Best Stan Store Alternatives in 2026
Stan Store alternatives compared on real cost at $500 and $2,000 a month: shopspace, Beacons, Payhip, Sellfy, Linktree, Gumroad. Checked September 2026.
The best Stan Store alternatives in 2026 are shopspace, Beacons, Payhip, Sellfy, Linktree and Gumroad. Which one fits depends on why you are leaving. Stan's $29 a month at 0% per sale is fair, so the usual reasons are email (Creator Pro only, $99 a month), a custom domain (not offered), or wanting to start without a monthly bill.
If email is your reason, shopspace includes email campaigns and sequences on its Creator plan, with 0% per sale, for $19 a month billed yearly or $29 month to month.
Every price below is from each company's own pricing page, as of September 2026.
Stan Store: the baseline
Stan Store runs two plans. Creator is $29 a month, or $300 billed yearly ($25 a month). Creator Pro is $99 a month, or $948 billed yearly ($79 a month). Stan takes 0% of your sales on both, so apart from card processing every sale is yours (Stan's pricing breakdown). There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial.
The catch is what sits on which plan. Creator covers digital products, courses and webinars, coaching bookings, memberships, communities and lead magnets. Discount codes, payment plans, Afterpay and Klarna, upsells and order bumps, funnels, affiliate management, advanced pixels, and email broadcasts and flows are all Creator Pro. No plan supports a custom domain: your store lives at stan.store/yourname, and your own domain can only redirect to it.
So the moment you want to email your buyers, Stan goes from $29 to $99 a month.
Beacons: free until you sell
Beacons has four plans: Free, Creator at $10 a month, Creator Plus at $30 and Creator Max at $90 (or $8.33, $25 and $75 billed yearly). Free and Creator take a 9% seller fee on every sale. Creator Plus and Max take 0% (Beacons' pricing plans).
At $300 a month in sales, 9% is $27, about the price of a flat plan. At $2,000 a month it is $180, six times the $30 plan.
Beacons has a real answer to Stan's email problem: Creator Plus includes unlimited marketing emails, and your own domain is available from the $10 plan, free for the first year (Beacons does not say what it costs after that). The full comparison is in Beacons vs Stan Store.
Payhip: no monthly bill, and VAT handled
Payhip's Free plan is $0 a month with a 5% fee per sale. Plus is $29 a month with 2%, and Pro is $99 with 0% (Payhip's pricing page). Every plan gets every feature, including your own domain and email marketing, and signup needs no card.
Payhip's standout is tax: it collects and pays EU and UK VAT for you. The cost is the percentage: at $2,000 a month, Free takes $100 and Plus still takes $69. See Stan Store vs Payhip for the break-even points.
Sellfy: 0% with a yearly sales cap
Sellfy's Starter plan is $29 a month or $22 billed yearly, Business is $79 or $59, and Premium is $159 or $119 (Sellfy's pricing page). All plans take 0%, but each has a yearly sales cap: $10,000 on Starter, $50,000 on Business and $200,000 on Premium. Above the cap, if you do not upgrade, Sellfy says it "may start to charge a 2% overage fee" on the excess.
The cap matters sooner than it sounds: $2,000 a month is $24,000 a year, past Starter's limit. Sellfy does include your own domain on every plan, sells print-on-demand products, and has a 14-day trial.
Linktree: link page first, store second
Linktree has four plans: Free, Starter at $8 a month, Pro at $15 and Premium at $35 (or $6, $12 and $30 billed yearly). The seller fee on digital products is 12% on Free, 9% on Starter and Pro, and 0% only on Premium (Linktree's pricing page).
So selling without a cut on Linktree costs $35 a month, or $30 billed yearly.
Gumroad: no subscription, a real cut
Gumroad charges nothing monthly and takes 10% plus $0.50 on every sale through your own links. Sales through its Discover marketplace cost 30%, card processing included (Gumroad's pricing page). Gumroad is also the merchant of record, so it handles sales tax and VAT for you.
Fair for a few sales a month; for steady sales it is the priciest option here.
What each alternative costs at $500 and $2,000 a month
Card processing (Stripe or PayPal) applies on every platform, so it is left out to keep the comparison fair. Costs use month to month prices, with the yearly price in brackets; Gumroad assumes a $25 product.
| Platform and plan | Price a month | Fee per sale | At $500 a month | At $2,000 a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stan Store Creator | $29 ($25) | 0% | $29, keep $471 | $29, keep $1,971 |
| Stan Store Creator Pro | $99 ($79) | 0% | $99, keep $401 | $99, keep $1,901 |
| Beacons Free | $0 | 9% | $45, keep $455 | $180, keep $1,820 |
| Beacons Creator Plus | $30 ($25) | 0% | $30, keep $470 | $30, keep $1,970 |
| Payhip Free | $0 | 5% | $25, keep $475 | $100, keep $1,900 |
| Payhip Plus | $29 | 2% | $39, keep $461 | $69, keep $1,931 |
| Sellfy Starter | $29 ($22) | 0% | $29, keep $471 | Over the $10,000 yearly cap |
| Sellfy Business | $79 ($59) | 0% | $79, keep $421 | $79, keep $1,921 |
| Linktree Starter | $8 ($6) | 9% | $53, keep $447 | $188, keep $1,812 |
| Linktree Premium | $35 ($30) | 0% | $35, keep $465 | $35, keep $1,965 |
| Gumroad | $0 | 10% + $0.50 | $60, keep $440 | $240, keep $1,760 |
| shopspace Creator | $29 ($19) | 0% | $29, keep $471 | $29, keep $1,971 |
| shopspace Pro | $49 ($39) | 0% | $49, keep $451 | $49, keep $1,951 |
At $500 a month the percentage plans hold up, and Payhip Free is the cheapest line on month to month prices. By $2,000 a month the picture flips: the percentage plans cost $69 to $240, while the flat 0% plans from Stan, Beacons, Linktree and shopspace cost $29 to $35 (Sellfy's cap pushes it to $79, and Payhip's 0% plan is $99).
At $2,000 a month, the percentage plans above take $69 to $240 of your sales every month. Start a 7-day free trial of shopspace and keep it: 0% per sale, $19 a month billed yearly.
Where shopspace fits
The shopspace Creator plan is $19 a month billed yearly ($228 a year) or $29 month to month. Pro is $39 billed yearly ($468 a year) or $49 month to month. Both take 0% of every sale, and the money goes straight to your own Stripe account.
Against Stan, this is not a fee story. Both take 0%, and month to month both cost $29; billed yearly, shopspace is $19 against Stan's $25. The difference is what is on the $29 plan:
- Email campaigns and sequences, which Stan keeps for Creator Pro.
- Instagram automations: an automatic DM when someone comments, keyword triggers and DM replies.
- Community, memberships and bookings, plus automations that run on store events.
- Eleven product types: digital downloads, physical products, courses with progress tracking, bookings, memberships, webinars and events, bundles, affiliate products, lead magnets, tip jars and external links.
Pro adds your own domain, which Stan does not offer on any plan, plus 10,000 AI actions a month and the Meta pixel with Conversions API.
It is not the same toolset as Stan Creator Pro: if you rely on affiliate management for people promoting your products, Stan has it and shopspace does not. shopspace also has no marketplace and does not handle VAT, and after the 7-day trial there is no plan that costs nothing.
Which one to pick
- You sell occasionally and want nothing monthly: Payhip Free (5%) is cheaper than Gumroad (10% plus $0.50). Choose Gumroad if you want its Discover marketplace.
- Your buyers are mostly in Europe: Payhip, for the VAT handling.
- You want a link page first and selling second: Linktree, and budget $35 a month ($30 billed yearly) if you want 0% fees.
- You sell print-on-demand: Sellfy, minding the sales cap.
- You are on Stan Creator and only use the storefront: $29 is fair. Stay.
- You are on Stan and looking at Creator Pro because you want to email your buyers: compare now. shopspace Creator includes email campaigns and sequences for $29 month to month or $19 billed yearly.
Start a 7-day free trial of shopspace and set up your store before you pay anything: a card is required at signup, nothing is charged for 7 days, and if you cancel inside the trial you pay nothing.