Lnk.Bio alternative: what the one-time plan does and does not cover
Lnk.Bio is one of the few tools in this category that will sell you a plan once instead of every month, and its free tier is more generous than ours on the thing people count first: links. Both of those are true and neither is in dispute here. What this page is for is the sentence that follows them — “one time” covers the page, not the domain, and the domain is where the recurring cost reappears.
Quick answer
Lnk.Bio's Unique plan is $24.99 once and includes removing its badge; connecting your own domain is not in it — that is a $39.99/year add-on, or the $89.99/year Ultra plan. Linkhiver Pro is $6/month or $45/year with the custom domain included, and its free plan carries 30-day analytics, a URL shortener and a digital business card. Prices read from both sites on 4 September 2026.
Summary
- Lnk.Bio's free plan gives unlimited links where ours gives 10 — that one is theirs, plainly.
- Unique is genuinely $24.99 once, badge removal included. Your own domain is not: $39.99 a year as an add-on, or Ultra at $89.99 a year. Linkhiver Pro is $45 a year with the domain in the price.
- Free-plan extras differ more than the paid plans do: Linkhiver includes 30-day analytics history, a URL shortener and a business card with a vCard download at $0.
Feature-by-feature comparison
| Feature | Linkhiver | Lnk.Bio |
|---|---|---|
| Links on the free plan | 10 links free; 50 on Pro | Unlimited, on the free plan |
| Pay once for the page | Subscription only — $6/month or $45/year | Unique, $24.99 one time, no subscription |
| Remove the provider badge | Included with Pro, $45/year | Included with Unique, $24.99 once |
| Connect your own domain | Included with Pro at $45/year — nothing further to buy | $39.99/year add-on, or Ultra at $89.99/year |
| Analytics history on the free plan | 30 days, cookieless, free | “Basic statistics” free; advanced analytics from Mini, $0.99/month |
| URL shortener with click analytics | 10 short links free, 100 on Pro, QR code on each | Not listed on its plans |
| Digital business card and vCard download | Free: card page, .vcf download, QR. Wallet passes on Pro | Not listed on its plans |
| Several pages on one account | One profile per account | 3 pages free, 5 on Mini, 10 on Unique |
Lnk.Bio's figures were read from its own pricing section on 4 September 2026 and are in USD. “Not listed” means the feature does not appear on the plans we read, not that it cannot be done some other way. Linkhiver's figures come from its own plan limits on the same date.
What the free plan gives away
Every row below is on Linkhiver’s free plan, and is a paid tier somewhere else in the category — or is not sold at all. Each claim names the other product’s own tier and the day we read it, and links to the comparison it came from.
Per-link click history
Free · 30 daysEvery link, not just the page
- Lnk.Bio Mini — $0.99 a monthPrices last read September 4, 2026
Short links with click tracking
Free · 10 includedCustom back-half, clicks counted
- Lnk.Bio — not on any planPrices last read September 4, 2026
Digital business card with vCard download
Free · 2 includedYours to hand out, with its own QR
- Lnk.Bio — not on any planPrices last read September 4, 2026
Prices last read September 4, 2026. “Not on any plan” means the feature does not appear on the plans we read — not that it cannot be done another way. Prices in this category change often, so we re-read them every quarter and stamp the table with its oldest reading.
Where Lnk.Bio is the better answer
Three places, and the first is not close:
- Unlimited links at $0. Our free plan stops at 10, and if you have thirty things to link and no intention of paying, that decides it.
- One payment. $24.99 once — with the badge gone — is a genuinely different offer from any subscription, ours included, and for a page you will not touch again it is the cheaper decade.
- Breadth of embeds and templates: 147 embed services and 577 templates on the free plan, against a smaller, more opinionated set here.
Where Linkhiver is the better answer
Mostly in what the free plan carries and what the paid one stops charging for:
- The domain is in the price. $45 a year covers Pro and the custom domain; the equivalent at Lnk.Bio is $24.99 once plus $39.99 every year, or $89.99 a year on Ultra.
- 30 days of cookieless analytics on the free plan, per link and per source — not a paid tier and not a consent banner.
- Two free tools that are not a bio page at all: a URL shortener with per-click analytics, and a business card with a .vcf download and its own QR code.
Moving a Lnk.Bio page across
- Open your Lnk.Bio page and copy the links out as a list — one line per link, “Label — https://…”.
- Create your free Linkhiver page and claim your username.
- Paste the list into the link importer, review what it found, and tick the ones to keep.
- Pick a template, match your colours, and regenerate any QR code you had in print.
- Swap the link in your bios. Keep the Lnk.Bio page live for a week or two — nothing is forcing you to delete it, and there is no shutdown clock here.
Frequently asked questions
Is Lnk.Bio's one-time plan really one-time?
For the page itself, yes. Unique is $24.99 with no subscription, and removing the Lnk.Bio badge is inside it. What is not inside it is connecting a domain you own: that is a $39.99/year add-on, or the Ultra plan at $89.99/year. The “free .bio domain for a year” in Unique and Ultra is exactly that — for a year.
Which free plan is better?
It depends what you are counting. Lnk.Bio's gives unlimited links, 147 embed services and 3 pages; ours gives 10 links but adds 30 days of analytics history, a URL shortener with click tracking, a digital business card with a .vcf download, and QR codes. If the number of links is the binding constraint, theirs wins.
Does Lnk.Bio have a URL shortener or a business card?
Neither appears on the plans we read on 4 September 2026. We are saying what its own pricing lists, not what it is incapable of — check its current features page if that is the deciding factor for you.
Can I move my links across without retyping them?
Yes. Copy them out of Lnk.Bio as a list — one line per link — and paste the whole thing into Linkhiver's link importer. It parses the list, shows you every link it found with a checkbox, and adds only what you tick.
What does Linkhiver cost?
The free plan is permanent and needs no card: 10 links, 11 templates, QR codes, a URL shortener, 2 business cards and 30-day analytics. Pro is $6 a month or $45 a year and adds 50 links, your own domain, wallet passes and the higher caps.
Where our incentives sit
A comparison written by one of the two products is only worth reading if you can see what the author stands to gain. Here is ours, and what you can check without taking our word for it.
We are never in your payment path
Linkhiver does not process sales, tips or subscriptions, so there is no cut for us to take. Link a Shopify, Ko-fi or Gumroad storefront from your page and the buyer pays that storefront directly — the money never passes through us. That is structural rather than a promise: we cannot start taking a percentage of something we never handle.
No ads on your page, on either plan
Your page carries your links and nothing we sold to somebody else. The free plan shows a small Linkhiver badge, which Pro removes; that badge is the only thing on your page you did not put there.
Our own counters are rounded down
The creator, page-view and click totals on our home page are read live from the database, floored to the nearest step and shown with a plus, so they can only understate. The real figure is a few hundred creators, and that is what we print.
A claim we have withdrawn fails our build
An audit in August 2026 found inflated numbers on this site: a template count, a hardcoded view count, a user count. Each was corrected, and a test now scans all seven language catalogs on every deploy and refuses to build if one of them comes back.
Prices on this page are in US dollars, because that is how each vendor publishes them. Linkhiver Pro is billed in local currency where we have set one; the exact amount appears at checkout.
Compare other link-in-bio tools
Try the free plan before you compare prices
10 links, 30-day analytics, a shortener and a business card at $0 — enough to tell whether the paid difference matters to you at all.