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The Beacons Alternative Without the Fee on Your Sales
ExclusiveLink is the Beacons alternative for creators who sell: no 9% cut of your sales, a page that reads premium instead of cluttered, gated and paid links, and analytics that name the post that earned. From $19 a month.
01The 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.
02The 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.
03Side 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 | $19 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, $49/mo | On paid plans |
Weighing the whole market? Start at the best link in bio app comparison.
04The 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 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.
One year at $2,500/mo in sales
| Gross sales, 12 months | $30,000 |
| Beacons 9% fee | -$2,700 |
| ExclusiveLink Pro, 12 months | -$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.
05Fair pushback
What Beacons users ask before moving
Beacons costs nothing upfront. This starts at $19. Right, and if you sell even $250 a month, the 9% fee already costs more than our Creator plan. 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.
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.