A practical about.me alternative for when the business card runs out of room

Why people look for an about.me alternative in 2026

about.me has been doing the same job since 2009 and doing it well. You sign up, upload a photo, write two lines about yourself, add your social links and pick one call to action. Ten minutes later you have a page that looks deliberate and a link short enough to say out loud. Nobody leaves because the page is bad. They leave because the page is the product, and eventually a person needs more than a page.

One page was always the design, not a limit to upgrade past

This is worth being precise about, because it is the single fact that decides whether about.me suits you. There is no plan on which a second page appears. The help centre states outright that about.me is not a website builder and that anyone wanting a full site with tabs should look elsewhere. That means no blog, no case studies with their own URLs, no services page, no navigation menu, no collections. Standard at $60 a year and Pro at $90 a year unlock features inside the one page: the AI twin, the lead capture, the testimonials section, the portfolio, the contact form. They do not unlock a second screen, and no amount of money will.

Paying does not take about.me off your about.me link

The second surprise tends to arrive after the first invoice. about.me support documents that its ads and logo still appear when someone visits about.me/yourusername, including on Pro. Branding is removed only on a mapped custom domain, and about.me's own advice is to share that domain instead of the about.me address. For a freelancer who has spent two years printing about.me/theirname on cards, that is an awkward sentence to read. It also means the cheap plan and the free plan look identical to a visitor in the way that matters most.

The 2025 AI pivot answered a different question

about.me's recent investment went into Virtual Twin AI rather than into pages. As late as April 2025 the pricing page showed a Free tier and a single Pro plan with no AI at all; by that September it showed three tiers built around a chat agent trained on your own material. The product has also moved house more than once: it was acquired by AOL in December 2010, bought back by its founder in February 2013, and acquired by Broadly in February 2019. Broadly itself was acquired by Vendasta in March 2023. Neither of those later announcements names about.me, so its present owner is not something about.me states publicly, though its pricing page now links out to Vendasta and the Virtual Twin help article points at documentation where the same feature is called an AI Chat Receptionist. Nothing suggests about.me is going anywhere. It does suggest the roadmap is about the agent on the page, not about the page becoming a site.

How Grigora compares

Grigora is not a bigger business card. It is a different category of thing that happens to be able to produce the card as one page of a site, which is why the comparison is really about scope rather than value for money.

From one screen to a site that can trade

Starter at $12 a month billed annually is $144 a year, against $90 for about.me Pro. For that difference you get a site instead of a page: the block editor and website templates, a CMS with posts, categories, author profiles, directories and moderated comments, an email list with 2,500 subscribers plus a campaign builder and automations, and a store with variants, stock and digital downloads at 0% platform commission on your own Stripe or Razorpay account. The SEO side is the part about.me cannot reach at any price, because it needs pages to work on: metadata and schema controls, sitemaps, redirects and IndexNow submission, with free SEO tools on the marketing site alongside. The first draft is generated from a sentence about the business, so the extra scope does not arrive as an empty canvas.

Where about.me is still the better answer

Two things, and both are real. The first is the email signature, which generates from your page, installs into Gmail in a click, updates itself whenever the page changes and mails you weekly click counts. Grigora has no equivalent and neither do most builders. The second is Virtual Twin AI: a chat agent trained on your own text, documents and pages, saving every conversation as a contact with its transcript and booking meetings into your Google Calendar, all included from $60 a year. Grigora's AI writes your site and your posts; it does not sit on the page answering visitors. If the whole job is one credible identity page, a link you can say out loud, a signature that works for you in every email, and an agent that talks to whoever lands, about.me is the cheaper and the better tool, and this page will not argue with that.