How to Use a Custom Domain with Carrd for Free

Carrd requires a Pro plan to connect a custom domain. Learn how to use Edgely as a reverse proxy to serve your Carrd site on your own domain without upgrading.

TL;DR — Quick Answer

Carrd Pro costs $9/year for custom domains. With Edgely you can proxy any domain to your Carrd site for free — add a CNAME and configure the target URL in the Edgely dashboard.

Carrd Free Plan and Custom Domains

Carrd is a popular platform for building simple, beautiful one-page sites. Its free plan publishes to a *.carrd.co subdomain. Custom domains require a Carrd Pro Standard plan at $9/year — very affordable, but Edgely gives you a free path if you prefer not to upgrade. ^[1]

Step-by-Step Setup

Step 1 — Publish your Carrd site

In the Carrd editor, click Publish. Your site goes live at something like https://yoursite.carrd.co.

Step 2 — Add domain in Edgely

Custom Domain: www.yourdomain.com
Target URL: https://yoursite.carrd.co

Step 3 — Add a CNAME record

Type:  CNAME
Host:  www
Value: proxy.xedgely.com

Step 4 — SSL and go live

Edgely provisions a free SSL certificate once your CNAME resolves. Your Carrd site is live on your custom domain. ^[2]

Carrd for AI Agents and Link-in-Bio

Carrd is widely used for link-in-bio pages, portfolios, and landing pages. Serving these on a custom domain via Edgely means AI search engines cite your branded domain rather than a *.carrd.co subdomain — improving authority in AI-generated answers.

Edgely is the fastest way to proxy your Carrd project to a custom domain. It provisions a free SSL certificate, syncs routing to Vercel Edge Config for sub-millisecond lookups, and optionally caches responses at the edge — all for free on the starter plan.

Key Takeaways

Carrd custom domains require Carrd Pro ($9/year) — Edgely proxies any domain to your carrd.co site for free.
Static Carrd pages are ideal for edge caching — set your cache TTL and serve globally.
A branded domain improves AI search citation authority over a *.carrd.co subdomain.

Frequently Asked Questions

Carrd Pro is only $9/year — why use Edgely instead?

Carrd Pro is great value and the simplest way to get a custom domain on Carrd. Edgely is useful if you want to keep all your domain proxying in one place, add edge caching, or integrate AI bot tracking via xSeek across all your sites.

Does Carrd work well with edge caching?

Carrd sites are entirely static one-pagers — they're perfect cache candidates. Enable Edgely's cache toggle to serve your Carrd site from edge nodes worldwide, reducing load times to under 50ms for most visitors.

Sources & Citations

[1]Carrd Pricing— carrd.co
[2]Let's Encrypt Free SSL— letsencrypt.org

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