Beacons and Portage
What costs money on Beacons, and what’s free on Portage.
Beacons has a free plan with scheduled links and email sign-ups, and charges for Creator, Creator Plus and Creator Max, which add your own domain, take its logo off and take the fee off what you sell. On Portage, every page feature is free.
Checked on , on Beacons’ own pages.
Side by side
What Beacons charges for, and what Portage charges for the same thing. Every page feature on Portage is free.
| What | On Beacons | On Portage |
|---|---|---|
| Taking the Beacons logo off your page | Creator Plus and Creator Max[1] | Free, with a small “Made with Portage” credit. Unmarked takes it off a business’s page: $99 a year |
| Your own domain | Included from Creator. Its help centre says free for your first year[2] | Free at portage.camp/@yourname. A domain you own: $19 a year |
| Scheduling links | Free[1] | Free |
| Analytics | Free[1] | Free: up to a year on your numbers page, and a download whenever you want |
| Email sign-ups, and exporting them | Free[1] | Free |
| Sending email to your list | 50 a month on Free, 500 on Creator, no limit on Creator Plus and Max[1] | Portage doesn’t send email. Sign-ups go to your own newsletter service, free |
| Fee on what you sell | 9% on Free and Creator, 0% on Creator Plus and Creator Max[1] | No fee, because Portage doesn’t take payments: your page links to the shop or checkout you already use |
| Colours and fonts | Free[1] | Free |
Beacons’ prices are in dollars, as its pricing page shows them. The page doesn’t say which dollars. On Portage, prices are in Canadian dollars. Any sales tax is added at checkout. A bank transfer is in your own currency (US dollars, pounds, euros, Australian dollars or New Zealand dollars), at a fixed price in each with no tax added, and the page for each extra shows the price where you live. Checked on on Beacons’ own pages. Prices change, so open the sources before you decide.
Beacons’ help centre still lists Creator Max at $90 a month or $900 a year. Its pricing page, quoted here, says $100 and $1,000.
Sources
- Beacons, pricing: beacons.ai/i/pricing
- Beacons help, pricing plans: help.beacons.ai/en/articles/4695681
Everything Portage charges for
Stats, scheduling, email sign-ups and export, players, every theme and full colour control are free for everyone. These are the only paid things, and none of them is a page feature.
Identity verified
$39 a year
A check of your government ID, for people who get impersonated. It adds no feature.
Business verified
$199 a year
A check of your business’s website or registration. It doesn’t add a feature either.
Unmarked
$99 a year
Takes the small Made with Portage credit off a business’s page, and adds nothing else.
Your own domain
$19 a year
Connects a domain you already own to one page.
Agency
$199 a year for each ten client pages
Room past the free five clients’ pages, with the agency tools. Your own page stays free.
Enterprise
$999 a year
For up to 10 pages. Each 10 more is $699 a year, and $499 past 200.
Moving from Beacons
Copy the page in your browser and paste it on portage.camp. The guide has the steps on a phone and on a computer, and says what comes over.
What people ask
How much does Beacons cost?
Beacons has a free plan. Creator is $10 a month or $100 a year, Creator Plus $30 a month or $300 a year, and Creator Max $100 a month or $1,000 a year, as its pricing page shows them. That’s from Beacons’ own pages on 21 October 2026, and prices change, so check there before you decide.
Is Portage really free?
Yes. Every page feature is free for everyone. You only pay if you want an identity or business check, Unmarked to take the Portage credit off a business page, your page on a domain you already own, custom work from the studio, or, if you look after more than 5 clients’ pages, the Agency plan. One organisation running 10 or more pages of its own can choose Enterprise. There’s no trial, and you never need a card to make or keep your page.
Can I bring my Beacons page to Portage?
Yes. The guide at portage.camp/from/beacons has the steps on a phone and on a computer. You see your page rebuilt on Portage before you sign up, and nothing goes public until you publish.
Do the people who follow me need to do anything?
No. Once your Portage page is published, you swap the link in your bio for your portage.camp address, and everyone who taps it lands on your new page. Your old page can stay up for as long as you like.
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Make your page now, free
Pick a handle and see your page built. Nothing goes public until you publish.