Can Carrd make a 3D site?

Carrd’s pages don’t mention 3D. Its Embed element, from Pro Standard, accepts your own HTML, CSS and JavaScript almost anywhere on a site, so a scene made elsewhere would have to come in that way — and making it, and making it work on phones, would be your job. In a Promti kit the 3D comes first, and everything else is laid out around it.

Can I download a Carrd site and host it myself?

On Pro Plus, US$49 a year: Carrd lets you download a site’s unminified HTML, CSS and JS. Its docs warn that forms, which need Carrd to work, won’t function in the download, and that a downloaded site can’t go back into Carrd. With Promti the download is the site: a folder you can host anywhere, where Studio’s form keeps working, because Web3Forms sends it.

Can either one have several pages?

Both are one page. Carrd simulates pages with sections you can link to and switch between; a Promti site is one page plus its legal page. If you need real pages — one for each service, a blog — a builder such as Wix or Squarespace suits you better than either, and one page or several helps you decide.

What happens to a Carrd site if I stop paying?

According to Carrd’s terms, when a renewal can’t be paid, the account goes back to the free Basic plan after a short grace period, and its sites lose the Pro features they use — a custom domain and forms among them. Promti has nothing to renew: the site stays wherever you host it.

Can I try both for free?

Yes. Carrd has a free plan with three sites and a seven-day Pro trial that doesn’t ask for a card. Promti’s wizard costs nothing to use: the whole site gets made there, previewed as a phone and a computer would show it, and payment only comes in at the download.

Promti or Carrd: two one-page sites, made very differently

Carrd builds one-page sites — “simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything”, in its own words. You stack text, pictures, buttons and forms in its editor, publish for free on a carrd.co address, and pay a yearly Pro plan, from US$9, for more sites, your own domain, forms and payments.

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Promti makes one page as well, but it arrives finished: one of four kits, each made for one kind of subject — something you sell, somewhere people stay, an app, a portfolio — around a 3D scene. You answer a wizard, watch the page become yours, pay once and download the files.

So the question isn’t one page or several. It’s what the page should be: on Carrd, a clean page you lay out yourself for very little; with Promti, a 3D page that is already designed, for €500.

Side by side

—	Promti	Carrd
How you pay	€500, a single time. Promti never bills you again.	By the year, in US dollars, with no monthly option: Pro Lite $9, Pro Standard $19 and Pro Plus $49, for 3, 10 and 25 sites. Its terms quote fees without VAT.
Free to start	The wizard is free: your site is built there in full, previewed at phone and computer size, and the charge comes with the download.	A free Basic plan: three sites of up to 50 elements each, on a carrd.co address with “Made with Carrd” in the footer. Pro can be tried for seven days, with no card.
What you get	The kit’s page with your content in it — name, texts, colours, links — plus your model, photos, screenshots or project pictures, depending on the kit.	An editor with templates or a blank page, hosting with SSL, and the pieces — text, images, video, buttons, forms — for you to arrange.
Hosting and domain	The folder goes on any static host; the guide uses Cloudflare Pages’ free plan. A domain is about €10–15 a year.	Carrd hosts it. A domain of your own needs Pro Standard or above and has to be registered elsewhere: Carrd names Cloudflare, Namecheap and Porkbun.
Pages	A single page, with a legal page and one for broken links next to it.	A single page as well. Named sections can be linked and switched between to simulate several pages, as its docs put it.
Forms	Studio has a contact form that sends through Web3Forms, free up to 250 messages a month; the other kits end on a button to buy, book or get the app.	Contact and sign-up forms from Pro Standard, to your email or to one of 20 mailing services; custom forms with file uploads on Pro Plus.
Selling	Buttons to your Stripe payment link — one product in Product, up to four plans in App — or to your booking page. No cart.	Stripe, PayPal and Gumroad buttons from Pro Standard, each with your own account, and forms that take a Stripe payment on Pro Plus.
Motion and 3D	Scrolling moves you through a scene drawn live by three.js: the 3D is the page itself, not a block placed on it.	Element animations, animated slideshows and background video. Its pages don’t mention 3D; the Embed element, from Pro Standard, takes your own HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
The files	The whole site as a zip from the first download: HTML, CSS and JS, your pictures, the typefaces.	Pro Plus downloads a site’s unminified HTML, CSS and JS. Forms don’t work in the download, and it can’t be uploaded back to Carrd.
When the plan ends	There’s no plan to end. The files keep working for as long as they’re hosted.	If a renewal can’t be paid, the account drops to the free plan after a short grace period, and its sites lose their Pro features.
Languages	English or Spanish, one per site, picked in the wizard.	One language per site, set in its settings; its docs don’t describe a site in two languages. Carrd’s own pages are in English.
Help	A guide for each step after the download, and a 30-minute call with Eric.	Its documentation, a contact form and email; replies usually come within 24 hours, its contact page says.

Promti fits when…

The page has to do the impressing on its own, with your product, your place, your app or your work moving in 3D.
You’d rather fill in a page that’s designed than design one: words, colours, pictures, done.
You want the legal page, the sitemap and the guides for a domain, an email address and Google to come with the site.
You want the files from the first day, hosted wherever you choose, rather than a plan to renew each year.
You want to see the finished page, with your words in it, before any money changes hands.

Carrd fits when…

Price decides it: US$19 a year buys your own domain, forms and payment buttons.
You run several small sites — a link page, an event, a sign-up — and want them in one account: plans go from 3 to 1,000 sites.
You want to lay out the page yourself, element by element, and change it any day in the editor.
Your form has to feed a mailing tool such as Mailchimp or beehiiv, or take file uploads.
You want something online today without paying at all: the free plan publishes three sites.

What each costs

Promti: €500, paid one time. Hosting on Cloudflare’s free plan adds nothing, and a domain adds around €10–15 each year: €500 and one domain fee for the first year, €500 and some €30–45 of domain fees by the end of the third.

Carrd, in US dollars as its pricing page shows them, billed yearly, with VAT on top according to its terms: a site on your own domain with a form needs Pro Standard, $19 a year, or $57 over three years, plus the domain you register elsewhere. Pro Plus, for downloading the code or taking payments through a form, is $49 a year, $147 over three. The free plan costs nothing, on a carrd.co address with Carrd’s branding.

On money alone, Carrd is the cheaper way to have a one-page site by a wide margin. What the difference buys is the page itself: on Carrd you design it; with Promti it comes designed, around a 3D scene.

What a 3D website costs →

€500, paid once

Your site, finished — Your words, colours and links — and your pictures, screens or 3D model, as the kit takes them — inside its 3D scene
Seen before you pay — It builds live as you type, on a phone and on a desktop
Every file — Plain HTML, CSS and JS, with the typefaces on your own site
Ready for Google — Title, description and sharing tags, a sitemap, robots.txt and a 404 page
A legal page — Legal notice and privacy, filled in with your details
Guides, step by step — Online in 5 minutes, your domain, your email, visitor stats, Google — plus payments, bookings or your form, depending on the kit
A call with Eric — If anything gets stuck
Hosting — Cloudflare’s free plan, with HTTPS — or any host that serves files
Monthly fee to us — None. The site is yours, with no time limit

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Questions

Can Carrd make a 3D site?: Carrd’s pages don’t mention 3D. Its Embed element, from Pro Standard, accepts your own HTML, CSS and JavaScript almost anywhere on a site, so a scene made elsewhere would have to come in that way — and making it, and making it work on phones, would be your job. In a Promti kit the 3D comes first, and everything else is laid out around it.
Can I download a Carrd site and host it myself?: On Pro Plus, US$49 a year: Carrd lets you download a site’s unminified HTML, CSS and JS. Its docs warn that forms, which need Carrd to work, won’t function in the download, and that a downloaded site can’t go back into Carrd. With Promti the download is the site: a folder you can host anywhere, where Studio’s form keeps working, because Web3Forms sends it.
Can either one have several pages?: Both are one page. Carrd simulates pages with sections you can link to and switch between; a Promti site is one page plus its legal page. If you need real pages — one for each service, a blog — a builder such as Wix or Squarespace suits you better than either, and one page or several helps you decide.
What happens to a Carrd site if I stop paying?: According to Carrd’s terms, when a renewal can’t be paid, the account goes back to the free Basic plan after a short grace period, and its sites lose the Pro features they use — a custom domain and forms among them. Promti has nothing to renew: the site stays wherever you host it.
Can I try both for free?: Yes. Carrd has a free plan with three sites and a seven-day Pro trial that doesn’t ask for a card. Promti’s wizard costs nothing to use: the whole site gets made there, previewed as a phone and a computer would show it, and payment only comes in at the download.