Linktree Alternatives for Musicians: Smart Links, Bio Pages or a Website

Published November 10, 2026 · Comparisons

For a release campaign, a music smart-link tool does more than Linktree: Feature.fm has a free plan with pre-saves and smart links that send each fan to their own streaming app, and Linkfire's Pro plan costs $27 a month, or $21 billed yearly. Linktree and Beacons work better as all-round bio pages, and an artist website is the place to sell tickets, merch and bookings. You can run a smart link for each release and a website for everything else.

CloserAccess wrote this post, and a CloserAccess site is one of the options in it. Every competitor price comes from that company's own pages, checked November 9, 2026.

What each one costs

Linktree lists four plans on its pricing page: Free at $0, Starter at $7/mo billed annually or $9 monthly, Pro at $14 billed annually or $17 monthly, and Premium at $30 billed annually or $35 monthly. Pro and Premium come with a 7-day free trial. On Free and Starter, digital products, courses and bookings can only be free. Pro and Premium can set any price with 0% Linktree fees, with a footnote that transaction and processing fees may apply. Its fees article puts Stripe processing at 2.9% + $0.30 per purchase on every plan.

Beacons has a free plan, Creator at $10/mo or $100/yr, Creator Plus at $30/mo or $300/yr, and Creator Max at $100/mo or $1,000/yr, per its pricing page. Its fees article puts the seller fee at 9% on Free and Creator and 0% on Creator Plus and Creator Max. Processing comes on top: Stripe at 2.9% + $0.30, or PayPal at 3.49% plus a fixed fee.

Feature.fm lists four artist plans on its pricing page: Free, Basic Artist at $8 a month, Artist at $19 and Pro Artist at $39, billed monthly, with lower prices when billed yearly. Any plan starts with a 7-day free trial of Pro Artist.

Linkfire starts with a free trial and no card. After that, its pricing page lists Pro at $27/mo, or $21/mo billed yearly, for one artist, and Teams at $55/mo, or $45/mo billed yearly, for up to five artist workspaces. Prices exclude VAT where it applies. If you don't continue after the trial, the account drops to a limited free one.

CloserAccess has two ways in. You can build the site yourself for free: no monthly fee, no setup cost and no card to start. A platform fee applies only when a fan pays you, at a rate CloserAccess doesn't publish (ask before you start), and it shows as its own line on each transaction. The free site lives at yourname.closeraccess.com. Or you can have the CloserAccess team build it as a Starter Website, Premium Website or Digital Master, for a fixed price quoted before any work starts. Card payments run through your own Square account at Square's own rate, which CloserAccess doesn't mark up. The fees page walks through it.

So if all you need is release links, Feature.fm Free costs nothing, and $19 a month on Artist opens every pre-save service. If fans buy from you directly, the costs to compare are a monthly plan, a cut of each sale, or both.

Pre-saves and smart links: where the music tools win

A smart link is one link for a release that sends each fan to the streaming app they already use. A pre-save lets a fan save a song before it comes out, so it lands in their library on release day. Both are release-day jobs, and the music tools are built around them.

• Feature.fm gives every plan, Free included, released smart links with no cap, routing each fan to their preferred music service. Pre-saves work with Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, Deezer, YouTube Music and Anghami. Free covers one of those services, Basic Artist three, and Artist and Pro Artist all of them. Artist and Pro Artist also add Future Save, where a fan opts in once and gets every future pre-save.
• Linkfire gives every plan full feature access, including unlimited pre-release, release and bio links, and its link types include ticket links for shows. Its analytics include streaming service data, and raw data export comes on its Premium and Enterprise plans.
• Linktree has a Music Pre-save link. You enter the Spotify URI, ISRC or UPC, and on release day it turns into a regular music link. Free and Starter can show one automated service (Spotify, Apple Music or TIDAL); Pro and Premium can show more. Linktree's page for musicians says its music links surface every platform where a track streams, and its pricing table lists clicks broken down by streaming service.
• Beacons lets you embed songs, albums or playlists from Spotify, SoundCloud or Apple Music. Its pricing page doesn't list pre-saves.
• CloserAccess does none of this. There are no pre-saves, no smart links that send each fan to their own streaming app, and no streaming analytics. A CloserAccess links page shows the links you add yourself, such as a streaming link for each song, and there's a Music releases section in the admin for listing your releases.

For a release campaign, a smart-link tool is the better choice.

Fan emails: who keeps the list

Every option here collects emails. What differs is how much of the list you can open and take with you.

• Feature.fm collects fan emails on every plan, but access depends on the plan: none on Free until you upgrade, 50 per link on Basic Artist, 200 per link on Artist, and all of them on Pro Artist, which also syncs to Mailchimp and ActiveCampaign. Analytics history runs from 7 days on Free to lifetime on Pro Artist.
• Linktree takes email and phone sign-ups on every plan. Mailing list integrations start at Pro, and data export is listed on Premium. Analytics history runs from 28 days on Free to all-time on Premium.
• Beacons keeps unlimited contacts on every plan and lets you import and export them. Email sends run from 50 a month on Free to unlimited on Creator Plus.
• Linkfire includes email collection on every plan.
• CloserAccess keeps the people who buy from you in your own admin, with email campaigns, newsletters and automations built in. You can export CSVs of revenue, event bookings and course enrollments.

Shows, merch and bookings: what sits behind the link

This is where a link page and a website split.

• Linktree shows upcoming dates through Bandsintown, Seated or Laylo, and displays merch from Shopify or Spring stores you run separately. From Pro, it sells digital products, courses and paid bookings, and its pricing FAQ names music files among the downloads you can sell. Paid bookings connect to a Google Calendar.
• Beacons embeds tour dates from Bandsintown and Seated and sells digital products, music files included, on every plan, with the 9% fee until Creator Plus. Memberships start on Creator Plus.
• Feature.fm and Linkfire point fans to where tickets and merch are sold, with tour and event links on Feature.fm and ticket links on Linkfire. Their pricing pages don't list a checkout of their own.
• CloserAccess sells from the site itself. Each show gets an event page that sells tickets, and you scan them at the door from a phone with no extra hardware. There's an Eventbrite integration if you list shows there too. The store sells merch with variants, and Printify print-on-demand is built in. Services take requests for shows, features and appearances, answered with a quote, or with a deposit up front. Memberships with tiers and tips sit on the same site.

The store can also sell a file, such as a beat or an album, as a Digital Download product: you upload it, and the buyer downloads it from their order page after paying.

Your address and getting found

• Linktree doesn't support custom domains. Every page sits at linktr.ee/yourname, and Starter and up can redirect visitors to a link you pick.
• Beacons includes a custom domain from Creator, and its plans article says it's free for your first year.
• Feature.fm includes one custom domain and one custom subdomain on Artist and Pro Artist.
• Linkfire gives you its lnk.to domain and subdomains, with custom domain integration on every plan.
• CloserAccess sites start at yourname.closeraccess.com, and team-built sites run on your own domain. The pricing FAQ puts ownership plainly: "Your domain stays yours. Your content stays yours."

Smart links and bio pages move fans who already follow you. A website gives people who don't know you yet something to land on when they search: a page per show, a page per service and blog posts. Done-for-you CloserAccess packages also include free promotion on CloserAccess's discovery pages.

Who sets it up and keeps it running

The four link tools are self-serve: you sign up, build the page and connect your accounts yourself.

A CloserAccess site can go either way. On the free route you pick a template, set your colors and launch the same day. On the done-for-you route, the team builds it: Starter sites can launch in a few days, and Premium and Digital Master usually take one to three weeks. After launch you change pages, prices, posts and products from one dashboard. See what each package includes.

Some honest limits: there's no drag-and-drop page builder (you edit pages through form fields with a live preview, and bigger design changes go to the team), checkout is in US dollars only, and payments run on Square with no PayPal.

Running both: a smart link for releases, a website for the rest

Here's one way to set it up:

1. Put your website's links page in your bio, at yourname.closeraccess.com/links or your own domain's /links.
2. Make the top link the current release's smart link from Feature.fm or Linkfire, so fans pre-save before release day and stream after.
3. Point the rest at your own site: the next show's ticket page, the booking page for features, the merch store.

If you'd rather keep Linktree, that works too. Point its featured links at your site's ticket and booking pages, and let the website do the selling. Our post on Linktree vs a real website covers when a link page alone is enough.

When a smart-link tool or Linktree is the better choice

• You're planning a release. Feature.fm or Linkfire. Pre-saves, smart links and streaming data are what they're built for, and CloserAccess has none of them.
• You want one free page that points elsewhere. Linktree Free or Beacons Free, if your music, videos and merch already live on other platforms.
• You only sell music files from your bio link. Linktree from Pro, or Beacons on any plan, with no website to run.
• Your fans pay in other currencies or with PayPal. Beacons' pricing page lists selling in 20+ currencies, and it takes PayPal. CloserAccess charges in US dollars through Square.
• You don't want to run a website yet, even a simple one.

A website earns its place when fans need to buy a ticket, a shirt or a booking from you, under your own name.

Artists and creators on CloserAccess

• Rayi, a singer-songwriter from Trinidad and Tobago, keeps the whole catalogue on Rayi's links page: the newest Rayi songs at the top, every Tiny Pinie single below with its own streaming link, then videos (one is a Caribbean Premier League performance), press and a press kit. Six services, from live performances and feature verses to songwriting and virtual sets, are booked by request on Rayi's booking page, and the quote follows. Read Rayi's story.
• SPARKBOYMOKO isn't a musician, but his setup fits any artist who sells collabs and merch. His CloserAccess site takes requests for paid shoutouts, brand-deal collabs and his verdict commentary, plus co-branded merch printed on demand through Printify. Read SPARKBOYMOKO's story.
• Klub Kingz, a New York party crew, gives each of its two weekly nights its own page with upcoming dates posted well into 2027, on the Klub Kingz events calendar. The same site has a VIP table booking page and a birthday package booked by request. If you host a regular night, that's the shape to copy. Read the Klub Kingz story.

If bookings are what you sell most, our Linktree alternative with booking post compares Linktree, Beacons and Stan on that. For fan memberships, see Patreon alternatives for creators. When you're ready, you can start a free site the same day.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Linktree alternative for musicians?

For releases, a smart-link tool: Feature.fm has a free plan with smart links and pre-saves, and Linkfire's Pro plan is $27/mo. For selling tickets, merch and bookings, an artist website. You can use one of each.

Does Linktree have pre-saves?

Yes. Its Music Pre-save link works on every plan. Free and Starter show one automated service, Spotify, Apple Music or TIDAL, and Pro and Premium can show more.

Is Feature.fm free?

Yes. The free plan includes smart links and one pre-save service. Paid plans are $8, $19 and $39 a month billed monthly, and opening the fan emails you collect takes a paid plan.

Can I use my own domain for my music links?

Not on Linktree. Beacons includes one from its $10/mo Creator plan, Feature.fm on Artist and Pro Artist, and Linkfire on every plan. A team-built CloserAccess site runs on your own domain.

Can a CloserAccess site do pre-saves or smart links?

No. CloserAccess has no pre-saves, no routing to each fan's streaming app and no streaming analytics. Use a smart-link tool for the release and put its link at the top of your site's links page.

Can I sell tickets to my own shows from my bio link?

From a CloserAccess site, yes: each show gets an event page that sells tickets, scanned at the door from a phone. Linktree, Beacons, Feature.fm and Linkfire show your dates and send fans to wherever the tickets are sold.

Prices checked November 9, 2026, on each company's own pages. Plans and fees change, so check the linked pages before you decide.

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