Five tools, three questions that decide the bill: what the cheapest paid plan costs, what it costs to put the page on a domain you own, and what it costs to sell without the platform taking a cut.
Every figure below was read from the vendor’s own pricing page and is dated. Nothing here is quoted from a comparison site — including ours.
Prices are the annual-billing rate converted to a yearly total, in USD, as shown to a US visitor on 1 August 2026. Several of these vendors price by region. Card processing fees (Stripe or equivalent) apply on top at every vendor here, perma.bio included — “0% platform fee” never means “free to take money”. We are one of the five, so read the concessions underneath: they are the honest part.
| Tool | Free plan publishes? | Cheapest paid | Cheapest with custom domain | Selling at 0% platform fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| perma.bio | No — draft & preview only | $15/yr | $15/yr — included | $35/yr |
| Lnk.Bio | Yes | $9.99 one-time | $39.99/yr add-on, sold separately | n/a |
| Carrd | Limited — 3 sites, no domain | $9/yr | $19/yr (Pro Standard) | n/a — no native store |
| Beacons | Yes — 9% seller fees | $8.33/mo annually — $100/yr | $100/yr (Creator) | $25/mo annually — $300/yr |
| Linktree | Yes — 9% on Starter | $10/mo annually — $120/yr | Paid tiers | $46.50/mo annually — $558/yr |
Sources, all read 1 August 2026: linktr.ee/s/pricing · beacons.ai/i/pricing · lnk.bio/custom-domain · carrd.co/pro. Lnk.Bio’s one-time plan prices are the one figure here we have not confirmed on their own pricing page, so treat that cell as indicative. We re-check these against each vendor’s own page rather than against other comparison sites. If you find one that has moved, tell us and we’ll fix it — a wrong price about a competitor is worse than no page at all.
Selling from your page with no platform cut: $35/yr here, $300/yr at Beacons, $558/yr at Linktree. Below their top tiers both charge 9% of what you sell. On a $2,000 year that 9% is $180 — more than five years of perma.bio Pro.
Pricing tables miss this, so we opened a real published page on each one (1 August 2026) and looked. Beacons put a fixed “Try for free!” bar along the bottom of the creator’s page — an advertisement for Beacons, on someone else’s page. Bio.link and Linktree free tiers carry a logo. Ours is one line of small text in the footer, and Pro removes it for $35/yr — against the $222/yr Linktree charges to remove theirs.
The other thing we noticed: on the pages we looked at, none of the three showed an icon next to each link — just stacks of identical text buttons. Every perma.bio link carries the destination’s own favicon, which is the difference between scanning a page and reading it. See the demo.
One page each, on one day — Beacons’ bar may not appear on every tier, and the Linktree page we opened was a paid account, so its lack of branding is bought rather than standard. We’re telling you what we saw, not what always happens.
Measured in a real browser on 1 August 2026, on a live page from each tool, scrolled to the bottom so nothing lazy was left out. Note the block counts differ — ours was the heaviest page of the four.
| Tool | Blocks on the page | Requests | HTML doc | Third-party hosts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| perma.bio | 39 | 14 | 26 KB | 0 |
| Bio.link | 5 | 15 | 61 KB | 6 — incl. Pinterest tracking |
| Beacons | 4 | 65 | 16 KB | 4 |
| Linktree | 12 | 74 | 270 KB | 8 — incl. browser fingerprinting and a Snapchat SDK |
Two honest notes. Bio.link is genuinely light on requests — 15 against our 14, on a much smaller page; we are not the only lean option. And a page with an embed on it contacts that provider — put a YouTube video on your page and the visitor's browser talks to YouTube, because that is what an embed is. The zero above is for a page of links, images and text, which is what most pages are.
Otherwise we run nothing on your visitors. No analytics SDK, no fingerprinting, no ad-network pixel, and since 1 August not even a third-party icon CDN — link icons are cached on our own domain. The trackers we found on the others sit on the creator's page, watching the creator's audience, whether or not the creator asked for them.
Lnk.Bio — if you don’t need a custom domain, they win outright: a free
tier and a $9.99 one-time plan against our $15 every year. Buy theirs.
Beacons — a whole creator business: store, courses, email, media kit, IG automation,
AI tools. If you want that suite, $100/yr is not expensive, it’s a different product.
Linktree — brand recognition with non-technical audiences, and the most polished
onboarding in the category.
Carrd — ten sites and total layout freedom for $19. If you want to design it
yourself, that dollar over us is well spent.
All three of Linktree, Beacons and Lnk.Bio publish a live page for free.
We don’t. That is the single biggest reason to not choose perma.bio.
One page, on a domain you own, at a price that doesn’t move, from people who will let you download the whole thing as a file and walk away. If you sell anything at all, Pro at $35/yr is the cheapest 0%-platform-fee selling in this table by a factor of eight. If you want a free page or a creator suite, buy one of the others — they’re listed above with links.
Also: perma.bio vs Linktree in detail · what a custom domain costs at each tool