Linktree Alternatives: What 6 Tools Cost Over Three Years

Six dollars a month sounds like nothing. Twelve sounds like nothing. The reason people end up resenting their link-in-bio subscription is that nobody does the multiplication, and a bio page is not a thing you use for six weeks. It sits in your Instagram bio for years.

So this comparison uses one number that the marketing pages never show you: what each tool costs over three years. Every rate below was read from the vendor’s own pricing page on 17 September 2026 in US dollars, at the annual billing term where one exists, and the totals are simple arithmetic on those posted rates.

Three-Year Cost for a Page With No Vendor Branding

This is the comparison that matters, because removing someone else’s logo is the single most common reason people go looking for a Linktree alternative in the first place.

Carrd Pro Standard gives you a page with no branding on a domain you own for 57 dollars across three years. Linktree Pro gives you a page with no branding on a linktr.ee address for 432 dollars across the same three years. That is a factor of seven and a half, for the same job.

Milkshake belongs in this table as a zero, with an asterisk. It is free and it is an app, and nothing on its site documents a custom domain, so it is not strictly comparable. If your only requirement is a good-looking page at no cost, it is the cheapest answer here by definition.

Why the Gap Is So Wide

Three separate pricing decisions compound into that seven-fold difference, and none of them is about how good the product is.

• Per year versus per month. Carrd prices in years. Everyone else prices in months. A nineteen-dollar-a-year plan and a nineteen-dollar-a-month plan are not neighbours, they are twelve times apart, and the pricing page typography rarely makes that obvious at a glance.
• Which tier holds branding removal. Linktree puts it on the third tier up. Carrd puts it on the first paid tier. Taplink puts it on its top tier but that tier is eight dollars a month. The feature is identical, the position in the ladder is a pricing choice.
• The annual-versus-monthly headline. Most of these tools advertise the discounted annual rate in large type and the real monthly rate in small type. Linktree Pro is twelve dollars a month billed annually and fifteen if you pay monthly, so paying month to month quietly adds 36 dollars a year.

None of that is deceptive exactly. It is just arranged so the comparison is harder than it needs to be, which is why doing the multiplication yourself is worth ten minutes.

What Linktree Charges, for the Record

Linktree’s pricing page lists a free plan and three paid tiers: Starter at 6 dollars a month billed annually or 8 monthly, Pro at 12 annually or 15 monthly, and Premium at 30 annually or 35 monthly. Starter adds basic analytics and digital product sales at a 9 percent fee. Pro removes the branding and adds custom themes and advanced analytics. Premium drops the seller fee to zero and adds an affiliate shop and social scheduling.

Over three years those come out at 216 dollars for Starter, 432 for Pro and 1,080 for Premium.

The Six Alternatives

1. Carrd

Carrd is a one-page website builder rather than a link list, and it is the outlier on cost by a long way. Free covers three sites on a carrd.co address with Carrd branding. Pro Lite is nine dollars a year and removes the branding. Pro Standard is nineteen a year for ten sites plus custom domains with SSL, forms, embeds, analytics and meta tags. Pro Plus is forty-nine a year for twenty-five sites, redirects, password protection and downloadable site files. There is a seven-day Pro trial that asks for no card.

The cost of that price is effort. Carrd gives you an editor and a blank page, not a template with your links pre-stacked, so budget fifteen minutes rather than three.

2. Beacons

Beacons prices around selling rather than around branding. Free includes a customisable page, unlimited digital product sales at a 9 percent seller fee, affiliate links, a self-updating media kit and 50 email sends a month. Creator is 8.33 a month annually, which is 100 dollars a year or 300 over three, and adds a free custom domain and 500 email sends. Creator Plus is 25 a month, 300 a year, 900 over three, and takes the seller fee to zero while letting you keep all affiliate commission. Creator Max is 75 a month.

For anyone selling, the fee line matters more than the subscription line. Nine percent of 10,000 dollars of annual sales is 900 dollars, which is three times the cost of the plan that removes it.

3. Campsite.bio

Campsite.bio splits Personal from Organizations, which is unusual and useful. Personal Free covers unlimited links and customisation. Pro at seven dollars a month adds multiple profiles from one login, analytics down to referrer and geography, opt-in forms, tracking pixels and a custom domain, coming to 252 dollars over three years. Pro Plus at twenty-four a month brings six profiles, four collaborators, lifetime analytics and CSV export. Organizations tiers at fourteen and twenty-nine a month swap collaborators for member management. Every paid plan has a ten-day trial.

4. Taplink

Taplink aims at service businesses. Basic is described as permanently free and covers unlimited links, custom design, maps, page view statistics and a QR code. PRO at four dollars a month on the twelve-month term, 48 a year, adds professional templates, price lists, custom HTML and click analytics. BUSINESS at eight a month, 96 a year or 288 over three, is the tier with payments, lead capture forms, a CRM, automated emails, a custom domain with SSL, and branding removal.

For a salon, tutor or small shop, 288 dollars over three years for a page that takes bookings and card payments is the strongest value on this list.

5. Bio.link

Bio.link runs a single plan at 7.49 dollars a month behind a free trial, working out at 89.88 a year and 269.64 over three. Everything is included at that price: unlimited sites and visitors, a custom domain, full white-label with no Bio.link branding, analytics and SEO, an email list and newsletter builder, publishable posts and an AI chat assistant. There is no tier ladder to work out, which is the point of the pricing.

The thing to check is that the page leads with a trial rather than a free forever plan, so the three-year figure is the real one from day eight.

6. Milkshake

Milkshake is free, published by Codelbee, and built entirely as a phone app. It sits in the Productivity category on the App Store with a 4.9 rating from more than 14,700 ratings, and carries 4.6 from over 29,000 ratings on Google Play against more than a million downloads. Three-year cost: nothing.

What you give up is everything on the business side. No analytics suite, no checkout, and nothing published about custom domains. It is the right answer to a small question and the wrong answer to a commercial one.

Where a Cheap Plan Turns Expensive

A low subscription can still be the costly option. Three things to price in before deciding:

• Seller fees. A 9 percent cut appears on Linktree Starter and the Beacons free plan. At any real sales volume this dwarfs the subscription difference, and the zero-fee tiers become the cheap option rather than the expensive one.
• The domain itself. Every custom domain figure above is the tool’s charge, not the registrar’s. Budget roughly 10 to 15 dollars a year on top for the domain name, whichever tool you pick.
• Rebuilding. The real cost of choosing wrong is the afternoon you spend moving, plus every printed QR code and every bio link that now points at a dead page. This is the argument for paying for a custom domain early, and for treating account security on whichever tool you choose as seriously as any other login.

Two Alternatives That Shut Down

Bento and Linkpop still appear on most lists. Neither is a product you can sign up for, and both redirects were checked on 17 September 2026.

• Bento was the design-led favourite. bento.me now returns a 301 redirect to linktr.ee. Linktree bought it, so the most recommended Linktree alternative has become Linktree.
• Linkpop was Shopify’s free bio-link tool with built-in checkout. linkpop.com returns a 301 to shopify.com, and no product page survives.

Both are a reminder that a three-year cost estimate assumes the tool lasts three years. The only part of the setup that reliably survives an acquisition is a domain you own, which is a second reason the nineteen-dollar Carrd tier looks better than the nine-dollar one. Anyone building an audience across platforms runs the same risk, which is why platform income is best treated as rented.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the cheapest Linktree alternative over three years?

Milkshake at nothing, if a free app page is enough. Among paid tools it is Carrd, at 27 dollars over three years on Pro Lite or 57 on Pro Standard with a custom domain. The nearest competitor on this list is Campsite Pro at 252 dollars for the same period.

Is Linktree Pro worth 432 dollars over three years?

Only if you value the speed and the template library over the money, because on features alone the answer is no. Taplink BUSINESS does more for 288 and Carrd Pro Standard does the branding-free, custom-domain job for 57. What Linktree sells at that price is the least setup work of anything here.

Do these prices include the domain name?

No. Each figure is what the tool charges to connect a custom domain, not what a registrar charges to own one. Expect to add roughly 10 to 15 dollars a year for the name itself, and note that this cost is the same whichever tool you use, so it does not change the ranking.

Can I start free and upgrade later without rebuilding?

On Carrd, Beacons, Campsite and Taplink, yes, because the free tier and the paid tier are the same product with features unlocked. Bio.link is the exception, since it leads with a trial rather than a free plan, so the decision arrives on day eight rather than whenever you are ready.

How long do these prices stay accurate?

Not indefinitely. Every figure here was read on 17 September 2026, and this category reprices and consolidates regularly, as Bento and Linkpop demonstrate. Check the vendor page before you commit, and treat the three-year totals as a way of comparing today’s offers rather than a forecast. The same caution applies to anything in our social tool roundups.

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