Sublead vs Beacons: an alternative for the lead magnet on your bio page
Beacons (beacons.ai) and Sublead are not rivals: one is the page your bio points to, the other is one of the links on it. Beacons gives a creator a link-in-bio page, a store, a media kit and email, free with 50 email sends a month and a 9% fee on sales. Sublead makes the lead magnet: you write a guide, press Publish, and get a link whose opt-in page collects the email and shows the guide straight away. Paste that link into Beacons and your bio page offers a free resource in exchange for an email.
Beacons is the page behind the single link a social profile allows. It holds your links, your products, a media kit for brands and a way to email the people who follow you.
A lead magnet is something else: content a visitor gives an email address to read, plus the page that asks for the address. Sublead makes both from a single document. Beacons does not make that document and Sublead does not make a bio page, so this comparison covers what each one does and how to use them together.
Choose Sublead if
- You have a bio page already (Beacons or another) and need the free guide to put on it.
- You want the visitor to read the guide the second they sign up, with no email to wait for.
- You give away a new resource often and want each one to have its own link and its own numbers.
- Your list lives in Systeme.io or ClickFunnels and you want new sign-ups sent there with a tag.
Choose Beacons if
- You need a link-in-bio page: Sublead does not make one.
- You sell digital products and want the store on the same page as your links.
- You pitch brands and want a media kit ready to send.
- You want to email your audience from the tool that holds your page.
Sublead vs Beacons, point by point
Beacons's column comes from its own website, read on November 13, 2026. If something has changed since, write to info@sublead.io and we will correct it.
Sublead and Beacons: the prices
Sublead
- Free · $0Unlimited lead magnets and contacts, opt-in pages, statistics, integrations. No card, no time limit.
- Pro · $29/month, or $24/month billed yearlyOptional: your own domain, pages without the Sublead badge, email sequences.
Beacons
- Free · $050 email sends a month, unlimited contacts, 1 website with 1 page. A 9% fee on what you sell.
- Creator · $10/monthOr $100 a year. 500 email sends a month, a custom domain free for the first year. The 9% fee stays.
- Creator Plus · $30/monthOr $300 a year. 0% fee on sales, and the Beacons logo can be removed.
- Creator Max · $100/monthOr $1,000 a year. Adds Google Workspace, an NFC card and onboarding help.
Beacons is free to start. The Free plan includes 50 email sends a month, unlimited contacts and one website of one page, and Beacons keeps a 9% fee on what you sell. Creator costs $10 a month, or $100 a year: 500 email sends a month and a custom domain that is free for the first year, with the same 9% fee. Creator Plus, at $30 a month or $300 a year, brings the fee down to 0% and lets you remove the Beacons logo. Creator Max is $100 a month.
Sublead's free plan has no count on lead magnets, opt-in pages or contacts, and no fee, because nothing is sold through it. Pro is optional at $29 a month, or $24 a month billed yearly, and adds a custom domain, pages without the Sublead badge and email sequences. The two prices cover different things: Beacons charges for selling and emailing, which Sublead does not do.
The same lead magnet, made in each
With Sublead
- 1Write the guide as a document in Sublead.
- 2Press Publish. The opt-in page is made from the document.
- 3Add the link to your Beacons page, at the top. Whoever signs up reads the guide on the spot.
With Beacons
- 1Build your Beacons page: links, blocks, and your store if you sell.
- 2Turn on email collection so visitors can leave their address on the page.
- 3Write the free guide in another tool and host it somewhere it can be opened from a link.
- 4Email that link to new subscribers from Beacons, inside your plan's monthly sends (50 on Free).
What Beacons does that Sublead does not
Beacons builds the page your Instagram or TikTok profile links to, which Sublead does not. It also runs a store for your digital products, produces a media kit for brand deals, and sends email to your contacts, with a monthly number of sends that grows with the plan.
Sublead has no bio page, no store and no checkout, and it does not send newsletters. For the page behind the link in your bio you need a link-in-bio tool, and Beacons is one. Our comparisons with Linktree and Stan Store cover two others.
What Sublead adds to a Beacons page
Sublead adds the free resource, and the page that asks for an email in exchange. Beacons can collect an address on your bio page. Asking for it is easier with something specific to give in return: the 7-day meal plan, the preset pack notes, the checklist from the video. In Sublead you write that resource like a Notion page, with headings, images, callouts, tables and embedded video, and publishing it creates an opt-in page with a first name field, an email field and a consent checkbox.
After signing up, the visitor is on the guide. Nothing is sent, so nothing lands in spam and no email allowance is used. The guide ends with a button you set, which can point back to a product in your Beacons store. The guide to growing an email list from a link in bio describes the whole setup.
| Beacons | Sublead | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A bio page, a store, a media kit, email | A lead magnet with its opt-in page |
| Where it sits | Behind the link in your bio | As one link on that page |
| Free plan | 50 email sends a month, 9% fee on sales | Unlimited lead magnets and contacts |
| Sells products | Yes | No |
| Sends email | Yes | No newsletters |
What 50 emails a month means for a freebie
On the Beacons Free plan, a freebie delivered by email shares a budget of 50 sends a month with everything else you send. Each new subscriber who receives the link uses one. A video that brings 200 sign-ups in a week needs four times that, which is the Creator plan's 500 sends or more.
A lead magnet that opens on the page does not touch that budget. The sign-up and the reading happen in one visit, and the 50 sends stay free for the emails you write yourself. The contacts are counted in Sublead with views, sign-ups and the conversion rate per day. For ideas on what to offer, see the list of lead magnet ideas.
Questions and answers
- Is Beacons free?
- Yes. Beacons has a free plan with 50 email sends a month, unlimited contacts and a 9% fee on sales, as its pricing page stated on 13 November 2026. Paid plans start at $10 a month (Creator).
- Is Beacons a Linktree alternative?
- Yes. Both are link-in-bio tools. Beacons adds a store, a media kit and email marketing to the page of links.
- Is Sublead an alternative to Beacons?
- No, the two are used together. Sublead makes a free guide and its opt-in page; it does not make a link-in-bio page or a store. Its link goes on a Beacons page next to the others.
- Can I add a Sublead lead magnet to my Beacons link in bio?
- Yes. A published Sublead lead magnet is a link, and it goes on a Beacons page like any other link. Visitors who tap it see the opt-in page, sign up, and read the guide.
- Does Sublead take a fee on sales like Beacons?
- No, because Sublead does not sell anything or take payments. It is free for unlimited lead magnets and contacts, and its Pro plan is a flat $29 a month.
- Is Beacons.ai the same as Beacon?
- No. Beacons (beacons.ai) is a link-in-bio page and creator store. Beacon (beacon.by) is software for designing lead magnets, from a different company.
Sources
What this page says about Beacons was read on its own website on November 13, 2026:
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