Cut Pricing & Plans Explained

Cut.bd runs five plans — Free, Starter, Single, Team, and Ultimate — each building on the one below it rather than starting over with a different feature set. This is what's actually included at each, so the decision is about which tier fits, not about decoding a features grid on the fly while comparing five columns at once.

The Five Plans at a Glance

Every paid plan includes a 14-day free trial with no credit card required to start.

Free — $0 Forever

30 links a month, 3 custom back-halves a month, 1 branded domain, 30 days of analytics, QR codes, a link-in-bio page (1 page, 5 links), and API access at 3 requests per minute. Built for testing the product or running something genuinely small, not as a stripped-down trial of the paid tiers.

Starter — $9/month

300 links a month, 30 custom back-halves a month, 1 branded domain, 60 days of analytics, country and funnel-level analytics, CSV bulk import (50/month), editable link titles, and API access at 6 requests per minute. The jump from Free is mostly about volume and slightly deeper reporting, not a different feature category.

Single — $19/month, Most Popular

5,000 links a month, unlimited custom back-halves, 5 branded domains, a full year of analytics, bot analytics with an hourly heatmap, password protection and deep links, A/B testing, retargeting pixels, custom QR styling, data export in CSV/JSON/XLSX, and API access at 60 requests per minute. This is where the feature set changes shape rather than just scaling up — A/B testing and retargeting pixels in particular aren't available on Free or Starter at all.

Team — $49/month

20,000 links a month, 10 branded domains, up to 3 teams with 5 seats each, 2 years of analytics, A/B/C percentage rotation, role-based access with an audit log, CSV bulk import (2,000/month), and API access at 180 requests per minute. This is the plan built around collaboration specifically — multiple people, multiple teams, and the access control and audit trail that come with more than one person managing the same links.

Ultimate — $99/month

50,000 links a month, 99 branded domains, up to 10 teams with 10 seats each, 4 years of analytics, every chart and heatmap plus PDF reports, everything in Team maxed out, CSV bulk import (5,000/month), and API access at 360 requests per minute. The ceiling tier — highest volume, most domains, longest retention, and the most team structure of any plan.

How the Numbers Scale Tier to Tier

Two figures worth tracking across all five plans rather than just at the tier you're considering:

• Analytics retention: 30 days (Free) → 60 days (Starter) → 1 year (Single) → 2 years (Team) → 4 years (Ultimate). If campaign reporting ever needs to look back further than a month or two, that alone can be the deciding factor between Free/Starter and Single.
• API rate limit: 3 req/min (Free) → 6 (Starter) → 60 (Single) → 180 (Team) → 360 (Ultimate) req/min. Designing an integration around a rate limit means checking this number for the tier you'd actually pay for, not the top of the range.

How to Know Which Plan You Need

Three questions settle most of it:

1. How many links a month, realistically? Match this against the allowance directly — 30 (Free), 300 (Starter), 5,000 (Single), 20,000 (Team), 50,000 (Ultimate) — rather than picking a tier and hoping it's enough.
2. Does more than one person need access? Team and Ultimate are the only plans with multi-seat, multi-team structure; Free through Single are single-user.
3. Do you need A/B testing, retargeting pixels, or an audit log specifically? These aren't available below Single (A/B testing, retargeting pixels) or Team (role-based access, audit log) — if one of these is a real requirement, it sets the minimum tier regardless of link volume.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I switch plans later without losing data? Links, domains, and analytics history stay with the account through a plan change — upgrading or downgrading changes the allowance and feature set going forward, not what already exists.

Does the Free plan expire? No — it's free forever at its stated limits, not a time-limited trial. The 14-day trial applies specifically to paid plans, letting you try Starter through Ultimate's features before being charged.

What happens if I go over my monthly link limit? Check current plan documentation directly for the specific behavior at your tier — this is exactly the kind of detail worth confirming rather than assuming, since it affects whether an integration should be designed to stop or queue at the limit.

Is there a difference between "branded domains" and "custom back-halves"? Yes — a branded domain is the domain itself (go.yourbrand.com); a custom back-half is the specific slug after it (go.yourbrand.com/launch). Free and Starter both cap custom back-halves per month even with a domain already connected; Single and above make them unlimited.

Which plan is the actual jump point for advanced features, not just volume? Single — it's the first tier where A/B testing, retargeting pixels, and unlimited custom back-halves appear, rather than a straightforward scale-up of the tier below it.

Where to Go From Here

See the full pricing page for the current, authoritative numbers and to start a trial, or the complete guide to Bitly alternatives for how Cut.bd's plans compare against the rest of the category.