Best Free Link-in-Bio Tools in 2026: Linktree and Alternatives Compared

A free link-in-bio page works until one limit bites: the link count, the analytics window, the custom domain or the cut taken from a sale. Toolradar data: of the 35 creator platforms we track, 21 have a free plan, as of October 2026 (Toolradar's creator platform ranking). Free plans are common, so the useful question is which limit each one sets.

Below, seven tools are read against the same four limits: links, analytics, custom domain and sales fee. Every price and limit comes from the vendor's own pricing or product page, read on 10 October 2026. hoo.be publishes its own roundup and ranks itself first, so its free plan is judged on the same four limits as the rest.

A link-in-bio tool is a single web page that holds several links, so one address in a social profile can send readers to a shop, a newsletter or a booking page. Free plans cap some of what that page can do: how many links it holds, how far back its analytics go, whether it can use a custom domain, and what it takes from any sale made through it.

Check two scenarios before you pick. Each one uses only what the vendor pages state.

Scenario one: one creator, 15 to 25 links, no sales, and a monthly check of clicks. Linktree, Campsite.bio, hoo.be and Milkshake allow unlimited links on the free plan, and solo.to's Beginner plan allows 25. The monthly check is where the free plans split. Milkshake shows 30 days of analytics and solo.to shows one month, but Campsite.bio stops at 14 days, which is not enough for a full-month review. Linktree and hoo.be print basic analytics without a window, so a monthly review on either one needs confirming at signup.

Scenario two: a creator who sells a $20 digital file and wants a custom domain. The paid routes to a custom domain are Carrd Pro, which is the lowest of the four printed prices, solo.to's Professional plan at $10 a month on annual billing, which comes to $120 a year, and Milkshake's Pro+ at $99.99 a year billed yearly. hoo.be's Premium is $29.99 a month, or $359.88 across a year at that monthly rate. Carrd's plan details name no sales fee, so check that before you sell.

The sales fee is the limit that costs money first. hoo.be's free plan keeps a 9% platform fee on every sale, and Milkshake's free plan keeps 12%, on top of Stripe's standard processing fee. On $1,000 of digital product sales in a month, that is $90 at hoo.be and $120 at Milkshake, and Milkshake's figure still carries Stripe's charge. A plan that costs nothing to start can end up as the most expensive tool once sales begin.

Methodology: each vendor's own pricing or product page was read on 10 October 2026. For each tool we recorded the free plan's links, analytics window, custom domain and sales fee, then the cheapest paid step with its billing basis. Tools with no dollar figure on their pricing page are listed without one. No price was taken from a review site or from another roundup.

Hoo.be, Carrd and solo.to print a dollar sign without a currency code, so their figures are read as US dollars. Milkshake lists its Pro plan at $59.99 a year, billed yearly. Sources: Linktree pricing, Campsite.bio pricing, hoo.be pricing, solo.to pricing, Milkshake pricing, Carrd and Later pricing, with Later's link-in-bio page for its free option.