People leave Linktree for four reasons, and only one of them is the look. In November 2025 the prices went up for existing subscribers, Starter from five dollars to eight, Pro from nine to fifteen, Premium from twenty four to thirty five. Accounts get suspended and support answers with a chatbot. There is no way to export your links. And the page will never carry your own domain, at any price.
That last one is not a complaint about a missing feature. Linktree's own help centre states that they do not offer the option to replace the linktr.ee URL and suggests you set up a redirect instead. So the answer to the most common SEO advice in this category, put it on your own domain, is: not here, not for thirty five dollars a month, not ever.
What to check before you pick one
Four questions. Everything else is decoration.
- Can it carry your own domain, and on which tier? This is what stops your page from building someone else's search authority, and it is what makes your link survive the tool.
- Can you leave with the page? Not an analytics CSV. The page.
- What does it take from a sale? Linktree takes twelve percent on the free plan, nine on Starter and Pro, zero on Premium, on top of the Stripe fee.
- Who owns the company this year? Half this category has changed hands, and the tools that got bought mostly got closed.
The eight
1. Hostus
Different shape from everything else here: there is no builder. You describe the page to Claude or ChatGPT, it writes one HTML file, you drop the file in and it has a link. Your own domain, no badge, and the file stays a file, so leaving is a download. Free up to 20 documents and 2 MB, then $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Pick it if you want the page to be genuinely yours and you are happy to get it by prompting rather than dragging.
2. Carrd
Three sites free, $9 a year for Pro Lite, $19 a year for a custom domain, $49 a year for Pro Plus, which includes Download Sites. That download is the only real page export in this category and it is worth saying plainly: if you want a visual builder rather than a prompt, Carrd is the best answer on this page. Pick it if you want to drag things around and still own the result.
3. Beacons
Free tier with a nine percent seller fee, Creator at $10 a month, and a custom domain from that same $10 tier, the cheapest monthly custom domain here. Storefront and media kit built in. Pick it if you sell digital products and want the shop and the links in one place. Watch the fee: the homepage says no platform fees on free, and the free plan's own feature list on the same page says nine percent.
4. Lnk.Bio
$0.99 a month, or $9.99 once, for life. Unlimited links on free. Favicon, OG image, SEO title and meta description all included. Pick it if you want to pay one time and never think about the subscription again. The custom domain is a paid add on and its price was inconsistent across sources.
5. Campsite.bio
$7 a month, unlimited links on free, fourteen days of analytics, CSV export on Pro. SEO and UTM settings are Pro Plus only. Pick it if you want cheap analytics and do not need the SEO controls. Note it was sold through Acquire.com in late 2023 and had a rough 2024.
6. Milkshake
The editor lives in a phone app. $2.99 a month for Lite, and the custom domain is Pro Plus only at $99.99 a year. Pick it if you genuinely never open a laptop.
7. Stan Store
No free plan, fourteen day trial, $29 a month, zero percent on sales. Pick it if your business is courses and digital products at enough volume that zero percent beats twenty nine dollars.
8. AllMyLinks
Free, and free is the only plan. No ads, no paid tier, unremovable branding, no SEO controls. Pick it if your budget is zero and you are fine with that trade.
Side by side
| Tool | Free plan | Cheapest paid | Custom domain | Fee on sales | Leave with the page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostus | 20 docs, 2 MB, no badge | $9.99/mo | Yes | None, it does not sell for you | Yes, it was your file |
| Linktree | Yes, with badge | about $8/mo | Not on any plan | 12% free, 9% Starter and Pro, 0% Premium | No, analytics only, Premium only |
| Carrd | 3 sites | $9/yr | $19/yr | None documented | Yes, $49/yr |
| Beacons | Yes, 9% fee | $10/mo | $10/mo | 9% free and Creator, 0% above | Contacts only |
| Lnk.Bio | Unlimited links | $0.99/mo or $9.99 once | Paid add on | None | xlsx of data |
| Campsite.bio | Yes | $7/mo | Pro and up | 8%, currently 0% promo | CSV |
| Milkshake | Yes, phone editor | $2.99/mo | $99.99/yr | 12/9/7% by tier | Analytics on Pro Plus |
| Stan Store | No, trial only | $29/mo | Not verified | 0% | Not verified |
| AllMyLinks | Yes, only plan | None | Likely none | None | Not verified |
Checked at the source on 2026 09 08. Linktree and Taplink price by region and publish no global dollar figure, so their numbers depend on where you load the page from. Anything we could not confirm at the vendor's own site is marked not verified rather than guessed.
Build it yourself in one prompt
If what you actually want is a page that looks like your business rather than like a link in bio tool, you do not need any of these builders. Paste this into Claude or ChatGPT, answer the question it comes back with, and host the file it gives you.
Build a single HTML page to use as the link in my Instagram bio, replacing my Linktree.
MY LINKS (paste what you have, in this priority order):
- Current Linktree or bio page: [url]
- Website: [url]
- Instagram: [url]
- Google Business Profile (listing or search): [url, or business name + city]
- Anything else I want on the page: [url] - [url]
Leave anything blank and skip it.
WHAT TO DO FIRST
1. Read all of it. From the website, take the visual identity: fonts and colors in hex, and the logo. From the Linktree, take the existing links and their titles. From Google, take the rating, the number of reviews, the address and two or three short quotes. From Instagram, take the handle and the tone of voice.
2. Before building, show me in one short message: the palette (five or six colors, each with the job it does), the font you picked (use the site's font if it is on Google Fonts, otherwise the closest match), and the list of links in the order you propose, each with a title and a one line subtitle. The first link is the main call to action and gets the emphasis. Ask me if that is right and only build after I confirm.
3. Then build the page.
PAGE RULES
- Mobile first: one column, about 440px max, centred, large tap targets, iPhone safe area
- One file, no dependencies beyond Google Fonts, icons as inline SVG, logo embedded as base64
- Pick the structure, do not assume it. Tell me in step 2 which shape you chose and why. A roastery and a tattoo studio should not come out with the same skeleton in different colours
- The identity block has to establish who this is within one screen. A circular logo above the name is one way. A full bleed image with the name over it, a typographic lockup with no logo at all, or a wordmark on its own line are others. Choose from what the brand already looks like
- Then one block that makes the business concrete. Choose the form from what the business actually is:
a number that genuinely matters, counting up from zero, with bars for the supporting figures
what is available right now, as a list: today's dishes, the coffees on the shelf, the next three open slots
the work itself, as a grid: pieces, rooms, past jobs
a process in three steps, or a short before and after
Pick one and commit to it. Do not stack all four
- If there is a Google Business Profile: a location block with the rating, stars, "X reviews on Google" linking to the listing, two or three reviews fading slowly from one to the next, and two buttons, book or contact, and directions
- Links: a stack of icon cards is one option, and it is the most common one, which is a reason to consider the others first. A numbered index, a compact text list with rules between the items, or a two column grid of tiles can all read better depending on the business. Whatever form you choose, the first link is the main action and gets the emphasis, and every target is comfortable to tap
- Motion stays subtle: one cascade on load of about 1.5 seconds, a periodic glow on the main call to action, one or two blurred shapes in the brand color drifting in the background, and everything static under prefers-reduced-motion
- OG meta tags and a favicon from the logo. WhatsApp links open with the message already filled in
- Calm, direct copy. No exclamation marks and no emoji
- Before you hand it over, render it at 390px wide and check the line breaks, the contrast and every link
Give me the finished .html file, ready to host.Here is what it produced for a restaurant, a coffee roastery and a tattoo studio, all fictional, all on the free plan: Northbank Kitchen, Cardinal Coffee Roasters, Atelier Ink.
What we measured
| Measured on 2026 09 08 | The four pages from this prompt | The Linktree page for the same business |
|---|---|---|
| Network requests | 2 to 5 | 72 |
| Hosts contacted | 1 to 2 | 6 |
| Script tags in the DOM | 0 or 1 | 56 |
| DOM nodes | 100 to 129 | 1,087 |
Method. Chrome, PerformanceResourceTiming plus a DOM count, on a real
restaurant profile and on each of the four demo pages linked from this article, which is why
our side is a range. We are not publishing a byte comparison: per resource
sizes come back as zero for cross origin responses because of Timing Allow Origin, so any weight number
you see quoted in this category is either guessed or unmeasured. Requests, hosts, script tags and DOM
nodes are all directly observable, so those are what we report.
One of the six hosts on the Linktree page is edge.browser-fp.production.linktr.ee.
Moving off Linktree
There is no export, so this is manual. It is also shorter than it sounds.
- Your links. Open your Linktree, copy the URLs and titles into a note. This is the only part that takes real time, and it is usually five to ten rows.
- Your look. Give the assistant your website address and it will pull the fonts and colours itself. If you have no site, give it your Instagram.
- Your reviews. If you have a Google Business Profile, point the assistant at it and the rating, review count and a couple of quotes end up on the page.
- The switch. Put the new URL in your Instagram bio. Leave the Linktree up for a couple of weeks so anything already pointing at it still lands somewhere.
What does not transfer: your click history. Linktree only exports analytics on Premium, and it exports them for you to keep, not to import anywhere.
Good to know before you switch
Hostus is not a link in bio builder with a dashboard of draggable rows. The loop is: you describe the page to Claude or ChatGPT, you get one HTML file, you drop it into Hostus and you get a link. Changing a link later means editing the page in the inline editor or asking the assistant again, not dragging a row up two places on your phone. If reordering links in ten seconds from a bus is the job, Linktree does that better and we would rather you knew that now.
The free plan is 20 documents and 2 MB of HTML. A page like the ones above sits at about 14 KB, so the ceiling is real but far away. There is no click count per individual link either: Hostus reports which sections of a page were actually read, which answers a different question.