Lnk.Bio does something almost nobody in this category does: it sells a lifetime deal, US$ 9.99 once, or US$ 0.99 a month for the Mini plan. The free tier already carries unlimited links and basic analytics. As a business model it is refreshingly free of theatre.
What the lifetime price does not include is a custom domain, which is a separate paid add-on. So the honest way to read it: cheap forever to have a page at their address, and a different decision entirely if you want it at yours.
Where Lnk.Bio users go
1. Hostus, if the address matters
A page you own on a link you control, and the file is yours to download. Free for 20 documents and 2 MB with no card, and the paid plan at US$ 49.99 a year covers the custom domain plus hosting for everything else you publish, not just the one page.
2. Carrd, if you want to keep a visual editor
US$ 19 a year for a domain, US$ 49 a year for the tier that downloads your site. Between Carrd and Lnk.Bio you have the two cheapest honest options in the category.
3. Linktree, if you need the ecosystem
Integrations, templates, and the fastest path to a working link. No custom domain at any tier, and 12% on a sale on free.
4. Staying on Lnk.Bio
If your traffic comes from a bio link and nobody types your address, the lifetime deal is hard to argue with. Buy it and stop thinking about this.
Side by side
| Tool | Free plan | Custom domain | Your page as a file |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hostus | 20 docs, 2 MB, no clock | Yes, on the paid plan | Yes, it is an HTML file you download |
| Lnk.Bio | Unlimited links, basic analytics | Paid add-on, on top of the plan | Spreadsheet export of stats |
| Carrd | 3 sites | US$ 19 a year | Yes, Download Sites on Pro Plus, US$ 49 a year |
| Linktree | Unlimited links, 12% on a sale | No, on any plan | No export of links or page |
| Campsite.bio | Unlimited links, 14 days of analytics | Pro and up | CSV of analytics, not the page |
Lnk.Bio's paid tiers are US$ 0.99 a month for Mini or US$ 9.99 once for life. The custom domain add-on is priced separately and we found more than one figure quoted for it, so no number for it appears here.
What a page made this way looks like
- A wedding photographer, with a contact form that works and sections that report back.
- A coffee roaster, where the page is the shelf list, not a row of buttons.
- A restaurant, one service a night, in the order a guest asks about it.
- A tattoo studio, a flash sheet and a waiting list.
Each is one file of about 12 KB, made from that prompt, sitting on the free plan.
The prompt
Make me a link in bio page for [what you do], as one HTML file.
Mobile first, max 430px, my own look and not a template: [two words of style].
Sections with real content, not a stack of buttons: what I do,
the thing people want (menu, prices, dates, work), and five links.
A contact form with method="post" and named fields. No action URL,
no key: Hostus stores the replies.
An id on every section, so I can see which one people read.
Then publish it to Hostus and give me the link.Good to know before you switch
Hostus is not a builder with draggable rows. You describe the page to Claude or ChatGPT, you get one HTML file, you drop it in and you get a link. Reordering links later means editing the page in the inline editor or asking the assistant again. If changing a link in ten seconds from a bus is the job, a builder does that better and we would rather say so here than have you find out on a Tuesday.
The free plan is 20 documents and 2 MB of HTML, which is a lot of pages of this size, plus 100 form replies a month. No card, no trial clock. Paid is US$ 9.99 a month or US$ 49.99 a year, and that is where the custom domain lives.