Alternatives, ranked and sourced
One list per platform, built from figures quoted on that company's own pages. ByteSell is on every list and says so.
Gumroad alternatives
Gumroad takes 10% and 50 cents of every sale, at any volume. The money then sits in your Gumroad balance for seven days, and it will not pay out at all until that balance reaches $100.
Sellers under a few hundred dollars a month, and anyone who wants a marketplace attached.
Payhip alternatives
Payhip’s free plan takes 5% of every sale. Getting that to zero means the $99 Pro plan, and the $29 tier in between still takes 2%.
Sellers who want sales tax handled and buyers paying through local processors.
Whop alternatives
Whop advertises no monthly fee. Its fee page and seller terms between them list fourteen separate per-transaction and payout charges, including 2% whenever tax is collected.
Community and membership sellers who want Whop’s own buyers browsing their listing.
Lemon Squeezy alternatives
Stripe acquired Lemon Squeezy in 2024, and signing up now opens a form that recommends a Stripe product. For anyone still selling there the fee is 5% and 50 cents a sale, with payouts twice a month after a 13-day hold.
Software sellers who want worldwide tax handled and a real license-key API.
Ko-fi alternatives
The 0% Ko-fi is known for covers one-off tips, and only with Contributor mode switched off, which new creators now have on by default. Shop sales, memberships and commissions are 5%.
Creators who are mostly taking tips rather than selling files.
Patreon alternatives
Any Patreon page started after August 4, 2025 pays the standard 10% platform fee, with Patreon’s own payment fee and a payout fee on top. The cheaper 5% and 8% plans are closed to new creators permanently.
Membership creators who want Patreon’s brand and discovery, and accept 10% plus Patreon’s own fees for it.
Etsy alternatives
A US sale on Etsy carries a 6.5% transaction fee, and Etsy Payments takes 3% + $0.25 of the same order. A $0.20 listing fee re-bills every four months, and Offsite Ads charge 12 to 15% on attributed orders, which becomes mandatory for good once a shop passes $10,000 in trailing-year sales.
Sellers who want Etsy’s built-in marketplace traffic and accept its stacked fees to get it.
Linktree alternatives
Linktree keeps 12% of every digital product sale on the free plan, deducted before the payout reaches you. Products sit as buttons on a bio page, and a membership link has no payment gate behind it.
Creators who want a link-in-bio page first and a light store second, and will pay for Premium to reach 0%.
Podia alternatives
Podia’s Mover plan costs $49 a month and takes 5% of every sale on top. The fee disappears on the $99 plan, and email contacts past the first 100 are billed on top of either.
Course creators who want email marketing and a community in one place.
Sellfy alternatives
Sellfy takes 0% of a sale until you pass your plan’s annual revenue ceiling. After that it takes 2% of every order until you upgrade.
Sellers below the plan’s annual revenue ceiling who want print-on-demand in the same store.
Stan Store alternatives
Stan Store takes 0% of every sale on both its $29 and $99 plans, which is rare enough to say first. Sellers still leave, usually because upsells and affiliate management wait behind the $99 tier, or because the store cannot move onto a site of their own.
Coaches and social creators who want a mobile-first link-in-bio store at 0% for a flat monthly fee.
Sell.app alternatives
Sell.app’s free plan takes 3% of every sale and invoices the total at the start of the next month. The only published way off that fee is the Advanced plan at $199.99 a month, which by Sell.app’s own pricing page adds nothing else.
Sellers who want a huge gateway list and Slack or WhatsApp gating, and are fine with 3% until they scale.
SendOwl alternatives
SendOwl takes no cut of a sale and never holds the money. Its plans cap orders and annual revenue, so passing $10,000 of sales on the $39 Launch plan upgrades you automatically.
Sellers who want a no-cut delivery and checkout tool and stay under the plan’s annual order and revenue caps, from $39 a month.
Shoppy alternatives
Shoppy.gg takes 5% of every sale, and the product a buyer checks out through has barely changed in years.
Sellers who take PayPal and accept a cut on crypto, and who are not put off by Shoppy’s reputation.
Selly alternatives
Selly never holds your money, and every plan comes with a fee-free allowance roughly equal to its price. Past that allowance it takes 2.5% of every sale of $9.99 or more, on top of the $19.99 or $59.99 monthly plan.
Reseller, gaming and crypto-native shops that want non-custodial payments with broad coin support and stay under roughly $800 a month, where the fee-free allowance keeps the 2.5% from applying.
Billgang alternatives
Billgang’s site promises forever-zero fees, and the fine print on the same page scopes that to the $299 Scale plan. The free Core plan you actually start on charges 2.9% and 7 cents a sale.
Reseller and digital-goods sellers (accounts, serials, license keys) who want a hosted storefront and will pay $299 a month to reach 0%.
Beacons alternatives
Beacons takes 9% of every sale on the Free plan, and paying $10 a month for Creator does not reduce it by a point. The 0% rate and memberships both start at $30 on Creator Plus.
Link-in-bio creators who will pay $30 a month to stop Beacons taking 9% of every sale.
Shoprocket alternatives
Shoprocket charges 0% and never holds your money, which is the hard part done. Its $29 Starter plan cannot sell subscriptions or connect your own domain, and both wait on the $79 Business plan.
Sellers who already have a website and want a checkout embedded into it with one line of code, selling physical or digital goods without subscriptions on the entry tier.
Sellix alternatives
Sellix has been offline since January 2025, when international law enforcement seized sellix.io and mysellix.io during Operation Talent. The company disputes the action and says no seller funds were lost, and there is still no confirmed date for a return.
No longer operating: its domains were seized in January 2025, so former Sellix sellers need a live non-custodial platform to move to.
E-junkie alternatives
E-junkie takes no cut of a sale and starts at $8 a month, which buys 200 MB of storage. The $20 plan raises that to 8 GB and 150 products, and the storefront still sits on a yourname.e-junkie.com subdomain.
Sellers whose whole business is one-time file downloads, who want the smallest monthly bill and have no need for subscriptions, communities or a modern storefront.
Looking for a head-to-head instead? There are deeper comparisons of Payhip, Whop, Gumroad, Sell.app, Billgang, Beacons, Patreon, Stan Store, Sellfy, Shoppy, Linktree, Etsy, Selly, E-junkie, Shoprocket, Ko-fi, SendOwl, Lemon Squeezy and Podia, each with its fees quoted from that platform's own pages.