Is Carrd free? Free sites, Pro plans, custom domains, and forms

Carrd's home page puts the answer in one sentence: “Build up to three sites per account and use all of Carrd's core features – for free!” The Free plan publishes real sites at no cost. What it holds back is what a page needs once it starts collecting signups: your own domain, a form, and visitor stats. Each starts with a paid plan, and Carrd's paid plans are billed by the year.

Carrd's Free plan at a glance

Checked on October 12, 2026 against Carrd's own pages, linked in each row. Prices in US dollars.

Can you use a custom domain on Carrd's free plan

No. Carrd's custom domain docs carry one line about plans: “Requires Pro Standard or higher”. A free page stays on a .carrd.co address.

The first paid tier does not add a domain either. Pro Lite, at $9 a year, removes the branding and lets you “Publish sites to unbranded URLs (like .crd.co) and punycode URLs.” Pro Standard, at $19 a year, is the tier that adds it. Carrd's plan docs describe it this way: “In addition to premium URLs, publish sites to any custom domains you own (with full SSL support via Let's Encrypt).”

Carrd forms and where entries go

Forms are not on the Free plan. Carrd's form docs say “Requires Pro Standard or higher”, and its plan docs list forms under Pro Standard as “Add fully functional contact forms and signup forms”.

Each form type sends its entries somewhere outside Carrd.

• Contact forms email you: “Contact forms allow site visitors to send feedback directly to your Carrd account email or (optionally) other recipients.”
• Signup forms pass names and emails to an email tool. Carrd's list of them includes “Kit forms, Klaviyo lists, Loops contacts and lists, Mailchimp audiences”.
• Advanced Forms are custom forms on Pro Plus at $49 a year. Carrd's plan docs describe them as “In addition to contact and signup forms, build entirely custom forms that integrate with Zapier, Make, n8n and Airtable, send data to URLs”, and its form docs mark them “Requires Pro Plus or higher”.

Carrd's form docs describe no list inside Carrd where past entries stay for you to view or export.

Carrd Free's other limits

• Sites: You get 3 sites per account. Pro Standard raises it to 10 sites.
• Elements: Carrd's troubleshooting docs say “If you're on the free "Basic" plan, you're currently limited to 50 elements per site”.
• Your own code: The Embed element takes custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from Pro Standard up. There is no way to upload or import an HTML file. Carrd's docs add that “The downloaded version of a site cannot be uploaded back to the Carrd platform.”
• Visitor stats: Carrd Analytics launched on October 2, 2026. It starts at Pro Standard. Carrd's docs say “Carrd Analytics is currently in beta” and “Carrd Analytics only tracks Views”.
• Commercial use: No restriction appears in Carrd's terms. They describe the Basic plan this way: “The Website is currently free to use under a Basic plan.”
• Trying Pro: Carrd lets you “test drive a subset of its features free for a full 7 days”.

What “Made with Carrd” looks like on a free page

On October 12, 2026, Convika checked 2 free .carrd.co pages loaded without an account. Each page ends with a footer block, <div id="credits">. This block holds one link that reads “Made with Carrd” and points to carrd.co/build. Neither page has a <form>.

A third .carrd.co page, a “Coming Soon” page, had a signup form and no “Made with Carrd” credit. That combination only exists on Pro. The form needs Pro Standard, and every Pro tier removes the credit.

A year on your own domain, Carrd or Convika

You run a waitlist page at www.yourbrand.com with a signup form for 12 months.

• Carrd Pro Standard: $19 for the year, plus the domain. Signups go to your email or your email tool.
• Convika Free: $0, plus the domain. Signups are stored in Convika with CSV export. Free shows 50 entries a month. Entries past that are kept, and show once you're on Pro.

Carrd's paid plan is cheap. The difference is where the signups end up, and whether you pay at all.

Your own domain and a form that keeps signups, free: Convika

Convika hosts landing pages, 1 HTML page each, with the form and the visitor stats built in. For a waitlist or launch page you'd otherwise put on Carrd Pro, Convika's Free plan includes:

• Your own subdomain, such as www.yourbrand.com or waitlist.yourbrand.com, with the SSL certificate issued for you. The Free plan connects 1.
• Commercial use on every plan, Free included, under section 7 of the terms. That covers a client's page you build, host, and bill for.
• A form that keeps the signups. Click Add a form to my page, and Convika adds a form that stores each entry, emails it to you, and exports to CSV. Free shows 50 entries a month. Signups past that aren't turned away: they're kept, and show once you're on Pro.
• 90 days of visitor stats: visits, referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks.
• AI clients that publish for you. Claude, Claude Code, and Codex connect to Convika's MCP server and sign in to your account with OAuth, so you never paste a deploy token or API key into the chat. They can read the page's visits and form entries back to you, too.

3 ways to get your page onto Convika

1. Rebuild it from its link. Paste the address of the page you have now into the free rebuild tool and click Rebuild my page. You don't need an account. Convika reads the page, keeps its colors and fonts, writes a new version from its text, and lists what it changed and why. Click Keep this page to sign up free and move it into your account.
2. Describe it in the dashboard. Sign up free, click Create with AI, and describe the page, or paste a link to a page it should start from. A new page costs 1 AI credit on the default model, and Free accounts start with 10.
3. Upload the HTML your AI made. If ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini wrote the page as one HTML file, click Upload an HTML file in the dashboard and add the .html or .htm file, up to 2 MB, or paste its code. Uploading uses no AI credits. The free HTML publishing tool shows you a preview before you sign up.

The Free plan includes 1 published page, with a small Convika bar at the bottom of each page. Pro costs $12 a month, removes the bar, and shows every form entry.

Where Carrd fits better: Laying out a one-page site yourself in a visual editor, block by block.

Carrd and Convika side by side

If ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini already wrote your page as HTML, the page Carrd alternatives for AI-generated landing pages compares Carrd with Framer, Dorik, Lovable, and Convika on taking that file as it is.

Which one to pick

• You want to design a simple page yourself and pay as little as possible for your own domain: Carrd Pro Standard, billed yearly.
• You need the signups kept in one place, with your own domain and no fee: Convika's Free plan. Its form stores every entry and exports a CSV.
• The page already exists as an HTML file from an AI: Convika. Upload the file. Carrd would have you rebuild it in its editor.

Frequently asked questions

Is Carrd free?

Yes, Carrd is free. Free lets you build and publish up to 3 sites on .carrd.co addresses, with “Made with Carrd” in the footer. Your own domain, forms, embeds, and Carrd Analytics start with Pro Standard at $19 a year.

What does Carrd's free plan include?

Carrd's free plan includes Carrd's core site builder, 3 sites per account, .carrd.co addresses, and 50 elements per site. It does not include a custom domain, forms, the Embed element, or analytics, and free sites show “Made with Carrd”.

What are the limits of Carrd's free plan?

The limits of Free are 3 sites per account, 50 elements per site, a .carrd.co address, and the “Made with Carrd” footer. Forms, custom domains, embeds, and analytics need Pro Standard or higher.

Can I use a custom domain on Carrd for free?

No, you cannot use a custom domain on Carrd for free. Carrd's docs mark custom domains “Requires Pro Standard or higher”. Pro Standard costs $19 a year. For 1 landing page, Convika's Free plan connects 1 subdomain of your domain, such as www.yourbrand.com, at no cost.

How much does a custom domain cost on Carrd?

The plan that adds custom domains is Pro Standard, at $19 a year, which covers 10 sites. Pro Lite, at $9 a year, does not include one. You buy the domain itself from a registrar.

Does Carrd's free plan have forms?

No, Carrd's free plan does not have forms. Contact and signup forms start with Pro Standard. Contact forms email you, signup forms send names and emails to a tool such as Mailchimp, and Carrd's docs describe no stored list of entries.

What are Carrd's advanced forms?

Advanced Forms are Carrd's custom forms, on Pro Plus at $49 a year. A custom form can email you or send its data to Zapier, Make, n8n, Airtable, or a URL you choose. Contact and signup forms start 1 tier lower, on Pro Standard.

How much does Carrd cost?

Carrd Free costs nothing. Pro Lite is $9 a year, Pro Standard is $19 a year, and Pro Plus is $49 a year, each billed yearly. Carrd's Pro trial lasts 7 days.

Sources

Facts on this page about Carrd come from these pages, read on October 12, 2026:

• Carrd home page
• Carrd docs: Plans
• Carrd docs: Using a custom domain
• Carrd docs: Setting up a contact form
• Carrd docs: Setting up a signup form
• Carrd docs: Setting up a custom form
• Carrd docs: Using Carrd Analytics
• Carrd changelog
• Carrd docs: Embedding custom code
• Carrd docs: Downloading a site
• Carrd docs: Troubleshooting
• Carrd terms of use
• Carrd docs: Pro trial