Every comparison of these tools turns into a feature list, and feature lists are useless here because all three do the obvious thing well. You will get a bio page. It will look fine. Your links will work.
So here is the question that actually separates them: at the end of the month, can the tool tell you which link made money?
Linktree
The default, and defaults are powerful. More templates than anyone, a mobile app, and a name your audience already recognises. If you want a page up in four minutes and you are not trying to measure anything, this is a perfectly good answer.
What it will not tell you is revenue. Linktree counts clicks. Two links can each take 500 taps, one can be worth four thousand dollars and the other nothing at all, and the dashboard shows you two identical numbers. That is not a criticism of the product so much as a description of where it stops. We wrote the longer version in PaidBio vs Linktree, including the parts where Linktree is still the better pick.
Beacons
Beacons is a creator suite rather than a bio page. Store, email, media kit, AI page builder, all in one subscription. If you sell digital products and want the checkout to live inside the bio tool, this is genuinely strong, and the all-in-one pricing is easier to justify than four separate tools.
The limit is the boundary of the platform. Beacons knows about sales Beacons processed. If your money is made on Shopify, your own site, or a course platform, that loop stays open. More in PaidBio vs Beacons.
Stan Store
Stan is the most opinionated of the three, and that is a compliment. The checkout is tuned for digital products, coaching and courses, with upsells and order bumps built into the flow. Creators who sell their own offers do well on it.
Same boundary as Beacons, though: it reports on what it processes. It cannot tell you that the link to your newsletter outperformed the link to your store by four to one, because it never saw either click resolve into anything. The detail is here.
So how do you measure revenue per link?
You need two things that none of the three do together. First, every click leaving the bio page has to carry an identifier. Second, the site where the sale happens has to send that identifier back when money changes hands.
That is ordinary attribution, and it is what conversion pixels have done for ad platforms for years. The reason it is rare in bio tools is that bio tools were built to be link lists, and attribution was somebody else's job.
There are dedicated attribution platforms that do this properly. Dub is the best of them, and if you have engineers it is probably what you want. It also has no bio page and prices conversion tracking for companies rather than creators.
The honest summary
- Want the safest, most familiar page? Linktree.
- Selling digital products inside your bio tool? Beacons or Stan Store, and pick on checkout feel.
- Selling on your own site and need to know which link did it? That is the gap, and it is the one PaidBio was built for.
Before you switch anything, run your current page through the free bio link audit. It checks tracking, sharing tags, speed and SEO, and tells you what the page you already have is missing. No account needed.
Or create a PaidBio page and see revenue per link on your own data. Free to start, and the free plan is a real one. Related reading: how to track bio link conversions end to end.