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Beacons Alternative and Beacons AI Alternatives Without the 9% Fee on Your Sales
Gated and paid links on every plan. No platform branding, ever.
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The fine print
The 9% fee is the loudest quiet cost in the bio-link market
Beacons gives you a lot at no upfront price: a store, an email tool, invoicing, an AI assistant. The bill arrives as a percentage of everything you sell.
Nine percent does not sound like much until you do a year of it. Sell $2,500 a month in presets and guides on the free tier and Beacons keeps $225 every month, $2,700 a year, more than most creators would ever agree to pay as a subscription. The fee shrinks on paid plans, but the pattern is set: the more you earn, the more the platform takes.
Then there is the page itself. Beacons is an everything app, and the pages show it: store blocks, media kits, email prompts and upsells stacked into one scrolling column. For a casual hobbyist that is generous. For a creator charging premium prices, a cluttered page at a beacons.ai URL quietly undercuts the price tag.
And the analytics, while broad, stay shallow: totals and charts, but little that connects one post to one sale on one day.
The difference
Fewer features, sharper page, none of your money
0% of your sales
On Pro and above, we take nothing from a sale, ever. The Creator plan carries a modest 2%. Your subscription is the whole bill.
A page that reads premium
One focused page: your links, your gates, your accent, on your own domain from Pro. No app-store clutter, no platform badge, nothing that cheapens a $200 offer.
Analytics with names
Per-link clicks and revenue by day, source, country and device, with UTM support. Not a dashboard of totals: a ledger of what earned.
See the full toolset on the features page, or how other creators arrange their pages in the use cases gallery.
Side by side
ExclusiveLink vs Beacons, honestly
Beacons bundles more tools than we do, and its entry price is lower. If you sell, the fee column decides.
| What matters | ExclusiveLink | Beacons |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $49 to $149/mo | Free tier, then about $10 to $30/mo |
| Fees on your sales | 0% on Pro and above, 2% on Creator | 9% on the free tier, lower on paid plans |
| Platform branding removed | On every plan | Paid tiers only |
| Gated and paid links | Core: email gates, prices, scheduling, expiry | Store blocks inside a crowded page |
| Analytics depth | Per-link clicks and revenue, UTM, geo, device | Broad dashboards, shallow per-link data |
| Custom domain | Included from Pro, $99/mo | On paid plans |
Weighing the whole market? Start at the best link in bio app comparison.
The fee, itemized
What 9% costs a working creator in a year
A digital artist sells brush packs and tutorials for $2,500 a month through the bio link. On Beacons' no-subscription tier, the 9% fee quietly invoices her $225 a month. Over a year that is $2,700, paid not as a bill she approved but as sales she never saw.
The same year on ExclusiveLink Pro, billed yearly at half the monthly price, costs $588 flat, with 0% fees, her own domain, and per-link revenue data. She keeps $2,112 more, and her page stops advertising the platform she pays. The math only tilts further as she grows.
Every tier is itemized on the link in bio pricing page, and the full fee math on Beacons' own plans is on the Beacons pricing breakdown.
One year at $2,500/mo in sales
| Gross sales, 12 months | $30,000 |
| Beacons 9% fee | -$2,700 |
| ExclusiveLink Pro, billed yearly | -$588 |
| ExclusiveLink fees on sales | None |
| Kept by switching | +$2,112 |
At list prices; Beacons' paid tiers lower the fee but add their own subscription.
Fair pushback
What Beacons users ask before moving
Beacons costs nothing upfront. This starts at $49. Right, and if you sell even $600 a month, the 9% fee ($54) already costs more than our Creator plan on yearly billing, its 2% fee included. Upfront is not the same as cheaper.
I use Beacons' email tool and media kit. Keep any tool you love; ExclusiveLink exports every gated email as CSV, so your list follows you instead of living inside the platform.
Is switching going to break my links? No. Import your page during setup, swap one URL in your bios, and your audience never sees a dead end.
Does Beacons support a custom domain? Yes, on any paid Beacons subscription, and that is a genuine point in its favor: Linktree and Stan Store do not offer one at any price, according to their own help centers. Where ExclusiveLink differs is what sits on that domain: gated and paid links with a 2% platform fee on Creator and 0% on Pro, against the 9% Beacons takes on its Free and $10 Creator tiers, plus per-link revenue analytics. The three-way breakdown is in Beacons vs Stan Store vs Linktree.
Keep your 9%
Your sales are not a revenue stream for your link page.
Claim exclusive.link/yourname and keep every dollar your page earns.