Free Linktree alternatives: what each free plan really includes

The logo in the footer is the part everyone notices

It is also the one with the widest price range in the whole category. Linktree puts the removal behind Pro, which at the prices reported for late 2025 is around fifteen dollars a month. Beacons puts it on Creator Plus at thirty, three times its entry plan. Milkshake sells it on its own for 2.99 and that plan includes almost nothing else. Feedlink gives it away on the free tier.

That footer does more than credit them. The page ships with an experiment variable named profile--signup--footer_cta_button attached to a "Create your Linktree" button, so the last thing your audience sees is an acquisition test that someone else is running.

The expensive paywall is the one you do not notice

A free Linktree account cannot see how many clicks each individual link received. Total views are there; the number next to each row is not. The clicks already happened and the rows are already in their database; the plan buys you the right to look.

The pattern is not universal, so check yours rather than assuming.

What each free plan gives you

A custom domain is the gap nobody fills by default

Linktree does not offer one at any price. Their help page, updated in October 2024, says it without hedging.

We don’t offer the option to use a custom domain to replace the linktr.ee URL. We also don’t provide developer tools for setting up domain forwarding.

That matters more than it sounds. The address on your page ends up printed on a business card, glued to a jar of jam, baked into a QR code on a poster and pasted under nine hundred videos you can no longer edit. If the address belongs to a company, so does everything pointing at it. If it is yours, you can move the page to a different tool in an afternoon and every printed copy keeps working.

Four things to check before you move in

• Can you export everything today, by yourself, without writing to support? Ask for the file before you need it.
• Is the page indexable? On a sample of 98 public Linktree profiles, 49 of the 80 free-plan pages carried noindex, nofollow, and none of the paid ones did. Editing the title and description for search engines is a Pro feature there.
• Does the address survive you leaving? That is the custom domain question again, and it is the only answer that makes the rest reversible.
• What happens to the QR code you already printed? A QR that points at a domain you control can be re-aimed. One that points at someone else’s cannot.

The ones that closed

Koji was bought by Linktree in December 2023 and switched off six weeks later. Shopify closed Linkpop in July 2025. Bento was shut down in February 2026 with permanent deletion of data, and bento.me now answers with a redirect to linktr.ee. Tap.bio is winding down and tells its users their service runs until October 2026.

Four products in the same category in two years, and the complaint after each one was identical: the links were already printed. If you are picking a tool today, read what to do when the service shuts down before you pick, not after.

Where to start

Most people reading this need five links, the number of clicks next to each one, and to never think about it again. That combination is free on several tools and costs between twelve and thirty-six dollars a year on the cheap paid ones, which is the real price of the market. Linktree’s sixty to two hundred and eighty-eight is a different conversation.

linkfree is the one we build, so treat this as a disclosure rather than a recommendation: the footer is yours, the per-link clicks are on the free plan, the custom domain is included and the export button gives you a JSON file plus a standalone HTML copy of your page. No card, at any point.