# Cargo review (2026): is it worth $14 a month, billed yearly? > Site builder for designers and artists, one price for every site Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Cargo is a site builder aimed at designers and artists. One account can publish a single portfolio or a group of sites, such as client presentations, idea boards and a shop. It sells one subscription with no tiers, and students, teachers and school administrators can use it free through a student program. - **Category:** Website & Landing Page Builders - **Made by:** Cargo - **Website:** https://cargo.site/ - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan or trial, as neither is listed. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Cargo is a paid product, starting at $14 per month, billed yearly ($19 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Cargo | $14 per month, billed yearly ($19 billed monthly) | The single plan: one or many public sites, real-time multi-user editing and a template library, with no tiers. One custom domain connection included. | Read from https://cargo.site/information on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Cargo before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Free use for students and teachers** (Education): Cargo offers free use to students, teachers and related administrators. A professor or administrator with an official school email must request membership. Source: https://cargo.site/students ## Key features - **Many sites under one account:** Publish a portfolio, client presentations, idea boards, a profile site and a shop, each with its own purpose, all on a single account and price. - **Real-time multi-user editing:** Several people can edit a site at the same time, which suits studios and design teams sharing one portfolio. - **Template library:** Start a site from an ongoing library of templates and edit and publish from there. - **Built-in commerce:** A commerce platform lets a site manage, sell and take payment for physical or digital goods. - **Free use for students:** Students, teachers and school administrators get free use after a professor or administrator at an official school domain requests membership. ## Good for - Designers and artists who run several small sites - Studios that edit one site together in real time - Students, who can use Cargo free through the student program ## Worth knowing - There is only one paid plan and the information page lists no free plan or free trial. - One custom domain connection is included; each extra one costs $2 a month billed yearly, or $3 billed monthly. - The pricing page does not state limits on pages, storage or products, or any fee on store sales. - Student access needs a professor or administrator at an official school domain to request it. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Cargo is a site builder for designers and artists with one plan for every site, at $14 a month on yearly billing. There is no free plan or trial, each extra custom domain costs more, and the pricing page states no page, storage or store-fee limits. - **Value for money: C.** $14 a month billed yearly, between the middle ($12.80) and the dearer quarter ($20.83), for one plan that covers many sites. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial; students have to ask for access through a professor or administrator. - **Features: C.** Templates, real-time editing by several people and a store, but the page states no limits on pages, storage or sales fees. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record, and you build the site yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no integrations or API on record anywhere in the listing. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Cargo's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among website and landing page builders - Cargo's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 0 of the 55 other website and landing page builders we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on ease of use (C, above 6 of 55) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $14 a month, against a middle price of $12.42 for the category: 29 of the 52 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 17 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/website-builders ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Cargo you would be making checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 54 of the 55 other website and landing page builders grade higher. It costs $168 a year. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Templates, Online store, Real-time collaboration ## Alternatives - [Format](https://toolgpa.com/tools/format): Portfolio website builder for photographers and other creatives. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cargo-vs-format) - [Squarespace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/squarespace): Template-based website builder with an online store and invoicing. 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