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Carrd alternatives for creators: Linktree, Beacons, Stan, Squarespace and WithMe for selling

Carrd vs Linktree, Beacons, Stan, Squarespace and WithMe for creators who sell, with prices checked 11 Nov 2026, and who should stay on Carrd.

WithMe Team·11 November 2026

Carrd is one of the best deals on the web for a simple one-page site: Pro Standard is $19 a year for 10 sites with your own domain and forms. Creators usually start looking for an alternative when the page has to sell, not just point. Carrd can take a payment through Stripe on Pro Plus, but it does not deliver a course, book a call, run a membership or email your buyers. Linktree, Beacons and Stan add selling to a link-in-bio page, Squarespace adds it to a full website, and WithMe puts courses, coaching, memberships, digital products and email in one creator hub.

WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial and 0% WithMe commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply. More than 8,000 creators use it. Other prices on this page come from each vendor's own pricing or help pages, checked on 11 November 2026.

Why do creators look for a Carrd alternative?

Delivery. Carrd takes the payment, but the course, file, booking or community has to live somewhere else, with its own login.
Email. Carrd forms send sign-ups on to an email tool such as Mailchimp, Kit or MailerLite, so follow-up is another subscription.
Buyers in one place. With a page in one tool, payments in Stripe and delivery in a third, nobody has one list of who bought what.
Recurring income. A membership or a monthly coaching programme needs logins, renewals and cancellations, which a one-page site does not manage.

What does Carrd do well, and what does it cost?

Carrd is fast, cheap and well designed. You get tidy templates, full control of a single page, and the freedom to build several pages for different offers. Few tools make a better-looking page for less money.

Carrd's own pricing page lists Pro Lite at $9 a year for 3 sites, with no custom domain or forms. Pro Standard is $19 a year for 10 sites and adds custom domains, forms, widgets and embeds such as Stripe, PayPal and Gumroad buttons, and analytics. Pro Plus is $49 a year for 25 sites and adds advanced forms, password protection and redirects. There is a 7-day Pro trial with no card.

Carrd's documentation says payment-enabled forms need Pro Plus or higher, and run through Stripe Checkout. What happens after payment, such as sending a file or opening a course, is up to you.

How do the Carrd alternatives compare?

Prices from each vendor's own pricing or help pages, checked 11 November 2026.

Linktree: a link-in-bio page with selling built in. On its UK pricing page, Starter is £4.08 a month billed annually (£5 monthly), Pro £7.50 (£9 monthly) and Premium £16 (£18.50 monthly). Free and Starter can only offer free digital products, bookings and courses; Pro and Premium can set any price with 0% Linktree fees, and Linktree notes that transaction and processing fees may apply.
Beacons: a link-in-bio page, store and media kit. Its help centre lists a 9% transaction fee on the Free and Creator ($10 a month) plans and 0% on Creator Plus ($30 a month) and Creator Max ($100 a month), plus Stripe or PayPal processing.
Stan: a link-in-bio store. Creator is $29 a month or $300 a year with 0% transaction fees, and includes courses, calendar booking, memberships and a community. Creator Pro is $99 a month or $948 a year. Stores run at stan.store/yourname, and Stan's help centre says a custom domain needs Creator Max at $299 a month.
Squarespace: a full website builder. On its UK pricing page, Basic is £12 a month billed annually and Core £17. It sells courses, memberships and digital content with a transaction fee of 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus and 0% on Advanced, and booking runs on Acuity Scheduling, a separate plan.
WithMe: a creator hub rather than a page. One plan covers a storefront, landing pages, courses, coaching calls with booking, 1:1 coaching, memberships, communities, digital products, lead captures, email sequences and Instagram Auto DMs, with 0% WithMe commission and your own domain on the paid plan.

Which one fits what you sell?

One link to products that live elsewhere: Carrd or a free Linktree is enough.
A few digital products and calls sold from Instagram: Linktree Pro, Beacons or Stan, as long as you check the fee on your plan.
A brand website with a blog and portfolio, and a few things to sell: Squarespace.
Courses, coaching, a membership and email together: WithMe, where the page, checkout, delivery and follow-up sit in one hub.

Who should stay on Carrd?

Stay if your page only points somewhere: a portfolio, a newsletter sign-up you already run in Kit, or a launch page for a product sold on another platform. At $19 a year it is hard to beat, and you can keep it and link to a WithMe hub for the selling.

Stay too if you need many small sites. Carrd's plans are priced by the number of sites, and design freedom on a single page is its strength. WithMe is not a free-form page designer.

How do you move from Carrd to WithMe?

Start the 14-day trial, choose your hub address and connect Stripe so you can take payments.
Add each offer from your Carrd page as a product: a course, a Coaching Call, 1:1 Coaching, a membership or a digital product, with its price.
Copy your Carrd headline and sections into each product's description, and add up to 10 images or videos under Add Media. Or ask Dez, the landing page agent, to write the page from the product's details.
If your Carrd form fed an email tool, export that list as a CSV and import it into a lead capture. Only import people who agreed to hear from you.
When you move to the paid plan, open More → Custom domain and add the two CNAME records, then point your old Carrd links at your hub or at each product's landing page.

What is not included?

WithMe has no drag-and-drop canvas, no blog and no contact form, and you cannot run dozens of separate one-page sites the way Carrd allows. A Dez page lives on a product rather than at its own address, and new sections come from asking Dez. Custom domains need the paid plan, not the trial, and WithMe does not sell domains.

How much does WithMe cost?

WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial and 0% WithMe commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply. That one plan replaces the page, the checkout, the course or booking tool and the email tool that a Carrd set-up usually needs. Dez uses AI credits, which are optional and purchased separately from your Hub subscription.

Carrd alternative questions

Can Carrd sell digital products?

Carrd can take a payment through Stripe with a payment-enabled form on Pro Plus, from $49 a year, or with an embedded Stripe, PayPal or Gumroad button on Pro Standard. Delivering the file, course or booking is up to you.

What is the cheapest Carrd alternative for selling?

Linktree and Beacons have free plans, but on 11 November 2026 Linktree's free plan could only offer free products and Beacons charged 9% on Free. Stan Creator is $29 a month, and WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25) with 0% WithMe commission.

Is Linktree better than Carrd?

For a list of links in your bio, Linktree is quicker to set up. For a designed one-page site with your own domain, Carrd gives more control. Neither delivers a course, a membership and email in one place.

Can I keep my Carrd site and use WithMe?

Yes. Keep the Carrd page for your brand and link its buttons to your WithMe products, so checkout, delivery and email happen in your hub.

Does WithMe have a landing page builder?

Every product has its own sales page with media, a description and a checkout, and can be published as a landing page that is not shown on your hub. Dez, the landing page agent, can write the page for you using AI credits.

Start your 14-day trial at https://www.withme.so/become-a-creator.