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LinkProfit vs BL.INK

Two platforms at almost the same entry price that give you very different things for it. BL.INK wins on deep links and compliance; the domain allowance is where it hurts.

When to look for an alternative

BL.INK sells to regulated industries and to consumer-goods companies preparing for the 2027 retail transition to 2D barcodes. GS1 Digital Link support, HIPAA compliance with a signed business associate agreement, and integrations with Khoros and Sprinklr are what the product is built around. If a compliance questionnaire is part of your purchase, that is a real advantage and we do not match the HIPAA position.

The comparison is unusually direct because the entry prices are almost identical. BL.INK's Expert+ is $48 a month and our Starter is $49. What each includes at that price is where the two products separate, and the domain allowance is the sharpest edge: one domain and one user on their side, three domains, three seats and fifty client workspaces on ours.

There is no free plan on BL.INK — a 21-day trial only — and annual pricing is not published. Click allowances are counted per link rather than per account, running from 7,500 to 60,000 depending on plan, and analytics retention is not published anywhere.

Side by side

BL.INK data collected August 12, 2026 from public pricing and documentation pages; verify current terms with the vendor before deciding.

CapabilityBL.INKLinkProfit
Entry price and what it includesExpert+ $48 a month: 1 user, 1 domain. No free plan, 21-day trial only.Starter $49 a month: 3 redirect domains, 3 seats, 50 client workspaces, 100,000 tracked clicks.
Plan ladderExpert+ $48, SMB $99 with 1 domain, Team $299 with 5 domains, Business $599 with 10 or more. Annual pricing not published.Starter $49, Growth $149, Scale $399, Enterprise by contract. 20% off annually.
Domains1 on both entry plans, 5 on Team at $299, 10 or more on Business at $599 — the tightest allowance among the vendors we checked.3 on Starter, 10 on Growth, 30 on Scale, unlimited on Enterprise.
How clicks are countedPer link: 7,500 to 60,000 depending on plan.Per account: 100,000 / 500,000 / 2,000,000 tracked clicks a month, unlimited on Enterprise.
White-label dashboardNone. The partner program is integrations (Khoros, Sprinklr) and referrals, not a rebrandable platform.Your name, logo, colours, favicon, login page, email sender and reports; own dashboard domain and no platform mark from Growth.
Reselling to clientsNone.Your plans from $5 a month, cards via Stripe Connect, payouts to your bank, platform fee 15% / 12% / 10%.
Deep linksIncluded on every plan — better than most of the category.Per-link mobile section on every plan: app scheme, store page and web fallback per platform, interstitial with a configurable wait, deferred context after install.
Compliance postureHIPAA with a signed BAA, aimed at healthcare and CPG.DPA and subprocessor list published; security review and SLA under an Enterprise contract. No HIPAA position.
Retail and packaging focusGS1 Digital Link and 2D barcodes on packaging, ahead of the 2027 transition.QR studio with styles, logos and vector export, and dynamic destinations. No GS1 Digital Link support.
Analytics retentionNot published.At least 12 months on every plan, 24 months on Scale, set per workspace.
Retargeting pixelsNot advertised.Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, X and custom pixels, served from your own domain.
APIA REST API is published; plan gating and rate limits were not part of our August 2026 data set.REST API from Growth with scoped keys, cursor pagination, signed webhooks and a published OpenAPI document.
Client workspacesSeats within one account; the partner program is integrations and referrals.50 / 250 / 1,000 isolated client workspaces, each with its own users, domains and subscription.

Quotes and figures in the BL.INK column are reproduced in the vendor's original English, exactly as published when the data was collected on August 12, 2026: translating a vendor's own wording would change what it claims.

One domain is the row that decides most purchases

A short-link platform with one custom domain can serve one brand. That is fine for a single company and immediately fatal for anyone with clients, because a client's links have to sit on the client's own domain — that is the entire point of branded links. BL.INK gives one domain at $48 and one at $99, five at $299, and ten or more only at $599 a month.

Our Starter gives three at $49, Growth ten at $149 and Scale thirty at $399. The reason for the difference is structural rather than generous: a domain here is attached to a client workspace rather than sitting in a shared pool, so the count has to scale with the number of clients or the model does not work.

If you genuinely need one domain and nothing else about reselling, this row does not matter to you and the rest of BL.INK's product — particularly the compliance side — may well be the better fit.

Where BL.INK is the better product

Deep links on every plan is a genuinely better position than most of the category, ours included in spirit if not in outcome: we also ship the mobile section on every plan, but plenty of competitors gate it behind upper tiers and BL.INK never has.

The compliance story is the stronger one. HIPAA with a signed business associate agreement is not something a link vendor gets by accident, and if you handle protected health information it removes the platform from the argument entirely. We publish a data processing agreement and a subprocessor list, and offer security review and an SLA under an Enterprise contract, but we do not sign a BAA.

The third is timing. GS1 Digital Link and 2D barcodes on packaging matter to consumer-goods companies preparing for the 2027 retail transition, and BL.INK has built for it. Our QR studio produces styled, dynamic codes with vector export, which covers marketing use comfortably and does not implement the GS1 standard.

Per-link click allowances versus an account budget

BL.INK counts clicks per link, from 7,500 to 60,000 by plan. That works neatly when traffic is spread evenly and becomes awkward when it is not: one campaign that outperforms consumes its own allowance while quieter links sit on unused capacity, and the platform cannot lend one to the other.

We count tracked clicks against the account: 100,000 on Starter, 500,000 on Growth, 2,000,000 on Scale. A single link can consume the whole budget or a thousand links can share it, and going over does not disable anything — redirects fire, clicks are counted, you are notified, and the overage settles on the next invoice.

Retention is the part you cannot compare, because BL.INK does not publish it. That is worth raising in a sales conversation before signing: it determines how far back a client report can reach, and it is a question you will be asked eventually.

Migrating is a CSV, not a project

BL.INK is not one of the three importer presets, so an export needs its columns aligned to the slug, destination, title and tags shape our importer expects. From there it runs at 1,000 rows per batch with slugs preserved exactly, and each batch lands in whichever client workspace you choose — useful if you are splitting a single BL.INK account into several client spaces.

The domain move is a DNS change, and it is the step to plan around: with one domain on the old plan there is a single cutover moment rather than a staged one. Repoint the record at the target our dashboard issues, the certificate is provisioned automatically, and the same URLs resolve here with their slugs intact. Keep the BL.INK subscription running until traffic on the old endpoint has stopped.

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Frequently asked questions

How many domains do I get for roughly $50 a month?

One on BL.INK's Expert+ at $48, three on our Starter at $49. BL.INK reaches five domains at $299 a month and ten or more at $599; we reach ten at $149 and thirty at $399. It is the widest gap between the two products at any price point.

Does BL.INK have a free plan?

No, only a 21-day trial. Annual pricing is not published either, so the monthly figures are the ones to compare. Our plans are published monthly and annually, with 20% off for annual billing.

Is BL.INK better for regulated industries?

For healthcare, yes. HIPAA compliance with a signed business associate agreement is a position we do not hold, and if you handle protected health information that settles it. We publish a DPA and a subprocessor list, and offer security review and an SLA under an Enterprise contract.

What about GS1 Digital Link for packaging?

That is theirs. BL.INK has built for the 2027 retail transition to 2D barcodes and supports GS1 Digital Link; we do not implement the standard. Our QR studio covers marketing use — styles, logos, vector export and destinations you can change after printing — but it is not a GS1 product.

Can I sell BL.INK to my clients under my own brand?

No. There is no white-label and no reseller billing; their partner program is integrations with Khoros and Sprinklr plus referrals. On LinkProfit the dashboard carries your brand and your clients subscribe to plans you priced, with payouts to your bank.

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