Beacons

What it is

Beacons is a free, all-in-one page for creators: a link-in-bio hub, an auto-updating media kit for brand pitches, a small storefront for digital products, courses and memberships, and a basic email marketing tool, aimed mainly at Instagram and TikTok accounts. AI features run through the free tier too, generating draft captions, emails and product descriptions from a daily credit allowance that grows with each paid tier.

The free plan is not a time-limited trial. It stays free indefinitely, covering unlimited links, a media kit, digital product sales and 50 email sends a month, with Beacons taking a 9% cut of anything sold through it.

Who should use it

A creator setting up a first link-in-bio page and testing whether a digital product or course sells at all, without committing to a paid tool before there’s revenue to justify it. It’s a weaker fit once sales are real and consistent, both because the 9% fee on the two cheapest tiers adds up and because the platform’s own review record raises real questions about payout reliability once money is actually moving.

What stands out

The free plan’s 9% seller fee doesn’t go away with the first paid tier. Creator, at $10/mo, still charges 9% on every sale, so the fee only drops to 0% at Creator Plus, $30/mo, the same plan that also removes Beacons’ own branding from your page and media kit. In practice, the meaningful upgrade is a single $30/mo jump from free, not a gradual climb through cheaper tiers.

The more serious detail sits outside the pricing table. Beacons.ai carries a 2.0 out of 5 rating on Trustpilot across 42 reviews, and three in four of those reviews are one star. The specific complaints repeat across multiple 2026 reviews: sales or affiliate payouts marked “pending” for months at a time, in at least one case for over a year, support responses that reviewers describe as generic and unhelpful, and a domain transfer fee, cited around $70, for creators who bought a custom domain through Beacons and later wanted to move it elsewhere. None of that shows up on the pricing page, and all of it matters more than any feature comparison once a creator is relying on the platform to actually pay them.

The verdict

For a creator testing a bio page and a first product with nothing at stake, Beacons costs nothing and does more out of the box than a plain link-in-bio tool. That changes once real money is involved. The 9% fee on Free and Creator is a known, budgetable cost; the payout delays and support complaints reviewers describe are not something a pricing page will warn you about, and they’re the reason to think twice before routing meaningful revenue through the platform.

Skip Beacons if consistent, on-time payouts matter to your business, or if you’re deciding where to buy a custom domain and want the option to move it without an extra fee later. Use it for the free bio page and media kit if that’s as far as you’re taking it for now, and watch the payout history closely the moment real sales start coming through.