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Carrd
Simple, low-cost builder for one-page websites, landing pages and link pages.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
Hard to beat for individuals and side projects that just need a clean one-page site or landing page cheaply. It is deliberately single-page and minimal, so multi-page sites or stores need other tools. Verify the current low-cost plan on the official site.
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Should you use Carrd?
Use it if individuals and side projects. Avoid it if anyone who will need a blog or product catalogue later, because Carrd has no CMS and no path to multi page sites.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹74/mo$0.75/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Claim this listing →In short
Carrd is a it, security & hosting / website builders for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹74/mo for a GST-registered business ($0.75/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for individuals and side projects, and a poor fit if anyone who will need a blog or product catalogue later, because Carrd has no CMS and no path to multi page sites.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Pro Standard costs 19 dollars a year for 10 sites, less than a single month on most other website builders
- The free tier builds three real sites with the core features, so you can ship a landing page before paying anything
- Pro Plus at 49 dollars a year lets you download the finished HTML, CSS, JS and images, which limits platform lock in
The catch
- Custom domains, forms, embeds and analytics all start at Pro Standard, so the 9 dollar Pro Lite tier cannot host a real business page
- Carrd builds single page sites only, with no blog, no CMS and no multi page navigation, so growing means rebuilding elsewhere
- Zapier, Make, Airtable and Stripe Checkout form integrations are locked to Pro Plus at 49 dollars rather than the 19 dollar tier
- Support is email only, and reviewers report slow replies plus no draft saving, so a crash while editing loses the work
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹74
Carrd advertises $0.75/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹74 a month (₹893/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹88 a month.
- Sticker price
- $0.75/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹74
- Registered per year
- ₹893
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹88
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Free 1-site tier. Pro plans billed annually from $0.75/mo, with higher tiers adding features. 7-day Pro trial. USD. Confirm on vendor site.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Carrd fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Carrd compares
Against the 6 other website builder toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other website builder tools
Recorded for Carrd and for at most a third of the 6 others we list.
- Custom templates
- Free ssl
- Password protection
- Remove vendor branding
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 6 others, and for Carrd.
- Custom domain
- Site analytics
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Carrd?
Carrd is a minimalist builder for one-page sites (landing pages, profiles, link-in-bio and simple sites), with responsive templates and forms, at a very low price. It targets individuals and small projects that need a single page online fast.
Best for
- Individuals and side projects
- Landing/link-in-bio pages
- Anyone needing one page fast and cheap
Who should avoid it
- Anyone who will need a blog or product catalogue later, because Carrd has no CMS and no path to multi page sites
- Agencies wanting staging, drafts or version history on client sites, since Carrd edits save live with no draft state
What Carrd does
What we verified about Carrd
Read from Carrd’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed31
- Site analytics
- optional analytics via Google Analytics, Plausible and Matomo
- Remove vendor branding
- Pro removes the Made with Carrd footer branding
- Password protection
- password protection is exclusive to Pro Plus
- Free ssl
- custom domains get full SSL support via Let's Encrypt
- Custom templates
- custom templates appear in every Pro plan feature list
- Custom domain
- Pro Standard publishes to any custom domain you own
- Advanced forms
- Advanced Forms are exclusive to the Pro Plus tier
- Canonical url
- canonical URL control is a Pro Plus feature
- Contact forms
- contact forms are a Pro-exclusive feature
- Custom code embeds
- your own custom code can be embedded on Pro plans
- Custom favicon
- site icons show a custom favicon in the address bar
- Email signup forms
- signup forms post to twenty named email marketing services
- Large media uploads
- images and GIFs up to 16MB and videos up to 64MB
- Local fonts
- local fonts are listed from the Pro Standard tier
- Meta tags
- meta tags are a Pro Standard feature for SEO control
- Multi site account
- one account can hold 3 to 1000 sites depending on tier
- One page site builder
- the product builds single-page responsive sites only
- Payment enabled forms
- payment-enabled forms are listed among Pro form types
- Premium templates
- premium starting-point templates are Pro-exclusive
- Qr codes
- QR codes are listed in every Pro plan tier
- Redirects
- redirects are a Pro Plus advanced setting
- Responsive templates
- templates look right from phones to desktops out of the box
- Site export
- Pro Plus lets you download the finished HTML, CSS, JS and images
- Site files hosting
- Site Files lets Pro Plus users host arbitrary files
- Site transfers
- site transfers let you hand a site to another account
- Slideshows
- slideshows appear in the Pro plan feature lists
- Social share images
- custom share images replace screenshots on social previews
- Template variables
- Variables appear in the Pro Plus advanced feature list
- Third party embeds
- widgets and embeds from Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad and Typeform
- Unlimited elements
- Pro removes the element limit for bigger pages
- Video uploads
- video uploads are listed in every Pro tier
What people use it for3
- Build an online store
- payment-enabled forms plus Stripe and Gumroad embeds take money
- Capture and qualify leads
- signup forms feed twenty named email marketing platforms
- Build a website
- a cheap one-page site is the standard idea-validation surface
Works with28
- Zapier
- Zapier form integration is available on Pro Plus
- Typeform
- Typeform is named among supported widget embeds
- Stripe
- Stripe widgets and embeds are supported on Pro
- Sendgrid
- SendGrid is listed among supported form services
- Resend
- Resend is a named signup form integration
- Paypal
- PayPal is a named embeddable third-party widget
- Make
- Make form integration is locked to the Pro Plus tier
- Mailerlite
- MailerLite is a named signup form provider
- Mailchimp
- Mailchimp is named as a supported signup form target
- Lets encrypt
- SSL certificates are issued through Let's Encrypt
- Klaviyo
- Klaviyo is listed among the supported form services
- Kit
- Kit, formerly ConvertKit, is a named form provider
- Hubspot
- HubSpot is listed among supported signup form services
- Gumroad
- Gumroad is listed as an embeddable third-party service
- Google analytics
- site analytics can run on Google Analytics
- Getresponse
- GetResponse appears in the form provider list
- Brevo
- Brevo is listed among the signup form integrations
- Airtable
- Airtable form integration requires the Pro Plus plan
- Activecampaign
- ActiveCampaign is listed among supported form providers
- Beehiiv
- beehiiv appears in the supported signup form services list
- Buttondown
- Buttondown is a named signup form provider
- Emailoctopus
- EmailOctopus is listed among supported form services
- Ghost
- Ghost is a named signup form integration
- Loops
- Loops appears in the signup form integration list
- Mailjet
- Mailjet is listed among supported form services
- Matomo
- Matomo is listed as a supported analytics option
- Omnisend
- Omnisend appears in the form provider list
- Plausible
- Plausible is a named supported analytics provider
Terms, compliance and how you buy23
- Solo founder friendly
- aimed at individuals and side projects needing a page fast
- Self serve signup
- the entire purchase flow is instant upgrade with no sales contact
- Paypal accepted
- upgrade accepts PayPal or any major credit or debit card
- Email only support
- support is email only with reports of slow replies
- Annual billing only
- every Pro plan is quoted per year, not per month
- 7 day trial
- homepage advertises try it free for 7 days on Pro
- Automations locked to top tier
- Zapier, Make, Airtable and Stripe Checkout forms need Pro Plus
- Confusing tier matrix
- three plan families each split into many site-count variants
- Forms need standard tier
- forms, embeds and analytics all start at Pro Standard, not Pro Lite
- Free tier three sites
- free accounts build up to three sites with core features
- No blog
- our cons record no blog capability at all
- No cms
- our research confirms there is no CMS or content model
- No draft state
- reviewers report edits save live with no draft saving
- No INR pricing
- no rupee pricing appears anywhere on the plan comparison
- No multipage navigation
- growing beyond one page means rebuilding elsewhere
- No online store
- only payment-enabled forms exist, not a product catalogue
- No signup to start
- homepage says choose a starting point with no signup required
- No version history
- our notes flag no staging, drafts or version history for agencies
- Pay as you go option
- plans can auto-renew yearly or be paid as you go
- Single page only
- Carrd deliberately builds one-page sites with no navigation
- Site count based tiers
- tiers differ mainly by how many sites you can publish
- Usd billed
- all plan prices are quoted in US dollars
- Very low cost
- Pro starts at $9 per year and Pro Standard at $19 per year
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Pricing caveat and source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
Free 1-site tier. Pro plans billed annually from $0.75/mo, with higher tiers adding features. 7-day Pro trial. USD. Confirm on vendor site.
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Does Carrd give a GST invoice in India?
Carrd does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Carrd good for Indian small businesses?
Carrd can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Carrd have a free plan?
Carrd lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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