What AI assistants recommend when buyers ask about open-source link shortener tools — measured weekly across engines, published as open data.
Sample: 49 AI answers · Window: May 21, 2026 – Jun 18, 2026 (4-week rolling)
| # | Product | Share | Trend | Engines | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shlink | 89.8% avg pos 4.6 | — | GEMINI 100%CHATGPT 100%CLAUDE 71.4%PERPLEXITY 92.9% | Claim |
| 2 | Polr polrproject.org | 71.4% avg pos 4.1 | — | GEMINI 100%CHATGPT 85.7%CLAUDE 71.4%PERPLEXITY 42.9% | Claim |
| 3 | Kutt | 49% avg pos 8.1 | — | GEMINI 85.7%CHATGPT 57.1%CLAUDE 50%PERPLEXITY 21.4% | Claim |
| 4 | YOURLS | 40.8% avg pos 4.3 | — | GEMINI 71.4%CHATGPT 28.6%CLAUDE 21.4%PERPLEXITY 57.1% | Claim |
| 5 | YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) yourls.org | 32.7% avg pos 2.1 | — | GEMINI 28.6%CHATGPT 57.1%CLAUDE 35.7%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 6 | Dub | 20.4% avg pos 6 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CLAUDE 28.6%PERPLEXITY 35.7% | Claim |
| 7 | Snapp | 18.4% avg pos 4.6 | — | GEMINI 57.1%CLAUDE 7.1%PERPLEXITY 28.6% | Claim |
| 8 | Dub.co dub.co | 16.3% avg pos 5.8 | — | GEMINI 42.9%CLAUDE 28.6%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 9 | Bitly bitly.com | 14.3% avg pos 18 | — | CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 28.6% | Claim |
| 10 | TinyURL tinyurl.com | 12.2% avg pos 8.5 | — | CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 21.4%PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 11 | OpenShort.Link openshort.link | 12.2% | — | CHATGPT 14.3%CLAUDE 28.6% | Claim |
| 12 | shrtn.io shrtn.io | 10.2% avg pos 4 | — | GEMINI 42.9%CLAUDE 7.1%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 13 | Sink | 10.2% avg pos 9 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 14 | ShortURL | 10.2% avg pos 16.4 | — | CHATGPT 35.7% | Claim |
| 15 | chhoto-url | 8.2% avg pos 2.5 | — | PERPLEXITY 28.6% | Claim |
| 16 | Docker docker.com | 8.2% avg pos 5.5 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 7.1%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 17 | Fli.so fli.so | 8.2% avg pos 9.7 | — | GEMINI 42.9%CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 18 | NGINX | 8.2% avg pos 11 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 7.1%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 19 | Lstu | 8.2% avg pos 13 | — | CHATGPT 14.3%PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 20 | Redis redis.io | 8.2% avg pos 15.3 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CHATGPT 14.3%CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 21 | Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org | 8.2% avg pos 20.8 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 22 | GitHub Releases github.com | 6.1% avg pos 2 | — | CLAUDE 7.1%PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 23 | Flink | 6.1% avg pos 4 | — | GEMINI 14.3%PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 24 | Kutt.it | 6.1% avg pos 4 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 25 | Lstu (Let's Shorten That URL) lstu.fr | 6.1% avg pos 7 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 26 | DigitalOcean digitalocean.com | 6.1% avg pos 15.3 | — | CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 27 | Linode linode.com | 6.1% avg pos 15.3 | — | CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 28 | ShortLink | 6.1% avg pos 16.7 | — | CHATGPT 21.4% | Claim |
| 29 | Pygmy | 6.1% | — | CLAUDE 21.4% | Claim |
| 30 | Rebrandly Link Gallery rebrandly.com | 6.1% | — | CLAUDE 7.1%PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 31 | MySQL | 4.1% avg pos 4.5 | — | CHATGPT 7.1%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 32 | Umami Analytics | 4.1% avg pos 4.5 | — | GEMINI 28.6% | Claim |
| 33 | Chhoto URL | 4.1% avg pos 5.5 | — | GEMINI 14.3%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 34 | Lynx | 4.1% avg pos 7 | — | PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 35 | OpenShortLink | 4.1% avg pos 8 | — | PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 36 | Raycast raycast.com | 4.1% avg pos 9 | — | CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 37 | Vercel vercel.com | 4.1% avg pos 9 | — | CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 38 | AWS SNS aws.amazon.com | 4.1% avg pos 10 | — | CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 39 | PostgreSQL | 4.1% avg pos 11.5 | — | GEMINI 14.3%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 40 | Certbot certbot.eff.org | 4.1% avg pos 19 | — | CLAUDE 7.1%PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 41 | Linkly linklyhq.com | 4.1% avg pos 19 | — | CHATGPT 7.1%CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 42 | Memcached memcached.org | 4.1% avg pos 19.5 | — | GEMINI 14.3%CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 43 | PeakURL peakurl.org | 4.1% | — | CHATGPT 14.3% | Claim |
| 44 | Reduced.to reduced.to | 4.1% | — | CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 45 | Smol Links | 2% avg pos 1 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 46 | QuickLink chromewebstore.google.com | 2% avg pos 3 | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 47 | YOURLS-IQRCodes | 2% avg pos 3 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 48 | Bulk Import and Shorten | 2% avg pos 4 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 49 | Come.ac come.ac | 2% avg pos 4 | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 50 | Zipline | 2% avg pos 4 | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 51 | Apache apache.org | 2% avg pos 5 | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 52 | MariaDB mariadb.org | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 53 | OpenShort openshort.tech | 2% avg pos 5 | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 54 | SQL Server | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 55 | clink | 2% avg pos 5 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 56 | LinkAce | 2% avg pos 8 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 57 | Simply Shorten | 2% avg pos 8 | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 58 | Linanok | 2% avg pos 9 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 59 | PocketBase pocketbase.io | 2% avg pos 14 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 60 | Coolify coolify.io | 2% avg pos 15 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 61 | LC | 2% avg pos 17 | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 62 | Lessn More | 2% avg pos 17 | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 63 | Cassandra | 2% avg pos 18 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 64 | MaxMind maxmind.com | 2% avg pos 18 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 65 | MongoDB | 2% avg pos 18 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 66 | Google Docs google.com | 2% avg pos 20 | — | GEMINI 14.3% | Claim |
| 67 | Tiny.cc tiny.cc | 2% avg pos 22 | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 68 | Grafana grafana.com | 2% avg pos 23 | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 69 | Prometheus | 2% avg pos 23 | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 70 | Hetzner hetzner.com | 2% avg pos 26 | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 71 | Heroku heroku.com | 2% avg pos 27 | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 72 | Railway railway.app | 2% avg pos 27 | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 73 | Chhoto URL Shortener | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 74 | Cloudflare Workers cloudflare.com | 2% | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 75 | Eastlake | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 76 | Filite | 2% | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 77 | Hovercode hovercode.com | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 78 | Kon.sh kon.sh | 2% | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 79 | Krtk | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 80 | Kut kut.sh | 2% | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 81 | MagLit | 2% | — | CLAUDE 7.1% | Claim |
| 82 | Nah.pet nah.pet | 2% | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 83 | QRMAN | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 84 | Simple-URL-Shortener | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 85 | Syano | 2% | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 86 | Zapier zapier.com | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 87 | Zato Link zatolink.com | 2% | — | CHATGPT 7.1% | Claim |
| 88 | bit | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
| 89 | shrtn | 2% | — | PERPLEXITY 7.1% | Claim |
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