Is Canva free for websites? What Canva Free can publish

“Canva Free, Canva Pro, Canva Teams, and Canva Education users can publish websites for free.” Your Canva design can go live on the free plan at a my.canva.site address. Then the questions start. You want to know if your own domain works. You also want to know what a free site shows and measures.

Canva Free for websites at a glance

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

Can you use your own domain with Canva Free

The answer depends on where your domain comes from.

• A domain you already own: You cannot connect it on the Free plan. Canva's help center notes “This is available to Canva Pro, Canva Teams, Canva Business, and Canva Education users.” The cheapest tier on that list is Canva Pro at $144 a year for 1 person, or $18 a month. On Pro, “Canva Pro, Canva Teams, and Canva Business users can connect up to five existing (5) domains at a time.”
• A domain you buy through Canva: Canva's purchase help says “All users can publish unlimited websites to every domain purchased via Canva.” It also notes “Prices vary by extension and are billed annually.” Canva's websites overview says “However, using a custom domain and publishing unlimited websites is only available to Canva Pro, Canva Teams, and Canva Education users.” Check what the Publish panel shows you before buying a domain for a free site.

If your business already owns a domain and you want your landing page at www or launch on it, you need Canva Pro.

Do Canva websites have forms

Yes. Canva Forms are an element you add to a design, and the same help article covers forms on websites. “You can add up to 10 questions per form.” You read the responses in Canva. To take them elsewhere, “Select More, then Download as CSV to download the response data.” Each response sends an email to the form's owner, and no one else.

On a website, Canva adds one condition: “On Canva Websites, responses are always anonymous. Names can't be collected.”

Visitor stats and commercial use

• Visitor stats: You get no visitor stats on Canva Free. “Canva Website Insights is available to Canva Pro, Canva Teams, and Canva Education users who have edit access to the website design.” On Pro, the stats are Website Insights, which use no cookies or IP tracking.
• Commercial use: Canva's content license lets you use designs in “advertising and promotional projects, including printed materials, product packaging, presentations, film and video presentations, commercials, catalogues, brochures, greeting cards and postcards for promotion and/or resale, without any reproduction quantity limit”, and in “online or electronic publications, including web pages”.

Other limits on the Canva Free plan

• Sites: “Canva Free users can have up to five live websites on the free domain.”
• Sections: “Canva Free users can design with up to 20 sections per page, but can only publish a website with up to 10 sections per page”
• Pages: “Multi-page websites support up to 45 pages”
• An HTML file you already have: Canva imports your file as a design instead of publishing it as it is. Its help center notes “Other HTML files import as Code designs.” and “JavaScript functionality isn't supported in imported designs.”

The footer Canva puts on your free page

Canva's help center states that “If you're a Canva Free user, a 'Designed with Canva' footer will appear at the bottom of your published website.” It notes that “This footer includes Canva's Privacy Policy and can't be removed on a Free plan.” If you want to drop it, “To publish without the footer, upgrade to Canva Pro.”

A direct check on October 12, 2026 looked at 2 waitlist pages published on my.canva.site, loaded without an account. The raw HTML arrives empty until Canva's JavaScript fills it. In your browser, each page ends with Canva's footer showing links to terms, support, the privacy policy, and a Canva logo that points back to canva.com. Neither page captures signups in Canva: 1 sends visitors to a Tally form, and the other routes them to a Kit signup page.

A year on your own domain

You run a waitlist page at www.yourbrand.com, on a domain you already own, for 12 months.

• Canva Pro: $144 for the year. This payment also covers the rest of Canva Pro.
• Convika Free: $0. Your page connects as a subdomain such as www. The form shows 50 entries a month and saves any past that limit until you upgrade to Pro.

A domain you buy new through Canva costs its yearly registration fee. Canva's purchase help says any plan can publish to that address. Check your Publish panel before you buy.

Use the domain you already own for free: Convika

Convika hosts single-page landing pages with forms and visitor stats built in. If you need a launch or waitlist page on a domain your business already owns, 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 Canva fits better: Canva fits better if you want to design a multi-page site visually, right next to your other Canva designs.

Canva and Convika side by side

Which one to pick

• You keep all your work in Canva and want the page alongside your other designs: Pick Canva. The Free plan publishes to a my.canva.site address. Canva Pro lets you connect a domain you already own and tracks Website Insights.
• You want a launch or waitlist page on your current business domain without a monthly bill: Pick Convika's Free plan. It puts your page on a subdomain of your domain. You get a built-in form to collect signups, plus stats that show where visitors came from.
• An AI tool wrote your page in HTML: Pick Convika. Upload the file directly. Canva turns uploaded code into an editable design and strips out the JavaScript.

Frequently asked questions

Is Canva free for websites?

Yes, Canva is free for websites. Canva Free lets you publish up to 5 websites on my.canva.site addresses, with a “Designed with Canva” footer on each page. Canva Pro costs $144 a year. It drops the footer, lets you publish unlimited sites, connects a domain you already own, and gives you Website Insights.

Is Canva website hosting free?

Yes, Canva website hosting is free on a my.canva.site address for up to 5 live sites on Canva Free. You need Canva Pro or another paid plan to connect a domain you already own. Canva's purchase help says you can publish to a domain bought through Canva on any plan, but its websites overview lists custom domains under Pro. Check the Publish panel before you buy.

Can I use a custom domain on Canva for free?

You cannot connect a domain you already own for free. That takes Canva Pro, Teams, Business, or Education. If you buy a domain through Canva on a yearly bill, the purchase help says every user can publish to it, while the websites overview lists custom domains under Pro. Check the Publish panel before you buy. For a single landing page, Convika's Free plan connects 1 subdomain of a domain you own, such as www.yourbrand.com, at no cost.

How much does a custom domain cost on Canva?

A custom domain on Canva involves 2 costs. Connecting a domain you already own requires Canva Pro at $144 a year or $18 a month. If you buy a domain through Canva, you pay the domain's yearly price, which varies by extension. Canva's purchase help says any plan can publish to a domain bought through Canva. Check the Publish panel before you buy.

Do you need Canva Pro for a custom domain?

Yes, you need Canva Pro if you want to connect a domain you already own. Pro is the cheapest plan that connects one. Canva's help center says “Canva Pro, Canva Teams, and Canva Business users can connect up to five existing (5) domains at a time.” If you buy a domain through Canva, the purchase help says Free works too. Check the Publish panel before you buy.

Is a Canva website free or paid?

A Canva website is free to publish on my.canva.site addresses, with Canva's footer, a limit of 5 live sites, and up to 10 sections per page once published. Paid plans drop the footer and the site limit. They also add your own domain and Website Insights.

Can a Canva website have a form?

Yes, a Canva website can have a form. Add a Canva Form directly to your website design. Form responses stay in Canva, where you can download them as a CSV file. The form owner receives an email for each submission. On a website, Canva keeps every response anonymous.

Sources

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

• Canva Help: Canva Websites overview
• Canva Help: Publish websites to a free domain
• Canva Help: Use your own domains
• Canva Help: Purchase domains
• Canva Help: Add forms and quizzes
• Canva Help: Website analytics and insights
• Canva Content License Agreement
• Canva Help: Import HTMLs
• Canva pricing (US)