Linktree is still free. The free plan gives you a linktr.ee/yourname page with unlimited links and basic analytics, and it shows the Linktree logo. The paid tiers are where the money goes: removing that logo, connecting a domain you own, deeper analytics, scheduled links and priority support are all subscription features, sold monthly with a cheaper annual option. For the current figure, read linktr.ee/pricing, and distrust any article that quotes a price at you, including the ones that sound confident, because plans reprice and the article does not.
The short answer
Yes, Linktree is free. Here is the entire free tier.
People search for this because they saw an upgrade prompt and assumed the door had closed behind them. It has not. Linktree publishes a free tier, you can sign up for it without a card, and you can keep using it indefinitely. If someone told you it went paid, they were describing the upsell they hit, not the plan they were on.
What the free tier gives you is a hosted page at linktr.ee/yourname, an unlimited number of buttons on it, a set of layouts you can pick from, and a basic view of how many people clicked. That is a genuinely useful product and it costs nothing, which is exactly why it won the category. Anyone telling you a free link page is impossible to find has an alternative to sell.
The Linktree logo sits on that free page. That is the price you pay in kind rather than cash, and it is the same arrangement almost every free tier in this market runs, Folio included. Knowing that up front is the difference between choosing a tool and being surprised by one.
How much does Linktree cost
What the paid plans are actually selling you.
Look at the list and a pattern shows up immediately. You are not paying for more links. You are paying for the things that make the page yours.
The number
Read it at the source, not here.
Linktree runs a free tier and a ladder of paid tiers above it, billed as a monthly subscription with a discount for paying annually. The exact figure belongs on linktr.ee/pricing, because it changes and this page does not follow it around.
Branding
Taking their logo off your page.
The free page carries the Linktree mark. Removing it is a paid feature. Every free link-in-bio tier is a small advertisement for the tool that hosts it, and the upgrade is what buys the ad space back.
Domain
Pointing your own domain at it.
A custom domain sits on the paid ladder. Until you buy it, the address people know you by is a subdomain of somebody else's site, which means the SEO, the equity and the ability to move it all belong to somebody else too.
Analytics
Numbers detailed enough to act on.
Basic click counts are free. The deeper breakdowns, the ones that tell you where the traffic came from and what it did, live on the paid tiers. This is the standard shape of the trade across the whole category.
Control
Scheduling, priority support, and the rest.
Scheduled links, priority support and the extra customization options round out the upper tiers. None of them are unreasonable. They are just features you rent, on a page you rent, at an address you rent.
The real cost
What you pay even when you pay nothing.
A free link page still costs you something: every visitor you earn builds authority for a domain that is not yours, and the data about them lives in an account you do not own. That bill arrives quietly, and no upgrade tier fixes it.
The panic query
Is Linktree not free anymore? Why so many people think that.
The phrase people type is telling. Nobody types "is Linktree not free anymore" unless they hit a wall. Usually the wall is one of three: they tried to connect a domain, they tried to get the logo off, or they opened analytics and found a preview instead of a report. All three are paid. None of them mean the free plan ended.
What actually happened is the thing that happens to every free tier that works. You outgrew it. The free plan is designed to be sufficient for the use it was built for, which is routing followers to a handful of destinations, and it stops being sufficient at the exact moment the link starts doing a job that matters to your career or your business.
That is the fork worth stopping at. If the link exists so a friend can find your Spotify, stay on the free plan and never think about this again. If a recruiter, a client, an editor or a curator is going to tap it and decide something about you, then the question is no longer how much Linktree costs. It is whether a list of buttons is the right thing to be paying for.
The same link, three ways
Free, paid, and what a free Folio site does with the same URL.
Folio Free is free the same way Linktree Free is free: with a badge on the page and no custom domain. What differs is what opens when someone taps.
| Capability | Folio | Linktree Free | Linktree paid tiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan, no card. Pro is $9 or Rs 599 a month | No charge, no card | Monthly subscription, cheaper annually. See linktr.ee/pricing |
| Provider branding on the page | Made with Folio is shown on Free. It comes off on Pro | Linktree logo is shown | Removed |
| Your own domain | Zero domains on Free. Up to 3 on Pro | Not available | Available on the paid ladder |
| What the bio link opens | A whole site: projects, case studies, blog, contact | A page of buttons | A page of buttons, styled better |
| Downloadable resume | PDF and DOCX export, ungated on Free, every layout | Not offered | Not offered |
| Contact form with a lead inbox | Built in on Free | Not offered | Not offered |
| Analytics | First-party, on every plan including Free | Basic click counts | The detailed breakdowns |
Competitor cells describe published tier behavior as reviewed on 11 July 2026 and deliberately carry no price, because a wrong price is worse than no price. Confirm the current terms on linktr.ee before you decide anything. One concession: a few link-in-bio tools do ship free tiers with no badge at all, and Folio is not one of them. If a bare, unbranded list of links is the entire requirement, go use one of those.
How to do this for free
Making a link in bio for free, and keeping it free.
This works on Linktree and it works on Folio. The steps are the same. Only the page at the end is different.
Sign up without a card.
Both free tiers let you create an account and publish without payment details. If a tool asks for a card before it shows you anything, that is not a free tier, that is a trial, and the difference matters.
Claim the handle you actually want.
Your free URL is a subdomain of the platform, so the handle is the only part of the address you control. Take the one that matches your name across your other profiles, and take it early.
Put two or three links at the top, not twelve.
The most common mistake on a free link page is treating it as a sitemap. Rank the destinations by what you actually want a stranger to open, and let the rest sit below the fold or not exist at all.
Decide what happens after the tap.
On a link list, the answer is that they leave. On Folio Free, the same URL opens your work, your writing and a resume they can download, so the tap starts a conversation instead of ending one.
Only pay when the page owes you something.
Upgrade the day the badge or the address is costing you a real opportunity, and not a day earlier. On Folio that day is Pro at $9 a month, which maps your domain, removes the badge and opens all 60 designs.
Our numbers, not borrowed ones
What Folio Free costs, including the parts you will not like.
Every figure below is from our own price list and our own code. There is not a single sourced-from-somewhere statistic on this page.
The point
Free is the wrong question. Ownership is the right one.
Here is the trap in the search you just ran. You went looking for a price, and a price is a number you can compare, so it feels like the decision. It is not. Every tool in this category has a free tier that shows a badge and a paid tier that removes it, and choosing between them on cost alone means choosing between two versions of the same page.
The decision that actually changes anything is what sits behind the link. A list of buttons routes traffic and is finished. A real site holds the work that makes someone want to hire you, the resume they can download without asking, the form that files their message somewhere you will see it. That is a different product, and it is why the price comparison was never the point.
So use Linktree if a row of buttons is all the link owes you. It is free, it is safe, and it does the job. If the link has to carry more weight than that, start free on Folio instead, read the limits before you sign up rather than after, and give the most-clicked URL in your life somewhere worth arriving.
Frequently asked questions
Is Linktree free to use?
Yes. Linktree runs a free tier that you can sign up for without a card and keep indefinitely. It gives you a page at linktr.ee/yourname, an unlimited number of buttons, a choice of layouts and a basic click count, and it displays the Linktree logo on the page. Removing that logo, mapping your own domain and reading the deeper analytics are the parts you have to buy.
How much does Linktree cost?
Nothing on the free tier, and a monthly subscription on the paid tiers above it, discounted if you pay for a year at once. We are not going to print the figure, because plans reprice and a stale number in an article is how people end up budgeting wrong. Open linktr.ee/pricing and read it from the company that charges it. What you should compare is not the amount but what the amount unlocks, which is branding removal, a custom domain and better analytics.
Is Linktree not free anymore?
It is still free. That search almost always comes from someone who hit a paid feature and assumed the whole plan had gone behind a wall. The free plan continues to exist and continues to publish pages. What you ran into was the ceiling, not the end of the tier, and the ceiling is where the domain, the branding removal and the real analytics sit.
How do I create a Linktree for free?
Sign up with an email, claim a handle, add your buttons and publish. No payment details are required at any point on the free plan. The one decision worth slowing down for is the handle, because the rest of the address belongs to the platform, so the handle is the only piece of the URL that will follow you if you ever move.
Is Linktree safe to use?
It is a legitimate service used by millions of people, and there is nothing risky about clicking one or publishing one. The real exposure is not security, it is dependency. Your audience learns an address you cannot take with you, the traffic you earn builds equity in a domain that belongs to the platform, and if the terms change you find out when everyone else does.
Is there a Linktree alternative without a subscription?
There are several, and Folio is one of them: the Free plan never expires, needs no card, and includes the resume PDF and DOCX export with no paywall at the download button. Be clear on what free means on any of them, though. On Folio it means zero custom domains, a Made with Folio badge, ten AI drafting generations a month and the core designs rather than all sixty. Free that hides its limits is a bill you have not read yet.