Is Linktree free? What the free plan actually gives you

Is Linktree free? Yes, permanently, with no cap on the number of links. Checked against the pricing page on 2 September 2026: per-link click data starts on the $8/month Starter plan, removing the Linktree logo needs the $15/month Pro plan, and exporting your analytics is Premium only at $35/month.

Most answers to this question are two years old and quote prices that have since moved. So on 2 September 2026 we pulled Linktree's own pricing page and read the feature comparison it ships to the browser, tier by tier. What follows is that table, translated into the decisions it actually forces.

Four tiers: Free, Starter, Pro, Premium. Billed monthly they are $0, $8, $15 and $35. Billed annually the paid three drop to $6, $12 and $30 per month.

What the free account covers

The free tier is not a trial and does not expire. On the comparison table it holds a real set of features, not a stub:

• Unlimited links. This is the one most people assume is capped, and it isn't; the "unlimited links" row is on for all four tiers including free.
• A QR code for your page. Customising that QR code (colours, logo in the middle) is where Starter begins.
• Base themes, a wallpaper colour, social icons, link thumbnails and a custom profile picture.
• Basic Insights: page views and social-icon clicks.
• The commerce rows, oddly, are all on for free: the shop, physical products and sponsored links.

If your whole requirement is "one URL for my bio that opens a list of five other URLs," the free plan does that and you can stop reading. We are not going to pretend otherwise.

Where free stops, precisely

The gaps matter more than the inclusions, because each one is a different price.

What you want	Cheapest tier that has it	Monthly price
Click counts on individual links	Starter	$8
Scheduling a link to appear or disappear	Starter	$8
Redirecting your page to another URL	Starter	$8
A custom-designed QR code	Starter	$8
Removing the Linktree logo from your page	Pro	$15
Where your visitors came from, and from where geographically	Pro	$15
Collecting emails with a form on the page	Pro	$15
Password-gating a link	Pro	$15
Embedding a YouTube video or Calendly	Pro	$15
Control over the page's SEO settings	Pro	$15
Exporting your analytics data	Premium	$35

Two of these are worth pausing on. The first is per-link click data at $8: the free plan tells you how many people saw the page, not which link they pressed, which is the single number most people open analytics to find. The second is the logo, at $15. It is a common assumption that any paid tier removes the branding; on this table Starter does not.

What a free bio page looks like to something that isn't a browser

This is the part that never shows up in a features table, so we measured it.

On 2 September 2026 we fetched a live Linktree profile with curl and counted the anchor tags in the HTML that came back. There were zero. The page is 92 KB of markup and the entire link list is assembled by JavaScript after load. For comparison, we ran the same count against a page on our own product and got anchors in the initial response, because we render the links server-side.

Google executes JavaScript, so this is not a claim that such pages can't be indexed; Google's own JavaScript SEO documentation explains the render queue that handles them. But plenty of things that read your bio link are not Google: link preview bots, smaller crawlers, archive tools, the scraper behind someone's newsletter. Those see an empty shell. Combined with SEO settings being a $15/month row on the same pricing page, the honest summary is that a free bio page is a redirect surface, not a piece of your search presence. Treat it that way and you will not be disappointed by it.

If you want the destination to be a real page rather than a jump point, that is roughly the reason we built Nameplate the way we did: server-rendered profiles, a .vcf contact endpoint and a QR code on every published page. Our free tier has its own hard edge, one published profile, and the "Made with Nameplate" badge stays on both the free and $5/month tier. Linktree's free plan beats ours on raw link count and on the shop features; we are not the answer for someone selling merch through their bio.

So is the free plan enough for you?

Four situations, and the answer differs in each.

You are testing whether anyone clicks anything. Free is not enough, and this is the cheapest gap to close. Without per-link clicks you are guessing. Either pay the $8 or put your own short links behind the buttons and read the counts somewhere else.

You post the link and never look at it again. Free is enough. Buying analytics you won't open is worse than not having them.

The page represents a business. The logo is a $15/month problem, and that is the real price of a Linktree page for a company, not $0 and not $8. At that point compare it against a plan on your own domain, which is usually the same money.

You are a freelancer sending the link to clients. A link list is probably the wrong shape entirely. The person opening it wants to see work and get your contact details, and neither is a row of buttons. This is where a portfolio page does more for you than a better bio link would.

When to stop using a bio link at all

Bio links solve one specific constraint: a platform gives you one clickable URL and you have several destinations. The moment your traffic stops arriving from that one platform, the constraint disappears and the link list becomes a wasted click between someone's interest and the thing they wanted.

The signals we would act on: you are putting the URL on a printed card or an email signature, where nobody imposed a one-link limit in the first place; the same three links have been in the same order for six months, meaning it isn't really a rotating list; or you are paying $15/month to hide someone else's logo from a page you don't own the address of. Any of those, and the money is better spent on a domain and a page that answers the question directly. A QR code can point at either, so that part costs nothing to change your mind about.

Common questions

Is Linktree free?

Yes. The free tier is permanent, has no link limit, includes a QR code and basic page-view Insights, and there is no trial clock on it. What it lacks is per-link click data, link scheduling, contact forms and logo removal. Checked against the pricing page on 2 September 2026; the paid tiers are $8, $15 and $35 per month, or $6, $12 and $30 if you pay annually.

What is Linktree?

It is a hosted page at linktr.ee/yourname that displays a list of buttons, each pointing somewhere else. It exists because Instagram and similar platforms historically allowed a single link in a profile bio. You edit the list in a dashboard, the page updates immediately, and no domain or hosting is involved. Similar products are usually described as link-in-bio tools.

Is there a free Linktree account?

Yes, and signing up does not require a card. The distinction worth knowing is between the free account and a free trial of a paid tier, which are different things; Linktree offers both, and the trial will ask for payment details. If you only want the page, choose the free tier at sign-up rather than starting a trial you then have to remember to cancel.

Does a free Linktree include a QR code?

Yes. The QR code row is on for every tier including free, so you can generate a code that points at your page without paying. Customising it, meaning brand colours or a logo in the centre, starts on the $8/month Starter tier. If a plain black-and-white code is fine, any free QR generator produces one that works identically, since the code just encodes your URL.

Are there free Linktree alternatives?

Several, and the differences that matter are rarely feature counts. Ask three things instead: does the free tier show per-link clicks, does the page render server-side, and what does removing the branding cost. Those three answers separate the options faster than a comparison table will. We build one of these, so treat our view of it accordingly, and check the current pricing page of anything you shortlist rather than a blog post about it.