How much is a Squarespace website?

How much is a Squarespace website? Paid plans run from $25 to $139 a month, there is a free 14 day trial, and paying for a year up front saves up to 36 percent. Here is every plan, taken from Squarespace's own pricing page on 1 August 2026.

Every Squarespace plan and price

These are the monthly billing prices, which is what you pay if you are not committing to a year.

There is a free 14 day trial on all of them, and their pricing page states you can save up to 36 percent by paying annually instead. So the yearly route is genuinely cheaper per month, in exchange for handing over the whole year on day one.

The domain thing nobody notices

Look at the feature list on any plan while monthly billing is selected and you will find "Free custom domain" with a line through it and a cross beside it. On all four plans.

This matters more than the few dollars. Your own domain is the entire point of paying for a website rather than using a free page. If you are comparing Squarespace's monthly price against anything else, add the domain to it first, or you are comparing two different products.

What each plan actually adds

Every plan gives you the same editor and the same templates. What changes is a short list of things, and for a local service business most of them do not apply.

• Basic, $25. The website, their built in AI tools, and up to two contributors. No advanced analytics, no CSS or Javascript customisation, and no professional email address through Google Workspace.
• Core, $39. Adds unlimited contributors, advanced website analytics, full CSS and Javascript customisation, and the Google Workspace email. This is the one Squarespace marks recommended.
• Plus, $65. Same website features as Core. What you are buying is lower payment processing fees.
• Advanced, $139. Again the same website. Their lowest processing fees and their most advanced commerce tools.

Read that list twice if you are a plumber, a cleaner or a detailer, because it says something useful: past Core you are not buying a better website. You are buying cheaper card processing. If you are not taking payments on the site, the extra $26 to $100 a month buys you nothing.

If you sell anything, read this bit

Squarespace charges you twice on a sale: the card fee, which every processor charges, and their own transaction fee on top, which not everyone does. The second one is what the expensive plans are really selling.

The jump from Basic to Core is the one that pays for itself fastest if you sell products, because the 2 percent store fee disappears. On $3,000 of monthly sales that is $60 saved against a $14 price difference. Above that the maths only works for real volume, and a business doing that volume already knows it.

If you are a service business who wants people to call you, none of this applies and Basic is the honest answer.

What it really costs per month

Three lines to add before you compare Squarespace to anything else.

• The plan. $25 monthly for Basic, less if you pay for a year up front.
• The domain. Not included on monthly billing. Roughly $20 to $40 a year.
• A business email address. Included on Core and up through Google Workspace, not on Basic. Bought separately it is usually $6 to $7 a month per mailbox.

So a realistic all in figure for a local business on Basic with its own domain and a proper email address is somewhere around $33 to $35 a month, not $25. Still reasonable. Just not the number on the pricing page.

What no Squarespace plan does for a local business

This is not a criticism of the software, which is genuinely excellent. It is a description of what a website builder is and is not. Squarespace builds and hosts the site. What happens to the people who fill in the form is your problem.

• Enquiries go to an email inbox. Not a list you can search, sort or work through. The ones you miss are gone quietly, and you never learn which job you lost.
• Nobody writes your services page. The templates are beautiful and the words are still yours to write. The words are the hard part.
• Nobody keeps it current. When your prices change in March, you change them, or the site quietly starts misinforming the people deciding whether to call.
• Support answers questions about Squarespace. Not about your business, your copy, or whether your site is actually working for you.

When Squarespace is the right answer

Often, and we will say so plainly. The templates are the best looking in the category by some distance, the editor is pleasant, and if you have a free weekend and you enjoy this sort of thing, Basic at $25 a month plus a domain is a correct and sensible answer. Go and use it.

The question was never whether Squarespace is good software. It is whether you are going to be the person who writes the copy this month and updates the prices in March.

Thinking of moving off Squarespace? Here is how switching works.

Questions people ask

How much does a Squarespace website cost per month?

$25 for Basic, $39 for Core, $65 for Plus and $139 for Advanced on monthly billing, plus roughly $20 to $40 a year for a domain, which monthly plans do not include. Paying annually saves up to 36 percent.

Is Squarespace free?

There is a free 14 day trial, not a free plan. After the trial you pick a paid plan or the site comes down.

Does Squarespace include a domain name?

On annual billing yes, for the first year. On monthly billing the free custom domain is struck through on every plan, so you buy it separately. Check that line before you compare prices.

Which Squarespace plan do I actually need?

For a service business that wants enquiries rather than online sales, Basic. Step up to Core if you want a business email address, advanced analytics, or you sell products and want the 2 percent store fee gone. Plus and Advanced are about payment processing rates, not about the website.

Is Squarespace or Wix cheaper?

Wix starts lower, at $17 a month against Squarespace's $25, and both advertise prices that assume a year paid up front. Squarespace's templates are generally better looking. Neither writes your copy or keeps the site current, which is the part that decides whether either was worth it.

If you would rather not build it

The alternative to a builder is not an agency at $6,000. It is paying somebody a monthly fee to build it and keep it, which is what we do.

Ours is $47 a month. For that you get the website built for you, your photos and your services and your prices, with your own domain on it and hosting included. A CRM behind the forms so every enquiry is saved with a name and a number instead of landing in an inbox. An alert the second one arrives, by email, text or Telegram. And 8 changes a month: you text it, we make it.

What you do not get at $47 is a booking calendar, automations, an AI that replies to leads, or Google review management. Those are on higher plans and we would rather say so here than after you have paid.

The comparison that matters is not $25 against $47. It is $25, plus the domain, plus your weekend, plus the risk it stays half built, against $47 and it is simply done.