Web Development · head to head
Carrd vs Hookdeck
Hookdeck
Developer Tools
Event gateway that receives, queues, retries and replays inbound webhooks
- From
- Free
- Free plan
- Yes
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Carrd free tier strictly limited to 3 sites; any additional sites require upgrading to Pro; Hookdeck pricing meters delivered events, so fan-out multiplies the bill: one inbound event routed to four services counts as four deliveries.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Carrd and Hookdeck actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), user rating (Not yet rated).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Carrd
Nothing recorded that Hookdeck does not also cover.
Only in Hookdeck
- Ingest and persist
- Automatic retries
- Filters and fan-out
- Transformations
- Local development CLI
- Rate limiting
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Carrd
- Indie makers and solopreneurs building personal portfolios or landing pagesnot Hookdeck
- Small business owners requiring minimal online presence at low costnot Hookdeck
- Link-in-bio alternatives for social media profiles and contact pagesnot Hookdeck
- Email capture pages for newsletters or lead magnetsnot Hookdeck
- Cost-conscious teams requiring a cheap website alternative to Webflow or Squarespacenot Hookdeck
Hookdeck
- A payments integration where losing a Stripe event during a deploy causes an order to go unfulfillednot Carrd
- Fanning one provider webhook out to several internal services without each subscribing separatelynot Carrd
- Debugging a partner integration by replaying the exact failing payload after shipping a fixnot Carrd
- Receiving production-shaped webhooks on a developer laptop without running a public tunnelnot Carrd
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Carrd
- Free tier strictly limited to 3 sites; any additional sites require upgrading to Pro
- Pro plan includes Carrd branding removal but still lacks advanced features (e-commerce, multi-step funnels, complex forms)
- Single-page design only; does not support multi-page websites or complex site structures
- Limited template library compared to competitors like Leadpages or Unbounce
- Annual payment required for Pro tier; no monthly payment option
- No native A/B testing, analytics dashboard or conversion optimisation tools built-in
Hookdeck
- Pricing meters delivered events, so fan-out multiplies the bill: one inbound event routed to four services counts as four deliveries.
- Free-tier retention is three days, which is shorter than the time it typically takes to notice a failing integration, so the payloads needed for a replay are often already gone.
- It becomes a single point of failure in front of every third-party integration, and an outage there means every provider webhook queues or fails at once.
- The transformation layer runs JavaScript in a constrained environment, so anything that needs a database lookup or an external call has to happen downstream instead.
- For a team already running Kafka or SQS the value is mostly the console and the replay UI, which is a hard cost to justify against infrastructure they already operate.
Pricing, plan by plan
Carrd
Free- FreeFree
- 3 sites
- Responsive design
- Templates and blank pages
- Pro$19/year
- Unlimited sites
- Custom domain with SSL
- Contact forms
Hookdeck
Free- DeveloperFree
- Up to ten thousand events per month
- Three-day retention
- One user
- Team$39/month
- Ten thousand events included
- Unlimited users
- Pay as you go metering above the included events
- Growth$499/month
- Ten thousand events included plus metered usage
- Thirty-day retention
- Uptime and latency SLAs
- Enterprise$undefined/year
- Negotiated event volume
- Custom retention
- Dedicated support
Which should you pick?
Choose Hookdeck if
- You need ingest and persist.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Web, Linux, macOS, Windows.
- You also want automatic retries.
Questions people ask
- Is Carrd or Hookdeck better?
- Neither clearly leads. Carrd starts at Free and Hookdeck at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Carrd or Hookdeck?
- Carrd starts at Free and Hookdeck at Free.
- Does Carrd or Hookdeck run on more platforms?
- Carrd runs on Web, Mobile. Hookdeck runs on Web, Linux, macOS, Windows.
- Can I use Carrd for free?
- Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
- What is Carrd best used for?
- Carrd is most often used for indie makers and solopreneurs building personal portfolios or landing pages, small business owners requiring minimal online presence at low cost, link-in-bio alternatives for social media profiles and contact pages, email capture pages for newsletters or lead magnets. Of those, indie makers and solopreneurs building personal portfolios or landing pages and small business owners requiring minimal online presence at low cost are not what Hookdeck is typically brought in for.
- What can Carrd do that Hookdeck cannot?
- Hookdeck covers Ingest and persist, Automatic retries, Filters and fan-out, Transformations.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Carrd: How much does Carrd cost?
Carrd is free for up to 3 sites. The Pro plan costs $19/year and enables unlimited sites with custom domains, forms and integrations.
SourceHookdeck: Is there a free plan?
Yes, ten thousand events a month with three-day retention and one user.
Carrd: Can I use Carrd for e-commerce?
Carrd's Pro plan supports payment forms with Stripe integration, but it is not a full e-commerce platform. Single-product sales or payment collection is possible, but inventory management and complex product catalogs are not supported.
SourceHookdeck: How is usage counted?
By delivered events, so a single inbound webhook fanned out to three destinations counts as three.
Carrd: Can I create multi-page websites with Carrd?
No. Carrd is designed for single-page sites only. For multi-page websites, you would need to use a full website builder like Webflow or Squarespace.
SourceHookdeck: Can I replay a failed webhook?
Yes, individually or in bulk from the console, with the original payload.
Hookdeck: Does it work for outbound webhooks too?
Yes, the same queueing, retry and observability applies to webhooks you send.
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