A free Bitly alternative on your own domain
Bitly’s free plan has no click data and no domain of your own. clx gives you 200 links on a domain you own, with click history for 400 days and a QR code for each, served by a worker in your own Cloudflare account. It is free and open source.
Days of click history
Bitly’s Enterprise plan keeps more: two years.
Links on your own domain, $ a month
Bitly’s prices billed yearly; its own domain starts on Growth, with one domain included. With clx the domain is one you already have in Cloudflare.
clx and Bitly side by side
| clx | Bitly | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; the API plan is on request, free for now | Free; Core $10, Growth $29, Premium $199 a month billed yearly; Enterprise by quote |
| Short links | 200 at a time; 10,000 on the API plan | 5 a month on Free; 100, 500 or 3,000 a month on paid plans |
| Click history | By day for 400 days, by hour for 31 | None on Free; 30 days to 2 years by plan |
| Your own domain | On every plan: a host in your Cloudflare account | From Growth |
| Changing where a link goes | Any time; the code and the QR code stay | Not on Free; 5 to 110 changes a month on paid plans |
| QR codes | One for every link, as SVG | 1 on Free; 5 to 200 a month on paid plans |
| What a visitor sees | A plain 302 redirect, no cookies | Free-plan links may open a preview page with an ad first |
| Deleting a link | Yes | Shared links cannot be deleted or disabled, even with the account |
| API | On every plan, one key on Free | 1,000 to 50,000 requests a month by plan |
| Where the data is | Your Cloudflare account; clx.cx keeps totals only | Bitly |
When Bitly is the better choice
- You have no domain in Cloudflare, or no domain at all: clx links live only on yours.
- You need more than 400 days of click data: Bitly Enterprise keeps two years.
- You want a domain that comes with the plan: Bitly Growth includes one.
Sources
Bitly’s facts are from its own pages, checked on 11.10.2026; clx’s from its pricing and specification.
- Bitly pricing (bitly.com/pages/pricing)
- Bitly privacy policy (bitly.com/pages/privacy)
- Bitly help: the ad on free links (support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/articles/32874287800333)
- Bitly help: after a downgrade (support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029870551)
- clx pricing