Beacons alternatives

Beacons takes 9% of every sale on its Free and $10 plans and reaches 0% only on the $30 Creator Plus plan. ByteSell charges 0% on every plan, starting with a free one, and the buyer pays your own Stripe, PayPal or crypto wallet directly. There is no cut to calculate and no payout to wait for.

The other difference is the store itself. A Beacons shop lives inside a bio page. A ByteSell storefront is a real branded store on your own domain, with subscription billing and native Discord and Telegram gating built in. You get the storefront a bio link points to.

Beacons is one of the definitive link-in-bio platforms, a product that grew up alongside the creator economy itself. The bio page is the center, and around it Beacons has built a broad toolkit: a digital-product store, email marketing, courses, an AI media kit, and brand-outreach tools, with an entry tier that really is free at $0 a month. For a creator whose income is a mix of sponsorships and a handful of products, the package is hard to argue with, and the money from every sale lands directly in your own Stripe or PayPal account.

The reasons people leave are specific, and most of them are about the store. The Free plan takes 9% of every sale, and upgrading to the $10 Creator plan does not reduce that by a single point. The 9% only disappears at Creator Plus, which costs $30 a month. Memberships are gated to that same $30 tier, so recurring revenue is unavailable on the plans most Beacons sellers are actually on, and the lower tiers keep 9% of your affiliate commissions too. None of this is hidden, and Beacons documents all of it in its own help center. It adds up to a product where serious selling requires the $30 tier, and where the store itself stays one block on a bio page in Beacons’ layout. That is the moment this list exists for.

One thing Beacons gets structurally right, and worth demanding from anything on this list: sale proceeds go straight to your own payment account, and Beacons’ terms are explicit that the platform never handles the payment. Any alternative that instead holds your balance and pays you out on a schedule is a step backward, whatever its fee page says.

If brand partnerships are the core of your income and selling is a sideline, stay where you are: the free tier costs nothing, the media-kit and outreach tooling has no equivalent on the platforms below, and a store block on a bio page is exactly the right amount of store for that business.