Lnk.Bio vs Linktree: Pay Once or Subscribe, 3-Year Costs

Lnk.Bio vs Linktree is a choice between paying once and paying every year. Lnk.Bio sells lifetime plans, $9.99 for Mini and $24.99 for Unique, and charges a 5% fee on shop sales and paid bookings. Linktree is subscription only, from $7 a month billed yearly in the US, and charges 0% Linktree fees on sales from its Pro plan (lnk.bio and linktr.ee/s/pricing, November 2026).

You want the logo off your page, or a booking calendar for your clients, and you don’t want one more monthly bill. That’s the trade this comparison prices out: a one-time payment with a fee on what you sell, or a subscription with no fee.

Below are both price ladders as listed in November 2026, the cost of each over one and three years, and the sales level where Lnk.Bio’s 5% overtakes Linktree’s subscription.

Key Takeaways

• Lnk.Bio is far cheaper for a branded page. Unique removes the logo for $24.99 once. Linktree removes its logo on Pro, at $168 a year billed yearly.
• Linktree costs less once you sell steadily. Above about $3,360 a year in sales, Lnk.Bio’s 5% fee costs more than a year of Linktree Pro (our calculation).
• Both take bookings. Lnk.Bio’s Booking Calendar is a $4-a-month add-on on any plan. Linktree’s paid bookings need Pro and one of 35 supported countries.
• Only Lnk.Bio offers a custom domain. Every Linktree stays on a linktr.ee address.
• Both let AI assistants edit your page. Lnk.Bio’s ChatGPT app is free on every plan, and Linktree’s AI tools sit on Premium.

Lnk.Bio vs Linktree at a glance

Both tools give you a link in bio page: one address in your profile that opens your links, products and bookings. Lnk.Bio, an independent company based in Singapore, says its prices haven’t changed since its 2016 launch (lnk.bio, November 2026).

Sources: lnk.bio pricing, shop, booking calendar, custom domain and features pages, linktr.ee/s/pricing and linktr.ee/help, November 2026. Linktree prices are US prices and vary by country. Lnk.Bio lists every price in US dollars.

How much does Lnk.Bio cost?

Lnk.Bio has four plans. Free costs $0. Mini costs $0.99 a month or $9.99 once and adds link scheduling, link groups and advanced analytics. Unique costs $24.99 once, removes the Lnk.Bio logo, opens the shop, and adds custom colors and 10 pages. Ultra costs $89.99 a year and adds a booking calendar, verification and a connected custom domain (lnk.bio, November 2026).

Add-ons work on any plan: Booking Calendar at $4 a month or $40 a year, a verified badge at $2 a month and AI translations at $3 a month. The custom domain add-on is listed at $39.99 a year on its own page and $29.99 on Lnk.Bio’s features page, so confirm the price at checkout (lnk.bio, November 2026). Free and Mini pages carry Lnk.Bio branding, and Unique adds a free .bio domain for a year.

Linktree has four subscription plans. In the US, Starter costs $9 a month or $7 a month billed yearly, Pro $17 or $14, and Premium $35 or $30 (linktr.ee/s/pricing, November 2026). Prices vary by country, and our breakdown of whether Linktree is free covers what each tier adds.

What does each cost over one and three years?

Over three years, a page without the tool’s logo costs $24.99 on Lnk.Bio Unique and $504 on Linktree Pro billed yearly. Scheduling and fuller analytics cost $9.99 once on Lnk.Bio Mini, against $252 for Linktree Starter. The gap narrows only when you sell, because Lnk.Bio takes 5% of each sale and Linktree Pro takes 0% (our calculation from lnk.bio and linktr.ee/s/pricing, November 2026).

Our calculation: plan price times the months or years, before tax and before any fees on sales. US prices from lnk.bio and linktr.ee/s/pricing, November 2026.

When does Lnk.Bio’s 5% fee cost more than Linktree?

Lnk.Bio’s 5% fee overtakes Linktree Pro at about $3,360 a year in sales, or $280 a month. At that level, 5% equals Pro’s $168 yearly price. Below it, Lnk.Bio Unique plus the fee costs less. Above it, Linktree Pro costs less, provided you’re based in one of the 35 countries where Linktree lets you sell (our calculation from lnk.bio/shop and linktr.ee, November 2026).

In the first year, Unique’s one-time $24.99 moves that line to about $2,860.

A worked example, labeled illustrative: you sell $100 a month in digital files, or $1,200 a year. On Lnk.Bio Unique you pay $24.99 once plus $60 in fees, $84.99 in year one and $60 a year after that. On Linktree Pro you pay $168 a year with no Linktree fee. Stripe or PayPal fees come on top of both.

Bookings follow the same math. Lnk.Bio’s Booking Calendar costs $40 a year plus 5% of each paid booking, and Linktree Pro costs $168 a year with no Linktree fee, so Pro is cheaper past about $2,560 a year in paid bookings. Example: a nail artist taking $1,500 a month in paid bookings would pay Lnk.Bio $940 a year, $900 in fees plus the $40 add-on, against $168 for Linktree Pro.

Processing fees come on top of both. Lnk.Bio’s 5% excludes Stripe or PayPal fees, and Linktree passes on Stripe’s 2.9% + $0.30 per purchase on every plan (lnk.bio/booking-calendar and linktr.ee/help, November 2026).

Location can flip the answer. Linktree’s 35 countries include the US, Canada, the UK, most of the EU, Australia, Japan and Singapore. Sellers elsewhere can’t charge on Linktree, while Lnk.Bio’s shop pays out through Stripe or PayPal (linktr.ee/help and lnk.bio, November 2026).

Which is better for bookings?

Both tools take bookings on the page and sync with Google Calendar. Lnk.Bio’s Booking Calendar costs $4 a month on any plan, adds group events and Zoom or Google Meet links, and takes 5% of paid bookings. Linktree’s Bookings link comes with every plan, adds buffer times and discount codes, and charges no Linktree fee, but paid sessions need Pro (lnk.bio and linktr.ee/help, November 2026).

Lnk.Bio publishes setup guides for hairstylists, nail artists, tattoo artists, makeup artists and photographers (lnk.bio/for, November 2026). For a studio with steady paid bookings, the 5% fee is the number to watch. For a coach who mostly books free intro calls, Linktree’s free plan already covers it. Our guide to taking bookings through your link in bio covers where the booking button should sit.

How do analytics, design and AI tools compare?

Linktree keeps more history: 28 days on Free, 90 on Starter, 365 on Pro and lifetime on Premium. Lnk.Bio shows views and per-link clicks for free, Mini adds advanced analytics, and its feature list includes two years of history and Excel export. On design, Lnk.Bio lists 577 free templates, and lists a library of more than 44,000 fonts, with custom colors on Unique. Its own pages give different font counts by plan, so check the editor before you count on a number (lnk.bio and linktr.ee/help, November 2026).

Both tools let an AI assistant edit your page through the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI apps to other software (modelcontextprotocol.io, November 2026). Lnk.Bio launched its ChatGPT app on 9 May 2026, free on every plan, to add links, reorder them or change your theme by chat (lnk.bio, November 2026). Linktree’s AI tools connect Claude or ChatGPT to edit links, update your bio and read your Insights, on Premium (linktr.ee/help, November 2026).

Where Lnk.Bio wins

• A branded page for $24.99 once. Linktree charges $168 a year for logo removal on Pro.

• No renewals. Mini and Unique are one-time payments, so there’s no subscription to cancel.

• A custom domain. The add-on or Ultra puts the page on your own domain. Linktree has no equivalent.

• AI editing on the free plan. The ChatGPT app works on Free, Mini, Unique and agency accounts.

• More included. Its feature list includes two years of analytics history and Excel export, and the Translations add-on, $3 a month or $30 a year, translates your profile text through OpenAI (lnk.bio, November 2026).

• A page for each job. Unique includes 10 pages, and the free plan lists 38 page layouts.

The trade-off is the 5% on every sale and paid booking.

Where Linktree wins

• Selling at volume. With 0% Linktree fees on Pro, steady sellers keep more once sales pass about $3,360 a year.
• Email sign-ups on the free plan. Lnk.Bio’s newsletter and contact form start on Unique.
• Instagram auto-replies. Every plan includes them, from 1,000 DMs a month on Free (linktr.ee/help, November 2026).
• Recognition. Linktree says more than 70 million people use it, against the 2 million-plus creators Lnk.Bio reports (linktr.ee and lnk.bio, November 2026).

If neither fits, our roundup of Linktree alternatives compares more tools on price. For a tool built around forms and payments, see Taplink vs Linktree.

A third option: More.You

More.You publishes this blog and competes with these tools, so every number below names its source. Like Lnk.Bio, it lets you connect an assistant on every plan: AI Control links ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to edit blocks by chat and ask about your analytics. Every page also ships an llms.txt file (llmstxt.org, November 2026), an agent manifest and structured data from its blocks, so assistants reading the page get your products, events and hours as facts.

When a scheduled post goes live, Auto-Pin, on Pro, pins its link to the top for 24 hours, 3 days or 7 days, and Pro’s attribution shows which post drove each click. If paying once is the point, Lnk.Bio is the better deal.

The Free plan is free forever, with one page, every block type and no card required. Pro is listed at $5 a month billed yearly or $7 monthly, with Auto-Pin, attribution, a custom domain and no More.You branding (more.you/pricing, November 2026). Our More.You vs Lnk.Bio comparison goes feature by feature, and the importer brings your Lnk.Bio or Linktree links over, writing nothing until you confirm each item.

Pick Lnk.Bio if you want to pay once and sell little or nothing through the page. Pick Linktree if your bookings or sales are steady enough that 0% beats a one-time price. If you want a page built for people and AI assistants to read, create your free More.You page and import your current links.

FAQ

Is Lnk.Bio better than Linktree?

It depends on how much you sell. Lnk.Bio costs less for a branded page: Unique is $24.99 once, while Linktree Pro is $168 a year billed yearly. Linktree costs less once sales pass about $3,360 a year, because Lnk.Bio takes 5% of each sale and Linktree Pro takes 0%.

Is Lnk.Bio really a one-time payment?

Yes, for two plans. Mini costs $9.99 once or $0.99 a month, and Unique costs $24.99 once, with no renewal. Ultra is a yearly plan at $89.99, and add-ons such as the Booking Calendar are billed monthly or yearly. The 5% fee on shop sales and paid bookings still applies.

Is Lnk.Bio free?

Yes. The Free plan costs $0 and includes unlimited links, basic stats, 577 templates and up to 3 pages. Free pages show Lnk.Bio branding, and Lnk.Bio doesn’t guarantee support on the free version. Removing the logo takes Unique at $24.99 once.

Does Lnk.Bio take a cut of sales?

Yes. Lnk.Bio lists a fixed 5% fee on each shop sale and each paid booking, before Stripe or PayPal fees. Linktree charges 0% Linktree fees on Pro and Premium, plus Stripe’s 2.9% + $0.30 per purchase, and its Free and Starter plans can’t sell paid products or take paid bookings.

Sources

• Lnk.Bio plans, add-ons and company facts (lnk.bio, November 2026)
• Lnk.Bio full feature list (lnk.bio/all-features, November 2026)
• Lnk.Bio Shop, 5% fee per sale (lnk.bio/shop, November 2026)
• Lnk.Bio Booking Calendar, price and 5% fee per booking (lnk.bio/booking-calendar, November 2026)
• Lnk.Bio custom domain add-on (lnk.bio/custom-domain, November 2026)
• Lnk.Bio guides by profession (lnk.bio/for, November 2026)
• Lnk.Bio ChatGPT app announcement, published 9 May 2026 (lnk.bio/linkin/manage-your-lnkbio-page-directly-from-chatgpt, November 2026)
• Linktree pricing and plan cards (linktr.ee/s/pricing, November 2026)
• Linktree help center: transaction and processing fees, earn feature requirements, Bookings, custom domains, paid plan features, Insights, AI tools (linktr.ee/help, November 2026)
• What is the Model Context Protocol? (modelcontextprotocol.io, November 2026)
• The /llms.txt file proposal (llmstxt.org, November 2026)
• More.You AI-native pages (more.you/features/ai-native-pages, November 2026)
• More.You Auto-Pin (more.you/features/auto-pin, November 2026)
• More.You analytics and attribution (more.you/features/analytics-attribution, November 2026)
• More.You import (more.you/features/import, November 2026)
• More.You plans and AI Control (more.you/pricing, November 2026)

Platform rules and prices checked November 2026.