Squarespace Pricing
- Development pricing
- $19/mo at the smallest
Squarespace pricing starts at $19 a month, which is $228 over twelve months. There is no free plan, but there is a trial: 14 days.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 20 August 2026.
Squarespace pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Basic from $19/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $19 a month, or $228 a year |
| How that is reached | Basic at $19 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | No |
| Free trial | 14 days |
| How it charges | subscription |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 20 August 2026 |
Every Squarespace plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 20 August 2026. Charged as subscription. Free trial: 14 days.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $19 | per month | Annual billing. Website, free custom domain for a year, built-in AI tools and up to 2 contributors. Card rates from 2.9% + $0.30, with a 2% store transaction fee |
| Core | $29 | per month | Annual billing. Unlimited contributors, advanced analytics and no store transaction fee. This is the tier a team of three needs, and the upgrade is $10 a month rather than a seat fee |
| Plus | $49 | per month | Annual billing. Advanced commerce, abandoned-cart recovery and lower card rates at 2.7% + $0.30 |
| Advanced | $99 | per month | Annual billing. Advanced selling features and API access |
What Squarespace actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | per month | $19 | $228 |
| Core | per month | $29 | $348 |
| Plus | per month | $49 | $588 |
| Advanced | per month | $99 | $1,188 |
Cancelling Squarespace, and getting money back
Read from the published Squarespace terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| When you cancel | Every subscription is billed and cancelled on its own, so cancelling a website does not cancel a domain, email or scheduling subscription alongside it. |
|---|---|
| Changing mid-term | Squarespace refunds some subscription types and not others, and a refund is requested on a form it aims to answer within two business days rather than granted automatically. |
Squarespace support, refund policies for subscriptions ↗ · read 18 September 2026
Squarespace pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Squarespace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Framer | $10 a month | Yes | −$9 a month (−47%) |
| Wix | $17 a month | Yes | −$2 a month (−11%) |
| Squarespace | $19 a month | No | This product |
Which Squarespace plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You want a good-looking site with a custom domain | Basic | $19 a month on annual billing. Enough for a portfolio or brochure site. |
| You need better analytics and lower transaction fees | Core | $29 a month, and worth it once you sell anything regularly. |
| You sell and need abandoned cart recovery | Plus | $49 a month, where commerce becomes serious rather than incidental. |
| You need API access and advanced selling | Advanced | $99 a month. |
| You publish a lot of content | Consider WordPress instead | Squarespace's editorial tooling does not scale to high-volume publishing. |
| You have a large catalogue or complex fulfilment | Consider Shopify instead | Shopify is a commerce platform; Squarespace sells alongside a website. |
Constraint as a feature
Most website builders fail because they let an untrained user make every decision. Squarespace removes most of those decisions: type scales, spacing and responsive breakpoints come from the template. You lose the ability to place something at an arbitrary position, and you gain a site that still looks intentional on a phone. For the audience it targets, that is the correct trade.
Transaction fees are the detail to check
Squarespace charges its own transaction fee on commerce below the higher tiers, and that sits on top of what Stripe or PayPal take. If you sell in any volume, work out the crossover point at which moving up a plan, or moving to Shopify entirely, costs less than the fees.
Where the tiers actually matter
Basic at $19 covers a website and light selling. Core at $29 is where analytics and reduced fees arrive. Plus at $49 adds the commerce features that a real store needs, including abandoned cart recovery. Advanced at $99 is bought for API access and advanced selling, and most small businesses never reach it.
Note that these are annual-billing rates. Paying monthly costs meaningfully more.
Squarespace, Wix or Framer?
Wix gives more freedom and more opportunities to produce something inconsistent. Framer has the highest design ceiling and expects more skill. Squarespace sits between them and is the safest choice when the person maintaining the site is the business owner rather than a designer. If content volume is the plan, none of the three is the right answer.
Squarespace questions, answered
- Does Squarespace have a free plan or free trial?
- Squarespace has no free plan. A free trial is available: 14 days.
- Can I self-host Squarespace?
- No. Squarespace is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 20 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used Squarespace. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from one primary source , with 2 captures taken by us . How we research a profile.
Desk research from Squarespace's own pricing page, read on 20 August 2026 through a United States egress. Nobody here has built a Squarespace site. The page publishes no limit on pages or blog posts, which this profile records as unstated rather than as unlimited.
Where Squarespace appears on this site
- Another profile Carrd names it as a competitor
- Another profile Webflow names it as a competitor
- Another profile Wix names it as a competitor
- Another profile WooCommerce names it as a competitor
- Another profile WordPress names it as a competitor
Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.
Provenance and freshness
Individually sourced claims
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Basic is $19 a month, Core $29, Plus $49 and Advanced $99, all on annual billing
Squarespace pricing ↗ · checked
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Basic allows up to 2 contributors and Core, Plus and Advanced allow unlimited contributors
Squarespace pricing comparison table ↗ · checked
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Card rates start at 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic and Core, falling to 2.7% + $0.30 on Plus, and the store transaction fee is 2% on Basic and 0% from Core
Squarespace pricing ↗ · checked
What has changed
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August 2026
- Prices re-read and unchanged - Basic $19, Core $29, Plus $49, Advanced $99 a month on annual billing
- Recorded that contributors are capped at 2 on Basic and unlimited from Core, so a third editor costs $10 a month rather than a seat fee
- Recorded the card rates and store transaction fees by tier
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August 2026
- Annual pricing verified across all tiers
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Squarespace pricing - checked 20 August 2026
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