TinyURL pricing works differently from most link shorteners, which tend to charge more as you unlock features. Instead, TinyURL mostly charges for volume, where you pay more depending on how many links you plan to create each month.
So the same Pro plan can cost $9 a month or $79 a month, depending on how many links you need. Free sits below it with 30 links a month, and Enterprise starts at $3,999 a year.
That setup is great if you know roughly how many links you make, and a little risky if you don't. I spent a month using it for my TinyURL review, and besides the plan price, the costs I'd keep an eye on are overages and domain renewals.
Key takeaways
- TinyURL has four plans, and Pro and Bulk are priced by how many links you create each month, with the same features at every link limit.
- Pro runs from $9 to $65 a month on annual billing ($11 to $79 monthly), for 125 to 4,000 links a month.
- Bulk starts at $69 a month billed annually for 50,000 links, caps tracked clicks at your link limit and sets links to expire after 90 days by default.
- The Free plan gives you 30 links a month, but you can't change where they go, delete them or see analytics.
- TinyURL offers a full refund within 30 days, and overages and domain renewals can still bill you after you cancel.
- If you want a link management tool with more advanced features, try Rebrandly.
How much does TinyURL cost?
TinyURL costs $9 to $65 a month on Pro and $69 to $1,499 a month on Bulk when you pay annually, with Enterprise starting at $3,999 a year.
TinyURL has four plans (Free, Pro, Bulk and Enterprise), and Pro is the paid plan most people will look at. On Pro and Bulk, the price depends on how many links you want to create each month, but the features stay the same no matter which link limit you pick.
Bulk also has nearly all the same features as Pro, with a couple of differences around tracked clicks and link expiration (more on those below).
Here’s a table with every plan's starting pricing, according to TinyURL's pricing page as of the time this article was published:
How does TinyURL's pricing change with more links?
Pro's price goes up a few dollars at a time as you add links, and Bulk's goes up by a lot more, while the fee for going over your limit gets cheaper the higher you go.
Pro has six link limits to choose from:
Bulk follows the same idea at a much bigger scale. It goes from 50,000 links a month at $69 ($83 monthly) up to 5 million at $1,499 ($1,799 monthly).
The overage math is where the smallest option gets a little funny. On the 125-link Pro plan, each extra link costs $0.15, while the plan itself works out to about $0.09 a link on monthly billing.
So if you regularly go 40 or more links past 125, the 250-link option ($13 a month billed annually, $16 monthly) costs less than paying for the extras.
Is TinyURL free?
Yes, TinyURL has a free plan with 30 links a month, and you can even shorten a link without an account. What you give up is control after the link exists.
On Free, you can set your own alias, which is what TinyURL calls the back-half of a short link (the part after the slash), and rename it later. But you can't change where the link goes, delete it, tag it or see how many people clicked.
Oddly enough, TinyURL's help center says it still records clicks on free accounts in the background, and you can see them once you upgrade. But guest links made without an account never get tracked.
Free links also help TinyURL make money. As I covered in my review, TinyURL automatically adds affiliate tags to shopping links made on free and guest accounts, which can earn it a commission.
You can turn that off in your account settings, and the help center says it doesn’t apply to paid plans. But if you just need a quick link now and then, Rebrandly has a free URL shortener too.
What do you get on TinyURL Pro?
Pro is the plan I'd point most small businesses toward, because it gives you the things marketers actually need from a link shortener: editing, analytics, branded domains and unlimited tracked clicks, no matter how many links you pay for.
Compared with Free, Pro adds:
- Editing destinations, deleting links, tags and expiration dates
- 3 branded domains, including ones you bring over from elsewhere
- An analytics dashboard with 2 years of click history
- A free first year on select domains (.life, .live and .info)
The catch for teams is that Pro is a one-login plan, with no separate users or permissions. If your team shares TinyURL, you’re all going to use the same email and password.
That's where Rebrandly works differently, since workspace permissions let each person have their own login and control what they can see and do.
Pro also doesn’t include dynamic routing and deep linking, which are very important if you’re running campaigns targeting different languages or want to link to pages in your app.
Who needs TinyURL Bulk?
Bulk only makes sense if you create tens of thousands of links a month, since it starts at $69 a month billed annually ($83 monthly) for 50,000 links.
Bulk has the same features as Pro with two differences worth reading closely. The first is about clicks.
Pro gives you unlimited tracked clicks, while Bulk caps them at your link limit and charges for anything over ($0.60 per 1,000 extra clicks at 50,000 links, down to $0.14 at 5 million). So a few hundred links that get a ton of clicks are cheaper to run on Pro.
The second is link expiration. Bulk links expire after 90 days by default, which is the exception to TinyURL's usual promise that links never expire.
You can change that setting, but if your links end up on anything that sticks around (packaging, signs, business cards), I'd double-check it before you create them. To me, Bulk fits short-lived links sent at high volume, like text message campaigns or order notifications.
What does TinyURL Enterprise include?
Enterprise starts at $3,999 a year and adds custom limits, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, a dedicated account manager and emergency phone support.
The pricing page also promises "custom solutions for compliance needs" without spelling them out. So before you sign, I'd ask exactly what you get beyond the uptime guarantee.
Which TinyURL plan do you need?
Since TinyURL charges by volume, start with how many links you made last month, then check whether anyone else needs access.
A rough guide based on that number:
- Fewer than 30, and you don't need stats: Free works, as long as you're OK with links you can't edit (and you turn off affiliate tagging).
- Up to 125: Pro 125 at $9 a month billed annually covers you.
- Between 125 and 4,000: Pick the Pro link limit that covers your usual month. A few extra links won't hurt much, but once you're 40 or more over on the 125-link plan, the next option up is cheaper.
- Tens of thousands of short-lived links: Bulk, with an eye on the click cap and the 90-day expiration.
- You need an uptime guarantee or a contract: Enterprise is the only plan with an SLA.
If more than one person creates links, or you need routing or deep links, paying for more links won't fix that. In that case, I recommend Rebrandly, or our roundup of TinyURL alternatives is a better place to start.
What do people say about TinyURL's pricing?
Reviewers mostly like how cheap TinyURL is, and when they complain about price, it's usually about how little the free plan does or a billing surprise.
Capterra gives TinyURL 4.6 out of 5 across 35 reviews (and 4.3 for value for money), G2 has it at 4.3 across 112, and Trustpilot has it at 3.4 across 127, as of October 13, 2026.
A few pricing themes came up across those reviews:
- Several Capterra reviewers say the free plan holds back so much that upgrading feels almost necessary.
- At least one Capterra reviewer calls TinyURL cheap for what you get.
- A couple of Trustpilot reviews describe billing problems, including one person whose account was locked the day after a second automatic charge.
What should you know before you buy a TinyURL plan?
The TinyURL charges most likely to surprise you show up after checkout, especially domain renewals and overages.
Domains are the one I'd watch closest. When I searched for a domain in TinyURL, several showed up as "$0.99 / FREE," but those renew at $60.99 to $65.99 a year, with auto-renewal turned on by default.
If a domain you bought through TinyURL lapses, every branded link on it stops working, so that renewal date is super important.
The rest of what I'd know going in comes from TinyURL's terms of service and help center:
- There's no free trial, but you can get a full refund if you cancel within 30 days of subscribing.
- After 30 days, annual plans may get a prorated refund if you ask, minus a cancellation fee the terms don't put a number on.
- TinyURL can still charge you for overages and domain renewals after you cancel.
- Plan changes, including switching between monthly and annual billing, kick in at the start of your next billing period.
- If you cancel, you keep Pro until the period ends, then drop to Free with 1 branded domain still active.
- TinyURL has to give you 10 days' notice before raising your price.
Is TinyURL worth the price?
For what it's built for, cheap branded links for one person or a small business, TinyURL's pricing makes it one of the more affordable options. You just have to pick the right link limit and keep an eye on renewals.
It gets harder to justify once you outgrow that. Every version of Pro has the same single login, no routing and analytics that stop at the click, so paying more mostly buys you more links.
If you're on the fence, I'd start on the 125-link Pro plan with monthly billing. It's $2 more a month than annual, and the 30-day refund window gives you time to see if it fits.
And if you need more than the basics, Rebrandly is a link intelligence platform with conversion tracking, analytics (beyond surface level clicks), routing, deep links, and much more built in. You can get started for free.
FAQ
How long do TinyURL links last?
On Free and Pro, TinyURL links don't expire (Pro lets you set an expiration date if you want one). Bulk is the exception, where links expire after 90 days by default, and any link on a branded domain stops working if that domain lapses.
Is TinyURL legit?
Yes, TinyURL is a legitimate company that's been running since 2002. If you're nervous about paying, the 30-day full refund window gives you a way out.
Does TinyURL have ads?
The TinyURL preview page does, even on paid plans. When I added "preview." to the front of one of my links on Pro, the page showed my link next to a third-party ad that I had no control over.
Is the TinyURL API free?
Yes, TinyURL's help center says you can use the API on the free plan, and TinyURL doesn't publish rate limits for any plan. For what the API can and can't do, see our TinyURL API review.
