Linktree alternatives: 9 tools compared on free limits, price and custom domains

The Linktree alternatives worth testing first are Beacons, which lets you sell from its $0 plan, and Campsite.bio, which shows link clicks on its free plan.

Carrd is the cheapest way to get your own domain and no badge, at $19 a year, and Stan Store suits anyone selling courses. Linktree's help center says it offers no custom domain in place of the linktr.ee URL.

I run TrackRev, which is entry 9.

What Linktree charges today

Linktree's pricing page lists 4 priced plans, and the free one is labeled "Free with restrictions": unlimited basic links plus email and phone sign-ups.

Branding comes off at Pro: $12 a month times 12 is $144 a year on annual billing.

A custom domain sits on no plan, and a help center article dated October 15, 2024 suggests a Redirect link if you want people sent to your own website.

The pricing page lists 0% selling fees from Pro and states no rate for the plans below it. The FAQ cites a US$0.25 charge per payout.

Premium costs $360 a year ($30 times 12) and adds social scheduling and Instagram auto-replies.

Linktree alternatives compared on the same criteria

9 Linktree alternatives, one at a time

1. Beacons, for selling from a free plan

Beacons lets you sell from its $0 plan, which also has unlimited links, color, font and layout control, traffic analytics, a media kit and 50 email sends a month.

The cost is a 9% seller fee that stays through Creator ($10 monthly, $100 a year, which adds a free custom domain). Only Creator Plus ($30 monthly, $300 a year) drops the fee to 0% and removes the Beacons badge.

The free plan costs nothing until something sells, so it is an inexpensive way to test whether an audience buys downloads.

2. Stan Store, for a store that lives in your bio

Stan Store has no free plan, per its pricing article, which offers a 14-day free trial. Creator is $29 a month or $300 a year, and Creator Pro is $99 a month or $948 a year.

Stan takes no transaction fee of its own, though Stripe or PayPal fees apply. Both plans include unlimited digital products, a course builder and email collection; Pro adds upsells, payment plans, email flows and affiliate management.

The article mentions 11 link in bio templates, and the help center says you cannot connect a custom domain, so the store stays at stan.store/yourusername.

It earns its price only when courses, coaching or memberships are the business; at $300 a year it is poor value as a link list.

3. Carrd, for your own domain at $19 a year

Carrd builds one-page sites, from personal profiles to landing pages, so a bio page is one thing you can make with it. A free account gets 3 sites with the "Made with Carrd" footer.

Pro Lite, at $9 a year, removes the branding. Pro Standard, at $19 for 10 sites, adds custom domains, forms including payment-enabled ones, embeds for Stripe, PayPal or Gumroad, and analytics through Google Analytics, Plausible or Matomo.

The plans list no built-in click dashboard. Pro Standard is still the cheapest plan here that gives you your own domain and no badge together.

4. Milkshake, for building from your phone

Milkshake makes each page a swipeable "Card" and pitches itself as a mobile website builder, with subscriptions billed through the App Store or Google Play.

The free plan has unlimited links and Cards, color and font customization, QR sharing and 30 days of analytics, and it sells digital files through Stripe at a 12% fee plus Stripe's own. Lite ($2.99 a month) removes the branding.

Pro ($59.99 a year, or $6.99 monthly) brings 365 days of analytics, a contact form, a mailing list, a Meta pixel and a 9% selling fee. Pro+ ($99.99 a year) adds the custom domain and cuts the fee to 7%.

5. solo.to, for a short list on a small budget

solo.to has four plans, and each one states how far back its analytics go. Beginner is free with 25 links, themes, a background color and 1 month of daily page views.

Personal is $1 a month billed annually, with 50 links and 6 months of analytics.

Entrepreneur ($5 a month billed annually, $6 monthly) brings 100 links and embeds, 12 months of analytics that include link clicks, scheduled links and background video.

Custom domains, ad pixels and optional branding removal start at Professional ($10 a month billed annually, $15 monthly), so $120 a year is the cheapest route to your own domain. Monetization is a tip jar, with no store listed.

6. Campsite.bio, for click counts on the free plan

Campsite.bio has unlimited links, theme customization, a tip jar, and link clicks and views for the last 14 days plus totals on its free plan.

Pro ($7 a month billed monthly) adds a custom domain, hides the Campsite logo, stretches analytics to 60 days with location, referrer and device breakdowns, and supports UTM parameters and ad pixels.

Pro+ ($24 a month) adds lifetime analytics, a CSV export and 6 profiles. Paid plans start with a 10-day trial. Monetization stops at tips and requests, so it suits watching what gets tapped more than selling.

7. Lnk.Bio, for one-time payments

Lnk.Bio sells its upgrades as one-time payments. Free gives you unlimited links, basic statistics and 3 pages. Mini ($0.99 a month or $9.99 once) adds scheduling, advanced analytics, external pixels and password-protected links.

Unique ($24.99 once) brings no Lnk.Bio logo, custom colors, wallpaper, a shop, 10 pages and a free .bio domain for the first year.

Connecting a domain of yours costs $39.99 a year as an add-on, which makes year one $64.98 and leaves the page itself as the only one-time payment.

8. LinkStack, for running it yourself

LinkStack is open source, and its site says it is free to use, distribute and modify.

Run it on a web server with PHP 8 or newer, or in Docker, join a community instance, or buy hosting from the project: $1 a month for 1 user on a subdomain, $5 for a custom domain and up to 10 users, $8 for up to 100 users.

The site lists analytics, themes and an export that moves your data between instances, and mentions no store or checkout.

9. TrackRev, for bio links that feed something you sell

TrackRev's free link-in-bio builder publishes without an account: pick a name, add links, and the page is live at trackrev.io/yourname. A free account lets you serve it from a domain you own, such as links.yourbrand.com.

Design controls are 12 theme presets, solid, gradient or image backgrounds, 5 fonts, 3 button styles, 4 corner radii, hard or soft shadows, a thumbnail per link and section dividers, with up to 50 items and 12 social icons.

There is no store, email capture, embed or link scheduling, and the "Made with TrackRev" footer cannot be removed. Pages published without an account carry no analytics.

For per-button numbers, put a TrackRev tracking link behind each button and tag it with UTM parameters (see the UTM guide). The free plan allows 50 tracked links and 1,000 tracked events a month with revenue hidden.

Paid plans start at $39 a month (see pricing) and match clicks to the Stripe, Paddle, Polar or Lemon Squeezy payment they produced (TrackRev's link tracking).

It fits when the page sends people to something with a price and you want to know which button earned money. For a richer page pick Beacons, Carrd or solo.to, and when selling is the point, Stan Store.

What your own domain costs in the first year

Beacons needs Creator Plus at $300 a year to get a domain and lose its badge together, which is $281 more than Carrd charges for both.

With a domain you own, the next switch is a DNS change, and the same holds for a branded short link.

When a paid plan beats the seller fee

Beacons' Creator Plus costs $25 a month billed annually, so against the 9% fee on its free plan it pays for itself once monthly sales pass about $278 ($25 divided by 0.09).

Milkshake Pro at $5 a month billed annually cuts its fee from 12% to 9%, which breaks even near $167 in monthly sales ($5 divided by 0.03).

Stan Store's $29 monthly price beats Beacons' free-plan 9% fee above roughly $322 a month in sales. These break-even points leave out Stripe and PayPal processing fees.