Love Carrd?
Keep it. Unless you need more.
Carrd is one of the best tools around for a single, beautiful one-page site, and at $9 a year for Pro Lite it is hard to beat on price. If that is what you want, stay on Carrd. Move to Folio only when one page is no longer enough: when you want a multi-page website you own, built from your resume in about a minute, with a matched designer resume and live ATS scoring. Both cases are laid out fairly below.
What Carrd is great at.
Quick facts so you can judge for yourself. These are Carrd's published prices at the time of writing, so check carrd.co for current ones. If a cheap, single, gorgeous page is the whole job, this is the tool.
Three sites, no Carrd branding. Custom domains and forms start on Pro Standard.
Ten sites, custom domains, and forms. Still cents per month for what it does.
Twenty-five sites and extra embeds for power users.
Everything lives on a single scrolling page. That focus is the point, and its strength.
Carrd and Folio, judged fairly.
They are different tools for different jobs. Carrd wins on price and on the single, hand-crafted page. Folio wins when you want a full website drafted from a resume.
| Carrd | Folio | |
|---|---|---|
| Best at | One beautiful one-page site, cheaply | A multi-page website drafted from your resume |
| Price | From $9 / year, the clear winner on cost | Free to start, your own domain on paid plans |
| Structure | Single scrolling page | Multiple pages: work, about, projects, contact |
| How you build it | You design each block by hand | Paste a resume, get a full draft in about a minute |
| Resume tooling | None, it is a site builder | Matched designer resume, 48 layouts, live ATS scoring |
| Designs | Templates plus manual styling | 74 designs tuned for professional sites |
| Custom domain | Yes, from Pro Standard | On paid plans, TLS handled automatically |
| API | No | Public read API |
For one gorgeous page at $9 a year, keep Carrd. For a resume-driven website you own with several pages, that is what Folio is for.
When to stay on Carrd.
Folio is not a one-page builder and never will be. If a single tight page is what you want, Carrd is the better choice, and we will say so.
Move to Folio if you
- +Want a multi-page website with separate work, about, and contact pages, not one long scroll.
- +Have a resume to draft from and want the site built in about a minute rather than block by block.
- +Want a matched designer resume with live ATS scoring alongside the site.
- +Care that search engines and AI answer engines can read and cite every page.
Keep Carrd if you
- −Only need one beautiful page. Carrd is the better choice here.
- −Want the lowest possible price. At $9 a year, Carrd is hard to beat.
- −Enjoy hand-placing every block and want fine control over a single layout.
- −Are building a simple link page, event page, or coming-soon splash.
Carrd questions, answered.
Straight answers about the difference and when each tool wins.
Is Folio cheaper than Carrd?
It depends on what you need. Folio is free to start on a portfolio.wrxstack.com address, and your own domain comes with its paid plans. Carrd's paid plans start at $9 a year for Pro Lite at the time of writing, with custom domains from Pro Standard. If the lowest price for one page is your priority, Carrd is hard to beat.
Can Carrd build a multi-page site?
Carrd is designed around a single scrolling page, and it is excellent at that. If you want distinct pages for work, about, projects, and contact, that is where Folio fits, because it drafts a multi-page site from your resume in about a minute.
How does Folio build a site so fast?
You paste your resume and it drafts the pages, the copy, and a matched designer resume for you. See resume to portfolio for exactly how a resume becomes a complete website.
Do both let me use my own domain?
Yes. Carrd supports a custom domain from its Pro Standard plan, and Folio connects one on its paid plans, with TLS handled automatically. On that specific point they are comparable.
Does Folio help with the resume itself?
Yes, and Carrd does not, because Carrd is a site builder. Folio gives you 48 resume layouts and live ATS scoring so an applicant tracking system can read your resume. You can try the free ATS score checker before you build anything.
Should I switch away from Carrd?
Only if you have outgrown one page. Carrd remains one of the best value one-page builders available. Switch to Folio when you want a full website you own, built from a resume, not when a single page still does the job.
Keep reading.
The product, how the resume becomes a site, and the free tool to check your resume.
Outgrown one page?
Start from your resume.
Keep Carrd for the single page it does so well. When you want a full multi-page website you own, paste your resume into Folio and get a site, a scored resume, and a matched cover letter in about a minute, with TLS handled for you.