Carrd on the BookBird Author Score
Author Score · author website builders · #6 of 7 ·
Best for: Authors who need a single landing page with an email sign-up
Author jobs, from Carrd’s own pages
- Not stated: Book pages with store links (not stated)
- Not stated: Templates made for authors (not stated)
- Yes: Newsletter sign-up
- Yes: Your own domain
- No: Blog or news page (no)
- Yes: Sell books from the site
- Yes: Search settings you control
Carrd pricing
Free plan + paid plans. There is a free plan. Free trial: 7 days. The plans as Carrd’s own site listed them on October 14, 2026, in US dollars:
- Free (up to three sites on Carrd addresses with Carrd branding)
- Pro Lite: $9 a year (3 sites, premium URLs (unbranded .crd.co style), no branding; no custom domain, forms or widgets)
- Pro Standard: $19 a year (cheapest plan with custom domains; 10 sites; contact and sign-up forms, widgets, embeds, meta tags)
- Pro Plus: $49 a year (25 sites; advanced forms including Stripe Checkout payments, redirects, canonical URL)
All Pro plans are billed yearly; larger site-count tiers exist (Pro Standard up to 1000 sites at $599/year, Pro Plus up to $999/year). The 7-day Pro trial needs no card and covers a subset of features including custom domains and forms.
What Carrd offers
From Carrd’s own pages, checked on October 14, 2026:
- Builds responsive one-page sites from templates or a blank page
- Free tier for up to three sites
- Sign-up forms feeding about 20 email services, including Mailchimp, Kit, MailerLite and beehiiv (Pro Standard)
- Custom domains with Let's Encrypt SSL from Pro Standard
- Payment-enabled forms through Stripe Checkout on Pro Plus; Stripe, PayPal and Gumroad widgets on Pro Standard
- Automatic sitemap.xml on every site; custom meta tags on Pro Standard
- Pro plans priced per year rather than per month
- 7-day Pro trial without a card
Runs on: web. Needs an internet connection. Launched: 2016.
Who Carrd suits, and what its pages do not say
Best for: Authors who need a single landing page with an email sign-up.
Not confirmed on Carrd’s pages when we checked: book pages with store links, templates made for authors and blog or news page. That is what the vendor states, not a test; a feature can exist without being described, and the score only credits what is.
About 90,500 people a month search Google in the US for “carrd”, down 6% over the past year (Google Ads data via DataForSEO).
Carrd alternatives
| Software | Score | Price from | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wix | 9.7 | Free plan; paid from $17 a month (billed yearly) | Authors who want author templates and a free starter site |
| WordPress.com | 8.2 | Free plan; paid from $48 a year | Authors who blog or send posts as a newsletter on WordPress |
| BookBub Author Websites | 8.1 | Free plan; paid from $7.99 a month (billed yearly) | Authors wanting a free author site with built-in email sign-ups |
| Tertulia author websites | 7.5 | $7.99 a month (billed yearly) | Authors selling ebooks and audiobooks direct without per-sale fees |
| Weblium | 7.4 | $132 a year | Authors on a budget who want an e-book store template |
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Carrd questions
How much does Carrd cost?
Free plan; paid from $9 a year. Carrd lists 4 plans; the full list is under Pricing above.
What does Carrd run on?
web, according to its own site.
Is there a free trial of Carrd?
Yes, 7 days.
How the score is computed: the formula, step by step. Prices and features were read from Carrd’s own site on October 14, 2026; nobody pays to be listed.