The real difference
Where the two tools diverge is what happens after someone lands on the page. Beacon leans toward producing a lead magnet asset (a designed PDF-style document); Gatedleads is built around the page itself as the product, gated content on a live web page with the lead form built in, rather than a document you then have to host and gate somewhere else.
Where Beacon gets in the way of a single gated page
- A lead magnet as a designed document still needs somewhere to live and something to gate it, which usually means bolting on a separate landing page or popup tool
- Beacon is now owned by OptinMonster, and folded into a larger suite, so the product roadmap and support experience are shifting as the two are integrated
- Analytics on which specific lead magnet is converting can mean checking more than one dashboard once a gate is added elsewhere
Why teams pick Gatedleads instead
- One page does the whole job: content, gate, and email capture live in the same place, nothing else to wire up
- Every lead lands in your dashboard immediately, no separate document host or gate tool to check
- A custom domain, Zapier, and A/B testing on headlines come with the Pro plan, not a higher suite tier
- Built and supported as a single focused product, not a feature inside a larger acquisition
Gatedleads vs Beacon, feature by feature
| Feature | Gatedleads | Beacon |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | Gate an entire page, live on the web | Design a lead magnet document |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Setup time for one gated page | Minutes | Minutes for the document, more to host and gate it |
| Custom domain | Included on Pro | Varies by plan |
| Built-in lead dashboard | Yes | Yes |
| Zapier / webhook automation | Yes | Yes |
| A/B headline testing | Included on Pro | No |
What Gatedleads costs
- One live gated page
- Every template, for every niche
- Lead dashboard and CSV export
- No credit card, no time limit
- Unlimited pages
- Your own custom domain
- Zapier and outbound webhooks
- A/B headline testing
- 3 team seats
Beacon's pricing depends on the plan and changes over time, so check their pricing page for current numbers before you compare.
Good template library, different job
If what you actually want is a document to design and hand out, Beacon still does that well. If you want a single page that gates the content and captures the lead without any extra assembly, that is what Gatedleads is built for.
Switching from Beacon in three steps
Bring the content across
Paste it into the block editor, or start from a template in the same format and swap in your words. It is a good moment to tighten anything that was thin on the old page.
Set the gate and the form
Choose where the free preview ends, what triggers the gate, and whether to ask for a name as well as an email.
Publish and repoint your links
Go live on gatedleads.com/your-page, or your own domain like guide.yourdomain.com on Pro, then update the links, emails and buttons that pointed at the old page.