What is Carrd: one-page sites, custom domains and downloadable code

Carrd is a hosted builder for single-page websites, released in 2016 and run by a single developer since. One site means one scrolling page: sections stack vertically, and there is no second URL to navigate to. Paid tiers are called Pro, and there are 3 of them at $9, $19 and $49 a year. A free tier called Basic publishes three sites carrying Carrd branding. The Pro tiers buy, in order, removal of that badge, then a domain with forms and widgets, then code you can download.

The one-page rule explains the rest. No navigation means no page hierarchy, no CMS and no blog, so the whole thing stays small, fast and cheap enough to bill once a year. That is why the opening rate is the lowest in this category by a wide margin, and why it will never suit a growing site.

All four tiers with their yearly figures and what each one unlocks are set out on the Carrd plan and rate breakdown.

Carrd features by plan: forms, widgets, variables and code download

Everything here is built around a page rather than a site. You add sections, drop in text, images, embeds and buttons, and the result scrolls. Pro Lite changes nothing structural: it removes the Carrd badge and adds premium addresses, larger images, video uploads and QR codes. Pro Standard makes the page usable in public. Custom domain with SSL, contact and signup forms, widgets for Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad and Typeform, analytics through Google, Plausible or Matomo. Pro Plus adds control: advanced forms wired to Zapier, Make or Airtable, password protection, redirects, variables and site files.

The grid scrolls sideways on a phone. Each cell carries the quota and the tier it belongs to.

A link-in-bio page needs Pro Lite and nothing more, because the only real problem with the free tier is the badge. Selling is different. A signup form and a Stripe button both arrive at Pro Standard, so the practical floor for anything commercial is $19 a year rather than $9.

One tier stands apart. Pro Plus is the only plan that hands the site over as unminified files, which means a Carrd page can be lifted onto your own hosting. For a product this cheap that is an unusually honest exit.

Carrd limits: sites per account, the one-page rule and domains

There are very few numbers to track here, which is the point. One is fixed forever, and the other two decide the tier.

Nothing is sold outside these tiers. Our record holds no add-on, no usage rate, no seat rate and no overage, which is rare enough to state plainly. Billing is per account rather than per user, so there is no seat arithmetic either. The one cost outside the yearly figure is the domain name.

Every tier is billed by the year and only by the year. No monthly option appears anywhere on the vendor's plan page, and no discount, promotion or trial is published for any tier. The free tier has no expiry, which functions as the trial.

Carrd in 2026: the yearly-only cycle and a free tier that keeps its badge

Very little happens to this product's rates, which is consistent with how it is run. Both things worth recording are absences rather than events.

Stability at this rate means something different from stability at a hundred times the money. Nobody renegotiates $49 a year, so the useful signal is that the product is still maintained and still priced as it was.

Who should use Carrd: link-in-bio pages, portfolios and launches

Almost everyone who should buy this wants the same thing: one page that looks deliberate, up quickly, at a price low enough not to think about.

The test is whether the thing you are building has a second page in its future. If it does, buy something else now rather than migrating later. If it truly does not, nothing here comes close on price.

Carrd alternatives: Webnode, Weebly, Unicorn Platform, Tilda, Super

Almost nothing plotted beside this one opens lower, and most marks cost more per month than this product costs per year. The comparison is between one page and a real site. The spread runs $4.50 to $97, which puts the median at $18.50. One of the six opens at $4.50, then the strip goes quiet until $13. Treat the gaps drawn here carefully, because the two sides are counted on different clocks. Our chart plots monthly opening rates, and this product publishes only a yearly one.

Strikingly

PRO$20/mo+$11 vs entry

Strikingly sits at $20 a month and is the direct philosophical neighbour: single-page sites, quickly, with a store and memberships on the same frame. The gap is $11 a month, which over a year is a different order of spending.

Super

Personal$16/mo+$7 vs entry

Super costs $16 a month and turns a Notion workspace into a website, which suits anyone whose content already lives there. It handles multiple pages and inherits Notion's editing rather than offering its own.

Tilda

Personal$15/mo+$6 vs entry

Tilda begins at $15 a month and offers a large library of pre-designed blocks plus a free-form editor. Its output looks less templated than most, and it does multi-page properly.

Unicorn Platform

Maker$14/mo+$5 vs entry

Unicorn Platform starts at $14 a month, aimed squarely at startup marketing: landing pages, a blog and a help centre. The blog is the deciding difference, since publishing regularly is the one job this product cannot take on.

Weebly

Personal$13/mo+$4 vs entry

Weebly opens at $13 a month and is the safe, unexciting multi-page option, with commerce built in. It costs more in a month than Pro Standard costs in a year, and earns that by having pages, a blog and a shop.

Webnode

$4.50/mo-$4.50 vs entry

Webnode is the closest mark by rate at $4.50 a month, and it buys a genuine multi-page site with a store and multilingual support. Where this product publishes one document, Webnode publishes a structure.

Choose by page count before anything else. One page and a small budget points here without much argument. Two pages points at every other mark on this chart. The full ranking sits on the website builders category page.

Is Carrd worth it in 2026: our verdict on the one-page site builder

Verdict · Carrd · August 2026★★★★★★★★★★CE 4.6/5

Carrd is the cheapest thing in this category by an order of magnitude. The median entry rate across the twenty-two builders we price is $18.50 a month; Carrd's is $9 a year. Comparing the two numbers directly is misleading in Carrd's favour, and it is still true that a year here costs less than two weeks of the median rival.

What that buys is one page done well and nothing else. There is no store, no blog engine, no multi-page site in the sense the rest of this category means it. The right way to read the price is as the cost of not needing any of that. If the project ever does, the move is to another product rather than to another tier.

what drives this invoice

• site count: three, ten or twenty-five, which is the only thing separating the three paid plans.
• The custom domain, which is the feature that decides between $9 and $19 and is the reason almost nobody stays on Pro Lite.

when not to buy Carrd

• You need more than one page: Carrd builds single pages, and the tiers count sites rather than pages.
• You want to sell: there is no store here, and the payment options are links out to somebody else's checkout.
• You expect monthly billing: the smallest commitment Carrd offers is a year.
• You need a blog with categories and feeds: that is a different product, at roughly twenty times the price.

what it does well

• The lowest opening rate in the category by a wide margin, billed once a year rather than monthly.
• A free tier with no expiry that publishes three real sites, which makes trying it genuinely free.
• Pro Plus hands over the site as unminified HTML, CSS and JavaScript, so leaving is a download.
• Not one thing is sold outside the tiers: no seats, no add-ons, no overage and no usage meter anywhere.

where it gets in the way

• Every site is a single page on every tier, and no upgrade adds a second one.
• No blog and no CMS exists at any price, so regular publishing has to live elsewhere.
• Custom domains and forms both wait until the middle tier, which makes $9 a badge-removal fee.
• Billing is yearly only, and no monthly cycle is published for any tier.
• Integration stops at widgets and embeds, since our record documents no API of any kind.

the short version

• Entry $9/mo · verified August 4, 2026
• Number 3 of 23 by entry rate, $4 over Shopify and $1.50 under WordPress.com
• All four tiers, their yearly figures and the site counts behind them are set out on the Carrd rate breakdown

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signed Oleh Kemmethod: live price list, dated recordverified August 4, 2026tracked since June 2026