Linktree pricing 2026 and the real Linktree cost on every plan, including Linktree Pro pricing and fees
Linktree changed its plan cards between our September and October reads, and most pricing tables online still describe older ones. Every figure below was read from Linktree's own pricing page on 7 October 2026 and is quoted. Where the page contradicts itself, which it does on fees, the contradiction is shown. Then the part that matters: which of these numbers can reach your income.
The short answer
Linktree pricing has four public tiers. Free is $0. Starter is $6 a month billed annually or $8 monthly. Pro is $12 a month billed annually or $15 monthly. Premium is $30 a month billed annually or $35 monthly. Annually that is $72, $144 and $360, and Pro and Premium each carry a 7 day free trial. On fees the page disagrees with itself: the Pro card says "Sell and earn with 0% fees", the plan comparison table on the same page lists a 12% fee on Free, 9% on Starter and Pro and 0% on Premium for digital products and courses, and the FAQ says "we currently only charge USD$0.25 per payout". Every one of those percentages applies only to money that moves through Linktree. Commission from your own affiliate programs is paid to you by the merchant, so no seller fee of any size can touch it.
Rows marked OFFICIAL were read from linktr.ee/s/pricing on 2026-10-07 and are quoted. Rows marked STRUCTURAL follow from how the pricing is built. The page changed between our September and October reads, and the changes are marked · No commission fee
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At a glance
Linktree pricing, plans and fees in one table.
Read from linktr.ee/s/pricing on 2026-10-07. Figures Linktree prints are quoted and marked OFFICIAL. Rows marked STRUCTURAL are conclusions that follow from the plan structure rather than claims Linktree makes. Vendor pricing moves, and this page moved between 15 September and 7 October 2026, so check the plan page before you enter a card.
| What you want to know | The answer | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | $0 per month | OFFICIAL. Labelled "Free with restrictions". The card lists unlimited basic links and email and phone sign-ups |
| Starter, annual | $6 per month | OFFICIAL. "Billed annually, or $8 monthly", so $72 for the year. Adds a personalized Linktree and basic analytics |
| Starter, monthly | $8 per month | OFFICIAL. $96 across twelve months, so annual billing saves $24 |
| Pro, annual | $12 per month | OFFICIAL. "Billed annually, or $15 monthly", so $144 for the year. Marked "Recommended" on the plan page |
| Pro, monthly | $15 per month | OFFICIAL. $180 across twelve months, so annual billing saves $36 |
| Premium, annual | $30 per month | OFFICIAL. "Billed annually, or $35 monthly", so $360 for the year |
| Premium, monthly | $35 per month | OFFICIAL. $420 across twelve months, so annual billing saves $60 |
| Free trial | 7 days on Pro and Premium | OFFICIAL. Both cards say "Try free for 7 days". The Starter card says only "Get started", so no trial is offered on the entry paid tier |
| Seller fee on Starter | 9% | OFFICIAL, plan comparison table: "9% Fee" on digital products and courses. The Starter card itself no longer prints a fee, which it did in September. This is a cut of products you sell yourself, not of commission |
| Seller fee on Pro | 0% on the card, 9% in the table | OFFICIAL, and contradictory. The Pro card now reads "Sell and earn with 0% fees". The plan comparison table on the same page lists "9% Fee" for Pro on digital products and courses. Confirm the fee in your own dashboard before you price a product |
| Seller fee on Premium | 0% | OFFICIAL, plan comparison table: "0% Fee" on digital products and courses. The only tier where the card and the table cannot disagree |
| Seller fee on Free | 12% | OFFICIAL, plan comparison table: "12% Fee" on digital products and courses. In September the page did not print this figure. It does now |
| Payout fee | $0.25 per payout | OFFICIAL, quoted from the page's own FAQ: "we currently only charge USD$0.25 per payout." Read alongside the 9% on the plan card, which is a different claim |
| Linktree Shop, keep 100% | Premium only | OFFICIAL. The comparison table lists Linktree Shop and Sponsored Links as "Keep 100% of Earnings" on Premium. Below it, Linktree's fee is a share of each commission that it does not publish as a number |
| Cheapest way to remove Linktree branding | $144 a year | STRUCTURAL. "Remove Linktree branding" first appears on Pro, so Pro annual is the floor price for an unbranded page |
| Break even on the Premium upgrade | About $200 a month, if Pro is 9% | STRUCTURAL. Premium costs $18 a month more than Pro on annual billing. If the table's 9% applies to you on Pro, you need roughly $200 a month of self sold product revenue before the fee saving covers the gap. If the card's 0% applies, there is no fee saving to buy |
| What any of these fees cost you on affiliate commission | Nothing | STRUCTURAL. Commission is calculated and paid by the merchant and never routes through a link page, so no seller fee can apply to it at any tier |
| Agency and Enterprise | Custom pricing | OFFICIAL. No number published. Covers team seats, SSO, dedicated support and custom contracts |
| Affiliate marketplace availability | US only | OFFICIAL. Linktree's FAQ states its curated affiliate marketplace and paid communities are "currently US only" |
What the plan page actually says
Three fee statements, one page, and the one that applies to you.
Linktree states its transaction fee three different ways on the same page
You can check this yourself in about ninety seconds. On linktr.ee/s/pricing, the Pro plan card reads "Sell and earn with 0% fees". Open the full plan comparison on the same page and digital products and courses are listed at a 12% fee on Free, 9% on Starter, 9% on Pro and 0% on Premium. Scroll to the FAQ block and the question "Does Linktree charge transaction fees?" is answered: "we currently only charge USD$0.25 per payout." A footnote adds "Transaction and processing fees may apply." Zero percent, nine percent, twenty five cents a payout, and a footnote. They may describe different things: the percentage is a cut of a digital product sale, the twenty five cents is what it costs to move your balance to your bank, and the footnote covers card processing. But the Pro card and the Pro column cannot both be right about the same sale, and a creator pricing a product on Pro has to find out which one applies before the first order.
The 12% figure is back on the page after three weeks off it
When we read this page on 15 September 2026, the free tier printed no percentage at all and the Starter card carried the 9%. On 7 October 2026 the cards print no percentage except the Pro card's 0%, and the comparison table carries the full ladder: 12%, 9%, 9%, 0%. Three weeks, two different pages. That is the practical lesson. A fee table copied from an article describes the day that article was written. We check it at source on every visit and date the read, and you should treat any undated Linktree fee table, including a competitor's, as unverified.
Every one of those percentages applies only to money that moves through Linktree
Here is the part that decides whether any of this matters to you, and it is a point of structure rather than opinion. A seller fee is a slice taken out of a payment as it passes through a system. A platform can only charge one on revenue that actually passes through it. When you sell a $40 template on your Linktree, the buyer pays Linktree's checkout, Linktree holds the money, and Linktree takes its cut before paying you. Nine percent is real, and on Premium it is genuinely zero. Now take affiliate commission. A reader clicks your link, leaves Linktree entirely, and buys from the merchant. The payment goes from that person to that merchant. Linktree handed over a click and stopped being involved. The merchant records the referral in its own system, applies its own rate card, holds the commission through its own return window, and pays you on its own schedule. Linktree never holds that money, so it cannot take a percentage of it, and neither can Beacons, Stan Store, Fourthwall or any link page ever built. Which means that if your income is commission on things you recommend, the entire fee column of the Linktree pricing page is a row of zeroes for you and always was.
So what does a commission earning creator actually pay Linktree for
Strip out the fee column and the pricing question gets much simpler, and Linktree looks like a different product. You are paying $144 a year on Pro to remove the Linktree logo from your page, get per link analytics instead of totals, choose your own fonts and layout, and push email signups into a mailing list. Those are real things and $12 a month is not an unreasonable price for them. On Premium at $360 a year you add smart routing, data export, social scheduling, unlimited Instagram auto replies, and the one line worth pausing on: "Linktree affiliate shop (keep 100%)". That phrasing is doing work. Linktree lists keeping all of your affiliate earnings as a benefit of the $360 tier, which invites the obvious question of what happens below it, and the plan page does not answer it. Your own affiliate links are unaffected on any tier, because as above the merchant pays you directly. What is gated is Linktree's curated marketplace, which its FAQ notes is currently US only. Read the Premium card as buying access to that marketplace on those terms, not as buying protection from a cut of commission that nobody could take anyway.
Where Linktree is straightforwardly the right purchase
This is not an argument that Linktree is badly priced, and the honest version of this page has to say where it wins. At 70 million plus users it is the most recognized link in bio domain on the internet, which matters more than creators expect: people click a linktr.ee URL without hesitating because they have seen a thousand of them. The free tier is genuinely usable rather than a trap, unlimited links and all. Six dollars a month for Starter is one of the cheapest entry prices in the category. If you sell your own digital products at volume, the Premium tier at $360 a year with a 0% seller fee is a strong structure, and the break even is easy: $18 a month of extra subscription against a 9% fee means you come out ahead above roughly $200 a month of self sold revenue, and every dollar past that is pure gain. And the $0.25 flat payout fee is, as fee structures go, unusually creator friendly. None of that is in dispute. The question this page exists to answer is narrower: whether the thing you are paying for is priced for the way you actually earn.
The decision
How to work out what Linktree will really cost you, in four steps.
Split last month into self sold revenue and commission
Two numbers, five minutes. First, what you earned from things you own and sold yourself: templates, presets, courses, coaching slots, downloads. Second, what merchants paid you in affiliate commission for products you recommended. Keep them apart and do not add them. Every fee percentage on the Linktree pricing page applies to the first number only, and none of them can reach the second. This single step makes most of the comparison content in this category irrelevant to you, in a good way.
Test your self sold number against $200 a month
If you sell your own products and the comparison table's 9% is what you are charged on Pro, the fee decision is whether to go from Pro at $12 a month to Premium at $30 a month to take it to 0%. The gap is $18 a month, and 9% of $200 is $18. Below roughly $200 a month of self sold revenue you pay more in subscription than you save in fees. At $1,000 a month, the 9% is $90 and the upgrade costs $18, so Premium saves you $72 a month. If your dashboard shows 0% on Pro, as the Pro card says, skip this test.
Price the features separately, with the fee argument removed
If your commission number is the bigger one, redo the comparison with the fee column deleted, because for you it is zeroes all the way across. What is left is $144 a year for an unbranded page with per link analytics, or $360 a year for that plus scheduling, routing, data export and marketplace access. Judge those against what they do for you. Plenty of creators will decide $144 is fair for a clean branded page, and that is a perfectly good reason to buy. It is just a completely different reason from the one the pricing page leads with.
Check whether anything is counting your commission at all
The gap a link page cannot close is that it reports on clicks, because clicks are all it sees. Your commission lives in each merchant's dashboard: one login for Amazon, one for ShopMy, one for every software program you are in, each with its own rate, its own return window and its own payout date. Linktree's advanced analytics will tell you which link got clicked and can tell you nothing about which recommendation earned. If that is the number you actually run your business on, that is the tool gap worth solving, and it is not solved by any tier of any link page.
If it is not a fit
Linktree is priced for selling your own products. That may not be how you earn
Nothing here says Linktree is overpriced or badly built. It is the most recognized link in bio product in the world, its free tier is genuinely usable, $6 a month is a cheap entry point, and a flat $0.25 payout fee is friendlier than most of the category. The narrower problem is what the pricing is organized around. Every percentage on that plan page describes a cut of products you sell yourself, and the ladder from 9% to 0% is the main thing the upgrade path is selling. If your income is commission on the software, AI tools and gear you recommend, that ladder is worth exactly nothing to you at every rung, because a merchant pays you directly and no link page is ever in the payment path. You would be choosing a plan on the one axis that structurally cannot apply to you, and paying $144 to $420 a year for the privilege. Favly is built for the other case. It is a creator storefront for people whose income is commission, where the job is keeping every program in one place, seeing which recommendation actually earned rather than which link got clicked, and keeping US disclosure attached where a reader will see it.
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Side by side
Linktree and Favly, honestly compared.
This table sets Linktree's pricing structure against a storefront priced for commission income. Linktree figures were read from its plan page on 2026-10-07. On reach, recognition and cheap entry Linktree wins outright, and the table says so.
| Capability | Favly | Linktree | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priced for | Affiliate commission income | Selling your own products | The upgrade ladder is built around taking the seller fee from 9% to 0% |
| Entry price | See pricing | $0, then $6 per month | OFFICIAL. Free tier is real and usable. Starter is $6 billed annually, $8 monthly |
| Price to remove their branding | No branding to remove | $144 per year | OFFICIAL. "Remove Linktree branding" first appears on Pro at $12 a month billed annually |
| Cut of your own product sales | Not the product's job | 12% to 0% by plan | OFFICIAL, plan comparison table. 0% on Premium at $360 a year. The Pro card separately says 0% fees |
| Cut of affiliate commission | None possible | None possible | STRUCTURAL. Merchants pay commission directly, so no link page is in the payment path |
| Brand recognition of the link | × | Linktree states 70M plus users. A linktr.ee URL gets clicked without hesitation and that is a real advantage | |
| Several affiliate programs tracked in one place | × | Analytics on any link page report clicks, because clicks are all the page can see | |
| Which recommendation earned, not just which link was clicked | × | Commission is recorded in each merchant's system, one dashboard per program | |
| Disclosure attached to recommendations | Manual | A US FTC requirement for anyone earning commission on a recommendation |
FAQ
Questions creators ask about Linktree.
How much does Linktree cost?
Linktree costs $0 on Free, $6 a month on Starter, $12 a month on Pro and $30 a month on Premium when billed annually, which is $72, $144 and $360 for the year. Paying monthly instead costs $8, $15 and $35, so annual billing saves $24, $36 and $60 respectively. Agency and Enterprise pricing is custom and no figure is published.
Is Linktree free?
Yes, there is a permanently free tier and Linktree labels it "Free with restrictions". It includes unlimited basic links and the ability to sell products and courses and take brand offers. What it does not include is removing Linktree branding, custom fonts and layouts, per link analytics or mailing list integrations, all of which start on paid tiers.
What is Linktree Pro pricing?
Linktree Pro is $12 a month billed annually or $15 billed monthly, so $144 or $180 for a year. It is the tier marked "Recommended" on the plan page and the cheapest one that removes Linktree branding. It also adds custom themes, fonts and layouts, advanced analytics and mailing list integrations, and carries a 7 day free trial.
Does Linktree take a percentage of sales?
On products you sell through Linktree, yes on most plans. Its plan comparison table lists a 12% fee on Free, 9% on Starter and Pro and 0% on Premium for digital products and courses. The Pro card on the same page says "Sell and earn with 0% fees", so check your own dashboard on Pro. Separately the FAQ says Linktree "currently only charge USD$0.25 per payout".
Does Linktree take a cut of affiliate commission?
It cannot, and neither can any other link in bio tool. When someone clicks your affiliate link they leave your page and buy from the merchant, so the payment never passes through Linktree for anyone to take a percentage of. The merchant records the referral, applies its own rate and pays you directly. Every seller fee on the pricing page applies to your own product sales only.
What are Linktree transaction fees?
The plan page carries three separate fee statements. The comparison table lists a seller fee of 12%, 9%, 9% and 0% across the four plans, while the Pro card says 0% fees. The FAQ says "we currently only charge USD$0.25 per payout". A footnote adds that transaction and processing fees may apply. They describe a sales cut, a payout charge and card processing, and the page does not reconcile them.
Does Linktree charge 12% on the free plan?
Yes, on digital products and courses, according to the plan comparison table on Linktree's pricing page as read on 7 October 2026. Three weeks earlier the page printed no figure for the free tier. The 12% applies to things you sell through Linktree. It does not apply to commission from your own affiliate links, which the merchant pays to you directly.
Is Linktree Premium worth it?
It depends on one number. Premium costs $18 a month more than Pro on annual billing. If you are charged the comparison table's 9% on Pro, Premium pays for itself above roughly $200 a month of revenue from products you sell yourself. It also keeps 100% of Linktree Shop and Sponsored Links earnings. If your income is commission from your own affiliate programs, the fee change is worth nothing and you are buying scheduling, routing and data export.
Is the Linktree annual plan worth it?
On price, yes, if you are staying. Annual billing costs $72 instead of $96 on Starter, $144 instead of $180 on Pro and $360 instead of $420 on Premium, saving $24, $36 and $60. The discount is 25% on Starter, 20% on Pro and about 14% on Premium, so the cheapest tier gets the best annual deal. The thing to weigh is commitment rather than the saving.
Does Linktree have a free trial?
Pro and Premium both show "Try free for 7 days" on their plan cards. Starter does not: its card says only "Get started", so the entry paid tier is buy first. Given that Pro is the cheapest tier that removes branding and the one Linktree marks as recommended, the 7 day trial on Pro is the practical way to test whether the paid features change anything for you.
What does Linktree Premium include that Pro does not?
Six things on the plan card: link rules and routing, AI integrations, all-time analytics, data export, social media scheduling and Instagram auto-replies. The comparison table adds a 0% fee on digital products and courses and "Keep 100% of Earnings" on Linktree Shop and Sponsored Links. It is $18 a month more on annual billing. Linktree Shop is currently US only.
Which is cheaper, Linktree or Beacons?
On entry price they are close and both keep a free tier. Beacons publishes $100 billed annually for its Creator plan, which is $8.33 a month against Linktree Starter at $6 and Linktree Pro at $12. Both put a 9% seller fee on their lower tiers and 0% only on an upper one, Premium at $360 a year for Linktree and Creator Plus at $300 a year for Beacons. Figures read from each vendor's own plan page on 2026-09-15.
Go deeper
If the break even arithmetic above landed on the wrong side of the line for you, the useful next step is the rest of the category priced the same way. Best link in bio platforms sets the main options side by side, Linktree alternatives covers what each rival includes and withholds, Beacons pricing read from its own plan page works through the closest direct competitor tier by tier, and Stan Store pricing covers the flat subscription model with no percentage at all, and Gumroad pricing covers the opposite structure of no monthly fee and a cut of every sale. Do link in bio tools take a cut applies the same fee logic across every tool in the category.
If your income is commission rather than your own products, fees are not the axis to choose on and the real question is what each program pays. ShopMy commission rates and LTK commission rates cover the two big creator networks, recurring affiliate programs lists the ones that pay every month a customer stays subscribed rather than once per sale, SaaS affiliate programs covers the software side specifically, and affiliate storefronts explains how the shoppable page itself works once commission is what you are tracking. For the head to head, see link in bio tools for creators.
If most of your links go to Amazon, the pricing question gets simpler still, because Amazon pays Associates commission directly and no Linktree tier can raise or reduce it. Linktree for Amazon affiliate links works through which plan an Amazon affiliate needs and the two Amazon rules a link page can break. For the catalog Linktree runs itself, Linktree Shops pricing and commission covers the fee inside each rate, the $10 payout minimum and when Premium pays for itself.
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