The 10 best Beacons alternatives in 2026

1. 1.ByteSellOur pick

   The whole reason to leave is the 9%, and there is no percentage here to replace it on any plan, the free one included. Memberships are not held back either, since paid Discord and Telegram access runs on that free plan. Check the storage ceilings before moving a large catalogue.

   Pros

   • Nothing is taken per sale on any plan, and the free plan charges the same nothing
   • Paid Discord and Telegram access is granted on payment and revoked on lapse, on the free plan
   • Buyers pay the Stripe, PayPal or crypto wallet in your own name, with no balance in between
   • Affiliates, coupons, upsells and unlimited team members cost nothing on every tier

   Cons

   • The free plan holds 500 MB across the whole store and rejects any file over 50 MB
   • Running your own domain without ByteSell branding starts on Pro at $29 a month
   • Free keeps only seven days of analytics history and 10,000 events a month
   • There is no marketplace here, so every buyer comes from an audience you brought

   Beacons would take, in a year

   $2,700and ByteSell would take none of it

   On a $50 product selling 50 times a month, at 9%. ByteSell is 0% on every plan including the free one, and the buyer pays your own Stripe, PayPal or wallet, so nothing is held in the middle.

   Free plan, no card, keep every cent of every sale.

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2. 2.Stan Store

   Closest in feel to what you already run, a phone-shaped storefront behind one link, and it takes nothing per sale on either plan. The catch is where you start: $29 a month, no free tier at all, and a fourteen day trial before billing begins.

   Pros

   • Zero percent on the $29 Creator plan and the $99 Creator Pro plan alike
   • Recurring subscriptions, a course builder, booking and community are all on the entry plan
   • Sales settle into a connected Stripe or PayPal rather than a balance Stan controls
   • Paying for a year brings Creator down to $25 a month

   Cons

   • No free plan exists, only a fourteen day trial, so billing starts before revenue does
   • Discount codes, upsells, funnels, affiliate management and email marketing all sit on the $99 plan
   • The default Stripe path builds a Custom account Stan manages, and an existing account cannot join it
   • The storefront has no built-in embed, so it cannot live inside a site you already run

   Stan Store alternatives

3. 3.Sellfy

   A proper shop rather than a store block on a bio page, charging no percentage on any of its three plans, with print on demand merchandise sitting beside the downloads. What it meters instead is annual revenue, beginning at $10,000 a year on the $39 Starter plan.

   Pros

   • No transaction fee on any of the three plans, so nine points come off immediately
   • Print on demand products are made and shipped from the same storefront as the files
   • Money arrives in your own Stripe or PayPal as the sale happens, with nothing scheduled
   • Email marketing credits are included on every plan rather than metered by tier

   Cons

   • Each plan carries an annual revenue ceiling, $10,000 on Starter at $39 a month
   • Cross that ceiling and every order picks up 2% until the account moves up
   • The fourteen day trial has checkout switched off, so nothing can sell while you test it
   • Extra email credits cost $2 per thousand and expire monthly instead of rolling over

   Sellfy fee calculatorSellfy alternatives

4. 4.Payhip

   Nothing is gated by plan here, which is the exact opposite of paying $30 before memberships unlock. The free tier carries the entire product and keeps 5% of a sale, so the rate falls by four points without any subscription starting on the same day.

   Pros

   • Five percent on the free plan, four points under the rate you are on now
   • Every feature is present on every tier, so nothing waits behind a $30 upgrade
   • US sales tax is collected and remitted for you, and EU VAT is handled as well
   • Thirteen processors are supported, reaching buyers in markets Stripe serves poorly

   Cons

   • The rate only reaches zero on the $99 Pro plan, and $29 Plus still keeps 2%
   • Only PayPal plus one other processor can normally be connected at the same time
   • No annual price is published, so paying ahead buys no discount

   Payhip fee calculatorPayhip alternatives

5. 5.Ko-fi

   Worth considering if the page is really where your audience supports you rather than shops, because tips, memberships and a small shop all sit together with no monthly bill. Selling costs 5%, tips cost 5% in Contributor mode, and there is no custom domain.

   Pros

   • Five percent on shop sales and memberships, and no monthly charge to keep the page open
   • Support transfers into your own PayPal or Stripe immediately, with no minimum balance
   • Ko-fi states outright that the creator is the merchant of record on every transaction
   • Contributor allows 1,500 shop items, 200 GB of storage and files up to 5 GB

   Cons

   • New creators start in Contributor mode, which puts the same 5% on one-off tips
   • There is no custom domain, so the page keeps a Ko-fi address permanently
   • Ko-fi Gold clears the fee for $12 a month, and Ko-fi’s own page discourages it
   • Memberships started through Stripe keep their old rate even after you switch to Gold

   Ko-fi fee calculatorKo-fi alternatives

6. 6.Podia

   Open this one if the courses were the part of your Beacons page that earned. Lessons, a paid community and email marketing arrive on a single subscription, and the trial runs thirty days without a card. Mover, the $49 plan, still deducts 5% from each sale.

   Pros

   • Courses, a members’ area and email campaigns all arrive on one subscription
   • Thirty days of trial with no card asked for, the longest in this comparison
   • Shaker at $99 and Earthquaker at $179 take no percentage of a sale
   • Payments run through a processor you connect rather than a Podia balance

   Cons

   • Mover at $49 a month keeps 5% of every order, on annual billing as well as monthly
   • PayPal works only on Shaker and Earthquaker, never on the entry plan
   • Mover includes 100 email contacts and 10,000 of them costs $70 a month more
   • Podia cannot collect its fee through Stripe for accounts in five listed countries

   Podia fee calculatorPodia alternatives

7. 7.Gumroad

   No subscription at all, which suits a catalogue that sells in bursts, and there is a marketplace attached that can surface a product to someone who was not looking for you. The rate is a point worse than the one you are leaving, at 10% plus 50 cents.

   Pros

   • Nothing to pay monthly, so a quiet season costs exactly zero
   • A marketplace of its own can surface your product to buyers you never reached
   • Gumroad stands as merchant of record, so sales tax is worked out and remitted for you
   • Buyer email addresses appear in the dashboard and download as a CSV

   Cons

   • The cut is 10% plus 50 cents on every sale, a point above the fee you are leaving
   • A sale arriving through Gumroad’s own marketplace costs a flat 30% instead
   • Each sale sits in a Gumroad balance for seven days before it is available
   • Nothing pays out until the balance clears $100, and some countries set a higher floor

   Gumroad fee calculatorGumroad alternatives

8. 8.Linktree

   The other definitive name in this category, and the better pure bio page, though its selling side costs more than yours does now: Linktree’s fee documentation puts 12% on Free and 9% on the two tiers above it. Payments run through a Stripe account Linktree creates.

   Pros

   • The best known page in this category, with QR tools and email integrations to match
   • The free tier costs nothing and the top Premium tier does reach 0%
   • Linktree states the seller is the seller of record, contracting directly with the buyer
   • Stripe runs the payouts, so daily, weekly or monthly is your own choice

   Cons

   • Twelve percent of a digital sale on Free, and 9% on both Starter and Pro
   • The Linktree fee is deducted before the payout reaches you rather than billed later
   • Only Stripe is documented, through an account Linktree creates for the store
   • Community Channels links out to Discord, WhatsApp or Slack with no payment gate on the door

   Linktree fee calculatorLinktree alternatives

9. 9.Patreon

   The answer if the memberships you cannot run below $30 were going to be the actual business. Recurring pledges are the whole product here, and Discord roles are granted on payment and removed when a pledge lapses. Patreon takes the payment itself and charges 10%.

   Pros

   • Discord roles are granted when a member links up and removed once a pledge ends
   • No subscription to pay, since the model is a percentage instead of a monthly plan
   • Patreon is the merchant of record, so tax and disputes are its problem
   • One-time purchases and recurring tiers both run from the same page

   Cons

   • Ten percent platform fee, with a Patreon payment fee of 2.9% plus 30 cents on top
   • Your own Stripe or PayPal cannot be connected, because Patreon takes the payment
   • Payouts start on the fifth of the month and then take one to five days
   • Cross-currency payments add a 2.5% conversion fee, and Apple purchases add Apple’s 30%

   Patreon fee calculatorPatreon alternatives

10. 10.Whop

    A membership checkout with a marketplace of buyers attached, which is the one thing no bio page hands you. Read the fee documentation first: thirteen transaction charges are listed on it, and the seller terms permit reserves of up to 100% of funds for 180 days.

    Pros

    • Whop has buyers browsing it, which is the one thing a bio page cannot manufacture
    • No monthly plan to pay, because everything Whop charges is per transaction
    • Pay the 2% tax fee and Whop remits the tax for that sale
    • Financing partners let a buyer spread a purchase across instalments

    Cons

    • Thirteen separate transaction charges sit beyond the 2.7% plus 30 cents card rate
    • The 2% tax fee is charged in addition to all other applicable fees, in Whop’s own words
    • Taking the money out costs $2.50 by ACH, $23 by wire, or 5% plus $1 in crypto
    • Seller terms allow reserves of up to 100% of funds for as long as 180 days

    Whop fee calculatorWhop alternatives

Every price above is computed from that platform's own published rates on its entry plan, which is the plan almost everyone is actually on. Where a charge applies only in certain cases, an international card or a payout, the row says so rather than adding it to the headline rate. To put your own prices through Beacons's full stack, use the Beacons fee calculator.

Compare	ByteSell	Beacons
Platform fee on each sale	Yes.0% on every plan	No.9% on Free and $10, 0% only at $30+
Fixed, predictable cost	Yes.Free, or a flat monthly price	No.Free and $10 tiers take 9%, 0% needs $30+
Your own branded storefront	Yes.Free storefront, your own domain from Pro	Partial.A store block on a Beacons bio page
Use your own Stripe or PayPal	Yes.Included	Yes.Your own Stripe or PayPal
Your money is never held	Yes.Non-custodial	Yes.Non-custodial too
Accept crypto payments	Yes.To your own wallet	No.Not built in
Paid Discord and Telegram access	Yes.Included, auto-revoke on lapse	No.Not built in
Subscriptions and recurring billing	Yes.Included	Partial.Memberships only on the $30 plan
Coupons and discounts	Yes.Included	Yes.Percentage discount codes
Upsells and order add-ons	Yes.Included	Partial.Order bumps, Creator Plus only
Full built-in analytics	Yes.Included	No.A basic dashboard only
Affiliate program	Yes.Free on every plan	No.A creator referral marketplace only
Local card processors (Paystack, Razorpay)	Partial.Stripe and PayPal today, more on the way	No.Stripe and PayPal only
Fraud and checkout controls	Yes.Included	No.Not built in
Live chat with your buyers	Yes.Included	No.Not built in
PDF stamping and watermarking	Yes.Included	No.Not built in

Every Beacons figure and limit is quoted from its own pages, linked in the fee breakdown above.