340 a year, for 2,000 a month and 3 custom domains. Elite costs $260 a month, or $2,600 a year, for 5,000 a month, 10 custom domains and a dedicated account manager. Enterprise has no listed price and covers unlimited volume, SSO and white-label options. The page says clicks and scans are never billed and no plan has overage fees: when you reach your monthly allowance, existing links keep working and new links wait until the allowance renews or you upgrade. Yearly billing is shown as two months free. We did not open the sign-up flow, so the tax added is not known.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-12",
  "source_url": "https://www.linkshortener.io/pricing",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 13.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Basic, Basic $13 a month or $130 a year (350 links or QR codes a month, 1 custom domain); Pro $34 a month or $340 a year (2,000, 3 domains); Elite $260 a month or $2,600 a year (5,000, 10 domains); Free is $0 with 20 links or QR codes a month; Enterprise is custom. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-12.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/linkshortener-io-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "(read 2026-11-12 on linkshortener.io/pricing, US dollars) LinkShortener.io has a Free plan and three paid plans, each with a shared monthly allowance of short links and QR codes.",
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Uniqode",
  "why": "Uniqode focuses on dynamic QR codes and digital business cards with scan analytics. Compare which of short links or QR codes you create more of, and what each charges once you need your own domain"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/linkshortener-io.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/linkshortener-io-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/linkshortener-io/",
  "vendor_site": "https://linkshortener.io"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=131003&awinaffid=2880219",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "linkshortener-io:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "linkshortener-io:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "linkshortener-io:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "linkshortener-io:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}