A Carrd alternative for a business website
If you need a website that works for a business, with online booking, a menu, quote requests, a blog or a few pages, Ginta is a Carrd alternative that does that work for you: you describe the business, the AI builds it, and you change it by asking. If all you need is a simple one-page site or link page on your own domain, Carrd is cheaper than Ginta, at $19 a year, and it's the better buy.
We make Ginta. Every fact about Carrd below comes from Carrd's own website and documentation, checked on 19 October 2026 (links at the end).
Why people look for a Carrd alternative for a business
Carrd is loved for a reason: it builds "simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites", it's quick to learn, and its prices are tiny. Businesses start looking elsewhere when the one page has to do more:
- It's one page by design. A restaurant wants a menu people can read on a phone, a salon wants booking, a trades business wants quote requests with photos. Carrd's pages list no built-in booking, store, menu or blog; booking means embedding another service.
- Forms and embeds need Pro Standard. Contact forms and widgets (Stripe, PayPal, Typeform and others) start at Pro Standard, $19 a year. The cheaper Pro Lite ($9 a year) removes branding but has no custom domain, forms or widgets.
- You build it by hand. Carrd offers about 324 templates or a blank page, and no AI builder that we could find. Every text, section and layout is yours to make.
- Free sites have limits. The free plan allows three sites with "Made with Carrd" branding and an element limit.
Ginta vs Carrd at a glance
| Ginta | Carrd | |
|---|---|---|
| Publishes on the free plan | Yes: up to 20 websites at name.ginta.page, with a small "Made with Ginta" badge |
Yes: up to 3 sites on Carrd addresses like name.carrd.co, with "Made with Carrd" branding |
| Own domain from | €5 a month (Hosting) or €12 (Light, with Ginta's AI); €50 a year paid yearly | Pro Standard: $19 a year (10 sites); yearly only |
| Contact form | Every plan, including Free; messages in your inbox and by email | Pro Standard and up |
| AI builds the site | Yes: describe the business, answer a few questions, live in about a minute | No; templates or a blank page |
| Change it by asking | Yes, or click any text or photo on the page | You edit it yourself in Carrd's builder |
| Booking, menu, shop, quote requests | Menu, gallery, blog, quote requests and announcements on every plan; booking, shop and events on paid plans | None built in; booking or payments only as third-party embeds on Pro Standard and up |
| More than one page | Yes, when the business needs it; menus, blog posts, albums and products get their own pages | One-page sites |
| Works from Claude or ChatGPT | Yes: Ginta's MCP server publishes and changes the site, using no Ginta credits | No official way found |
| Who it's for | Small businesses that need the site to take bookings, enquiries and orders | Simple one-pagers, link pages and side projects |
Carrd prices are per year in dollars; Ginta's are per month, include tax, and are the same number in euros (eurozone) or US dollars (everywhere else).
The honest price comparison
Carrd wins on price. Pro Standard costs $19 a year for 10 sites with custom domains, and Pro Plus ($49 a year) adds advanced forms, site download, redirects and password protection. Ginta's cheapest plan with your own domain is Hosting at €5 a month (€50 a year paid yearly), meant for people who build with their own Claude or ChatGPT; Light, with Ginta's own AI included, is €12 a month.
What the difference pays for:
- The AI does the building. On Ginta you don't design anything. Ginta writes the texts in your language from the facts you give, picks fonts, colours and fitting free photos, and lists anything it had to guess so you can check it.
- Business parts you manage without code or embeds. A menu with prices, sizes, dietary tags and "sold out for now"; quote requests with your own questions per service (and photos, if you want them); announcements that disappear by themselves; and on paid plans online booking with confirmation emails, a shop with a cart and orders, and events and classes with sign-ups.
- Changes in seconds. Write "we're closed on 24 December" or "add a page about wedding cakes" and it happens. On paid plans with Ginta's AI, the monthly credits cover everyday changes: with our fast AI a change is about 0.2 credits.
If none of that matters to you, keep Carrd. It's a very good tool for a single page.
When Carrd is the better choice
- A link-in-bio page, a personal page or a launch page. Carrd is made for this, and $9 to $19 a year is hard to beat.
- You enjoy laying things out yourself. Carrd gives you full manual control of every element; Ginta has no drag-and-drop editor.
- Many small sites. Carrd's higher tiers go up to 1,000 sites. Ginta's plans have more limited website counts (50 on Hosting).
- No AI, no credits. Carrd is one predictable yearly price. Ginta's own AI uses credits (20 when you confirm your email, then 3 a day, up to 15 a month, and monthly credits on Light and up).
- Cookie-free analytics built in. Carrd launched its own on 2 October 2026.
Moving from Carrd to Ginta
Copy the texts from your Carrd page, paste them on ginta.app with a sentence about your business, and Ginta builds a new website in about a minute. Ask for the parts you need ("add booking for haircuts, 30 minutes", "add our menu"), add your photos, then connect the same domain in Settings: Ginta shows the exact DNS steps for your registrar. Keep the Carrd site until the new one is live. See real examples for a barber, café or car repair shop.
Sources (checked 19 October 2026)
Carrd · Carrd Pro · Pro plans · Pro features · Pro trial · Using a custom domain · Forms · Build · Changelog · Ginta: pricing, limits
Questions
Is there a free Carrd alternative for a business?
Ginta's Free plan publishes up to 20 websites at their Ginta address with a contact form, a menu, a gallery, a blog and quote requests, and a small "Made with Ginta" badge. Your own domain and booking need a paid plan. Building needs a free account.
Can I use my Carrd domain with Ginta?
Yes, on paid plans (from €5 a month). Carrd doesn't sell domains, so yours is already at a registrar such as Cloudflare, Namecheap or Porkbun. You change its DNS records to point at Ginta, and Ginta shows the steps for that registrar.
Can Ginta make just one page, like Carrd?
Yes. Most small business websites Ginta makes are one page; it adds more pages only when the business has real content for them, and you can ask for one page.
Does Ginta have templates?
No template gallery. Ginta's AI designs each website for the business you describe; you can describe the look you want or send a screenshot of a site you like.