Beacons is more than a link page. A link-in-bio, digital product store, email marketing, media kit, brand-deal invoicing, and AI tools give a creator a mini back office without leaving the app. For someone monetizing social attention with sponsors and downloads, it is a clever, generous bundle.
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own. Cardel is not a creator-economy toolkit: no media kit, no brand-deal invoicing, no download delivery.
Beacons is a profile with tools. Cardel is a site on your domain: blog, Showcase, Shop, Videos, Schedule, with SEO and accessibility standard.
Beacons emails from its platform. Cardel's offers sending from it's platform or your own domain. While the Messaging Center receives and sends emails alongside reader chat and the contact form.
Beacons sells downloads and links. Cardel sells items and bookings through Stripe with orders behind them.
Choose Beacons when you are monetizing a social audience with sponsors, downloads, and a bio link.
Choose Cardel when you want a home on your own domain with site, audience, shop or bookings, and inbox in one place.
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is your forge. What you build is yours.
Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Beacons when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list below shows where the two overlap and where they part.
Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Beacons for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.
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A check means that capability is available. Beacons is marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.
Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.
Cardel
Build at no cost, then choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live.
Beacons
See what Beacons charges on their pricing page.
Forge your community
Looking for a Beacons alternative? Bring your work to a site of your own.
See how Cardel compares with other products.
You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live. Beacons sets its own prices, so check their pricing page below for current plans.
Start with Get Started, set up your site, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.
* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Cardel or Beacons, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cardel or Beacons may add or remove features that are not shown here.
