When comparing UX9 vs hive, the Slant community recommends UX9 for most people. In the question“What are the best URL shorteners?” UX9 is ranked 6th while hive is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose UX9 is:
You can choose how your short link looks.
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Pros
Pro Custom short links
You can choose how your short link looks.
Pro Limiting Calls
For example my link should only called 1000 times.
Pro Nice Usersection
Set Tags on your link or archive them
Pro Password protection
Protects your URL.
Pro Very short links
The links can be as short as three symbols.
Pro You can set the time for the link to expire
For example 5 hours.
Pro Awesome price for PRO version
With only 15$/month you can do a lot of things in Hive, from Branded domain to modals, polls, billboards and more.
Pro Polls
We are adding Polls into Hive so you can have everything you need in one awesome Dashboard.
Pro Can interject ads during the redirect
Hive premium has a Billboards feature that can be used to show an add before the redirect.
Pro Added Business version
Business version also alows you to have white label billboards, extended reports, UTM codes, Device redirect

Pro Password-protection
Shortened links can be password-protected so that only people with the password may get redirected.

Pro Basic analytics
Clicks for each link with date, IP, country, referrer can be viewed from the dashboard. Premium users are allowed to export the data as a CSV file.

Pro Powerful dashboard

Pro QR-Code
Can create QR-Code's that will redirect to the desired page.

Pro Custom domains
The pro version allows branded domains as well as offers a selection of short domains to choose from.
Pro Has an mobile app
An app for Android is available on Google Play and Amazon.
Cons
Con No location analytics
UX9 lacks this feature that most other services have.
Con API Request
May take longer.
Con Slow loading of dashboard
Can get slow in loading its dashboard at times.
