The short answer
At a glance
| Lnk.Bio | link2l.ink | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | One-time | One-time |
| Paid tier | Mini $9.99 or Unique $24.99, paid once | $49 or $99, paid once |
| Five-year cost | $24.99 | $49 |
| Free tier | Unlimited links, a basic page, Lnk.Bio branding | One page, unlimited links and sections, all four layouts, curated themes, a form, and 30 days of event-level analytics including referrer and device. A small made-with badge. |
| Reorders itself from clicks | No | Yes, on every plan including free |
| Analytics | View and click counts | Per-link, per-source, per-device, per-hour |
| Sell, capture emails, embed | No | Yes |
| Catches dead links | No | Yes |
| The honest summary | Cheapest permanent link page there is | A page that keeps working on your behalf |
Where Lnk.Bio wins, said first
A comparison page that cannot name a competitor's advantages is an advert with a table in it. Lnk.Bio has three real ones.
- It is cheaper. Mini $9.99 or Unique $24.99, paid once, against $49 for our Pro tier. Roughly half, and both are one payment.
- It has kept the promise longer. Since 2016. We launched this year. A pay-once promise is only worth what the company's track record says it is worth, and on that measure they are ahead of us by every year they have been doing it.
- Its free tier has no link limit. Unlimited links, free, with their branding on the page.
The same promise, kept for different reasons
Both products exist because the subscription model does not fit this product. A link page is infrastructure. It costs almost nothing to run and it does not improve for you at $8 a month, so charging monthly is a business decision rather than a cost that has to be recovered.
Where the two diverge is what "paid once" is used to justify. Lnk.Bio treats it as the whole product: pay a little, get a page, expect nothing more. We treat it as a constraint on the business model rather than on the product, which is why the adaptive engine, the analytics and the block types are all on a page you paid for once.
What the extra money actually buys
The gap between $24.99 and $49 is about twenty-five dollars, once. What it buys is the difference between a page that stores your links and a page that works on them.
The order maintains itself
Link2l.ink records which links get seen and clicked and re-ranks the page from it, weighting recent behaviour above old. On Lnk.Bio the order is whatever you last dragged it into, forever. See what adaptive actually means for the arithmetic.
Dead links get caught
Bio pages rot faster than websites because so many of their links point at time-limited things. A link that gets views and no clicks for weeks is flagged. Nobody else in this comparison does that, and a dead link costs more than a missing one.
The page can do a job
Music and video that play inline, products with prices, offers with outcome bullets, email capture, event blocks that hide themselves after the date, and links that go live and expire on a schedule. Lnk.Bio has none of these; it is a list of links, deliberately.
The indexing problem nobody mentions
Lnk.Bio pages barely appear in search results. For a page that exists to be found, that is a real cost and it is invisible until you go looking for yourself and find nothing.
It matters most if your name is how people find you: a musician, a small business, anyone whose page should rank for their own name. Every link2l.ink profile is served with a real title, description and structured data, and profiles with content are listed in a sitemap. A page nobody can find is a cheap page that costs you.
Which one is for you
What this page says, in six lines
- Choose Lnk.Bio if you want the cheapest permanent link page and nothing else matters.
- Choose Lnk.Bio if a longer track record on the pay-once promise is what you are buying.
- Choose link2l.ink if you want the page to reorder itself and tell you what is working.
- Choose link2l.ink if you sell anything, capture emails, or want to be found by search.
- Both are one payment. Neither will bill you next year.
Lnk.Bio
Mini $9.99 or Unique $24.99, paid once
- Right for
- Anyone who wants the cheapest possible permanent link page and does not care what it looks like
- What it does well
- A genuine lifetime price honoured since 2016, unlimited links even on free, and the lowest permanent cost in the category.
- What you are signing up for
- A dated interface, analytics that only count, no commerce or email capture, pages that barely index, and an order that never changes on its own.
Try the one that keeps working
Free to build, and the adaptive ordering runs on the free plan. Pay once only if you want the paid features.
Keep reading
- Every link in bio you can buy onceFour genuine pay-once options, the five-year maths against every subscription, and the lifetime-deal traps.
- What your link page will actually cost youYour numbers, not ours. Move the sliders and see the five-year total, plus the structural reason these prices keep going up.
- Linktree alternatives, with the prices nobody else updatesThirteen tools, current prices, current fees, and a straight answer about which one fits your situation.
- What is an adaptive link in bio?The category, defined with the mechanism attached and the limits stated. What separates a page that adapts from a page with a chart on it.