Beacons vs Pillar Comparison 2026
Beacons is free with a 9 percent cut of what the store sells, rising to $10 a month at the same cut before two higher tiers remove it. Pillar starts at $29 a month for a storefront, a booking calendar and a media kit that rebuilds itself weekly from connected accounts, at a 5 percent seller fee that drops to zero on the $99 Entrepreneur plan. The axis is how the media kit gets made. Beacons is a page you fill in yourself. Pillar refreshes its own numbers on a schedule.
Link in bio that doubles as a store and a media kit
A creator store, media kit and booking page
At a glance
- Beacons starts cheaper, at $10.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
- Pillar takes 5% of what you earn against Beacons's 9%.
Side by side
Beacons | Pillar | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $10 | From $29 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | 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.
Pillar
A creator store, media kit and booking page
Pillar puts the storefront, the media kit and the calendar behind one link, and the media kit updates itself from connected accounts rather than waiting for somebody to rebuild a PDF. Digital products, bookings and invoices are all sold from the same page. The seller fee on the entry plan is the thing to check against what you expect to sell.
Our note
Work out the seller fee before choosing the cheap plan. Past about $1,400 of monthly sales the 5 percent on Creator costs more than the jump to Entrepreneur, and the media kit gets better at the same time.
Why people weigh these two
- Pillar instead of Beacons
- The same store-plus-media-kit combination with a booking page besides, from $29 with a free tier, nearly three times Beacons' $10 start.
- Beacons instead of Pillar
- Beacons starts from a link in bio page and adds a store and media kit on top, a cheaper entry point at $10 than Pillar's brand-deal-first bundle.
Which one should you pick
Beacons suits a creator who wants a cheap way to combine a link page with a store and a basic media kit, plus invoicing for a brand deal on the same page it was pitched from. The 9 percent cut runs through the free plan and the $10 tier, and only the two tiers above remove it, so check that against your own store revenue first. It is the right choice when the media kit is the reason you are there at all; otherwise it carries more than most people need.
Pillar suits a creator who takes brand deals and sells something of their own, and currently keeps the media kit, the store and the booking link in three separate places. Creator at $29 a month bundles a mobile storefront, weekly media kit updates, unlimited digital products and bookings, a course builder and invoices, at a 5 percent seller fee. Past about $1,400 of monthly sales, that fee costs more than moving to Entrepreneur at $99 a month, which drops it to zero and updates the media kit daily instead of weekly. Somebody with no sponsorship income is paying for half a product.
Common questions
- Which has the cheaper seller fee?
- Beacons keeps 9 percent on its free plan and its $10 tier. Pillar starts lower, at 5 percent on the $29 Creator plan, and drops that to zero entirely on the $99 Entrepreneur plan.
- Does either media kit update on its own?
- Pillar's does, weekly on Creator and daily on the $99 Entrepreneur plan, rebuilt from connected accounts automatically. Beacons' media kit is a page you build yourself from your own rates, audience numbers and past work.
- At what point does Pillar's cheap plan stop being cheap?
- Past about $1,400 of monthly sales, the 5 percent fee on Creator costs more than the jump to the $99 Entrepreneur plan, which also drops the fee to zero and updates the media kit daily instead of weekly.
- Does Beacons offer bookings or a course builder like Pillar?
- Beacons combines a store, a media kit, email capture and invoicing for brand deals on one page. Pillar adds a booking calendar and a course builder to its own storefront and media kit, from the $29 Creator plan up.
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