Beacons Review 2026: Free Plan Fees, Store Plans, Pros and Cons

Beacons is a link-in-bio page that grew into a full creator storefront: a store for digital products, courses and memberships, an email tool, an auto-updating media kit for brand deals, Instagram auto-DMs and an AI assistant called Beam.

The pricing is built around one lever that matters more than any feature, the seller fee. Free and Creator take 9% of every sale; Creator Plus and Creator Max take none.

So the plan you need depends on how much you sell, not on which features you want. This review prices all four plans on monthly and yearly billing, works out where the 9% fee costs more than a subscription, and compares the same sales on Linktree, Gumroad and Podia.

Beacons figures come from Beacons' pricing page, read November 4, 2026; rival prices come from each vendor's own pricing page and help center the same day.

Toolradar data: among the 40 creator platforms tracked on Toolradar, the software directory we run, 24 have a free plan, and Beacons' cheapest paid plan ranks 5th of the 12 with a verified entry price, where the median is $17 a month, as of November 2026.

Beacons is also listed as an alternative to 13 other tools. For the wider field, see our best link-in-bio tools ranking.

Beacons is an all-in-one creator platform built on a link-in-bio page, with a website builder, a digital store, email marketing, a media kit and Instagram DM automation in one account. Payouts go to your Stripe or PayPal account, and an affiliate marketplace lets you link products from over 12,000 brands and earn commission.

The AI assistant, Beam, answers questions about your analytics and content, designs pages from a prompt and drafts emails, running on daily AI credits that grow with the plan.

The free plan is generous on features: a customizable page, a daily-updating media kit, unlimited digital products, affiliate links, Smart Reply Instagram auto-DMs and real-time analytics, with 30 daily AI credits and 50 email sends a month.

What it charges for is the money side: the 9% seller fee and limits on email. For the directory listing, see the Beacons profile on Toolradar; the closest rival is the Linktree profile.

You sign up, and Beam guides you through building the page, which Beacons says takes under five minutes. You then add links, products, a signup form for your email list and a media kit that pulls audience numbers from your connected social accounts.

Each product page can use your own domain on Creator and above, and the store supports discount codes, order bumps, limited-quantity sales and, on Creator Plus, Buy Now Pay Later through Klarna or Affirm.

The store is where the plans split. On Free and Creator, Beacons deducts 9% of each sale; on Creator Plus and Creator Max, 0%. The same split applies to affiliate links you create through Beacons' brand partners. Creator, the $10 plan, does not lower the fee at all: it buys a custom domain, 300 daily AI credits and 500 email sends a month. A seller who upgrades from Free to Creator to save on fees saves nothing.

Email is the other limit to watch. Free allows 50 sends a month and Creator 500, while Creator Plus and Max are unlimited, with 5 or 20 automation sequences a month by plan. A creator who emails a list of a few thousand people weekly needs Creator Plus or a separate email tool.

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Beacons lists four plans on Beacons' pricing page, in US dollars, read November 4, 2026. Free costs $0 forever with a 9% seller fee. Creator costs $10 a month, or $8.33 a month billed annually ($100 a year), still with the 9% fee.

Creator Plus costs $30 a month, or $25 billed annually ($300 a year), with 0% seller fees. Creator Max costs $100 a month, or $83.3 billed annually ($1,000 a year), adding Google Workspace, white-glove onboarding, priority support and a physical NFC card. Annual billing gives two months free.

Where the 9% fee stops being cheap, by our arithmetic: on annual billing, Creator Plus costs less than the free plan's fee once you sell about $3,333 a year, roughly $278 a month. On monthly billing the line is $333 a month in sales.

Creator Plus beats Creator from about $2,222 a year in sales. Below those lines, staying on Free and paying 9% is the cheaper choice.

A year of sales on each platform, platform fees and subscriptions only, our arithmetic: take a creator selling 120 copies of a $25 guide a year ($3,000).

Beacons Free costs $270 in fees, Creator Plus its flat annual price, Linktree Pro $168 at $14 a month billed annually with 0% Linktree fees, Gumroad $360 at 10% + $0.50 a sale, and Podia Mover $654 including its 5% fee.

At $10,000 a year in sales, Beacons Free costs $900, Creator Plus still its flat price, Linktree Pro still $168, and Gumroad $1,000 plus its per-sale charge. Payment processing can add to these figures; Linktree, for example, passes on Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 per purchase on every plan.

Methodology: we read the pricing pages of Beacons, Linktree, Gumroad and Podia, plus Linktree's fee article, on November 4, 2026, used list prices on annual billing unless stated, and multiplied monthly prices by 12 where a vendor prints no yearly total.

Beacons suits a creator who wants to start selling a guide, preset or template this week without paying a subscription, and who values the media kit and Instagram auto-DMs as much as the store. On the free plan, the 9% fee is the whole cost, so a creator who sells a few hundred dollars a year pays less than any subscription would cost.

It also suits creators who want link-in-bio, store, email and brand-deal tools in one account rather than four.

Skip the free plan once sales pass a few thousand dollars a year: Creator Plus or a 0% rival costs less than the fee. If you mainly sell and do not need Beacons' email or media kit, Linktree Pro costs less per year at 0%; our link-in-bio ranking covers it.

If courses are the business, Podia or Kajabi fit better, as our Podia review and Kajabi review explain, and if email is the business, start with our Kit review.

For other ways to earn from an audience, see our creator monetization tools guide.