Published September 8, 2026 · 4 min read
Linktree gives you a menu of links. ProfilePilot gives you a homepage you own — profile, blog, and resume at one URL you control. Free to start.
If you're a professional, you've probably asked this yourself: job seeker, freelancer, consultant, founder. Should your link-in-bio be a Linktree, or something more?
The short answer: Linktree is a menu. ProfilePilot is a homepage. Which one you want depends on whether your URL should point at a list of places, or at you.
Linktree invented the link-in-bio in 2016 and is still the biggest name in it. The company reports 70M+ users. You get one short linktr.ee/yourname URL, stack it with links to your social profiles, your store, your newsletter, your booking page, and it works anywhere you can only fit one link.
For a creator who just needs a tidy hub of links, that is genuinely useful. The free plan gives you unlimited links, basic themes, and lifetime click totals. No credit card to start.
ProfilePilot is not a link-in-bio. It's a real, public page at profilepilot.net/yourname, built from modules you toggle on and off: experience, education, skills, portfolio, and more. It comes with a blog, a downloadable PDF resume, and an ATS-friendly resume web page.
The difference isn't styling. A Linktree page points people somewhere else. A ProfilePilot page is the somewhere. Recruiters, clients, and hiring managers land on your actual professional identity, not a list of places to go next.
Linktree's paid plans climbed sharply in November 2025: Starter at $8/month, Pro at $15/month, Premium at $35/month. And the part most pricing guides skip: if you sell anything through your Linktree, it takes a cut on top, 12% on Free, 9% on Starter and Pro, and 0% only on Premium.
ProfilePilot is free forever: 12 modules, 3 basic themes, 3 layouts, a blog, a basic resume template, share links, and data export, no credit card required. Paid plans start at Creator, $3/month or $29/year. Profile Pro is $4/month or $39/year and unlocks premium themes and layouts, additional resume templates, custom domains (up to 3), scheduled publishing, a contact form, and profile analytics.
So the cost question worth asking: how much does it cost to own your presence? On Linktree, the URL stays linktr.ee/yourname, because Linktree doesn't offer a native custom domain on any plan. On ProfilePilot, paid plans give you up to 3 domains of your own, so your profile, blog, and resume live at a URL you control.
This isn't a knock on any one company. It's a structural fact about link-in-bio pages: when the platform changes, your URL changes with it.
Linktree acquired Bento in 2023 and shut it down on February 13, 2026. Bento pages now redirect, and the data was deleted. It did the same with Koji, acquired in January 2024 and shut down within weeks. When a platform hosts your URL, its business decisions become your career decisions.
A ProfilePilot page is built on your own data, exportable at any time, and on a paid plan it can sit at your own domain. Your link is not one product decision away from disappearing.
If you're primarily a creator with a large audience across social platforms and you just need a clean hub of links, Linktree is a reasonable default. For a simple link list the free plan covers most people.
If you're a professional whose URL represents you, a job seeker, freelancer, or consultant, and you want that URL to show who you are rather than where to find you, ProfilePilot fits better. Profile, blog, and resume at one link you own beats a menu that points elsewhere.
| Linktree | ProfilePilot | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A menu of links | A homepage that is you |
| Free plan | Yes (seller fee up to 12% on sales) | Yes, no credit card |
| Paid plan | Starter $8/mo · Pro $15/mo · Premium $35/mo | Free; Profile Pro $4/mo or $39/yr |
| Custom domain | No, on any plan | Up to 3 on paid plans |
| Blog at your URL | No | Yes |
| Resume (downloadable + web) | No | Yes |
| Data export | Not on all plans | Yes, any time |
| Platform shutdown risk | Bento and Koji were shut down | Built on your own data, portable |
Linktree answers "where can I find you?" with a list. ProfilePilot answers it with a page that is you: your work, your writing, and your resume, at a URL you own, free to start.
If you're building a career rather than an audience, that difference matters more than the price of either tool.
