Carrd vs Framer

Carrd logovsFramer logo
Carrd builds a clean one-page site for very little, fast. Framer builds a full marketing site with CMS and hosting, with an AI agent on the canvas. Pick by whether one page is enough.

The verdict

If you need a clean page today to test an offer or collect sign-ups, pick Carrd. The cost of a wrong idea stays small. If the site is a real marketing site, with several pages, a blog or case studies and a team that keeps changing it, pick Framer.

For most small B2B teams reading this, Framer is the better home, because a company site grows past one page quickly. Carrd still earns its place as a side tool for campaign pages and experiments. Be aware that a Framer site lives in Framer, and moving later means rebuilding. When a Carrd test turns into a business, plan the move early, before the page has real traffic.

What the data says
  • Both cover 2 of the 4 features we compared.
  • Both have a free plan, so you can try each before you pay.
  • Carrd starts lower, at $0.75/mo against $10/mo.
  • In our Website ranking, Framer places 5 and Carrd 6 of 11.

Side by side

Carrd and Framer compared
8 points compared
Starts at$0.75/mo$10/mo
Free planYesYes
APINot known yetYes
MCP serverNot known yetNot known yet
Built-in CMS / blogNoYes
Native ecommerceNoNo
Self-hostingYesNo
Visual no-code editorYesYes
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Plans and pricing

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Carrd

  • FreeFree plan with a Carrd-branded site; code-snippet features are blocked.Free
  • Pro Lite$9 a year for 3 sites; larger site bundles cost $14 (10 sites) and $29 (25 sites) a year.$9/yr
  • Pro Standard$19 a year for 10 sites; bundles up to 1,000 sites at $599 a year.$19/yr
  • Pro Plus$49 a year for 25 sites; bundles up to 1,000 sites at $999 a year.$49/yr
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Framer

  • FreeFree Framer domain, 500 AI credits, 1 GB bandwidth.Free
  • BasicSite plan with custom domain, 2 CMS collections and 50 GB bandwidth; yearly option exists but amount not read.$10/mo
  • ProSite plan with 10 CMS collections and 100 GB bandwidth; extra editors 20 per seat per month.$30/mo

Prices as the vendors list them. They change often; the final price is on their sites.

Who each is for

Carrd logo

Choose Carrd if…

Pick Framer if the marketing site is owned by design or marketing, and speed of change matters. It suits designers and marketing teams who want to build, publish and change the company website themselves, with a CMS and hosting included.

The AI agent works on the real canvas, so you can inspect and edit what it did. The free plan lets you build before you pay, but pricing is per site, extra editors cost money, and pages, CMS items and bandwidth have limits per plan. Skip it for a large product catalogue, heavy back-end logic or a deep editorial workflow. Count your pages and collections against each plan, because that decides your real bill.

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Choose Framer if…

Pick Carrd if you are a founder, freelancer or small team who needs a landing page, waiting list, event page or link-in-bio live this afternoon. Pick a template, replace the text, connect a form to your email tool and publish.

It connects to named email and payment tools, and Pro Plus adds custom forms that reach Zapier, Make, n8n and Airtable. The limits are clear. There is one page per site, design control is narrower than in a full builder, and the integration list is fixed. Features sit on specific plans, so check which one holds what you need before you build. Skip it if you need a multi-page company site with SEO content.

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