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The best Linktree alternatives in 2026, and what each costs

Linktree takes a cut of every sale below Premium and has no custom domain. Seven alternatives, from Beacons and Stan Store to Carrd and Taplink, compared on fees, domains and what happens after the sale, with worked numbers. Disclosed: we make one of them.

By Bennett Levaton10 min readAll guides

We make Drry, one of the alternatives below, so read accordingly. The best Linktree alternatives in 2026 are Beacons and Stan Store for selling from your bio, hoo.be for a design-led page, Taplink and Carrd for your own domain on a small budget, Later's Link in Bio if you already schedule posts there, and Drry if your bio link should lead into a community you run. Linktree itself is free, $8, $15 or $35 a month, and every plan below Premium takes a percentage of what you sell, so the fee is usually the first reason people look. The address is the second: Linktree does not offer a custom domain.

Credit where it is due: for a list of links, Linktree is hard to beat. Everybody recognises it, it has a deep library of link types and embeds, and bookings come on every plan. If your bio link mostly points at your videos, your podcast and somebody else's shop, you may not need to move. Our breakdown of Linktree's pricing works out when upgrading pays, and Drry vs Linktree is the direct head-to-head.

Beacons: the creator toolkit

Beacons is the alternative most people land on first. It starts as a link in bio and adds a store, email, a small website builder, Instagram DM automation and AI tools, so it replaces several apps rather than one.

  • Best for: creators who make money from the page and want the store, email and their own domain in one place.
  • Pricing structure: a free-forever plan, then low monthly paid plans. A seller fee applies on the free and entry plans and drops to zero on the two upper plans, with Stripe or PayPal processing on top either way.
  • What you give up: Linktree's simplicity, and a members' space: a community feed inside Beacons is not part of the offer we could find. See Beacons alternatives and Drry vs Beacons.

Stan Store: the storefront

Stan Store is a link in bio built for selling first: digital products, courses, bookings and subscriptions from a clean phone storefront, with a community included on both plans.

  • Best for: creators whose bio link is a shop, who sell steadily enough that a flat monthly price beats a percentage.
  • Pricing structure: two paid plans after a trial, no free plan, and a 0% platform fee on both, with payment processing and a payout fee on top.
  • What you give up: a free plan, email on the cheaper plan (it is on the pricier one), and your own domain, which Stan does not offer. See Stan Store's pricing and Stan Store alternatives.

hoo.be: the design-led page

hoo.be is a link in bio aimed squarely at creators who care how the page looks, with product showcases, contact collection, a tip jar and analytics.

  • Best for: creators who want a more visual page than Linktree's stack of buttons, and who sell lightly from it.
  • Pricing structure: a free plan and two paid plans at a modest monthly price. Like Linktree, it takes a seller fee on sales below its top plan, where the fee drops to zero and a custom domain comes in.
  • What you give up: the fee problem is the same shape as Linktree's, so it does not solve that on its own, and your own domain waits for the top plan.

Taplink: the budget all-rounder

Taplink is a link in bio and mini landing page that connects to a long list of payment processors (it says more than sixty) rather than one or two, which matters if your buyers are outside the US.

  • Best for: creators and small businesses who want forms, selling and their own domain for very little, and anyone whose buyers pay with a processor the US tools do not carry.
  • Pricing structure: a free plan, then two low-priced paid plans, prepaid in blocks of months with a discount for paying further ahead. Selling, forms and a custom domain sit on its top plan, where it says it takes 0% of sales.
  • What you give up: month-to-month billing and the polish of the bigger names, and it is a page rather than a place to bring buyers back to.

Carrd: the one-page website

Carrd is not a link in bio tool as such, it is a builder for simple one-page sites, which is why so many people use it as one. You get full control of the layout and a real website at your own domain for very little.

  • Best for: creators who want their own domain and a page that looks like nobody else's, and do not mind building it themselves.
  • Pricing structure: a free plan on a carrd.co address, then Pro plans billed yearly for a small annual sum. A custom domain starts at Pro Standard, and taking payments through Stripe Checkout needs Pro Plus.
  • What you give up: creator-specific features out of the box. As far as we can tell from its plans page, delivering a download, taking bookings and sending email are things you connect through forms, embeds and integrations rather than features it ships, and yearly-only billing means paying ahead.

Later's Link in Bio: the scheduler's page

Later is a social media scheduler, and its Link in Bio page comes with it: a grid of your Instagram posts that each link somewhere, plus buttons, featured media and email sign-ups through Mailchimp.

  • Best for: brands and creators who already plan their posts in Later and want the bio link in the same tool.
  • Pricing structure: sold as part of Later's social scheduling plans, which are the real product and the real bill.
  • What you give up: selling on the page: we could not find a checkout on Later's Link in Bio itself. It sends people on to your shop or an affiliate link.

Drry: the bio link in front of a community (ours)

Our product, so treat this as a pitch with numbers you can check. Drry is a community platform for coaches and creators with a bio link and store at the front. The page holds links, downloads, bookings, forms and players, and checkout, booking and sign-up open in a sheet over it, so nobody is sent away to pay. Behind it sit your community feed, courses, events and email, which is the part no link page on this list has: the person who buys can become a member.

  • Best for: creators who sell from their bio link and want those buyers to land somewhere of their own, a community, a course, an email list, rather than on a thank-you screen.
  • Pricing structure: the bio link is on every plan. Free covers up to 30 items and $500 of sales a month, with no card and no trial clock; Creator ($29 a month) makes both unlimited and adds your own domain. 0% of your sales on every plan, through your own Stripe account.
  • What you give up: Linktree's name recognition and its sheer range of link types and integrations. If your page is only links, that range matters more than anything we add, and Linktree's free plan will do. See how the bio link works.

How do you choose a Linktree alternative?

Two names you will still see on older lists are gone: Shopify retired Linkpop, and Linktree closed Bento after buying it. Both addresses now redirect elsewhere. For the side-by-side on any listed platform against Drry, the comparison hub lays out every dimension, same disclosure, same rules.

Questions coaches ask

What is the best alternative to Linktree?

For selling from your bio link, Beacons and Stan Store are the closest swaps. For your own domain on a budget, Carrd or Taplink. If you already schedule posts with Later, its Link in Bio comes with it. And if the people who tap your link should end up in a community or a course of yours, Drry, whose bio link sits in front of one. We make Drry, so weigh that. The better question than "best" is which of Linktree's limits sent you looking: the fee on sales, the linktr.ee address, or a buyer who lands nowhere after paying.

Is there a free alternative to Linktree?

Several. Beacons, Taplink, hoo.be and Carrd all have free plans, and so does Drry: the bio link is on every plan, with up to 30 items, 10 products and $500 of sales a month on free, and 0% taken from those sales. Linktree's own free plan is generous with links; where it costs you is selling, since a free-plan sale gives up 12% to Linktree before card processing.

Is there a Linktree alternative with no fees on sales?

Yes. Stan Store takes 0% on both of its plans, though it has no free plan. Taplink says it takes 0% on sales on the plan that allows selling. Drry takes 0% on every plan including free, with only Stripe's standard processing on top. Beacons and hoo.be drop their seller fee only on their upper plans. On Linktree the fee is 0% only on Premium, at $35 a month.

Can I use my own domain instead of linktr.ee?

Not on Linktree: its help centre says it does not offer a custom domain, and suggests a redirect instead. Beacons offers one from its first paid plan, Carrd from its Pro Standard plan, hoo.be on its top plan, Taplink on its Business plan and Drry from Creator. Stan Store does not offer one either.

What happened to Linkpop and Bento?

Both are gone as places to build a page. Shopify retired Linkpop in 2025, and linkpop.com now redirects to Shopify's home page. Bento was acquired by Linktree and closed in early 2026, and bento.me now redirects to Linktree. If an older list recommends either, it predates that, which is worth remembering about any list, including this one.

Does Drry really take 0% of what I sell?

Yes, on every plan including free. Sales run through your own Stripe account, so only Stripe's standard processing applies and the buyer is yours. We charge a flat subscription ($0, $29 or $99 a month) instead of a cut. On free the store pauses once a month's sales reach $500, so a steady seller will want Creator.

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