Carrd vs Duda Comparison 2026
Carrd's Pro plan is $19 a year. Duda's cheapest plan is also shown at $19, but that figure is a monthly charge billed annually, so a year of Duda runs to roughly $228 before a second site is added. The gap is not a rounding error: Duda is built for freelancers and studios building sites for clients, with permissions and a white-label editor Carrd has no reason to offer.
One-page sites that cost less than lunch
A site builder aimed at people building for clients
At a glance
- Only Carrd has a free tier.
Side by side
Carrd | Duda | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $19 | From $19 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Annual only | Not stated |
| Free trial (they differ) | 7 days | 14 days |
| API |
Carrd
One-page sites that cost less than lunch
Carrd builds the single page most people actually need: a bio, a link list, a launch page, a form that collects email addresses. Three sites are free and Pro is priced by the year rather than the month, which is why it keeps winning link-in-bio arguments on price alone. A site that wants a blog or a shop outgrows it fast.
Our note
The cheapest way to stop handing out a social profile as though it were a home page. If Linktree's monthly bill is the one you keep meaning to cancel, this is the version you own.
Only on this side
- Covers landing pages & funnels
- Covers link in bio
Duda
A site builder aimed at people building for clients
Duda is built for somebody making sites for other people: client permissions, a white-label editor and a per-site price that scales with the number of projects rather than the size of one. Sites are fast and responsive without hand-tuning. The team and white-label tiers are where its actual audience sits, and the cheapest plan is a single site for somebody trying it. Anybody building one personal site will find the agency machinery irrelevant and the price higher than the consumer builders.
Why people weigh these two
- Duda instead of Carrd
- Duda is built for agencies making sites for clients rather than one page for yourself, a trial at $19 with no free plan.
- Carrd instead of Duda
- Carrd builds one-page sites for less than lunch money with a free tier, the opposite end of the market from client permissions and white labels.
Which one should you pick
Carrd is the right tool, and the far cheaper one, for a single personal site: a bio, a launch page, a portfolio that fits on one screen, for $19 a year with no client machinery to learn. Somebody building one site for themselves gains nothing from Duda's per-project pricing or its white-label editor.
Duda earns its price once client work enters the picture. Extra published projects are $19 a month each on the entry plan, so the real cost scales with how many sites you publish rather than with features, and a freelancer building a steady stream of small client sites gets permissions and white-label handover Carrd was never built to offer. Count the sites you will publish before comparing the headline price.
Common questions
- Is Duda really that much more expensive than Carrd?
- Per year, yes. Carrd's Pro plan is $19 a year flat. Duda's cheapest plan is $19 a month billed annually, closer to $228 a year, and extra published sites cost $19 a month each beyond that.
- Which one is built for building sites for clients?
- Duda. Client permissions and a white-label editor, where clients never see Duda's own branding, are built in from the entry plan. Carrd has neither.
- Does either offer a free plan?
- Carrd does: three sites at no cost, with the core builder intact. Duda has no free tier, only a 14-day trial with every White Label feature included and no card required.
- Which is cheaper for someone building one personal site?
- Carrd, by a wide margin. A single site with no client handoff needed gains nothing from Duda's per-project pricing or its agency features.
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