Why this page carries no Squarespace price
Squarespace makes the best-looking sites in our comparison and is the only platform on it we could not put a dollar figure against.
The pricing page renders the currency of the country it detects, with no way to switch and no reference figure printed anywhere. From central Europe it quoted eleven, seventeen and twenty nine euros a month billed annually for the three plans, on . The numbers are drawn client side rather than served with the page, so fetching the same page from a United States address returned no amount either. We do not publish a conversion we did not read on the vendor's own page, so we publish nothing.
It scores 7.4 under how we rate and sits in our also-considered list, because a page anchored to what twelve months costs cannot pick a platform that will not say.
Is that fair?
Partly, and the part that makes it fair is what Wix does with the same problem.
Every platform in this comparison localises its prices. That is normal and sensible. Wix prints, under its localised table, that USD prices are displayed for reference only. One line of text, and it means a reader anywhere on earth can compare Wix against everything else. Squarespace publishes no such reference. Framer does not either, and the only reason Framer carries a figure here is that its page happens to resolve to dollars from a United States address.
So this is a choice rather than a technical limit, and on a category where the whole difficulty is comparing prices honestly, it is a choice worth naming.
What is published clearly, which is the part that costs you
Squarespace publishes its transaction fees plainly, and on a store they matter more than the plan does.
Basic charges two percent on online store sales and seven percent on memberships and digital content. Core drops the store fee to zero and memberships to five percent. Advanced is zero on everything.
Read that ladder before you read the plan prices. Hostinger charges nothing on ecommerce. Wix charges nothing of its own. If you are selling at any volume, the entry tier here is a permanent two percent tax and the upgrade pays for itself well before you would expect it to.
The templates, and the constraint that makes them work
The editor is section based rather than free drag-and-drop. You cannot put anything anywhere.
That constraint is the product. It is why a Squarespace site rarely looks broken and why the template library is the best in the category, and it is also why a specific layout you have in your head can be impossible to build. Wix will let you do it and let you do it badly. Squarespace will not let you do it and the result will look fine.
One genuine advantage over Wix, and it is not a small one: templates swap on a live site. Changing template at Wix means rebuilding. Here it does not, and on the platform people most often choose for looks, being able to change how it looks later is worth something.
The trial is 14 days with no card, rather than a free subdomain plan. On a page where four rivals offer a demo and call it free, that is the more honest arrangement.
Leaving, and what a partial export means
There is no code export. There is a content export in WordPress format, and it is partial.
The design does not travel. On the platform whose entire appeal is the design, that is the trade you are making, and it is worth understanding on day one rather than in year three. Webflow is the only platform in this comparison that offers real export, and it charges separately for it and leaves your CMS behind.
Who should buy it
Portfolios, restaurants, studios, anything sold on how it looks. Squarespace is for people who want a professional-looking site without making design decisions, and it is very good at that.
Three conditions. You need to be somewhere the page will quote you a currency you can act on. You need to move to Core the moment you sell anything, because the two percent is permanent and the upgrade is not. And you need to be happy with the layouts the sections allow, because there is no way around them and no way to take the design with you afterwards.
Plan contents, transaction fees and trial terms on this page were read from the vendor pricing page on .
