Carrd One-Page Sites — Build a Portfolio or Event Page for $19
Carrd's Pro plan costs $19 per year, lets you build 10 sites, connect custom domains, collect form submissions, and add password protection — under $2 per site
Carrd's Pro plan costs $19 per year, lets you build 10 sites, connect custom domains, collect form submissions, and add password protection — under $2 per site per year. This price point means a "one-page portfolio" or a "single-event registration page" no longer requires WordPress hosting or Webflow's monthly fee structure. The real limitation isn't the feature count, it's that Carrd only does one page — for an information architecture spanning more than one page, it isn't the cheap choice, it's the wrong choice. Carrd's Pricing Structure and Its Real Boundary Carrd has only three paid tiers, all billed annually. The free tier allows 3 sites on a carrd.co subdomain with no custom domain; Pro Lite is $9 per year and allows custom domains but no forms; Pro Standard is $19 per year with 10 sites, forms, Google Analytics, password protection, and third-party code embedding; Pro Plus is $49 per year with 25 sites, a higher form submission allowance, and white-label options. See the full comparison on the official Carrd pricing page . The $19 tier is the sensible stopping point for most individual users. Pro Lite lacks forms, which means a portfolio can't collect inquiries and an event page can't collect registrations — the $10 you save usually gets spent on a third-party form service anyway, making it both pricier and more fragmented. Pro Plus's 25 sites is excess capacity for anyone who isn't taking on client work. Carrd's hard boundary is the single page. There's no blog system, no multi-level menu, no product catalog, no built-in ecommerce checkout. What it supports is a site where "one URL opens and you scroll through all the content." You can use anchor links to fake a multi-page experience, or build several separate single pages under one account and link them to each other, but that's a workaround, not the product's design intent. Why the Single-Page Structure Works for Portfolios and Event Pages A single-page structure lowers the user's decision cost, and for po
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Why the Single-Page Structure Works for Portfolios and Event Pages
A single-page structure lowers the user's decision cost, and for portfolios and event pages, success hinges almost entirely on "will the visitor read to the end." Multi-page sites ask visitors to decide "should I click through" at every node, and every decision is a drop-off point. A single page converts the decision into scrolling, and scrolling is a low-cost action. Google's mobile web research has long pointed to the link between load time and bounce rate: "As mobile page load time goes from
The Real Limits of the $19 Plan, and How to Work Around Them
Pro Standard's form submissions aren't unlimited, and Carrd's built-in forms only handle basic fields and receipt notifications — no conditional logic, no payments, no automatic closing when a capacity limit is hit. If your event page needs capped registration or online payment, Carrd forms aren't enough. A workable route is to treat Carrd as the "persuasion layer" and outsource the transaction layer: point the registration button straight at a Google Form, Luma, Accupass, or KKTIX event page. C
When You Shouldn't Use Carrd
Don't use Carrd when you need three or more pages of independent content. Three-plus pages means you have information hierarchy, and the cost of handling hierarchy with a single-page tool exceeds just using Astro on Netlify's free tier, or a low-end Framer or Webflow plan. Don't use Carrd when you need a blog. A site publishing articles continuously needs categories, tags, RSS, and an automated sitemap — Carrd has none of them. Don't use Carrd when you need multi-person collaborative editing. Ca
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