Best for
Best for individuals who need a single landing page, profile or sign-up page online quickly.
- Freelancers
Website Builders Comparison
Carrd vs. WordPress.com
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for publishers, bloggers and agencies who want managed WordPress with a path to self-hosting.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Carrd | WordPress.com |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free; Pro from $9 / year Pro Lite is $9 a year for 3 sites without custom domains. Custom domains start with Pro Standard at $19 a year for 10 sites. Every tier is also sold in larger site bundles. | lower value Free; paid plans from $4 / month Personal plan billed yearly; $9 billed monthly, less on 2- and 3-year terms. Premium $8, Business $25 and Commerce $45 per month billed yearly; Enterprise through WordPress VIP. Prices in USD. |
| Free trial | Free plan, plus a 7-day Pro trial with no payment or credit card required | Free plan with no expiration date on a WordPress.com subdomain |
| Output | One-page websites hosted on Carrd | Hosted WordPress sites, blogs and WooCommerce stores |
| What it makes | Fully responsive one-page sites, such as personal profiles, landing pages and email sign-up pages | Hosted WordPress websites, blogs and online stores, built in the block editor or generated by an AI site builder |
| Styling and layout control | Free and premium templates, custom templates, slideshows, video uploads and locally served fonts, with variables and advanced settings on Pro Plus | WordPress block editor with themes, custom CSS from the Personal plan, a selection of premium themes on Personal and all premium themes from Premium upwards |
| CMS and dynamic content | Single pages only, and the documentation describes no blog or content collections. On Pro Plus, variables insert dynamic values into text, buttons, links, lists, tables, embeds and form messages: URL parameters, the visitor's date and time, and values from a submitted form, each with an optional fallback | The WordPress content model: posts, pages, categories, tags and comments, extended with plugins, which can be installed on every paid plan |
| Hosting and domains | Hosted by Carrd on a carrd.co address. Custom domains and subdomains with SSL via Let's Encrypt from Pro Standard | Managed WordPress hosting on every plan, from 1 GB storage on Free to 50 GB on Business and Commerce. Paid plans include a custom domain for the first year; the free plan uses a WordPress.com subdomain |
| SEO controls | Site title and description, share image, a sitemap setting and custom meta tags from Pro Standard, plus redirects and a canonical URL on Pro Plus | Built-in SEO tools on Premium, Business and Commerce, alongside SEO plugins that can be installed on any paid plan |
| E-commerce | Forms can take Stripe payments, and payment widgets from Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad and Typeform can be embedded on Pro Standard and higher | Payment buttons for PayPal and Stripe from Premium, and WooCommerce with unlimited products, inventory management and 0% transaction fees on Commerce |
| Publishing and code export | Publishes to Carrd hosting. Pro Plus downloads a site's unminified HTML, CSS and JavaScript; forms and other platform features stop working in the download, and it cannot be uploaded back to Carrd | Content exports as an XML file with posts, pages, comments, categories, tags and links to media, for import into another WordPress.com site, a self-hosted WordPress install or other platforms. Themes, design customisations and plugins move with a migration plugin instead. SFTP, SSH, WP-CLI and GitHub deployments on Business and Commerce |
| AI features | No AI feature is named on the homepage, the Pro plan page or the changelog | An AI website builder generates pages, layouts, images and copy from a prompt on all paid plans, and the WordPress Agent drafts pages, rewrites copy, generates images and refines the design after launch. Ecommerce is not part of the AI workflow |
| API | No API is named in the documentation. On Pro Plus, custom forms send submissions to Zapier, Make, n8n, Airtable, a custom URL or custom JavaScript code | REST API with OAuth2, WP-CLI, GitHub deployments and an official MCP server, available on all paid plans, that connects AI agents to the account and its sites |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | Freelancers | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad, Typeform, ActiveCampaign, beehiiv, Brevo, Buttondown, EmailOctopus, GetResponse, Ghost, HubSpot, Kit, Klaviyo, Loops, Mailchimp, MailerLite, Mailjet, Omnisend, Resend, Sender, SendFox, SendGrid, Sendy | Not stated |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Carrd Free; Pro from $9 / year WordPress.com Free; paid plans from $4 / month
- Free trial Carrd Free plan, plus a 7-day Pro trial with no payment or credit card required WordPress.com Free plan with no expiration date on a WordPress.com subdomain
- Company size Carrd Freelancers WordPress.com Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- MCP-ready Carrd No WordPress.com Yes
- Output Carrd One-page websites hosted on Carrd WordPress.com Hosted WordPress sites, blogs and WooCommerce stores
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Carrd
Strengths
- Free plan publishes up to three sites
- Paid plans are billed per year, from $9
- Forms send sign-ups to twenty named email services, including Mailchimp, Kit, beehiiv and MailerLite
- Site code can be downloaded on Pro Plus
Limitations
- Builds one-page sites only
- Custom domains need Pro Standard or higher
- A downloaded site loses its working forms and cannot be moved back to Carrd
WordPress.com
Strengths
- Content moves to any self-hosted WordPress install, so the platform is not a dead end
- Plugins can be installed on every paid plan, not only the top tiers
- Permanent free plan, and low entry price on longer terms
- Developer access through SFTP, SSH, WP-CLI and GitHub deployments on Business and Commerce
Limitations
- The free plan has no custom domain and no plugins
- Native store features require the Commerce plan
- Developer tools and full backups start at the Business plan
- The standard export leaves design, themes and plugins behind
Plans
Pricing
Carrd
- Free $0 Up to 3 sites on a carrd.co address.
- Pro Lite $9 Per year. 3 sites, no branding, premium templates, no custom domains. 10 sites for $14, 25 sites for $29.
- Pro Standard $19 Per year. 10 sites with custom domains, forms, widgets, embeds, analytics and meta tags. Bundles up to 1,000 sites for $599.
- Pro Plus $49 Per year. 25 sites, advanced forms, site download, redirects and password protection. Bundles up to 1,000 sites for $999.
WordPress.com
- Free $0 No expiration date. 1 GB storage, WordPress.com subdomain, basic stats, no custom domain or plugins.
- Personal $4 Per month, billed yearly ($9 monthly). 6 GB storage, free domain for one year, plugin installation, no ads for visitors.
- Premium $8 Per month, billed yearly ($18 monthly). 13 GB storage, all premium themes, payment buttons, video hosting, SEO tools, premium analytics.
- Business $25 Per month, billed yearly ($40 monthly). 50 GB storage, 24/7 priority support, backups and restores, SFTP, SSH, WP-CLI and GitHub deployments.
- Commerce $45 Per month, billed yearly ($70 monthly). WooCommerce, unlimited products, inventory management, 0% transaction fees, all store themes.
- Enterprise Custom Through WordPress VIP.
What users say
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Carrd
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WordPress.com
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Carrd https://carrd.com · checked against the official source on 2026-10-07
WordPress.com https://wordpress.com · checked against the official source on 2026-10-05
This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.