Beacons AI Review 2026: Pricing, the 9% Fee, and Who It Suits

Beacons AI is a free link-in-bio platform with a storefront, an auto-generated media kit, and email tools built in. The free plan is real, but it takes a 9% cut of every sale, and so does the $10 Creator Pro plan. The fee only disappears at Store Pro, $30 a month. That single fact decides whether Beacons is cheap or expensive for you, and most reviews skip it. This one runs the maths, covers all four plans, and says where the product is genuinely strong.

What is Beacons AI?

Beacons AI is a creator platform built around one link. The page holds your links, a storefront for digital products and services, an email capture form, and an appointments block. Around that page it stacks the things creators normally buy separately: a media kit that pulls your real Instagram and TikTok numbers, an AI brand-outreach assistant that drafts pitch emails, an email list with broadcasts and automations, and analytics on clicks and sales.

The "AI" in the name is mostly writing assistance and the outreach assistant, not an algorithm doing anything structural. Judge Beacons as a link-in-bio storefront with a media kit attached, because that is what you are actually paying for.

How much does Beacons AI cost?

• Free: $0/month, with a 9% Beacons fee on every sale.
• Creator Pro: $10/month, still a 9% Beacons fee on every sale.
• Store Pro: $30/month, 0% Beacons fee.
• Business Pro: $90/month, 0% Beacons fee, plus team seats and priority support.
• Annual billing takes two months off the paid plans.
• Payment processing sits on top of all of it, normally around 2.9% + $0.30 through Stripe.

Stack the 9% on the processor's 2.9% and a sale on the free or Creator Pro plan loses close to 12% before the money reaches you. Confirm the current numbers on beacons.ai before committing, because creator tools re-cut their tiers often.

Is Beacons AI really free?

Yes, if you never sell anything. The free plan gives you a working page, a store you can list products on, the media kit, and a capped number of email sends, and Beacons charges nothing for the account itself. The moment you make a sale, it takes 9%.

That is a fair trade for a creator whose link only routes traffic to YouTube, a Shopify store, or a Discord. It is a bad trade for anyone whose bio link is the checkout, because the fee scales with your success while the page does not change.

Where the 9% fee stops being worth it

The only question that matters on Beacons is when to jump to Store Pro. Two crossover points, both easy to work out:

• Free vs Store Pro: 9% of your sales equals $30 at $333 a month in revenue. Past that, the free plan costs you more than the $30 plan.
• Creator Pro vs Store Pro: the gap is $20 a month, so 9% equals $20 at $222 a month in revenue. Past that, paying $10 is worse than paying $30.
• At $1,000 a month in sales: the 9% fee is $90. Store Pro saves you $60 a month.
• At $3,000 a month in sales: the fee is $270. Store Pro saves you $240 a month.

So Creator Pro at $10 is the narrowest tier in the lineup. It is only the right plan if you want the custom domain and automations while selling under roughly $220 a month. Above that, the sensible move is straight from Free to Store Pro, and the $10 tier never makes sense on the way through.

What Beacons AI does well

The media kit is the standout. It builds itself from your connected accounts, updates as your numbers change, and gives you something to send a brand without opening Canva. Most link-in-bio tools have nothing like it.

Email is included, not bolted on. Capture, broadcasts, and basic automations live in the same product as the store, which means your buyers and your list are one audience rather than two exports.

The free tier is genuinely usable. Storefront, media kit, and analytics on $0 is more than Linktree gives away and far more than Stan Store, which has no free tier at all.

Where Beacons AI falls short

The fee is on the wrong plans. Charging 9% on a paid tier is the part creators object to. Most competitors either take a cut or charge a subscription. Beacons does both at $10.

Feature sprawl. Store, email, media kit, appointments, AI writing, invoicing. Depth suffers. The email tool is not Kit, the store is not Shopify, and the AI assistant is a prompt wrapper.

The media kit does not get you found. It is a document you send. There is no brand-side marketplace behind it, so no company browsing for a creator to pay will ever see your profile.

Pages look like Beacons pages. Template control is limited below the top tiers, which is fine until you want the link to look like your brand rather than the platform's.

Beacons AI vs Linktree vs Stan Store

Linktree is the lighter product: cleaner free tier for a plain link list, $8 to $35 a month paid, and its own seller cut on the lower tiers. Full numbers in our Linktree pricing breakdown. Stan Store is the opposite trade: no free plan, $29 or $99 a month, and 0% on sales from day one, which our Stan Store review works through. Beacons sits between them and is the only one of the three that gives you a store and a media kit for nothing.

Elev8or Bio removes the decision the fee forces. Product blocks, checkout, email capture, and an auto-generated media kit on a free plan with no platform percentage on sales beyond standard processing, so there is no crossover point to calculate and no $30 tier to graduate to. It also connects the same profile to Elev8or's creator marketplace, so brands searching for creators can find the page you already sell from. For the wider field see our comparison of the best link in bio tools, or the Beacons alternatives roundup.

Who should use Beacons AI

• Yes, Free: your link routes traffic and you sell little or nothing through it, but you want a media kit for brand deals.
• Yes, Store Pro at $30: you already sell more than roughly $330 a month and want the fee gone.
• Rarely, Creator Pro at $10: only if you want the custom domain and automations while selling under $220 a month.
• No: your bio link is your checkout and you are growing. The 9% compounds, and a zero-fee tool costs less at every level above the crossover.
• No: you want the link itself to bring brand deals in. Beacons hands you a media kit, not an inbound channel.