The best Linktree alternative depends on what you need your page to do. Beacons suits creators who want a free all-in-one with a store. Stan Store suits coaches and educators whose page exists to sell. Carrd suits people who want a cheap one-page website with design control. Glee suits creators and small businesses who want bookings, email, short links and QR codes in one place, set up by an assistant, without a monthly bill.
Linktree itself is still a good product, and for a simple list of links it's hard to beat. People usually start looking elsewhere for one of three reasons: the price went up, the sales fees add up, or they need the page to do more than list links. This guide compares the main alternatives on exactly those points, with prices checked in October 2026.
A note on fairness: we make Glee, which is one of the tools below. We've tried to describe every option the way a friend would, including where Glee isn't the right fit.
Key takeaways
Linktree's paid plans now run from $8 to $35 a month on monthly billing, and its free, Starter and Pro plans take a 9% to 12% fee on sales of digital products. Beacons is the strongest free option but also takes 9% of sales until you pay $30 a month. Stan Store has no free plan and costs $29 to $99 a month, with no extra Stan fee on sales. Over two years, subscription costs range from under $40 (Carrd) to well over $700 (higher tiers of Linktree, Beacons or Stan), so it's worth doing the maths before you commit.
What to compare before you switch
Most link in bio tools look almost identical in a screenshot: a photo, a name and some buttons. The differences show up in four places.
What the page can do. A list of links is the baseline. Can it also take bookings, collect email addresses, sell products with a built-in checkout, or embed video? The more the page does itself, the fewer separate tools you have to pay for and connect.
Who owns your audience. Can you collect email addresses and export them? Can you email those people from the tool, or do you need a separate newsletter service? If a tool only passes visitors through, you're not building anything you keep.
The real cost. Look at the plan you'd actually need, not the cheapest one, and multiply by 24 months. Then add any percentage the tool takes on sales. A $10-a-month plan with a 9% fee can cost more than a $30 plan with no fee once you're selling regularly.
How much effort it takes. You'll update your page often, usually from your phone. A tool that makes each change fiddly is a tool you'll stop maintaining.
Linktree: the benchmark
Linktree is the tool the category is named after, with more than 50 million users as of 2024. It's polished, reliable and easy to set up, and it integrates with a long list of other services.
In late 2025 Linktree raised its prices. On monthly billing in the US, plans now cost $8 (Starter), $15 (Pro) and $35 (Premium) a month, with lower effective rates on annual billing, around $6, $12 and $30 a month, according to several pricing reviews that checked Linktree's pricing page in 2026. Selling digital products through Linktree also carries a platform fee, reported at 12% on the free plan, 9% on Starter and Pro, and 0% on Premium, on top of payment processing.
Stay with Linktree if you mainly need a clean list of links, you value a very mature product, and you aren't selling enough for the fees to matter.
Beacons: the most generous free plan
Beacons combines a link in bio page, an online store, a media kit for brand deals, email tools and AI features, and it puts a lot of that on its free plan. It's popular with creators who work with brands and want everything in one dashboard.
The catch is the sales fee. Multiple 2026 reviews, such as this breakdown of Beacons pricing, report that Beacons takes 9% of sales on the free plan and on its $10-a-month plan, and drops to 0% from the $30-a-month plan, with a top plan around $90 to $100 a month. Beacons has renamed its tiers more than once, so check the current names on its pricing page.
Choose Beacons if you want the most features for free, you work with brands and want a media kit, and you're comfortable with a share of sales going to the platform until you upgrade.
Stan Store: built to sell
Stan turns your link in bio into a storefront with checkout on the page itself, so a visitor can buy a guide, book a paid call or enrol in a course without leaving. It's simple, focused, and very popular with coaches, educators and anyone selling digital products.
Stan has two plans: Creator at $29 a month (or $300 a year) and Creator Pro at $99 a month (or $948 a year), with a 14-day free trial and no free plan, according to Stan's own pricing guide. Stan doesn't take a percentage of your sales on either plan; you only pay payment processing.
Choose Stan if selling is the main job of your page and you'll sell enough each month for the subscription to pay for itself. If you aren't selling yet, you're paying for a checkout you don't use.
Carrd: a cheap, flexible one-page site
Carrd isn't strictly a link in bio tool. It's a builder for simple one-page websites, which makes it very flexible: you can make a link in bio page, a portfolio, a landing page or a small business site. It's also remarkably cheap. Pro plans are billed yearly, starting at around $9 a year for Pro Lite, $19 a year for Pro Standard and $49 a year for Pro Plus, according to published pricing summaries.
The trade-off is effort. You design everything yourself, there's no built-in booking system or email list management, and changes take longer than in a dedicated link in bio tool.
Choose Carrd if you enjoy designing, want full control over the look, and don't need bookings or email built in.
Glee: an assistant that sets it all up
Glee is the tool we make, so read this section with that in mind. It's a link in bio page with bookings, a contact list, email, short links and QR codes built in, plus Glow, an AI assistant that does the setup for you. You describe what you need in your own words, and Glow builds the page, sets up the booking types, writes the email or makes the QR code, then shows you each change and waits for your approval. It never publishes on its own.
Glee is sold as a one-time payment rather than a subscription, from $39 for one brand up to $299 for twenty, with everything else included at every tier. If you're coming from another tool, paste your existing Linktree, Beacons, Stan or Bento address and your links come across.
Here's where Glee isn't the right fit. It doesn't have its own checkout, so if you sell products you'll link to a payment page from Stripe, Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy or similar. Paid bookings go through Cal.com or Calendly; free bookings work directly in Glee. If you want selling to happen entirely on the page, Stan or Beacons will suit you better.
Choose Glee if you'd rather not stitch together a page, a booking tool, an email tool and a QR code generator, and you'd rather pay once than every month.
Other tools worth knowing
Later's Linkin.bio turns your Instagram grid into a clickable page, so each post links to its own product. It makes most sense if you already use Later to schedule posts.
Bento, Komi, Milkshake and the many smaller tools are fine if all you need is a simple list of links. The differences start to matter when you want your page to collect, book or sell.
What each tool really costs over two years
Monthly prices are hard to compare in your head. Here's what each option costs over 24 months on its own published pricing, before payment processing, using the plan a growing creator is likely to need. Prices are from the sources linked above and were checked in October 2026.
| Tool and plan | How it's billed | Platform fee on sales | Cost over 2 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carrd Pro Standard | $19 a year | None (no checkout) | $38 |
| Glee, one brand | $39 once | None (no checkout) | $39 |
| Linktree Pro | $15 a month | 9% | $360 |
| Stan Store Creator | $300 a year | 0% | $600 |
| Beacons, $30 plan | $30 a month | 0% | $720 |
| Linktree Premium | $35 a month | 0% | $840 |
| Stan Store Creator Pro | $948 a year | 0% | $1,896 |
The fee column matters as much as the subscription. Say you sell $500 a month of digital products. A 9% platform fee is $45 a month, or $1,080 over two years, on top of the plan price. That's why some creators move to a pricier plan with no fee, or to a setup where payments go straight through their own Stripe or Gumroad account.
Which one should you choose?
Start from what your page has to do, not from the brand names.
If your page is mainly a list of links and you're happy with how Linktree works, staying put is fine. If cost is the issue, Carrd or a one-time tool will save you money.
If you want lots of features for free and you're not selling much yet, Beacons is the strongest free plan. Plan to upgrade once sales make the 9% fee hurt.
If your page exists to sell courses, coaching or downloads, Stan's on-page checkout is worth paying for, as long as your sales cover it.
If you want bookings, an email list, short links and QR codes in one place, with an assistant doing the setup and no subscription, that's what Glee is built for.
If you're specifically weighing up the big three, we've compared them side by side in Linktree vs Beacons vs Stan Store.
How to switch without losing anything
Switching is less risky than it feels, because your posts point to your profile, not to your page. Change the link on your profile and every old "link in bio" post sends people to the new page.
Build the new page first and check every button. With Glee, paste your old page's address and your links are copied across. Then update the link on each profile: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest and anywhere else. Keep your old page live for a couple of weeks with a single button pointing to the new one, in case someone saved it. Finally, check anything printed. If you've put a QR code on business cards or packaging that points to the old page, update where it leads or make new ones. Our guide to QR codes for creators explains how to make codes you never have to reprint.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best free Linktree alternative?
Beacons has the most generous free plan, including a store, but takes 9% of sales on it. Carrd is very cheap but not free for most useful features. Which is best depends on whether you need to sell, collect emails or just list links.
Is there a Linktree alternative without a monthly fee?
Yes. Glee is a one-time payment for life. Carrd is billed yearly at a low price.
Does Linktree take a cut of sales?
According to 2026 pricing reviews, Linktree charges a platform fee on digital product sales of around 12% on the free plan and 9% on Starter and Pro, and 0% on Premium, plus payment processing.
Is Stan Store better than Linktree?
For selling courses, coaching and downloads, many creators prefer Stan's on-page checkout and zero platform fee. For a simple list of links, Linktree is cheaper and simpler.
Can I move my Linktree page to another tool?
Yes. You can rebuild your links by hand in a few minutes, and Glee can import them automatically from your Linktree address.
Will switching tools break my old posts?
No. Posts that say "link in bio" point to your profile. Once you update the link on your profile, they send people to your new page.
