11 Best Beacons Alternatives for 2026

Prices last verified: August 22, 2026, against each vendor's own pricing page. Vendors change pricing often, so treat these as a starting point and confirm before you buy.

The short answer

Beacons bundles a store, an email list, a media kit and Instagram auto-DM into one subscription, and for a creator running all four that is genuinely good value at $8.33/mo billed annually. The number that decides whether you should leave is not the subscription. It is the 9% seller fee on the free and Creator tiers, which only drops to 0% at Creator Plus at $30/mo.

Run the arithmetic before anything else. At $500/mo in sales, 9% is $45, so Creator Plus at $30/mo is already cheaper than Creator at $10 plus the fee. Below roughly $250/mo in sales the fee is the cheaper side. If you sell nothing at all, the fee is irrelevant and you are really comparing a bundle against tools that do one thing. The twelve below are ordered by what you would be giving up.

Beacons alternatives compared

Tool	Entry paid price	Cut of your sales	Replaces which part of Beacons
Beacons (the baseline)	$8.33/mo Creator (annual), $10 monthly	9%, or 0% at $30/mo	—
Lnk.bio	$0.99/mo, or $9.99 once	None	The page only
Milkshake	$2.99/mo Lite	None	The page only
Taplink	€3.00/mo PRO billed yearly	None	Page, payments, lead forms, CRM
Linktree	$6/mo Starter (annual)	None on the plan itself	Page, basic commerce
Campsite	$7/mo Pro, $24/mo Pro+	None	Page, deeper analytics
Carrd	$9/YEAR Pro Lite	None	The page, hand-built
Bitly	€10/mo Core (annual)	None	Page, link and QR tracking
PostNext.io	€11/mo Pro (annual)	None	Page, products, email capture, scheduling
Hostinger	$2.99/mo on a 48-month term	None	Page, domain, mailboxes
Later	$18.75/mo Starter (annual)	None	Page, shoppable grid, scheduling
Stan Store	$29/mo Creator	None, Stripe/PayPal only	Store and page, fee-free

Stan Store

The direct answer to the fee question, and the reason most people compare these two. Stan takes no platform cut, so at $29/mo it costs almost exactly what Beacons Creator Plus costs to reach 0%. The decision is therefore not about fees at all, it is about which product you would rather run a store on. Stan is narrower and built entirely around selling digital products; Beacons is broader and does email, a media kit and DM automation that Stan does not. No free tier and a 14-day trial, so you commit before the first sale. Stan publishes no standalone pricing page; these numbers come from an article on its own domain.

Taplink

The cheapest way to keep selling from the page and stop paying a percentage. Native payments, lead-capture forms, a small CRM and multi-step internal pages, at €3.00/mo billed yearly, which is roughly a third of Beacons Creator with no cut taken. You give up the email list, the media kit and the DM automation, so this only works if the store was the part of Beacons you actually used. Priced in euros by geography, and the shortest commitment is three months at €6.00/mo.

Linktree

The conservative move: a larger company, instant recognition, and $6/mo Starter billed annually against Beacons' $8.33. You lose the bundle almost entirely. There is no email list, no media kit and no DM automation, and commerce is thinner than Beacons'. Take it if you concluded the bundle was the problem rather than the fee, and what you actually wanted was a link page from a vendor that will still be there.

Campsite

Swaps breadth for measurement. Pro is $7/mo with lifetime analytics rather than a rolling window, and Pro+ at $24/mo adds CSV export and multi-profile management. No cut of anything you sell. It replaces the page and improves on the reporting, and replaces none of the rest of the Beacons stack. Its free tier caps analytics at 14 days, so evaluate on Pro. Smaller vendor than Beacons by a wide margin, which matters if that was part of why you picked Beacons.

PostNext.io

The nearest thing here to Beacons' bundling logic, assembled around publishing rather than selling. The mini site carries product blocks with prices, events, bookings, opening hours, an email-capture block, galleries, embeds, FAQ blocks, music pre-saves and podcast episodes, with custom colours or preset themes, drag-to-reorder, a QR code and a custom domain, and it takes no cut of sales. Per-link click counts and 14-day trends sit next to your post analytics. Pro is €11/mo billed annually, €19 monthly, with the mini site included in the plan.

The part it does not replace: Beacons' Instagram auto-DM and media kit have no equivalent, and the email-capture block collects addresses rather than running campaigns, so a real newsletter still needs a separate tool. In exchange you get scheduling across X, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and Threads, which Beacons does not do at all.

Lnk.bio

The minimal answer, for the case where you signed up to Beacons for the bundle and only ever used the link page. $9.99 buys Mini outright, $24.99 buys Unique outright, and then the subscription stops. Free gives unlimited links, three pages and a QR code. It replaces exactly one part of Beacons and makes no attempt at the rest, so this is a downgrade you choose deliberately, not an alternative in the like-for-like sense.

Milkshake

Same logic as Lnk.bio with a different editor: you keep the page, drop everything else, and build it on your phone in swipeable cards. Lite is $2.99/mo, Pro $5/mo billed yearly, free includes 30 days of analytics. Nothing here sells, collects emails or builds a media kit. Worth it if the Beacons page was the only screen you opened and you found its editor heavier than you wanted.

Carrd

The extreme version of unbundling: $9 a year for three one-page sites with full layout control, no analytics, no store and no fees of any kind. Against $100/year for Beacons Creator that is a 90% saving and a near-total loss of function. Only sane if your Beacons page had become a static list of links you never measured and never sold from.

Bitly

Replaces the page and the tracking, not the commerce. Core is €10/mo billed annually, roughly Beacons Creator money, for much deeper link and QR analytics and none of the store, email or media-kit tooling. Its free tier is five links a month. Choose it only if you have concluded that what you valued in Beacons was knowing what people clicked, and you want that from a company whose entire business is link data.

Hostinger

An odd but occasionally right answer: if the Beacons page was becoming your actual website, Hostinger bundles hosting, a free first-year custom domain and mailboxes with a builder that includes a link-in-bio template. $2.99/mo only on a 48-month term, $143.52 up front, renewing at $10.99/mo. No free tier, only a 14-day trial. It replaces the page and adds infrastructure Beacons never had, while replacing none of the creator stack.

Later

Relevant if Instagram is where everything happens and the shoppable grid is the feature you wish Beacons did better. Later makes the grid itself the navigation. It is $18.75/mo billed yearly, $25 monthly, since Linkin.bio rides on a scheduling subscription with a Starter tier of one social set and 30 posts per profile per month. More than twice Beacons Creator, and it does no email, no media kit and no DM automation.

Where Beacons still wins

Nothing else here bundles this much. Store, email list, media kit and Instagram auto-DM in one $8.33/mo subscription is genuinely unmatched in this comparison. Replacing all four separately costs more than Creator Plus.

The media kit. No other tool in this list generates one. For a creator pitching brands, that alone can justify staying.

The free tier is usable. 30 daily AI credits and 50 email sends a month is a real product, not a demo, which is more than Bitly, Hostinger, Later or Stan Store offer.

How to choose

You sell more than about $250/mo. Do the arithmetic first: Creator Plus at $30/mo removes the 9% and may already be your cheapest option without leaving. If you would rather leave, Stan Store matches it at $29/mo, or Taplink takes no cut at €3.00/mo with a narrower feature set.

You sell little or nothing. The fee is irrelevant, so you are paying $100/year for a bundle. Linktree, Campsite or Milkshake do the page for less, and Carrd or Lnk.bio remove the subscription almost entirely.

You used the whole stack. Stay, or move up to Creator Plus. Nothing below replaces all four parts, and reassembling them from separate tools costs more.

You want the page attached to your publishing instead of your store. PostNext if you post across several networks, Later if Instagram is the entire business.