YOURLS

Also known as: yourls

What is YOURLS?

A free and open-source URL shortener designed for self-hosting on your own infrastructure. It provides analytics features including click tracking, referrer information, visitor geolocation, and offers developer APIs and bookmarklets for integration.

Independently observed

YOURLS pricing

We don't have YOURLS's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.

Pricing as of 2026-08-19verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed

Open sourceFree tier

Free and open source

Platform & deployment

Independently observed

Platforms

Deployment

Self-hosted

Security & compliance

Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality

YOURLS FAQ

Common questions about YOURLS, answered from independent, dated evidence.

What is YOURLS?

Source: https://yourls.org

Is YOURLS free to use?

YOURLS is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the CC0-1.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.

Source: https://yourls.org

What platforms does YOURLS support?

We have confirmed browser-based access to YOURLS. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.

Source: https://yourls.org

Can YOURLS be self-hosted?

Yes. YOURLS can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.

Source: https://yourls.org

Is YOURLS open source?

Yes. YOURLS is published under the CC0-1.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.

Source: https://github.com/yourls/awesome-yourls

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The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for YOURLS, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 44 / 100

low · 11%

Signal contributions to the composite score
Signal	Score	Weight	Contribution	Evidence
Development activity	34	0.09	3.2	✓
Stars	57	0.03	1.5	✓
Capabilities	0	0.08	0.0	-
Integrations	0	0.07	0.0	-
Dependent projects	0	0.06	0.0	✓
Release cadence	0	0.05	0.0	-
Security posture	5	0.07	0.0	-
Package downloads	0	0.14	0.0	-
Security score	0	0.04	0.0	-
Developer Q&A activity	0	0.06	0.0	-

Computed 2026-10-05. Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

Attribute	Value	Evidence
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	11	mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 65%

Adoption

Attribute	Value	Evidence
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	0	highsource · 2026-10-05 · 85%
Github starsadoption.github_stars	1,048	highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90%

Content

Attribute	Value	Evidence
Faqcontent.faq	5 items	mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 67%

License

Attribute	Value	Evidence
Spdxlicense.spdx	CC0-1.0	highsource · 2026-10-05 · 95%

Pricing

Attribute	Value	Evidence
Free tierpricing.free_tier	Yes	mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Transparentpricing.transparent	Yes	mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Modelpricing.model	commercial	mediumsource · 2026-10-05 · 60%

Security

Attribute	Value	Evidence
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	Yes	mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60%
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fyourls%2Fawesome-yourls&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	highsource · 2026-10-05 · 90%

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