Link Console vs Terminus: per-workspace pricing or per-seat governance

Where Link Console wins

• A free plan with naming rules, approved values and approvals; Terminus lists no free plan
• Approvals on every plan; Terminus puts approval workflows on Business ($200 a month)
• Per-workspace pricing: 10 people on Pro cost $49 a month, against $40 plus 9 extra seats at $20 on Terminus Professional ($220 a month)
• An hourly, read-only audit of live Google Ads and Microsoft Ads URLs
• Short links keep redirecting on the free plan; Terminus says links stop redirecting when an account is locked after the trial

Where Terminus wins

• Richer governance models: taxonomies, conditional picklists, validation rules and JSON import and export of the model
• Several workspaces from Professional (3) and scoped workspaces, automated picklists and outbound connectors on Business
• Unlimited short links, short URLs and styled QR codes on every paid plan, with several custom domains
• An MCP endpoint so Claude and ChatGPT can work with Terminus directly
• SSO and SAML, security reviews and paperwork on Enterprise; Link Console has Google and Microsoft sign-in, not SAML

What a team of 10 pays

On Terminus’s published prices, Professional is $40 a month with one user and $20 a month for each extra seat, so 10 people cost $220 a month, or $30 plus 9 seats at $15 ($165 a month) billed annually. Approval workflows need Business, $200 a month plus seats. Link Console Pro is $49 per workspace a month with 10 users included, or $490 a year, and approvals are free on every plan. Terminus gives more workspaces and a deeper governance model for that price; check whether your team needs them.

How to switch from Terminus

• Create a free Link Console workspace (Google or Microsoft sign-in) and set your separator, lowercase and required parameters; the workspace starts with a 30-day Pro trial.
• Export your Terminus links as a CSV and your governance model as JSON for reference.
• Rebuild your picklists as approved values and your validation rules as Link Console naming rules.
• Upload the links to the spreadsheet import and check, fix what it flags and import them into the shared history.
• Keep Terminus subscribed while its short links are in use, because they stop redirecting if the account locks.

How we checked

Every fact about Terminus on this page comes from Terminus’s own public pricing, product and help pages, checked on November 3, 2026, and listed under Sources. Prices are in USD as published that day and change over time, so confirm them with Terminus before you buy. Where a feature is described as not listed, we did not find it on those pages; it may exist elsewhere.