Carrd vs Durable Comparison 2026
Carrd is a page you design yourself and Pro costs $19 a year. Durable generates a working site from a sentence about the business, publishes a free version on a subdomain, and charges $22 a month for a custom domain plus invoicing and a CRM aimed at running the business, not just showing it off. Someone with a design in mind wants Carrd. Someone who needs a page live in minutes and has no time to build one wants Durable.
One-page sites that cost less than lunch
A site generated from a sentence about the business
At a glance
- Carrd starts cheaper, at $19.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Carrd | Durable | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $19 | From $22 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Annual only | Not stated |
| Free trial | 7 days | Not stated |
| API | Not stated |
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
Durable
A site generated from a sentence about the business
Durable generates a working site from a short description of the business, which is aimed squarely at a tradesperson or solo operator who needs a presence today and will not be maintaining one. An invoicing tool and a CRM sit beside the builder. The free tier publishes on a subdomain with monthly caps on generated images and AI chat. Anybody with a design in mind will be fighting a generator rather than using a builder.
Why people weigh these two
- Durable instead of Carrd
- Durable writes a full site from one sentence about the business, free tier included and paid from $22.
- Carrd instead of Durable
- Carrd puts a one-page site up for less than lunch money with a free tier, presence enough for a solo operator without an AI kit around it.
Which one should you pick
Carrd is the cheaper choice for anybody with even a rough idea of what the page should look like. Nineteen dollars a year buys a page you actually design, and three sites are free before you pay anything. Fighting a generator to get a specific layout costs more time than building it directly.
Durable is worth the higher price, $22 a month against Carrd's $19 a year, when speed matters more than design and the buyer is a tradesperson or solo operator who will never touch a builder again. Invoicing and a CRM come bundled in, so the $22 also buys admin tools Carrd does not have. Treat it as a fast first site rather than a permanent one, and budget to move to a real builder once it has paid for itself.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper?
- Carrd, by a wide margin: $19 a year against Durable's $22 a month, which is roughly $264 a year before any annual discount.
- Does either include business tools like invoicing?
- Durable does, with invoicing and a CRM alongside the generated site on both its free and paid tiers. Carrd is a page builder only, with forms for collecting messages but no billing tools.
- Can I get a site live without designing anything?
- Yes, with Durable: describe the business in a sentence and it generates a working site. Carrd has no generator; every page is built by hand from a one-page template.
- Does Durable's free plan come with a custom domain?
- No, the free plan publishes on a subdomain with capped AI images and chat messages a month. A custom domain arrives on the $22 paid tier, which also includes a free domain registration worth up to $20.
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