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Squarespace pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Squarespace (squarespace.com) is a website builder. Per-site subscription in four tiers (Basic, Core, Plus, Advanced), billed monthly or annually; annual billing lowers the per-month price.. No free plan.

What Squarespace costs

  • 1 site: $25/mo (Basic monthly $25/mo (the $19/mo annual price is not used). Custom domain and SSL included; bandwidth is listed as uncapped. No forced badge is listed on the pricing page, but a live site was not checked.)
  • Blog/CMS site: $25/mo (Basic monthly $25/mo. The pricing page lists blogs on every plan and shows no post cap, so Basic is the cheapest qualifying plan.)
  • Online store: $25/mo (Basic monthly $25/mo. Basic has the online store with inventory tracking and no product cap, but charges a 2% online store fee (0% on Core and up). Card rates (2.9% + $0.30 on Basic) are not counted.)

Plan compared: Basic plan, monthly billing. Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for one site on your own domain. Domain registration, payment processing fees and paid apps are not included.

What Squarespace does

Core: Custom domain and branding (partly), Branded storefront (partly), Built-in checkout (partly), Online store, Product catalog & variants (partly), No-code website builder, Managed site hosting.

Important: Shop, tips and products, AI features (partly), Public SEO forum (partly), Physical and print-on-demand (partly), Merchant of record (partly), Integrations and API (partly), Shipping rates & labels (partly), Sales tax & VAT (partly), Marketplace & social selling (partly), Built-in marketing tools (partly), Mobile admin app, Pixel-level design control (partly), Blog & post publishing (partly), Lead capture forms, SEO controls (partly), Service appointment booking.

Also has: Discussion community (partly), Paid memberships & subscriptions, Members-only site content (partly), Online course hosting (partly), Events and live rooms (partly), Email marketing broadcasts, SSO and embedding (partly), Integrations and API (partly), Digital download sales (partly), Order bumps & upsells (partly), Tips and donations (partly), Paid calls & coaching (partly), Mobile apps (partly), AI course & product creation (partly), Recurring billing (partly), Multi-currency pricing (partly), App & theme marketplace (partly), Headless commerce APIs (partly), AI store assistant (partly), Inventory tracking (partly), AI site generation, Animations & interactions (partly), Custom code & dev API, Export & self-hosting (partly), Team collaboration & roles (partly), Agency & client tools (partly), App & plugin marketplace (partly), Multilingual website (partly), Photo galleries & proofing (partly), Mobile management app (partly).

Squarespace price hikes

  • Squarespace raised Core and Plus prices by up to 26% · Jul 2026
    On annual billing, Basic rose from $16 to $19 a month, Core from $23 to $29 and Plus from $39 to $49, while Advanced stayed at $99. Monthly billing rose 8% on Core ($36 to $39) and 16% on Plus ($56 to $65), while Basic ($25) and Advanced…

Cheaper alternatives to Squarespace

At one site on your own domain, Squarespace costs $25/mo. 3 website builders cost less:

  • WordPress.com: $9/mo (Personal plan, monthly billing: $9/mo (US$4/mo if billed annually).), covers 95% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Service appointment booking, Email marketing broadcasts (partly)
  • Framer: $15/mo (Basic plan, billed monthly at $15/mo), covers 60% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Built-in checkout, Online store, Lead capture forms (partly), Service appointment booking, Paid memberships & subscriptions (partly)
  • Wix: $24/mo (Light plan on monthly billing (cheapest plan with a custom domain and no Wix ads).), covers 98% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Order bumps & upsells

Squarespace alternatives: 3 cheaper website builders compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of Squarespace

  • Shopify (E-commerce platforms): covers 89% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Lead capture forms (partly), Service appointment booking, Paid memberships & subscriptions (partly)
  • Hostinger (Web & WordPress hosting): covers 73% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Lead capture forms (partly), Service appointment booking (partly), Paid memberships & subscriptions, Animations & interactions, Custom code & dev API (partly)
  • Bolt.new (AI app builders): covers 69% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Online store (partly), No-code website builder (partly), Lead capture forms (partly), Service appointment booking, Paid memberships & subscriptions (partly)
  • Lovable (AI app builders): covers 66% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Online store (partly), No-code website builder (partly), Lead capture forms (partly), Service appointment booking, Paid memberships & subscriptions (partly)
  • MailerLite (Newsletter): covers 66% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Online store (partly), No-code website builder (partly), Managed site hosting (partly), Service appointment booking (partly), Paid memberships & subscriptions (partly)
  • Leadpages (Landing pages & funnels): covers 65% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Online store (partly), Managed site hosting (partly), Service appointment booking, Paid memberships & subscriptions, Email marketing broadcasts (partly)
  • beehiiv (Newsletter): covers 60% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Online store (partly), No-code website builder (partly), Managed site hosting (partly), Lead capture forms (partly), Service appointment booking
  • Ghost(Pro) (Newsletter): covers 56% of Squarespace; missing or partial: Online store (partly), No-code website builder (partly), Managed site hosting (partly), Lead capture forms (partly), Service appointment booking

Every change we logged

  • Jul 2026 · Price increase: On annual billing, Basic rose from $16 to $19 a month, Core from $23 to $29 and Plus from $39 to $49, while Advanced stayed at $99. Monthly billing rose 8% on Core ($36 to $39) and 16% on Plus ($56 to $65), while Basic ($25) and Advanced ($139) did not change.

Sources

Pricing page: squarespace.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Current prices come from the official pricing page, whose markup labels each price as monthly or annual. The July 2026 increase is confirmed by PricingSaaS, PetaPixel and Fstoppers; PricingSaaS May and June 2026 cuts conflict with each other and with the live page, so they are not recorded.