Beacons is a creator business toolkit: a link in bio, store, courses, email, media kit, and brand-deal tools on one account with a free plan. pawr is a bento-grid page focused on showing your work, links, and media well.
last checked October 28, 2026
decision preview
pawr fit
bento-grid pages, rich cards, work and media, with sales and email linked out.
Beacons fit
a free plan, store, courses, email, media kit, brand deals, and custom domains.
10 sourced comparison rows
4 visible FAQ answers
short verdict
Choose Beacons if you want selling, email, and brand-deal tools in one place with a free plan to start. Choose pawr if you want the page itself to look designed, and you already sell and send email with other tools.
trade-offs up front
The page should make the trade-offs clear before the reader gets to pricing.
quick read
This table uses official Beacons pricing and help pages and current pawr constants. It is a fit guide, not a ranking.
| Dimension | pawr | Beacons | Read this row as |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core shapechecked October 28, 2026 | Drag-and-drop bento-grid public page. | A link-in-bio page built from blocks for links, video, music, images, embeds, and signups, with templates and an AI designer. | pawr is built around the grid; Beacons is built around blocks and business tools. Sources: pawr paid feature constants, Beacons link in bio |
| Visual identitychecked October 28, 2026 | Card sizes and positions, uploads, rich link previews, and focused subpages. | Themes, header layouts, a large font library, video or image backgrounds, and block shape, shadow, and outline settings. | Both give real design control; pawr through layout, Beacons through styling. Sources: pawr paid feature constants, Beacons page design |
| Free planchecked October 28, 2026 | Paid after a 7-day trial; current pricing is $2/mo, billed $12 every 6 months or $24 a year. | A free-forever plan with a link in bio, a store, 50 email sends a month, and a media kit. | Beacons wins when a free plan is the deciding requirement. Sources: pawr pricing constants, Beacons pricing |
| Selling from the pagechecked October 28, 2026 | Feature products and offers as cards that link to where you sell them. pawr does not run a checkout. | Digital and physical products, courses, memberships, and appointments, with checkout, payment plans, coupons, and order bumps. | Beacons is the stronger choice when the page itself should take payments. Sources: pawr paid feature constants, Beacons store |
| Seller feeschecked October 28, 2026 | No checkout, so no seller fee; sales happen in the tools you link to, under their fees. | A 9% fee on Free and Creator, none on Creator Plus and Creator Max; Stripe and PayPal fees apply on top. | Fees start to matter once you sell regularly from the page. Sources: Beacons transaction fees |
| Email and brand dealschecked October 28, 2026 | No built-in email list or media kit; link your newsletter and press page from a card. | Email broadcasts and automations with send limits by plan, a media kit that updates from connected socials, and brand outreach and invoicing tools. | Beacons wins when audience and brand-deal tools should live with the page. Sources: Beacons email marketing, Beacons media kit and brand deals, Beacons pricing |
| Custom domainchecked October 28, 2026 | Pages live at pawr.link/yourname. | Paid plans can use a custom domain; Creator includes one free for the first year. | Beacons wins if your own domain matters. Sources: Beacons custom domains, Beacons pricing |
| Stats and QRchecked October 28, 2026 | Link click counts, page visit stats, and QR code sharing in the paid plan. | Views, clicks, click rate, and visitors over time, Google Analytics and Meta Pixel support, and a downloadable QR code. | Beacons has the deeper documented analytics. Sources: pawr paid feature constants, Beacons analytics, Beacons QR codes |
| Machine-readable contextchecked October 28, 2026 | Public pages can sit beside /skill.md, /llms.txt, markdown, and JSON surfaces. | No equivalent machine-readable profile surface was found in the reviewed official sources. | This matters for agents, crawlers, and technical buyers, not every creator. Sources: pawr paid feature constants |
| Pricingchecked October 28, 2026 | $2/mo, billed $12 every 6 months or $24 a year | Free; Creator $10/month or $100/year; Creator Plus $30/month or $300/year; Creator Max $100/month or $1,000/year. | Beacons has a free plan and prices a business toolkit; pawr prices one page. Compare by the job. Sources: pawr pricing constants, Beacons pricing |
decision lenses
Choose based on the job, not the logo. These are the practical buyer questions that change the answer.
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pawr: pawr does one job, the page, and is paid after the trial.
Beacons: Beacons bundles a link in bio, store, email, and media kit, free to start.
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pawr: pawr is stronger when card size, position, and rich previews carry the first impression.
Beacons: Beacons is strong on themes, fonts, and backgrounds within its block layout.
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pawr: pawr can feature past work and a contact card, and link to your media kit.
Beacons: Beacons has a media kit that updates itself, pitch emails, and invoicing built in.
where pawr is stronger
where Beacons is stronger
trade-offs
These are the reasons a Beacons buyer may be better served staying there.
pricing
This is where a simple monthly-price comparison gets misleading.
migration
Treat it as a rebuild, not a promised one-click import.
FAQ
These are visible because the page should answer the decision without hiding the hard parts.
For the page, yes: pawr gives your bio link a visual bento-grid page. For running a creator business, no: pawr has no store, email list, or media kit, so it fits people who use other tools for those.
Not for everyone. Beacons has a free plan. pawr is currently $2/mo, billed $12 every 6 months or $24 a year. Compare by the job the page has to do, not only the price.
Beacons help says it charges 9% on sales on the Free and Creator plans and nothing on Creator Plus and Creator Max. Stripe and PayPal charge their own fees on top.
You can feature products and offers as cards that link to where you sell them, like a shop, Gumroad, Patreon, or a booking page. pawr does not run the checkout.
related
Use these pages for proof and context before you choose.
related
A creator page focused on featured work, updates, socials, shop links, and contact.
related
A page for your best content, brand work, and the ways to reach you.
related
See real public pawr pages before deciding whether the grid style fits.
sources
Last checked: October 28, 2026. Recheck Beacons pricing and feature pages within 14 days of any public push.
Beacons pricing
Official Beacons pricing lists Free ($0), Creator ($10/month or $100/year), Creator Plus ($30/month or $300/year), and Creator Max ($100/month or $1,000/year), and what each plan includes.
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read on beacons.aiBeacons transaction fees
Official Beacons help says the 9% fee applies on Free and Creator, there is no transaction fee on Creator Plus and Creator Max, and Stripe and PayPal fees apply separately.
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read on help.beacons.aiBeacons link in bio
Official Beacons page describes link-in-bio blocks for links, video, music, images, embeds, and signups, with templates and an AI designer.
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read on beacons.aiBeacons page design
Official Beacons help describes themes, header layouts, a large font library, video or image backgrounds, and block shape, shadow, and outline settings.
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read on help.beacons.aiBeacons store
Official Beacons help describes selling digital and physical products, courses, memberships, and appointments, with payment plans, coupons, and order bumps.
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read on help.beacons.aiBeacons email marketing
Official Beacons help describes email broadcasts, automations, templates, and scheduling; pricing lists monthly send limits by plan.
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read on help.beacons.aiBeacons media kit and brand deals
Official Beacons help describes a media kit that updates from connected socials, plus brand outreach and invoicing tools.
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read on help.beacons.aiBeacons custom domains
Official Beacons help says custom domains need a paid plan, and Creator includes one free for the first year.
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read on help.beacons.aiBeacons analytics
Official Beacons help describes views, clicks, click rate, unique visitors, and traffic over time, plus Google Analytics and Meta Pixel.
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read on help.beacons.aiBeacons QR codes
Official Beacons help describes downloading a QR code for a page.
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read on help.beacons.aipawr pricing constants
Internal source of truth for half-year and yearly pawr plan amounts and the trial length.
checked October 24, 2026
lib/pricing/x402-plans.ts
pawr paid feature constants
Internal source of truth for paid pawr feature bullets used by marketing surfaces.
checked October 28, 2026
lib/pricing/plan-features.ts