12 Best Carrd Alternatives for 2026

Prices last verified: August 22, 2026, against each vendor's own pricing page. Vendors change pricing often, so treat these as a starting point and confirm before you buy.

The short answer

Carrd costs $9 a year. Not a month. Pro Lite gives you three real one-page sites with full layout control, and Pro Standard is $19/year for ten. Nothing else in this comparison comes close on price, so if money is why you are here, stop reading and stay.

People leave Carrd for one of three reasons, and none of them is cost. They want to know which links get tapped, which Carrd does not tell you. They want to sell something without wiring up a separate checkout. Or they got tired of building every layout by hand and wanted a tool that already knows what a bio page looks like. The twelve options below are sorted by which of those three problems they actually solve.

Carrd alternatives compared

Tool	Entry paid price	Click analytics	Sell from the page	Solves
Carrd (the baseline)	$9/YEAR Pro Lite	No	No, embed only	—
Lnk.bio	$0.99/mo, or $9.99 once	Yes	No	Analytics, near Carrd's price
Milkshake	$2.99/mo Lite	Yes, 30 days on free	No	Stop hand-building layouts
Taplink	€3.00/mo PRO billed yearly	Yes	Yes, native payments	Selling, without a separate checkout
Linktree	$6/mo Starter (annual)	Yes, on paid	Yes, on paid	The default, if you want zero thinking
Campsite	$7/mo Pro	Yes, lifetime on Pro	Limited	Measurement above all else
Beacons	$8.33/mo Creator (annual)	Yes	Yes, but 9% fee below $30/mo	A whole creator stack at once
Bitly	€10/mo Core (annual)	Yes, deep	No	Link tracking as infrastructure
PostNext.io	€11/mo Pro (annual)	Yes, per link	Yes, product blocks	All three, plus scheduling
Canva	Canva Pro (geo-priced)	No	No	Design quality, if you already pay for it
Hostinger	$2.99/mo on a 48-month term	No	Via the store builder	Domain and mail in one bill
Later	$18.75/mo Starter (annual)	Yes	Shoppable grid	Instagram as the navigation
Stan Store	$29/mo Creator	Yes	Yes, 0% platform fee	Selling at volume

Lnk.bio

The closest thing to Carrd's pricing philosophy in a purpose-built bio tool: $9.99 buys Mini outright, $24.99 buys Unique outright, and then you are done paying. Against Carrd's $9/year that is roughly one year's difference and you gain the click analytics Carrd has never offered. What you lose is the layout freedom. Carrd lets you put anything anywhere; Lnk.bio gives you a list and 577 templates to skin it. If you chose Carrd because you wanted control of the canvas, this will feel like a cage.

Milkshake

Answers the "I got tired of building it myself" version of leaving Carrd. The whole editor is an app on your phone, and the page is a set of swipeable cards rather than a scrolling layout, so it is closer to a story than a website. Lite is $2.99/mo, Pro $5/mo billed yearly. Free gives you 30 days of analytics, which is 30 days more than Carrd. Realistically, if a custom domain matters to you, budget for Pro+ at $8.33/mo yearly, which is more than eleven years of Carrd Pro Lite.

Taplink

The one to look at if you built a Carrd page and then bolted a Stripe link onto it. Taplink does payments, lead forms, a small CRM and multi-step internal pages natively, so the checkout stops being a link to somewhere else. €3.00/mo billed yearly. Two things to know: the pricing you see is in euros by geography rather than dollars, and there is no genuine monthly option, since the shortest term is three months at €6.00/mo. Coming from a $9 annual bill, either commitment is a step up.

Linktree

Worth naming plainly: Linktree is the tool most Carrd users considered first and rejected, usually because the free tier is visibly Linktree-branded and the paid tier is $6/mo against Carrd's $9/year. Nothing about that has changed. What you get for the difference is that the page needs no design decisions from you and the URL is recognised on sight, which is worth more when strangers are the audience than when your own followers are.

Campsite

Built for the specific gap Carrd leaves: measurement. Pro is $7/mo and keeps your full click history instead of a rolling window; Pro+ at $24/mo adds CSV export. The free tier caps analytics at 14 days, which is too short to answer whether a link is working, so treat free as a trial. It is also a much smaller company than Carrd, which is a fair thing to weigh when Carrd has quietly kept the lights on at $9/year for a decade.

Beacons

The maximal answer. One Creator subscription at $8.33/mo billed annually ($10 monthly) covers a store, an email list, a media kit and Instagram auto-DM, so it replaces the pile of third-party embeds a Carrd page usually accumulates. Check the fee before you move: free and Creator both take 9% of every sale, and 0% starts at Creator Plus at $30/mo. If you were using Carrd precisely because it took nothing from you, that 9% is the number that matters, not the subscription.

Bitly

A different shape of answer: rather than a prettier page, you get link tracking as proper infrastructure, with the bio page as one surface among short links and QR codes. Core is €10/mo billed annually. It only makes sense if you already run links through Bitly and want them reported in one place. The free tier is five links a month, which is a demo. As a replacement for a Carrd page it will feel colder and more corporate, because that is what it is.

PostNext.io

The only option here that answers all three reasons people leave Carrd at once. The mini site is a block builder rather than a link list: product blocks with prices, events, bookings, opening hours, email capture, galleries, embeds, FAQ blocks, music pre-saves and podcast episodes, with custom colours or preset themes, drag-to-reorder, a QR code and a custom domain. Per-link click counts and 14-day trends sit beside your post analytics. Pro is €11/mo billed annually, €19 monthly, and the mini site is included in your plan rather than priced separately.

The honest catch, and it is a big one coming from Carrd: this is a social-media scheduler. You are buying a publishing tool and getting the page with it. If your Carrd page is a personal site you touch twice a year, this is dramatically the wrong purchase and Lnk.bio's one-time fee is the sane answer.

Canva

If your Carrd page exists because you wanted it to look a certain way, Canva is the version of that argument where the design work is already done. The page inherits your brand kit, fonts and templates. But it is a design suite with a bio feature attached, so there are no link analytics and no selling, which means it fixes none of the three reasons for leaving. Only sensible if you already pay for Canva Pro. It geo-prices, so check the figure where you live.

Hostinger

Carrd charges extra for a custom domain; Hostinger bundles one free for the first year along with mailboxes and hosting. That is the trade. Read the price properly though: $2.99/mo exists only on a 48-month term, which is $143.52 paid up front, and it renews at $10.99/mo. Over four years Carrd Pro Lite costs $36. There is no free tier, only a 14-day builder trial. Take it if you want a domain, mail and a page on one invoice, not if you want a cheap page.

Later

Only relevant if your traffic comes from Instagram and the thing you actually want is for the grid itself to be clickable. Later does that and Carrd cannot. It is also $18.75/mo billed yearly, $25 monthly, because Linkin.bio is not sold separately and rides on a scheduling subscription whose Starter tier allows one social set and 30 posts per profile per month. That is roughly 25 times Carrd's annual cost per month, so it is only rational if the scheduling half earns its keep.

Stan Store

For the case where the Carrd page was quietly a shop. Stan takes no platform cut, so against Beacons' 9% it wins as soon as you sell enough, and against a Carrd page with an embedded checkout it removes a moving part. At $29/mo with no free tier it is the most expensive option here by a distance and you pay before your first sale. Note that Stan publishes no standalone pricing page; these numbers come from an article on its own domain.

Where Carrd still wins

Price, obviously. $9/year is not a competitive position, it is a different category. Every tool above costs more per month than Carrd costs per year, except Lnk.bio's one-time tiers.

Layout control. Carrd is the only option here that lets you place elements freely rather than stacking blocks in a prescribed order. If your page does something unusual, nothing below will reproduce it.

It is not going anywhere. Carrd has been quietly profitable and independent for years at a price nobody undercuts. Several tools in this list are smaller operations with far shorter track records.

How to choose

You want to know what people tap. Lnk.bio if you want to keep paying almost nothing, Campsite if measurement is the whole point.

You want to sell from the page. Taplink for payments without leaving the page, Stan Store if volume justifies $29/mo and 0% fees, Beacons if you want the whole stack and can live with 9%.

You are tired of building it yourself. Milkshake or Linktree. Milkshake if you edit from your phone, Linktree if the audience is strangers who need to recognise the link.

You want the page to be one part of something bigger. PostNext if you post regularly across networks, Hostinger if what you actually wanted was a domain and mail, Later if Instagram is the entire business.