Beacons alternatives worth comparing usually come up once you've hit the free plan's limits or don't want to pay a seller fee on every sale just to launch your first digital product.

Why creators look for a Beacons alternative

Beacons' free plan is genuinely capable — a bio page, a media kit, one course, and basic email sends — but it still charges a 9% fee on every digital product sale until you jump to the $30/month Store Pro tier. For creators who just want a page that sells without a media-kit-and-email-marketing bundle attached, that's a lot of surface area to pay for. The alternatives below all take a different angle on the same core job: get paid for what you sell, from one link.

Constants: free plan, flat 6% fee, no upgrade required

Constants' free Starter plan charges a flat 6% fee on every sale — lower than Beacons' free-tier 9%, and you don't have to pay a monthly subscription to get there. Premium is $29.99/month for creators who want the paid-tier extras, but the fee stays 6% on every plan, so upgrading is about features, not unlocking a lower rate. If your priority is simply keeping more of each sale without committing to a subscription first, this is the most direct trade against Beacons' free tier.

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Linktree: familiar, but the highest free-plan fee

Linktree is the name most people already know, and its free plan is unlimited on links. The catch is fees: 12% on the free plan, the highest of any option here, dropping to 9% on the $8 Starter and $15 Pro tiers and only reaching 0% on the $35/month Premium plan. If you're starting from zero sales, that 12% is worth knowing about before you build your shop there — it's twice what Constants charges on the same free tier.

Stan Store: no fees, but no free plan

Stan takes the opposite approach: $29 or $99 a month, zero platform fee either way, with a 14-day free trial to test it. Once you're consistently selling a few hundred dollars a month, a flat subscription with no percentage cut can genuinely work out cheaper than a fee-based platform. The tradeoff is upfront risk — you're committing to a monthly cost before you've made a single sale, which is a harder call for someone still validating whether their audience will buy at all.

Which one actually fits you

If you haven't made your first sale yet and don't want a subscription hanging over you, Constants' free plan and 6% fee is the lowest-commitment starting point of the four. If you're already selling a consistent few hundred dollars a month and want to stop paying a percentage on every sale, Stan's flat fee or Beacons' $30 Store Pro tier both get you to 0%. If you specifically need a media kit and built-in email marketing bundled with your storefront, Beacons' broader toolkit may be worth its fee even on the free tier. See the full plan breakdown at full plan breakdown.

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One disclosure worth stating plainly: this roundup is published by Constants, so weigh the framing accordingly. Every fee and price above is pulled from each platform's own current pricing page rather than adjusted to flatter one option.