Current
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Plans and prices
From Current's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted deployment | Priced on request | Core URL shortening, click analytics, QR codes, RBAC, and multi-tenant namespaces included · OIDC/SSO is license-gated |
The facts
Each one read from Current's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Authentication
- Protected endpoints use bearer-token authentication with 30-minute access tokens and rotating 7-day refresh tokens.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Branded links
- It creates short links with custom aliases or automatically generated codes.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Click analytics
- Per-link analytics include clicks, unique visitors, geography, devices, browsers, daily trends, referrers, and average response time.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Databases
- Supported databases are PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB Galera, and SQLite.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The maker's documentation describes Docker Compose and Kubernetes deployment options.checked 5 Oct 2026
- License
- Current is released under a Limited AGPL-3.0 license with commercial-use restrictions.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- Current exposes Prometheus-format metrics behind Basic authentication and provides unauthenticated health, readiness, and liveness probes.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Namespaces
- Categories and role-scoped access let teams isolate link namespaces within one instance.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Current is a self-hosted link management platform for marketing and campaign teams.checked 5 Oct 2026
- QR codes
- Every shortened URL gets an automatically generated QR code, which can be fetched as a PNG.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security
- The documentation states that connections enforce TLS 1.2 or higher and lists input validation and security-header middleware.checked 5 Oct 2026
- SSO
- OIDC single sign-on is license-gated and checks an online or cached offline entitlement.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The documentation lists support at [email protected] and sales at [email protected].checked 5 Oct 2026
The company
- Team access
- Current includes Admin, Maintainer, and Viewer roles, and supports custom roles through its Roles API.checked 5 Oct 2026
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