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gecis.in vs Short.io

Every row of the matrix, including the ones where Short.io is the better answer. A competitor cell is filled in only once it carries a source and the date we read it.

A dashed cell is one we could not confirm from the vendor’s own pages — some of them publish their pricing and legal pages as JavaScript only, and a page we cannot read is not a page we can quote. We leave the gap rather than fill it from a review site.

Feature comparison between gecis.in and other link shorteners
Capabilitygecis.inShort.io
Click analytics on the free tierSupportedSupported
City-level geography on the free tierSupportedSupported
Unique visitors, counted without cookiesSupportedNot supported
Where your click data livesOur own hardware, GermanyContested: their own pages disagree
Published raw-IP retention limit90 days, then hashes onlyClick stream kept a year
Raw visitor IP kept out of customer-facing dataSupportedNot supported
Works without an accountSupportedNot verified yet
Free tier link allowance50 a day per IP1,000 in total
Cheapest paid planNo paid plan yetNot verified yet
Accounts and saved linksPlanned, not shippedSupported
Run it on your own hardwarePlanned, not shippedNot verified yet
Custom domainNot supportedSupported
Public API for creating linksNot supportedSupported
QR codesNot supportedSupported
Teams and rolesNot supportedSupported
  • Supported
  • Not supported
  • Not verified yet

Where their own pages disagree

Short.io: where the click data lives is contested

Their click-statistics storage policy says “Data for our European Union (EU) customers is stored in Germany” and “For users outside the EU, data is stored in our secure servers located in Virginia, United States”. Their enterprise page repeats it: “Statistics data is automatically stored based on visitor location: US/Americas visitors in Virginia, EU/EMEA visitors in Frankfurt”. Their privacy policy says something else — “Short.io’s US and global service runs on Amazon Web Services in the United States” — and draws no EU distinction anywhere. All three were read on the same day. Both answers are quoted because resolving it to one would be us deciding, on your behalf, which of their own pages to believe.

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