Carrd vs Duda

Carrd is a builder for simple, responsive one-page websites: landing pages, personal profiles, link-in-bio pages, portfolios, waitlists and event pages. It is built and run by a single independent developer, known as AJ, who also created the HTML5 UP template collection, and it has stayed deliberately small and focused for years.

The editor works with sections, containers and elements on a single page, with fine-grained control over typography, spacing and backgrounds, and a library of clean templates. The free plan allows up to three sites on a carrd.co subdomain. Paid plans are billed yearly rather than monthly: Pro Lite removes Carrd branding and unlocks premium carrd.co addresses, Pro Standard adds custom domains with SSL, forms that connect to Mailchimp, Kit, Formspree and other services, plus embeds, widgets such as Stripe and PayPal buttons and Google Analytics, and Pro Plus adds advanced site settings, more sites and the option to download a site's source files. Even the top plan costs less per year than many builders charge per month.

Carrd is ideal for indie makers, freelancers and early-stage startups who need a polished single page in an afternoon. Its limits are structural: there is no CMS, no blog, no real multi-page navigation and no team collaboration, and interactions and animations are basic. When a project needs several pages, Framer and Webflow are the usual next steps; Linktree is simpler for pure link lists, and Squarespace or Wix suit small businesses that want a full site with commerce.

Duda is a website building platform designed for agencies, SaaS companies and hosting providers that create and manage websites at scale. The company was founded in 2009 and has offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. Rather than serving individual site owners, Duda focuses on the teams building sites for many clients, with white labeling, client permissions and a central dashboard for hundreds of sites.

The drag-and-drop editor works with templates, reusable sections and widgets, while dynamic pages generate many pages from a single collection, useful for locations, listings or services. Sites are built for fast loading and good Core Web Vitals, and built-in features cover multilingual sites, membership areas, basic e-commerce and AI assistance for content. APIs let SaaS platforms embed Duda as their own website builder. Plans start with a single-site Basic tier and scale through Team and Agency, with white label and client management on higher plans and custom pricing for platforms.

Duda fits agencies building local business, franchise and multi-location sites, and software vendors who want to offer websites to their customers. It gives less design freedom than Webflow, per-site costs add up, and its e-commerce is basic compared with Shopify. Webflow suits design-led studios, WordPress offers maximum flexibility and plugin choice, and Wix suits individuals building a single site.