Carrd vs MyLinks: which link in bio fits you (2026)

TL;DR: Carrd vs MyLinks compared honestly for 2026: real prices, custom domains, monetisation, and import. See which link in bio tool actually fits your goals.

Carrd vs MyLinks is not really a fair fight, because the two tools are built for different jobs. Carrd is a one-page website builder that happens to make a nice link in bio. MyLinks is a link in bio built to help creators get paid and grow. This comparison is honest about both: where Carrd is the smarter pick, where MyLinks is, and what you actually pay for each. If you want the cheapest possible static page, the answer might be Carrd, and this guide will say so plainly.

Key takeaways

Carrd is cheaper. Its custom-domain plan is about $19 a year. MyLinks Pro is $9 a month. On raw price, Carrd wins.
MyLinks is built to monetise. Tips, digital products, and pay-to-unlock are native. Carrd has no built-in way to take money.
Both let you connect your own custom domain, so that is not a tie-breaker. Carrd needs Pro Standard, MyLinks needs Pro.
Pick Carrd for a static one-page site or portfolio. Pick MyLinks if you want to sell, import a Linktree, or have a page that moves.

Carrd vs MyLinks at a glance

The fastest way to choose is to know what each tool is for. Carrd builds simple, fast, beautiful one-page sites: landing pages, portfolios, coming-soon pages, and link lists. MyLinks builds a link in bio that sells and tracks: tip jar, products, video backgrounds, real analytics, and a 60-second import from Linktree. They overlap on the surface and diverge fast underneath.

Here is the short version, feature by feature:

Best for: Carrd is best for a static one-page site you control down to the pixel. MyLinks is best for a creator who wants to monetise and grow an audience.
Price: Carrd runs $0, then $9, $19, or $49 per year. MyLinks is $0 on free or $9 a month on Pro.
Custom domain: Both support connecting a domain you own. Carrd needs Pro Standard ($19/yr), MyLinks needs Pro ($9/mo).
Selling: MyLinks has native tips, digital products, and pay-to-unlock. Carrd has none of this built in.
Video backgrounds: MyLinks supports them on Pro. Carrd does not.
Import from Linktree: MyLinks pulls your links, bio, and avatar in about a minute. Carrd has no import, so you rebuild by hand.
Design control: Carrd gives you more raw layout freedom. MyLinks gives you customisable templates and blocks built for a bio page.

Where Carrd wins

Carrd genuinely wins on price and on flexibility for static pages. Its paid plans are cheap by any standard: Pro Lite is around $9 a year, Pro Standard around $19 a year, and Pro Plus around $49 a year, with a permanent free tier for up to three sites. For someone who wants a clean portfolio or a coming-soon page on their own domain, $19 a year is hard to beat, and the design control is the real draw.

Carrd's free plan keeps three live sites on a carrd.co subdomain, with a small "Made with Carrd" badge in the footer. Custom domains, forms, and analytics start on Pro Standard at roughly $19 a year, which is where most Carrd users land, according to Carrd's own plan documentation. If your goal is a one-page site that looks exactly how you want and costs almost nothing, Carrd is the right tool and MyLinks is overkill.

Where Carrd shines:

A static one-page site, portfolio, or landing page on your own domain for about $19 a year.
Pixel-level layout control if you like building the page yourself.
The cheapest way to get off a platform subdomain and onto a domain you own.

The trade-off is that Carrd is a website builder, not a creator platform. It does not take payments, it does not import your Linktree, and it does not give you the click-level audience data a creator uses to decide what to post next.

Where MyLinks wins

MyLinks wins the moment money or growth enters the picture. It has a native tip jar with no MyLinks fee, digital product sales at a low 3% fee, and pay-to-unlock content, all paid out through your own Stripe. Carrd has no built-in way to charge anyone for anything, so on Carrd you are bolting on a third-party checkout and hoping it fits. For a creator who sells even occasionally, that gap is the whole decision.

The rest of the MyLinks feature set is built around the same idea: a bio page that does work, not just sits there. Analytics are on the free plan, so you see click-through rate per block and where your traffic comes from without paying first. Video backgrounds on Pro make the page move instead of reading like a static list. And the 60-second import means leaving Linktree is a paste, not a rebuild.

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Where MyLinks shines:

Native monetisation: tips at 0% MyLinks fee, products at 3%, pay-to-unlock, straight to your Stripe.
A free plan that includes real analytics and a tip jar, with no forced branding.
Video backgrounds, customisable templates, and proof blocks that pull live numbers onto your page.
A one-minute import from Linktree, Beacons, or Bio.link instead of rebuilding by hand.

You can connect your own custom domain on MyLinks Pro too, the same bring-your-own setup Carrd uses, so search traffic and backlinks build your brand instead of a platform's.

Pricing, honestly

On raw price, Carrd is cheaper, and pretending otherwise would be the kind of thing this comparison is trying to avoid. Carrd Pro Standard is about $19 a year for a custom domain and analytics. MyLinks Pro is $9 a month, which is about $108 a year. If all you want is a static page on your own domain and you will never sell anything, Carrd costs a fraction of MyLinks and you should take the savings.

The pricing question only flips when you factor in what each plan does. MyLinks Pro at $9 a month includes monetisation, video backgrounds, deeper analytics, and the import, none of which Carrd offers at any price. So the real comparison is not $108 a year against $19 a year. It is "$19 a year for a static page" against "$108 a year for a page that can sell, track, and grow." If the page earns you anything, the math changes quickly. If it never will, it does not.

See the side-by-side

Paste any Linktree URL and see how that same profile would look on MyLinks.page.

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One more honest note: both tools beat Linktree on price for what you get, and both let you own your domain. Carrd does it cheaper for static use. MyLinks does it with the creator tools attached.

Which one should you pick

Choose by what the page is for, not by the price tag alone. If you want a one-page portfolio, a personal site, or a coming-soon page, and you like designing it yourself, pick Carrd and enjoy the $19-a-year bill. If you are a creator who wants to sell, capture an audience, see real analytics, or move off Linktree without rebuilding, pick MyLinks. The two tools rarely compete for the same person once you are clear on which one you are.

A quick gut check. Will your page ever take money, from tips, products, or paid content? If yes, MyLinks. Are you coming from Linktree and dreading the rebuild? MyLinks, because the import handles it. Do you just want the cheapest clean page on your own domain and you will never sell anything? Carrd. There is no wrong answer here, only a mismatch if you pick the website builder for a creator job or the creator platform for a static page.

If you are leaning MyLinks, the easiest start is to paste your existing Linktree at MyLinks.page and watch your links come over in about a minute, or preview your page side by side before you decide. If you are leaning Carrd, build the portfolio and enjoy the cheap domain. Either way, owning your own URL beats renting a platform subdomain.