StageLink vs Bandzoogle
Bandzoogle has been building musician websites for over twenty years, and it is a more complete product than ours in almost every direction that involves a website. The question is not which is better — it is whether you need a website.
| Feature | StageLink | Bandzoogle |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes No time limit, no card. | No 14-day trial, then paid. |
| Multi-page website | No One page plus an EPK. | Yes 10 to unlimited pages by plan. |
| Custom domain included | No In development. | Yes Free with website plans. |
| Press kit (EPK) | Yes Included on the free plan. | Yes Templates on website plans, or a separate EPK plan. |
| Selling merch and music | Partial Links out to Shopify or Printful. | Yes Built-in store, 0% commission, print-on-demand. |
| Tour calendar | Yes | Yes |
| Technical rider | Yes Built from an equipment catalogue. | No |
| Visitor analytics | Yes On the free plan, excluding your own visits. | Yes On every paid plan. |
| Spanish interface | Yes | No English only. |
Compared against Bandzoogle's public pricing page, last checked 2026-09-27. Source
When Bandzoogle is the better choice
Choose Bandzoogle if you sell directly to fans. Their store takes 0% commission, handles print-on-demand, bundles, pre-orders and ticket sales, and none of that exists on StageLink — we link out to Shopify or Printful instead. Choose them too if you want a real multi-page site with a domain included, or if twenty years of a support team matters to you. They are the mature product here and it would be silly to argue otherwise.
The price of entry
The clearest difference is not a feature. Bandzoogle has no free plan: a 14-day trial, then every website plan is paid, starting at $11 a month billed monthly. StageLink has a free plan with no time limit and no card.
For an artist who is not yet selling anything, that is the whole decision. A monthly fee for a page nobody has found yet is a cost that arrives before the benefit.
A site, or a link
A multi-page website is a different object from a page you put in a bio. Sites earn their keep when there is enough to say to fill them and enough traffic to justify the structure. Below that, the extra pages are places for information to go stale.
StageLink deliberately makes one page and one press kit. That is a limitation, and for a band with a store, a mailing list and a blog it is the wrong limitation.
The rider
Bandzoogle has an EPK product and a tour calendar, but no model for a technical rider. For a live act that is the document a venue asks for first, and on Bandzoogle it goes back to being an attachment.
Can I move from Bandzoogle to StageLink?
There is no importer. You re-enter your links, bio, dates and photos, which for a single page is a short evening. Your domain stays yours — after 60 days of membership Bandzoogle lets you move a domain they registered, per their own FAQ.
Is StageLink cheaper?
Our free plan costs nothing and theirs does not exist, so at the entry point yes. Compare paid tiers and it depends entirely on whether you use the store, which is where most of their value sits.
Can I use both?
Some people will: a Bandzoogle site for the store and a StageLink page for the link in the bio and the press kit. It is duplication, but it is a coherent kind of duplication.
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