Bitly Pricing in 2026: What You Actually Pay

Pricing pages are designed to be skimmed, and skimming is where the surprises hide. We went through Bitly's pricing page line by line in July 2026. Here is the whole thing in one table, followed by the details that are easy to miss.

Plan	Price	Links/mo	Analytics history	Custom domain	API req/mo
Free	$0	5	None	No	1,000
Core	$10/mo, billed annually only ($120/yr)	100	30 days	No	5,000
Growth	$29/mo annual, or $35 month-to-month	500	4 months	1 included	25,000
Premium	$199/mo annual ($2,388/yr), or $300 month-to-month	3,000	1 year	Included	50,000
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	2 years	Multiple	Custom

The details worth knowing before you enter a card

Core is annual-only. The $10 plan cannot be paid monthly. Trying Bitly's cheapest paid tier means committing $120 up front. The first plan with a monthly option is Growth at $35 month-to-month.

The jump from Core to Growth is 3x. $10 to $29 (or $35 monthly) is the price of going from 100 links and 30 days of data to 500 links and 4 months of data. There is nothing in between.

Analytics history is a metered feature at every level. On Core, clicks older than 30 days are gone from your view. Even Premium, at $2,388 per year, shows one year of history. Two years requires Enterprise. If you run annual campaigns and want to compare this year to last year, check what your tier actually retains.

Team seats are an Enterprise feature. Multiple users and group permission management appear only in the Enterprise column. Free through Premium are effectively single-seat. A three-person marketing team that wants shared access to the same account is in "contact sales" territory.

Free links carry ads. Since February 2025, links on the free plan can show an advertising interstitial before the redirect. Bitly's support center confirms the behavior and names the fix: a paid plan. So the real entry price for ad-free links is $120/yr.

None of these are hidden, exactly. They are all on the pricing page. They are just easy to miss, and they compound: a small team that wants ad-free links, a custom domain, a year of click history, and three seats is looking at Enterprise pricing for what sounds like a modest setup.

The same money elsewhere

We build QCK, so this is the part where we show our own table. Same July 2026 verification standard, numbers on our pricing page:

Plan	Price	Links/mo	Tracked clicks/mo	Analytics history	Custom domains	Seats
Free	$0	25	5,000	6 months	1	1
Basic	$19/mo, monthly billing available	500	150,000	1 year	5	1
Growth	$49/mo	2,500	1,000,000	3 years	25	Unlimited

A few direct comparisons at the same price points:

• Bitly Growth ($29 to $35) versus QCK Basic ($19): the same 500 links, but with 1 year of analytics history instead of 4 months, 5 custom domains instead of 1, and monthly billing from the start.
• Team access: unlimited seats start at QCK Growth, $49/mo flat. There is no per-seat pricing on any tier and no enterprise gate in front of "my colleague needs a login."
• Every plan, including Free, has full real-time analytics and zero ads on links.

And one thing that is not a price at all: on every QCK tier, links you create stay active forever. The monthly limit caps new link creation, never existing links.

How to actually decide

Ignore both marketing pages, including ours. Write down what you need: links per month, how far back you need click data, how many domains, how many people need access. Then price that exact list on both sites. Pricing pages reward the specific shopper and punish the skimmer.

If your list looks like "a few hundred links, real analytics, my own domain, maybe a teammate," you will find that configuration costs meaningfully less than you expected once team seats and data history are not premium add-ons.

All Bitly figures verified against bitly.com in July 2026 and may change. QCK figures are current at qck.sh/pricing.