How many clicks and links do you produce? You may be sure that you shouldn't be paying for your URL shortening services if you receive less than 2,500 link clicks per month and only require 500 links to be made. How much money do you have to spend? Do you want to pay to track a lot of traffic and are you prepared for it? Then you will be able to afford some of the more expensive options like Rebrandly, ClickMeter, and other companies. Are you a startup still in its infancy and does your marketing team only consist of one person? Then, until you become successful, you should probably choose a relatively inexpensive or free option. How many people are on your team? While some URL shorteners force you to share an account, others make team administration simple. There are just a few workable solutions if you're planning to use this technology across a team of ten digital marketers, advertisers, content managers, and social media managers. However, if it's largely just you, you don't need the more expensive items. What motivates your use of a URL shortener? Some of these URL shorteners are designed merely to aid in the embedding of UTM parameters and enable you to more accurately track links in Google Analytics (we also do this, by the way), while others are geared towards assisting you in monetizing your links by including interstitial advertisements.