To make a musician website for free, pick a tool with a real free plan, write a short bio, add your music, shows and contact details, and share the link everywhere you post. The first version takes one evening. Expect a free plan to carry the tool's branding and a subdomain, and decide before you start whether a custom domain matters to you.
What "free" means with website tools
Most website builders offer a free trial instead of a free plan. A trial ends after a set number of days and the site goes offline unless you pay. A free plan has no end date.
Two well-known builders, as of October 2026:
- Squarespace gives you a 14-day free trial and no free plan.
- Bandzoogle gives you a 14-day free trial and no free plan for individual artists.
Both are solid paid tools, and neither gives you a site to keep for free. On a zero budget, look at one-page builders and EPK tools built for musicians.
What a musician website needs
Know what goes on the page before you pick a tool. Six sections cover the basics:
| Section | What to include |
|---|---|
| Headline | Artist name, genre, city |
| Bio | Two to four sentences, plus a longer version for press |
| Music | Your best two or three releases, with listen links |
| Shows | Upcoming dates, venues, ticket links |
| Photos | Two or three press shots, at least 2000 pixels on the short edge |
| Contact | A booking email you check daily |
Video, press quotes, merch and a newsletter signup come after. Our EPK checklist covers each section in detail.
Skip the blog and the custom logo for now. One page with these six sections answers almost every question a fan or promoter brings.
Step by step
1. Gather your material first
Make a folder and collect:
- A short bio and a long bio (see how to write an artist bio)
- Links to your releases on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp or SoundCloud
- Your next three to five show dates with ticket links
- Two or three photos, at least one horizontal and one vertical
- One live video on YouTube or Vimeo
- Your booking email and social profile links
The bio takes longest. Write it before you open any website tool, or you'll lose the evening to fonts.
2. Pick a tool
Choose by what the site needs to do.
- One-page EPK or artist page tool. Fixed sections for bio, music, shows and contact. Quickest to set up, and the best fit when you're after bookings and press.
- General one-page builder. A blank canvas with drag-and-drop blocks. More design freedom and more setup time, with nothing music-specific.
- Full website builder. Multiple pages, stores, blogs. Usually a paid plan once the trial ends.
Carrd, a general one-page builder, gives you up to three sites per account and all core features for free. Custom domains start on the $19 per year Pro Standard plan.
3. Build the page in this order
Work top to bottom: headline, bio, music, shows, photos, video, contact. Lead with your strongest track, even if you released it two years ago. Leave out any section you have little to put in. Five strong sections beat ten half-empty ones.
4. Test on your phone
Most people will open your site on a phone, from an Instagram bio or an email. Check:
- The headline makes sense without scrolling.
- Every listen link opens the right release.
- Videos play.
- Tapping the email address opens a new message.
Then show the page to a friend outside music for 30 seconds and ask what genre you play. If they get it wrong, rewrite the headline.
5. Share the link everywhere
Put the URL in your Instagram, TikTok and YouTube bios, your Spotify for Artists profile, your email signature and every pitch you send. Our guide to ranking for your artist name explains how those links help search engines find the page.
When paying starts to make sense
Free works for most artists starting out. Pay once one of these starts to matter:
- A custom domain. yourname.com looks more established in a pitch email, and the address stays yours if you switch tools.
- Removing branding. Bookers notice this more than fans do.
- Analytics. Useful once you send pitches and want to see whether bookers opened your page.
- A store or mailing list. Worth paying for when you have merch to sell or fans to email.
Weigh the upgrade against one gig fee. If a year of the upgrade costs less than one booking pays, the decision is easy.
Mistakes to avoid
- Launching with placeholder text or "coming soon" sections.
- Using a different artist name on the site than on Spotify.
- Linking to a private SoundCloud, or to an unlisted YouTube video you later delete.
- Hiding the booking email behind a contact form.
- Forgetting to update the shows list after each gig.
Build yours on Artist Kit
Artist Kit gives you a free one-page site at artistkit.co/yourname with the sections above already laid out: About, Music, Gigs, Videos, Contact and social links, plus a press kit zip generated from your page. Release cards show cover art with listen links to Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and more. The layout works on phones from day one.
The free plan has no time limit. Pro is $4.99 per month for a custom domain, no Artist Kit branding, analytics, a photo gallery and a newsletter signup. Start with the free musician website, and see pricing for the full comparison.