The best link in bio for affiliate marketing in 2026

The best link in bio for affiliate marketing depends on where your commission comes from. If you recommend products from many retailers, you want a page that shows the products and lets you use your own affiliate links. If you mostly earn from Amazon, Amazon's own storefront or a smart-link tool may suit you better. If you're in fashion or beauty and want brand deals, a curated network such as ShopMy or LTK is built for that.

We compared nine tools on what matters for affiliate income specifically, using each company's own pricing and feature pages, checked on 2 October 2026. One of them, Setup101, is ours. We've tried to be as fair to it as to the rest, including where others are a better choice.

The short answer

Prices are the vendors' own, checked 2 October 2026. Linktree showed us UK pricing, and prices vary by region.

What an affiliate creator needs from a link in bio

Most link-in-bio roundups judge tools on themes and button styles. For affiliate income, these matter more:

1. Links from any retailer. Can you paste your own affiliate link from Amazon, Impact, Awin or a brand's programme, or only use the tool's own catalogue?
2. Fees on commission. Some tools take a percentage of what you earn through them. On affiliate income, that comes straight out of a small margin.
3. Showing the products. A list of text buttons makes followers click to find out what's behind each one. Product cards with images do the selling for you.
4. Links that don't break. Products get discontinued and services shut down. Tools that monitor links, or give you one link you can update, save you editing old content.
5. Amazon support. If Amazon is most of your income, country routing and Associates-tag handling matter.
6. Who can join. Some of the best-paying networks are by application only.

The tools, in detail

Beacons

Beacons combines a link in bio, an online store, a media kit and brand-deal tools. Its free plan includes affiliate links and real-time analytics, and it has a built-in catalogue of brands you can earn commission from (it claims 12,000 brand partners). The catch is a 9% fee on the free and $10 Creator plans, which Beacons says also applies to embedded affiliate links. Creator Plus ($30/month, or $25/month billed yearly) drops that to 0% and lets you keep 100% of affiliate commissions.

Best for: creators who want one tool for their bio, store and brand deals, and will upgrade to drop the 9%.

Setup101 vs Beacons

Setup101

Setup101 is built around the gear you use. You make a setup for your desk, camera bag or studio, with a photo, note and buy link for every product, and one link for the whole setup that stays the same when you swap products. Your profile doubles as your link in bio. Buy links can be your own affiliate links from any retailer or network, and Setup101 doesn't take a share of the commission. Pro also monitors your links and alerts you when one breaks.

The limitation: buy links on products are a Pro feature ($15/month or $150/year). The free plan lets you publish setups and products, but not earn from them. There's no built-in commission marketplace, so you bring your own affiliate programmes.

Best for: tech, desk, gaming, camera and other gear creators who link products from many retailers and want old videos to keep working.

How permanent setup links work

ShopMy

ShopMy is a curated affiliate network for fashion, beauty and home. It gives you access to a large brand catalogue (it claims tens of thousands of brands), shoppable collections, gift guides and "geolinking", which reroutes links by location and stock so shoppers don't hit dead ends. Commissions are performance-based; ShopMy quotes 10–30% on sales you drive. You have to apply and be accepted, and ShopMy doesn't publish its own cut of commission.

Best for: fashion, beauty and home curators who want brand partnerships as well as commission.

Setup101 vs ShopMy

LTK

LTK (formerly LIKEtoKNOW.it) is free to host and works by application: it looks for public, consistent, original content and an engaged, growing audience. You tag products from a very large retailer catalogue, organise them into collections, and get access to brand campaigns and a shopper-facing app. The trade-off is that shopping happens inside LTK's ecosystem, and its share of commission isn't published.

Best for: established lifestyle and fashion creators.

LTK alternative: Setup101 vs LTK

Amazon Storefront

If your recommendations are mostly Amazon products, Amazon's own storefront is free through the Amazon Influencer Program. You need a YouTube, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok account, and Amazon reviews your follower count and engagement (no minimum is published). You get a page on Amazon with your own URL, shoppable photos and videos, and the chance that Amazon shows your content to its own shoppers. It only works for Amazon products.

Best for: creators whose income is mostly Amazon.

Amazon Storefront alternative for multi-retailer creators

Linktree

Linktree is the best-known link in bio, with a free plan and paid plans that, in the UK, start at £3.50/month billed yearly (prices vary by region). For affiliate creators in the US, Linktree Shops let you add products from partner brands into collections, with commission rates set by each brand. Linktree takes a share of that commission on its lower plans, but doesn't publish the percentages. Shops are US-only, and basic analytics start on the paid Starter plan.

Best for: creators who want the familiar default, especially in the US.

Setup101 vs Linktree

Geniuslink

Geniuslink isn't a link-in-bio page; it's a smart-link layer. Its main job is sending each Amazon click to the shopper's local Amazon store, and it alerts you when an Amazon link breaks or a product goes out of stock. Pricing is $6/month including 1,000 clicks, then $3.50 per 1,000, after a 14-day trial. Many creators use it inside another link in bio.

Best for: creators with lots of international Amazon traffic.

Setup101 vs Geniuslink

Youfiliate

Youfiliate is also a link layer rather than a bio page. It gives you smart links with geo-targeting and health monitoring, and can bulk-convert the affiliate links in your YouTube descriptions. A free plan covers 3 links; Starter is $7/month for 25.

Best for: YouTube creators with affiliate links scattered across years of descriptions.

stuffmybio

stuffmybio is a link in bio for selling your own products and downloads that also lets you mix in affiliate links, labelled as ads. It charges no platform fee on any plan; Pro is $15/month. It doesn't state any analytics or link monitoring.

Best for: creators whose main income is their own products, with some affiliate picks.

How to choose

• You recommend products from lots of retailers: a tool that takes your own affiliate links and shows the products, such as Setup101 or Beacons (on Creator Plus to avoid the fee).
• Most of your income is Amazon: Amazon Storefront if you're accepted, plus Geniuslink if a lot of your audience is outside the US.
• You're in fashion or beauty and want brand deals: apply to ShopMy or LTK.
• You have years of YouTube videos with product links: fix the existing links first (our free affiliate link checker finds the broken ones), then move to one link per set of gear so it doesn't happen again.
• You sell your own products too: Beacons or stuffmybio.

Several of these work together. A common combination is an Amazon Storefront or Geniuslink for Amazon links, inside a link-in-bio page that also covers everything else.

Frequently asked questions

Can I put affiliate links in my link in bio?

Yes, almost every link-in-bio tool lets you add affiliate links. Check two things: whether the tool takes a percentage of commission earned through it, and your affiliate programme's own rules on where and how links can be shared and disclosed.

Which link in bio takes no cut of affiliate commission?

Of the tools here, Setup101, Geniuslink, Youfiliate and stuffmybio don't take a share of affiliate commission, and Beacons doesn't on Creator Plus and above. Beacons' free and Creator plans charge 9%. Linktree, ShopMy and LTK don't publish their share.

What's the best link in bio for Amazon affiliates?

If you're accepted into the Amazon Influencer Program, Amazon Storefront is free and built for it. To route international shoppers to their local Amazon store, add Geniuslink. To show Amazon products alongside other retailers', use a link in bio that accepts your own Associates links.

Do I need to disclose affiliate links in my bio?

Generally, yes. In the US, the FTC expects disclosures to be clear and close to the recommendation, and a disclosure only in your bio may not be enough on its own. Check the guidance for your country and your affiliate programme's terms.

How we compared: each tool's pricing and features come from its own website, checked on 2 October 2026. Prices change, so check the vendor's site before you decide. Setup101 is our product.