Alternative

The Beacons alternative built in the UK

People look for a Beacons alternative for ordinary reasons: a job it does not cover, a price that moved, or a product that grew in a direction they did not. Some of it is what public reviewers report, which is quoted with its source on the comparison page. This page is the honest version for UK creators: what changes on Herd, what you give up, and how the move actually goes.

A creator toolkit built around a link-in-bio page, with a storefront, an auto-updating media kit, email and invoicing attached to it. For a lot of people that is enough, and if it is enough for you there is no reason to move.

Herd is a UK product with three sides in one account. Creators run content, deals, contracts and invoices. Brands run campaigns, review content and pay creator invoices by card. Agencies run a roster with commission splits and white-label client portals. Herd costs from £99/month for creators, billed in pounds. That breadth is the whole trade: Herd covers more of the week, and in a few places it covers it less thoroughly than Beacons does.

The rest of this page is the practical version: what lands in the same account when you switch, what you give up by leaving Beacons, what it costs in pounds, and the order to do the move in. There is no importer, so it is manual work, and that belongs above the pricing table rather than under it.

What changes when you switch

Each line below is something we could not find in Beacons' published feature list when we checked on 21 September 2026, or a difference in how the two are priced. On Herd they are part of the same account, which is the practical difference a switch makes.

  • Not in Beacons

    No content calendar and no publishing to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or X.

  • Not in Beacons

    No Gmail or Outlook inbox, so brand conversations stay in a separate tab.

  • Not in Beacons

    No deals pipeline, no proposals and no contracts with e-signature.

  • Not in Beacons

    No video meetings and no calendar sync.

  • Not in Beacons

    Nothing for the brand or the agency you work with. Beacons is one-sided.

  • Different on Herd

    USD only, with no UK expenses, cashflow or tax view.

In practice that means one composer posting to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and X, an invoice that carries a card pay link and settles into your own bank through Stripe, and a contract drawn from the deal and signed in the browser. Herd does not publish to LinkedIn or Pinterest and has no link-in-bio page, so a switch is rarely a clean swap.

What you would give up

A switch costs you something. These are Beacons' advantages, not ours, and any one of them can be a good reason to stay where you are.

  • A proper link-in-bio product. Herd does not have one at all.
  • A mature storefront for digital products, courses and memberships, with a longer track record than ours.
  • A free tier that is genuinely usable, where Herd asks £99 a month before you can send a real invoice.
  • A much larger and longer-established user base. Herd opened in September 2026.
  • Priced in dollars at $10 a month, which is a different order of cost to Herd.

Moving over

There is no importer. Herd cannot read a Beacons export, and we would rather say that plainly than bury it. Moving is manual, for most people an afternoon rather than a fortnight, and this is the order that leaves the fewest gaps.

  1. Rebuild the media kit and rate card

    Your media kit has to be rebuilt in Herd. There is no import, but it is one sitting.

  2. Claim your username

    Claim your Herd username first so herduk.co.uk/yourname is the link you hand out.

  3. Keep what still works

    Keep the Beacons page live for your audience. Herd is not a replacement for a link hub.

  4. Let existing products finish

    Existing Beacons product sales and subscribers do not transfer. Run new products through Herd and let the old ones finish.

  5. Connect Stripe

    Connect Stripe in Herd before you invoice, so the first payment settles into your own bank.

What each one costs

Free with a 9% seller fee, then $10, $30 or $90 a month in USD, with the seller fee dropping to 0% from Creator Plus upwards. Those figures are from Beacons' own pricing page, last checked on 21 September 2026. Herd is priced in pounds and costs from £99/month for creators, with 17% off when you pay for the year and a 14-day cooling-off period on every paid plan.

Herd, in pounds

For creators

  • FreeFree, no card
  • Starter£99/month, £986/year
  • Pro£299/month, £2,978/year

Annual billing saves 17% on creator and Brand plans and 20% on the Agency plan. 14-day cooling-off on every paid plan. Brands and agencies can book a live demo before subscribing.

Beacons, as published

  • Free$0

    per month · 9% seller fee

  • Creator$10/mo or $100/yr

    USD · 9% seller fee

  • Creator Plus$30/mo or $300/yr

    USD · 0% seller fee

  • Creator Max$90/mo or $900/yr

    USD

Pricing last checked 21 September 2026 from home.beacons.ai.

Those figures are from Beacons' own pricing page, last checked on 21 September 2026.

Prices in USD; features change, check Beacons' site before deciding.

Invoices and money

The invoice, the pay link and the payout in one place

An invoice in Herd is attached to the deal it came from and carries a card pay link, so the brand can settle it without a bank transfer form. What it is not is a general accounting package: Herd does not replace your accountant, and it does not track billable hours.

  • Send real invoices with a card pay link from Starter upwards.
  • On Pro, Stripe Connect settles the money into your own bank rather than a platform wallet.
  • Expenses, cashflow and a tax view sit beside the invoices in Financials.

Moving from Beacons

Creator pricing

Start free and stay there as long as you like. Paid plans add real invoices, the inbox, the media kit and everything else.

Free

Have a proper look around

£0/month

No card needed.

  • Content calendar and drafts
  • One draft deal to set up
  • Invoice preview
  • Dashboard with sample data
  • Video editor · 1 watermarked export a month
  • Community
  • Send invoices or activate deals
  • Inbox, meetings, media kit
  • 7 days of history
  • No social integrations
Create a free account

Starter

Run the business by hand

£99/month

Billed monthly. Cancel from your settings at any time.

  • Active deals · Up to 5 at a time
  • Send invoices your clients pay by card through Stripe
  • Stripe payouts to your own bank
  • Gmail or Outlook inbox and opportunities queue
  • Live media kit, rate card and video meetings
  • Video exports · 5 a month, no watermark
  • Social integrations · 2 connected accounts
  • Contracts, expenses, products and memberships
  • 90 days of history
  • No automated reminders
Get started

Pro

The whole business, no limits

Recommended

£299/month

Billed monthly. Cancel from your settings at any time.

  • Unlimited active deals and video exports
  • Contracts with e-signature
  • Proposals to brands and agencies
  • Payments page with your Stripe balance and payout history
  • Digital products and memberships
  • Expenses, cashflow and tax-ready exports
  • Asset library and email
  • Unlimited social integrations
Get started
  • Prices in GBP. VAT added where applicable.
  • Annual billing saves 17% on creator and Brand plans and 20% on the Agency plan.
  • 14-day cooling-off period on every paid plan.
  • Card payment through Stripe. Cancel from your settings at any time.
  • Platform fee on digital product sales: 5%.

Keep reading

The full comparison, the other tools UK creators weigh up, and how Herd works once you are in it.

Herd has a page for each side of the market: creators, brands and agencies. The full list of what the product does is on the features page, and every plan and fee is on the pricing page.

Run the business side from one screen

Plan the week, send the invoice, sign the contract and watch the money land in your own bank account.

Create a free accountSee pricing

The free plan does not expire and needs no card.