About Elido

Elido is a URL shortener and link-management platform built by a small team that has run links infrastructure before, in places where every millisecond and every euro counts. We started it because we wanted a shortener we would happily recommend to a finance team, a security team and a marketing team in the same week.

We build and host in the European Union, and our default contracts follow EU law. Click data does not leave the EU, the redirect itself sets no tracking cookies, and analytics are designed so a data protection officer can sign off on them without a long meeting. For a lot of teams that alone is the reason to choose an EU shortener over a US-only one.

The redirect is the part we obsess over. It runs as a separate edge service with a hard latency budget, and nothing slow is allowed on that path: analytics, webhooks and scanning all happen after the visitor has already been sent on. A short link should never be the slow part of a campaign.

We are early. The website went live in May 2026, the free tier is open to everyone, and we ship in public: every release goes into the changelog, upcoming work is on the roadmap, and redirect uptime is on the status page. If something is missing for your team, write to us. Feature requests from real users move up the roadmap.