Beacons Pricing 2026 and Beacons Plans Compared

Beacons pricing has four plans: a $0 plan, Creator at $10 a month, Creator Plus at $30 and Creator Max at $100 month to month. Billed yearly, Creator is $100 and Creator Plus $300. The $0 plan and Creator take a 9% seller fee on every product and affiliate sale; Creator Plus and Creator Max take 0%. Card processing is charged on top on every plan, so the plan that costs least depends on how much you sell.

We read the Beacons plan page and its help center on October 1, 2026. Two details are worth knowing before you trust any other figure. First, Creator Max now shows $100 a month on the monthly toggle, while the help center and most third-party guides still say $90. Second, the yearly toggle shows Creator Max as "$900 billed annually" right next to an $83.30 monthly equivalent, which works out to $1,000 a year. Beacons advertises yearly billing as two months free, and ten months at $100 is $1,000, so the $900 label looks like a leftover from the old price. Confirm the total at checkout before you pay for a year.

Beacons pricing in 2026, every plan

All prices are in USD before sales tax. The seller fee applies to digital product sales and to affiliate link commissions earned through Beacons, which is easy to miss: on the $0 plan and Creator, Beacons keeps 9% of the commission too. Invoices are the exception. Beacons charges 0% on invoices on every plan, so billing a brand for a sponsored post through Beacons costs only card processing.

What Beacons really costs at different sales levels

The sticker price only tells half the story because of the 9% fee. Here is the monthly total for a creator selling $25 templates, with US card processing at 2.9% plus $0.30 a sale added to every plan.

Two break-even points fall out of this. Creator Plus becomes cheaper than Creator once you sell about $222 a month, and cheaper than the $0 plan at about $333 a month. Above that, every extra $100 in sales costs $9 more on the lower plans and nothing more on Creator Plus. A creator selling $1,500 a month on Creator pays $1,380 more a year than on Creator Plus.

Creator itself is never the cheaper option on fees: it carries the same 9% as the $0 plan and adds $10. You buy it for the custom domain, 500 email sends and automations, not to save money on sales.

Is Beacons free?

Yes, Beacons has a $0 plan with no time limit. It includes the link in bio page, a media kit, a store with unlimited digital products and 50 email sends a month. The cost is the 9% seller fee on every product sale and affiliate commission, plus card processing. For a creator who sells a few products a month that is the cheapest way to start; past about $333 a month in sales, Creator Plus costs less.

Does Beacons take a percentage of sales?

On the $0 plan and Creator, yes: Beacons takes 9% of each product sale and of affiliate commissions earned through its links. On Creator Plus and Creator Max it takes 0%. Invoices are 0% on every plan. Card processing is separate and charged on every sale regardless of plan, typically 2.9% plus $0.30 for a US card.

Is Beacons better than Linktree?

For selling, usually yes at the same price. Linktree Premium at $35 a month is the plan that removes its 9% seller fee, against $30 for Beacons Creator Plus, and Beacons includes email marketing, memberships and courses at that level. Linktree Starter ($8) and Pro ($15) both keep the 9% fee. Linktree is the better pick when the page is mostly links and analytics and you sell little. Beacons is closer to Stan Store, where Creator at $29 a month and Creator Plus at $30 cost the same and are both $300 billed yearly; we compare all of them, with totals at $2,000 and $10,000 a month in sales, in Stan Store alternatives.

Is Beacons worth it?

Beacons Creator Plus is worth it for a creator who sells more than about $333 a month and uses at least two of its tools, usually the store plus email or memberships, because it replaces separate subscriptions for each. A creator whose income is mostly brand deals can do well on the $0 plan: the media kit is included and invoices carry no Beacons fee. Creator Max is hard to justify on features alone unless you need Google Workspace accounts for a team. The $100 a month goes mostly to onboarding, support and the NFC card.

Beacons also counts AI credits per plan: 30 a day on the $0 plan, 300 on Creator and unlimited on Creator Plus and Max. If you use its AI to draft emails and product pages every day, that limit matters more than it looks. Creators who spend more time turning one video into posts for every channel often get further with a dedicated content repurposing tool than with link-in-bio AI credits.

Beacons prices you will still see that are out of date

Older guides describe plans called Creator Pro, Store Pro and Business Pro. Those names are gone; the current ladder is the $0 plan, Creator, Creator Plus and Creator Max. The help center lists Creator Max at $90 a month or $900 a year, while the plan page charges $100 month to month. And some comparison tables still describe the $0 plan as fee-free; it is not, it takes 9% of sales. If a table you are reading uses the old plan names, treat its prices as unverified.

What Beacons does not show you about your income

Beacons has an income dashboard for money that flows through Beacons. Most creators earn in several more places: YouTube AdSense, a sponsorship paid by a brand directly, Patreon or Substack, an Amazon storefront, a Stan or Gumroad shop. Each pays on its own schedule with its own fees, and none of them reports to the others.

Earnly puts all of it on one board. You bring in each payout, Beacons included, and see gross, fees and take-home per source, a payout calendar and a next-month forecast that is always labeled an estimate. If sponsorships are a large share of your income, the brand deal tracker follows each deal from invoice to payment, and our guide to how much brand deals pay covers the rates. Earnly is not a storefront and does not replace Beacons. Compare the Solo, Creator and Studio plans to see which fits the number of income sources you have.