Linktree costs $5–9/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $252 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$5–9/mo, forever is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Linkleaf: the pay-once alternative
Linkleaf does the same core job for $19, once. Self-hosted link-in-bio with themes, link scheduling, email capture & analytics — no monthly fee.
| Linkleaf | Linktree | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19 once | $5–9/mo, forever |
| Your own domain | Yes, natively | Paid plan only |
| Their branding on your page | None | On free plan |
| Email capture + CSV export | Built in | Paid plan |
| Link scheduling | Built in | Paid plan |
| Analytics | Yours, in your SQLite | Theirs, on their servers |
| Custom CSS | Yes | No |
| Cost over 3 years | $19 | $180–324 |
Three months of Linktree Pro costs more than Linkleaf does once — and you get your own domain from day one.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need Linktree's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Linkleaf is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Linkleaf — $19, once
Self-hosted link-in-bio with themes, link scheduling, email capture & analytics — no monthly fee.