Keepp vs Beacons: a Beacons alternative that doesn't charge 9% until you pay $30/month
Beacons keeps a 9% seller fee all the way through its $10 plan and only reaches 0% at $30. Keepp starts at 5% on a free plan, drops to 3% at $9.99, and reaches 0% at $24.99 — with real checkout, bookings, and lead capture on one page.
By Keepp Team
Beacons pitches itself as an entire creator business in one subscription: a link page, a store, email marketing, invoicing, a media kit, and a suite of AI tools. It’s a genuinely broad product. The two reasons people go looking for a Beacons alternative are just as consistent: the seller fee doesn’t go away when you start paying, and the breadth becomes overhead when what you actually needed was one page that sells, books, and captures leads properly.
This post puts Keepp and Beacons next to each other on price, fees, and what each one can finish on the page.
What Beacons costs in 2026
As of writing, Beacons runs four tiers:
- Free — $0. Unlimited links, media kit, 50 email sends, 9% transaction fee on sales. No custom domain.
- Creator — $10/month (about $100/year). Custom domain free for the first year, 500 email sends a month, email automations, AI-powered brand outreach — and still a 9% seller fee.
- Creator Plus — $30/month (about $300/year). 0% transaction fees, unlimited email marketing, memberships and courses, buy-now-pay-later, Beacons branding removed, and multi-calendar conflict checking on appointments.
- Creator Max — $90/month (about $900/year). Everything above, plus Google Workspace, an NFC card, and white-glove onboarding.
Payment processing sits on top of all of it — Stripe at 2.9% + $0.30, PayPal at 3.49% plus a fixed fee — on every plan, as it does everywhere.
The number that shapes the whole decision is that 9% survives the first paid tier. Upgrading from Free to Creator at $10/month buys you a custom domain and some email volume; it does not reduce what Beacons takes out of a sale by a single point. The fee only reaches zero at $30/month, which is three times the entry plan and more than Keepp’s most expensive tier.
Beacons adjusts plans and limits periodically, so confirm the current numbers on their own pricing page before committing. The structure — a flat 9% that persists through the entry plan and disappears only at the third tier — has held for a while.
Keepp’s pricing, for comparison
Keepp has three tiers, and the commission goes down at every single one:
- Free — $0 forever. A fully customizable page at
keepp.link/yourhandle, basic analytics, automatic Zoom and Google Meet links on bookings, and real Stripe checkout at 5% — against Beacons’ 9%. - Pro — $9.99/month. Everything in Free, plus customizable forms for lead collection and feedback, 2,000 free actions a month, free and pay-outside-Keepp pricing options, unlimited products and bookings, scheduled blocks and custom fonts, full analytics (geo, device, funnel, traffic source), a custom domain, and 3% on sales.
- Influencer — $24.99/month. Everything in Pro, plus 10,000 free actions a month and 0% on sales — a zero-commission plan for $5/month less than Beacons charges for its own.
The full plan detail is on the pricing page.
What that looks like on real numbers
Take a creator selling $300/month through their page:
- Beacons Free: $0 + 9% = $27/month
- Beacons Creator: $10 + 9% = $37/month
- Beacons Creator Plus: $30 + 0% = $30/month
- Keepp Free: $0 + 5% = $15/month
- Keepp Pro: $9.99 + 3% = $18.99/month — with forms, custom domain, full analytics, and unlimited products
- Keepp Influencer: $24.99 + 0% = $24.99/month
Keepp Pro undercuts every Beacons configuration at that volume while including the custom domain that Beacons only gives away for a first year, and it keeps doing so until you’re past roughly $667/month in sales. Past that, Keepp Influencer takes over — $24.99 flat at 0% against Beacons’ $30 flat at 0%, cheaper at every volume there is.
Keepp vs Beacons, side by side
| Keepp | Beacons | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | $0 forever — full page, real checkout, bookings | $0 — links, media kit, 50 email sends |
| Entry paid plan | Pro, $9.99/mo | Creator, $10/mo |
| Top plan | Influencer, $24.99/mo | Creator Max, $90/mo |
| Commission on sales | 5% Free → 3% Pro → 0% Influencer | 9% Free → 9% Creator → 0% from $30/mo |
| Fee on the entry paid plan | 3% | 9% — unchanged from free |
| 0% option | Free and pay-outside-Keepp pricing carry 0% Keepp fee (Pro and up) | Creator Plus, $30/mo, and above |
| Payment processing | Stripe’s own fee, on your account | Stripe 2.9% + $0.30 / PayPal 3.49%, on top of seller fee |
| Who holds the money | You — your connected Stripe account, you’re the merchant of record | Platform-mediated checkout |
| Real on-page checkout | Yes, on every plan including Free | Yes, with the 9% attached below $30/mo |
| Bookings & calendar | Real availability, Google Calendar sync, auto Zoom/Meet link per remote appointment — on the free plan | Appointments available; multi-calendar conflict checking at Creator Plus ($30/mo) |
| Affiliate cards & promo codes | Dedicated card kinds for affiliate links and promo codes | Links and store items |
| Lead capture + CSV export | Custom forms, submissions filterable, taggable, exportable to CSV (Pro) | Email capture feeding the email marketing product |
| Email marketing campaigns | Not offered — leads export to the tool you already use | Yes; 50 sends free, 500/mo at Creator, unlimited at Creator Plus |
| AI-assisted page management | HTTP Agent API — point an assistant at your page | AI content and outreach tools, not page management |
| Custom domain | Pro, $9.99/mo | Creator, $10/mo — free first year only |
| Analytics depth | Basic on Free; geo, device, funnel and traffic-source on Pro | Link, traffic and sales analytics |
A focused page instead of a wider platform
The strongest argument for Beacons is that it replaces several subscriptions. The strongest argument against it is the same sentence read from the other side: you are configuring and paying for a media kit, an invoicing tool, a brand-outreach AI and an email service whether or not you use any of them, and the page — the thing your audience actually sees — is one surface among many.
Keepp does one thing. A page is blocks on a grid, each doing a specific job well.
Products take payment in place, through your own connected Stripe account. You’re the merchant of record; money lands with you directly; payouts, refunds and disputes live in your Stripe dashboard under your name. Keepp’s commission is deducted automatically at the time of sale — there’s no platform balance waiting to be released to you. Connecting Stripe is a one-time step, and selling a product covers the rest.
Bookings work on the free plan. Real availability, Google Calendar sync so double-bookings can’t happen, and a Zoom or Google Meet link generated per appointment when the meeting is remote — no upgrade required to get the calendar behaving correctly. See taking bookings.
Cards cover the non-checkout half of a page. For-sale items, affiliate links with promo codes attached, and pure showcase pieces with no commercial angle — so “here’s what I made,” “here’s what I recommend,” and “here’s what you can buy” sit side by side without pretending to be the same thing. Adding cards walks through the kinds.
Forms qualify people before they’re customers. Custom fields, submissions collected in one place you can filter, tag and export to CSV. See collecting leads and feedback and reading your submissions. If your page needs a physical location or opening hours attached, add a map; if something should only appear for a limited window, schedule the block.
Not sure what belongs on yours? Choosing the right block is the place to start, and structuring a long page matters once you’ve got more than a few. For gated material — a paid PDF, a members-only video — hosting your content privately covers how that works.
What this looks like for a course creator
Priya Shah’s page is a good stand-in for the audience Beacons markets hardest to. She’s on Keepp Pro at $9.99/month, selling a course through on-page checkout, offering a one-to-one coaching session as a booking add-on, and running a short qualifying form for people who want to talk before they commit. Three different mechanics, one page, 3% on the sales, and no separate scheduling tool or checkout platform underneath it. The other case studies show the same pattern at different shapes — a deals creator, a maker, a local business.
Getting there is short: claim your page, set up your profile, add your links and buttons, style it and choose a font pairing, then put the link in your bio.
Getting paid without a percentage at all
Keepp doesn’t require money to move through its checkout. On Pro and above you can price something as free, or as pay-outside-Keepp — the order is still captured properly, with buyer name and email and an instant confirmation — while the payment itself happens however you already handle it. Keepp’s fee on those is 0%, at $9.99/month, because no transaction ran through the platform.
That’s structurally different from a model that only makes money when it processes your sale. Get paid your way covers all three routes, and it’s the same reasoning behind Keepp working as a Buy Me a Coffee alternative for people who want tips and real products on one page.
Managing the page by asking for it
Beacons’ AI tools point outward — content generation, brand outreach. Keepp’s point at the page itself. An HTTP Agent API lets you aim an AI assistant at your own page and run it conversationally: add a product, adjust a price, update your hours, pull a sold-out item. The reference is in the developer docs, and managing your page with an AI agent is the practical guide.
When the traffic starts arriving, understanding your analytics explains what Keepp’s geo, device, funnel and traffic-source breakdown actually tells you — which visitors came from where, and where they stopped.
What to weigh
$10/month on Beacons buys a domain and more email sends, but the 9% cut doesn’t move — you’re still paying nearly twice Keepp’s free plan (5%) until you’re on the $30 tier — which itself costs more than Keepp’s 0% plan. For most people building an audience, the bottleneck isn’t sending more emails; it’s converting the visitors already showing up. That’s a booking calendar, a real checkout, an affiliate card, a lead form — on a page that costs nothing to start and takes less at every tier along the way, with leads exported to whatever you already send email from.
Start by claiming your page, setting up your profile, and choosing the blocks that match what you do.
Try it
Claim your page at keepp.link — free forever, no card required. See pricing for the full comparison, or how your page works to understand the model before you build anything.