Carrd Pricing 2026: Every Plan, and Which One You Actually Need

Carrd is free for up to three sites with Carrd branding. Paid plans run $9 to $49 per year, billed annually, and Carrd has no monthly price. The tier most people actually need is Pro Standard at $19 a year, because it is the cheapest one that includes a custom domain, forms, and analytics. The popular "$9 gets you a custom domain" claim is wrong.

Plan	Price (annual)	Sites	What it unlocks
Free	$0	3	All core features, Carrd subdomain, "Made with Carrd" footer
Pro Lite	$9/year	3	Removes branding, premium templates, QR codes, big uploads
Pro Standard	$19/year	10	Custom domain, forms, analytics, embeds, meta tags
Pro Plus	$49/year	25	Advanced forms, password protection, redirects, site downloads

Pro Lite, Standard, and Plus each scale to higher site counts at higher prices; more on that below. Every figure here is billed once a year; Carrd publishes no monthly price.

How much does Carrd cost in 2026?

Carrd has one free tier and three paid tiers, each with a base price and higher-site-count variants:

• Pro Lite, $9/year (3 sites). Also sold as 10 sites for $14 and 25 sites for $29.
• Pro Standard, $19/year (10 sites). Then $39 (25), $69 (50), $119 (100), $249 (250), $399 (500), and $599 (1,000).
• Pro Plus, $49/year (25 sites). Then $89 (50), $159 (100), $349 (250), $599 (500), and $999 (1,000).

Amortized to a monthly figure, Pro Lite is about $0.75/month, Pro Standard about $1.58/month, and Pro Plus about $4.08/month, but you always pay the full year up front. There is a 7-day Pro trial that needs no card.

Is Carrd free, and what do you get?

Yes. The free plan lets you build up to three sites and use all of Carrd's core features: layouts, elements, publishing, and hosting. The catch is what free leaves out. You get a yoursite.carrd.co subdomain, a "Made with Carrd" footer, and no custom domain, no forms, no widgets or embeds, and no analytics.

That makes free genuinely usable for a personal page or a link to somewhere else, and unusable the moment you need to look owned (custom domain), collect anything (forms), or measure it (analytics). Note the site count too: free is three sites, not one, a mistake a lot of comparison posts repeat.

Which Carrd plan do you actually need?

Match the tier to the job, not the price:

• A personal page with Carrd branding gone → Pro Lite ($9). Removes the footer, unlocks premium templates and QR codes. Stop here only if you will never need a custom domain, a form, or analytics.
• A real page on your own domain → Pro Standard ($19). This is the tier most people are actually shopping for. It is the cheapest plan with a custom domain, and it adds forms and analytics in the same jump.
• Lead capture with logic, or client work → Pro Plus ($49). Advanced forms, password protection, and redirects are the practical reasons to go here.
• Building at volume (agency or portfolio of clients) → a site-count variant of Standard or Plus. The features do not change; you are only paying for more sites.

If a comparison told you $9 buys a custom domain, that is the single most common Carrd pricing error. It does not. Custom domains start at $19.

Why is Carrd so cheap?

Because it does less, on purpose. Carrd is a one-page builder with no multi-page mode, no blog, and no commerce layer. There is no checkout to maintain, no storefront, no hosting complexity beyond a single page. Combined with annual-only billing, that keeps the price low without it being a loss-leader. You are paying a fair price for a deliberately narrow product, not a discounted version of a bigger one. It is cheap the way a single well-made tool is cheap next to a Swiss Army knife.

Does Carrd charge transaction fees?

No. Carrd takes no transaction or seller fee, because it has no native checkout, so there is nothing for it to skim. That is a real contrast with link-in-bio tools built around selling: Linktree and Beacons charge roughly 9–12% on sales through their pages. But 0% here means bring your own checkout. To sell on a Carrd page you embed a third-party widget (Gumroad, Stripe, PayPal), and those keep their own fees. Carrd being free of a seller fee does not make selling free; it means Carrd is simply not in that loop.

Carrd's site-count tiers explained

The higher-priced numbers on Carrd's pricing page are not better plans; they are the same plan with more sites. Pro Standard at $19 gives you 10 sites; the $39, $69, $119, $249, $399, and $599 versions give you 25 through 1,000 sites with identical features. Pro Plus does the same from $49 (25 sites) up to $999 (1,000 sites).

This only matters if you build many separate one-page sites: an agency shipping client landing pages, or a portfolio of projects. For that use case, pick the feature tier first (Standard vs Plus), then buy the site count you need. For everyone building one or two sites, the base tier is the whole decision.

When Carrd is the wrong purchase

Carrd is a one-page site builder. If what you actually want is a link list (a bio hub that routes people to your profiles, shop, and latest post), Carrd is the wrong category, and its blank canvas becomes work you did not need to do. If you are still deciding which shape you want, our explainer on what a link in bio page is covers the category before the tool.

That link-hub job is what Linkero is built for (so weigh our take accordingly): a bio page with real styling, a custom domain, and analytics on the entry paid plan at $10/month, without designing a page from scratch. It sits closer to Linktree in shape than to Carrd, and the fuller side-by-side is in Carrd vs Linktree, and if Linktree's own ladder is what you are weighing, we broke it down in Linktree's 2026 pricing. For the whole field, see our best link-in-bio tools roundup. And if you only wanted the QR code Carrd bundles into Pro Lite, you can make one free with our QR code generator with no plan required.

FAQ

How much is Carrd per month? Carrd has no monthly plan; every tier is billed once a year. If you amortize, Pro Lite works out to about $0.75/month, Pro Standard about $1.58/month, and Pro Plus about $4.08/month, but you pay the full annual amount up front.

Why is Carrd so cheap? Because it is a single-page builder with no multi-page sites, no blog, and no commerce layer to maintain, sold on annual-only billing. You are paying a fair price for a deliberately narrow product, not a stripped-down version of something bigger.

Is Carrd completely free? The free plan is genuinely free and covers three sites with all core features, but it adds Carrd branding and leaves out custom domains, forms, and analytics. Removing branding starts at $9/year; getting a custom domain starts at $19/year.

How many sites can you make on Carrd for free? Three. The free plan allows up to three separate sites per account. Pro Lite keeps the three-site limit while removing branding; higher site counts require a Standard or Plus variant.