Beacons vs Kitly Comparison 2026
Beacons is a link-in-bio page that grew a store and a media kit onto the same profile, free to start with a 9 percent cut of what the store sells. Kitly is a media kit only, rebuilt from live numbers pulled off connected accounts instead of a deck you update by hand, from $7.42 a month billed annually with no free plan. The question is not which does more. It is whether the media kit needs to sit next to a store and a link page, or needs to refresh itself and track what a campaign delivered.
At a glance
- Kitly starts cheaper, at $7.42.
- Only Beacons has a free tier.
- Kitly bills annually only, so there is no month to try it for.
Side by side
Beacons | Kitly | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $10 | From $7.42 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Paid subscription |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing (they differ) | Monthly or annual | Annual only |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated |
Beacons
Link in bio that doubles as a store and a media kit
Beacons started as a link page and grew into email, a shop and a media kit for brand deals. Having the pitch deck and the store in the same place is genuinely useful. The free tier carries branding.
Our note
Good if the media kit is the reason you are here. If it is not, Beacons is a heavier link page than most people need, and the 9 percent on the cheap plans is easy to miss until a product sells well.
Only on this side
- Covers link in bio
- Covers digital products & storefronts
Kitly
A media kit that updates itself
Kitly connects your accounts and builds the media kit from live numbers, so the deck you send a brand is not three months out of date. Campaign deliverables and reporting sit alongside it, which is the half of a brand deal that happens after the money is agreed. Creators are also listed in a network brands search. Both plans are billed by the year and the monthly equivalent is what the page quotes.
Why people weigh these two
- Kitly instead of Beacons
- Just the media-kit half: a kit that updates itself for $7.42, if pitching brands is the only Beacons feature you would use.
- Beacons instead of Kitly
- Beacons folds a media kit into a link-in-bio page that also runs a store, free to start though its own paid tier at $10 a month costs more than Kitly's $7.42.
Which one should you pick
Beacons suits a creator who takes brand deals and sells something, and wants one page doing both jobs. The free plan carries Beacons branding and the 9 percent store cut; paying from $10 a month keeps the same cut until two tiers above remove it. Invoicing for a brand deal lives on the same page as the pitch, which Kitly does not offer. The 9 percent is easy to miss until a product actually sells well, so weigh it against what you expect to move.
Kitly suits a creator who sends media kits often enough to resent rebuilding one, and who has been caught out by a brand quoting stale follower counts back at them. Starter is $89 a year, stated as $7.42 a month, and links two accounts, a real limit for anybody active on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube at once. Premium at $190 a year, or $15.83 a month, removes that cap entirely. Under $200 a year, it is cheap against a single brand deal, and the argument for it is the live numbers rather than the network listing.
Common questions
- Does Beacons have a free plan?
- Yes, and it works, though the store keeps a 9 percent cut on every tier that includes one, and the free page carries Beacons branding. Kitly has no free plan at all; Starter starts at $89 a year, which Kitly states as $7.42 a month.
- How many social accounts can Kitly's media kit pull from?
- Two on Starter at $89 a year, unlimited on Premium at $190 a year. A creator active on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube is already past the Starter limit, so check that before picking the cheap plan.
- Which one also sells products from the page?
- Beacons does, with the store built into the same page as the links and a 9 percent cut on the plans that include it. Kitly's plans are built around the media kit, campaign deliverable tracking and reporting for the brand, not a storefront.
- Does either track what was actually delivered on a campaign?
- Kitly does, on both paid plans: what was promised set against what went out, with reporting prepared in the form a sponsor asks for. Beacons offers invoicing for the deal itself, a different job from tracking what was delivered against it.
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