Elido
EU-hosted · GDPR-friendly · Bitly alternative

Short links that don't break.

Elido gives teams a reliable redirect tier, branded domains, and honest analytics — without the legacy pricing and the legacy outages.

Free, no signup required · 2 per day

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Free plan, no credit card. Upgrade when you outgrow it.

EU residency

Your data stays in the EU.

Origin database and ClickHouse analytics live in Hetzner Frankfurt; Patroni HA replicas never cross the EU border. The edge cache fans out globally for low-latency redirects, but customer data stops at the EU boundary.

  • Origin + analytics on Hetzner FRA — Patroni HA replicas inside the EU only.
  • GDPR DPA + EU Standard Contractual Clauses signed by default; no Schrems II surprises.
  • No model training on your link data — EU AI Act friendly, contractually guaranteed.
  • Self-hosted edition available with the same EU posture for public sector and healthcare workloads.
Read the trust reportSecurity & compliance
FrankfurtHetzner FRA · primary origin
GDPR & EU SCCsHIPAA · BAA on Business99.99% uptime SLASOC 2 Type II — in auditISO 27001 — planned

Built by engineers from teams that ran links infrastructure at

HetznerOVHDigitalOceanVercelCloudflare

Built for teams that take links seriously

Every shortener can do redirects. Elido does the boring parts well: latency, reliability, and the receipts your finance team will ask for.

Edge-fast redirects
Sub-15ms p95 redirects from POPs in Frankfurt, Ashburn, and Singapore. Built on a Go redirect tier with two-tier caching.
FRA p50 · 5msASH p50 · 8msSGP p50 · 14ms
Bring your own domain
Verify a custom domain in minutes. Automatic TLS via on-demand certificates. No Cloudflare lock-in.
Click analytics that respect users
Country, device, referrer and UTM in real time. ClickHouse-backed, GDPR-compliant, no third-party trackers.
EU data residency by default
Servers in the EU, contracts under EU law, DPA in the box. Useful when your customers ask hard questions.
Workspaces and roles
Invite teammates, share folders, scope permissions. SCIM and SSO ready for teams that grew up.
API and webhooks
Programmatic links, dynamic redirects, click webhooks. SDKs for TypeScript and Go, REST for everyone else.
curl -X POST https://api.elido.app/v1/links \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ELIDO_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"destination":"https://example.com","slug":"sale"}'
Features

How teams use Elido

Three angles, one short-link tier — pick the one that maps to your job.

For marketers
Branded domains, UTM templates, conversion attribution back to the click. Replace Bitly without losing the audit trail.
  • Branded short links with on-demand TLS
  • Per-link UTM templates and campaigns
  • Stripe and Shopify revenue attribution
  • Retargeting pixels with one-toggle splash
Marketers solution
For developers
Plain REST, three first-party SDKs, an OpenAPI spec, a self-host Helm chart. The redirect tier that you can read the source of.
  • OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 44 endpoints
  • TypeScript, Python, Go SDKs
  • Webhook firehose for SIEM ingestion
  • Apache 2.0 self-host on Kubernetes
Developers solution
For product teams
Smart links, A/B variants, deep links, and analytics that separate signal from bot traffic. The links your product team actually wants.
  • Smart-link rules: device, geo, language, time
  • A/B variants with weighted or round-robin
  • iOS Universal Links + Android App Links
  • Funnel and cohort analytics
Product solution

Pricing without the asterisks

Three plans, no surprise overages. Start free, upgrade when your link volume needs it.

Free
For solo creators and trials.

€0

forever

Get started
Most popular
Pro
For freelancers and small teams.

€9

per month

Try Pro
Business
For agencies and growing teams.

€29

per month

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Replacing a shortener?

We wrote the migration guide for the three big ones. Keep your current setup live while you cut over — zero downtime.

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EU residency + a fairer free tier

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Plain REST, transparent custom-domain pricing

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Short.io
Native SCIM, granular RBAC, click cap

Boring numbers, honest claims

We benchmark in production, not in pitch decks.

0 ms

p50 redirect on cache hit

EU only

Data residency by default

0

UI languages, marketing & dashboard

0

Documented REST endpoints

Apache 2.0

Self-host license

Try Elido for the next batch of links

Free plan, EU-hosted, no credit card. Bring your custom domain on day one.

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Elido — short links that don't break