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Best Linktree alternatives in 2026, including one that answers messages
The best Linktree alternative depends on what people do after they tap your link. If they click through to a shop, a newsletter or your latest video, you want a better list of links. If they want a time with you, you want a booking page. If they want to ask you something first, about your rates, your dates or whether you take this kind of work, you want a link that answers.
Here is the short version. Every price and fee below was checked on the product’s own pages in October 2026:
- Only a few links: Instagram’s own profile links, free.
- Selling digital products: Stan Store or Beacons.
- A real one page website: Carrd.
- People who want a time with you: a booking page, such as Calendly.
- People who ask before they hire you: Yume, a link that answers.
Prices change often, so check the source links before you decide. We make Yume, so it comes last, judged by the same questions as the rest.
| Option | What visitors get | Price model, checked October 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Instagram profile links | Up to five links on your profile | Free |
| Beacons | A link page with a store | Free with a 9% fee on sales; paid plans from $10 a month |
| Stan Store | A storefront | From $29 a month after a 14 day trial; no transaction fee |
| Carrd | A one page website | Free plan; Pro plans from $9 a year |
| Calendly | Open times to book | Free plan; paid plans from $10 per seat a month, billed yearly |
| Yume | A chat with your agent | Free with one goal; Premium priced in the app |
What Linktree does today
Linktree is a link in bio page: a list of buttons under your name. The free plan includes unlimited links. Paid plans add scheduled links, more design control, email integrations and selling, and the top plan adds AI tools for managing your page and extra admins (Linktree help center, updated October 2026, checked October 2026). It also takes bookings, free or paid, on every plan (Linktree Bookings, checked October 2026).
On sales, Linktree’s own blog puts its transaction fee at 12% on Free, 9% on Starter and Pro and 0% on Premium, with Stripe’s processing fee on top (Linktree blog, February 2026, checked October 2026). Paid digital products need the Pro or Premium plan and are only available in some countries (Linktree help center, checked October 2026).
If a list of buttons is what you need, Linktree is a fine choice. The alternatives below are for when it is not.
Instagram’s own links
Since April 2023, every Instagram account can add up to five links to its profile (TechCrunch, April 2023, checked October 2026). Only the first shows on your profile, and the rest sit behind a tap. It costs nothing and needs no other tool.
Who it suits: people with two to five places to send followers, who do not need a page of their own.
Watch for: it only lives on Instagram. Your other profiles, your email signature and your CV still need a link of their own.
Beacons
Beacons is a link page for creators who sell, with a store and a checkout built in. The free plan takes a 9% transaction fee on sales. Creator costs $10 a month, or $100 a year, and still has 9% seller fees. Creator Plus, at $30 a month or $300 a year, and Creator Max, at $90 a month or $900 a year, take no transaction fee (Beacons help center, checked October 2026).
Who it suits: creators who want their link, their store and their sales in one place.
Watch for: the fee on the lower plans. On $500 of sales a month, 9% is $45, more than the $30 plan that removes it.
Stan Store
Stan Store turns your link into a storefront, built for selling digital products and courses. There is no free plan, only a 14 day free trial. Creator costs $29 a month or $300 a year, Creator Pro costs $99 a month or $948 a year, and Stan takes no transaction fee on top of payment processing (Stan Store pricing guide, updated July 2026, checked October 2026).
Who it suits: people whose link is mainly a checkout.
Watch for: a monthly cost from the day the trial ends, whether you sell that month or not.
Carrd
Carrd builds simple one page websites, and many people use one as their link in bio. There is a free plan. Pro plans are billed yearly: Pro Lite starts at $9 a year, and Pro Standard starts at $19 a year and adds custom domains, forms and embeds. Every Pro plan removes the Carrd branding (Carrd Pro, checked October 2026).
Who it suits: people who want a page that looks like their own, on their own domain, and who are happy to design it.
Watch for: a website says exactly what you wrote. It can collect a form, but it cannot reply to one.
A booking page
If most people who tap your link want a time with you, send them straight to a calendar. Calendly’s free plan has one event type and one connected calendar. Standard costs $10 and Teams $16 per seat a month, billed yearly (Calendly pricing, checked October 2026). Linktree takes bookings too, so you may not need both tools.
Who it suits: coaches, consultants and anyone whose next step is always a call.
Watch for: a booking page books anyone who finds an open slot. If many of those calls turn out to be a poor fit, the problem sits before the booking, not in it. We put the two approaches side by side in Yume and Calendly.
Yume, a link that answers
Yume gives you a link like getyume.co/yourname. There are no buttons on it. People who open it talk to your agent, which answers questions about your work, shares your range if you allow it, and tells them when you are free. It says it is an AI in its first message. When someone is worth your time, it passes them on to you, with their details if they agree to share them.
It is not a list of links, and it is not a shop. It cannot sell anything. From your link, it cannot book a call or agree to a price, and it never hands out your email. The next step is always yours.
Yume is free with one goal at a time, and Premium is priced in the app. You run your agent from the iPhone app, since the Android app is not out yet. Anyone can open your link in any browser. Away from your link, your agent also talks to other people’s agents when your goals match, which is explained in agent to agent.
Who it suits: designers, developers, consultants and anyone whose link mostly gets questions before it gets work.
Watch for: if your link has to send people to ten places, or sell a product, a link in bio tool does that better. We compare the two in detail in Yume and Linktree.
Can you use two?
Yes, and it is often the right answer. A Linktree can link to any address, so your Yume link can be one of its buttons. People who want your shop tap the shop. People who want to talk to you tap your agent. If questions are most of what you get, put your Yume link in your bio instead and keep the shop one tap further away.
How to choose
Look at the last ten messages people sent you after they found your link.
- If they were mostly about where to buy something, pick a better list of links or a store.
- If they were mostly about when you can talk, pick a booking page.
- If they were mostly about what something would cost and whether you are free in November, those are questions an agent can answer for you, at any hour.
That last case is what your own Yume link is for. If you want to know what an agent at your link would and would not do for you, start with what a personal AI agent is, and what it should never do without you.