Squarespace Pricing in 2026 and What a Site Costs
Nov 3, 202614 min read
Choose Squarespace and you choose one of four tiered subscriptions: Basic, Core, Plus or Advanced, each bundling website, selling and scheduling features, though anything beyond that bundle, such as Activepieces for connecting it to other tools, sits outside the plan.
Squarespace plans, prices and limits checked November 2026
viz type=groupedbars title="Squarespace plan prices by billing term" unit="$ per month" source="Highflyers Media - https://highflyers.media/blogs/squarespace-pricing/" cols="Billed yearly,Billed monthly"9 against $25 on Basic to $99 against $19 to $139 a month is the range across the four plans, according to Highflyers Media, depending on the plan and how you pay, which means your plan choice affects your budget significantly. The most expensive option costs roughly seven times the cheapest.
That range is the sticker, not the bill.
Read the last column first, because it's what month-to-month billing costs you on top of the yearly rate. The table below, checked against Squarespace's pricing page on 2026-11-03, sets each plan's yearly and monthly price side by side.
| Plan | Billed yearly, per month | Billed monthly | Extra for paying monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $19 | $25 | $6 |
| Core | $29 | $39 | $10 |
| Plus | $49 | $65 | $16 |
| Advanced | $99 | $139 | $40 |
Squarespace monthly versus annual billing prices
Pay month to month and you pay more on every plan, and the gap grows with the tier.
Basic goes from $19 to $25, Core from $29 to $39, Plus from $49 to $65, and Advanced from $99 to $139, so each plan costs $6–40 more monthly than on annual billing.
It's roughly a third more on the first three plans and about 40% more on Advanced.
So a shop owner on Advanced who skips the yearly commitment pays $480 more over twelve months. Monthly billing is the price of keeping your exit open, and you should decide whether you're buying that flexibility on purpose.
What every plan includes
You rent the platform; you don't buy it. Every plan is a subscription, so the bill repeats for as long as the site stays up, and stopping payment means the site goes down.
Each tier above Basic adds selling and scheduling features. Connecting orders to other tools, through something like Activepieces, is a separate decision with its own cost. The plan price pays for the platform and nothing around it.
If you are running this arithmetic for your own team, see what the same workload costs on Activepieces.
A first year on Squarespace, month by month
Count only the plan price and you will undercount a first year, because the domain, the card fees and the renewal each add a line the headline number never mentions.
This worked example follows one small shop on the Core plan, using the table's three checkpoints.
Month 0: launch on the entry plan
At launch you pay the plan fee for the billing term you picked, up front. If you chose a long term to get the lower monthly rate, you've committed to a bigger bill on day one.
You also need a domain, the web address customers type.
Expect a domain to cost between $10 and $20 per year, and some run up to $50, according to Squarespace, meaning you should budget an extra $10–20 annually for domain renewal.
Month 3: the first online sales
When the first order arrives, the plan fee doesn't change, but the sale now carries a card-processing fee, taken from each payment. On a low-priced product that cut is a noticeable share of what you earn, and it keeps growing as sales do.
Month 12: renewal and the total
By month 12 the plan renews, the domain renews, and a year of card fees has piled up, so your second year will cost more than your first. Here's how each checkpoint adds to the bill:
| Checkpoint | Plan fee | Domain | Card fees on sample sales | Running total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | Charged up front for your term | Typical yearly price | None yet | Plan plus domain |
| First online sale | No change | Already paid | A cut of each sample sale | Launch total plus first fees |
| Month 12 renewal | Renews for the next term | Renews | Fees from the whole year's sales | Everything above, plus renewal |
Before you sign up, work out the last row for your own site, and price your products against it.
Squarespace costs and limits after launch
Beyond the plan price, five costs show up after launch, and the cheapest plan can carry all of them:
- A 2% selling fee on Basic, and 0% on Core and Plus
- A domain that renews at $22 after a $10 first year
- Campaigns email at $5, $10 or $24 a month
- Google Workspace mailboxes, billed separately
- Scheduling add-ons
Add them to the plan price before you compare tiers.
On every sale, Basic takes 2%, while Core and Plus take 0%. On $10,000 of yearly sales that's $200 handed over, so Basic stops being the cheap plan once the plan-price gap is smaller than that.
Squarespace domain, email and extension costs
Per the TopLevelData and Corg registrar data:
- A Squarespace .com costs $10 in year one and $22 at renewal, so budget for the higher number
- GoDaddy goes from $11.99 to $22.99
- Namecheap goes from $9.58 to $14.58
- Cloudflare charges $10.46 both years, so it's the only one of these four with no renewal jump
$60, $120 and $288 a year is what Email Starter, Core and Pro cost, according to the Acuity Scheduling pricing page. Email Pro alone costs more than the lowest plan's yearly price.
Scheduling is the largest add-on. Acuity Starter is $192 a year, Standard $324 and Premium $588, making each tier upgrade cost $132–264 more annually, so the annual cost difference should influence your tier selection.
If bookings are your business, scheduling can cost more than the site itself.
Squarespace limits that force a plan upgrade
You won't find some limits on the price tag at all. They appear when your site outgrows its plan, and then you pay to move up mid-year.
Read Squarespace's plan comparison for the features you need on day one, including selling and email, and pick the plan that covers them.
Worth checking against a plan that does not meter every step: one credit covers a whole run on Activepieces.
Squarespace versus competitors on price
On any single line, Squarespace is rarely the cheapest option. Its pricing is simpler to predict than most, and that matters when a wrong guess about your needs means paying for the next tier.
Price table for the five platforms
Read this table for how each platform's pricing is built, not for the headline rate.
Dollar amounts here are US prices: they shift with billing term and region, so read the current number from each vendor's pricing page and use this to know which rows to compare.
| Platform | Entry price | Cheapest plan that sells online | Card fee | Capped on cheaper tiers | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Squarespace | Low, and lower billed annually | Business | Extra platform fee on the Business plan, none on the commerce plans above it | Selling tools and checkout features | Small shops that want design and selling in one bill |
| Wix | Low, with several tiers | Its first business plan | Payment provider's rate | Storage, video and staff accounts | Beginners who want flexible layout |
| Shopify | Higher starting point | Its lowest plan | Falls as you move up tiers | Staff accounts and reporting | Stores built around selling |
| WordPress.com | Low | A higher tier than the entry plan | Processor's rate, plus any extension fees | Plugin access and storage | People who already know WordPress |
| Webflow | Site plan and ecommerce plan priced separately | Its lowest ecommerce plan | Platform fee on the lowest tier, plus processor | Product counts and content limits | Designers wanting fine control |
Squarespace wins when you want a handful of pages and a small catalogue without assembling extras. Hosting, templates and basic selling sit in one plan, so you're not adding a separate bill for each.
The saving disappears if you stay on the plan with the added transaction fee while sales grow.
Shopify wins once selling is the whole business, since its card fee falls as you move up. Webflow wins if a designer needs control Squarespace won't give.
WordPress.com wins if you already depend on its plugins. Each costs more to start, but each can cost less than outgrowing the wrong plan.
Squarespace order and entry automation
Stop retyping them: let the tools pass the data along themselves, starting with what Squarespace already includes and moving to a workflow tool only if that falls short. It saves hours of admin and leaves your plan bill untouched.
Doing nothing has a price, just not one on an invoice. Every order copied by hand into a spreadsheet, every inquiry pasted into a customer list, is time you pay for in evenings.
Built-in Squarespace order and form notifications
Start with what you already pay for. Squarespace can email you each order and each form submission.
Doing nothing has a price, just not one on an invoice. Every order copied by hand into a spreadsheet, every inquiry pasted into a customer list, is time you pay for in evenings.
Forms can also be set to store their entries in a connected account, such as a Google Sheet or a Mailchimp email list, depending on the form. For a small shop, that may be the whole job done, at no extra cost.
Where it stops is simple: each connection is fixed. It sends one thing to one place, and it can't decide anything along the way.
Automating Squarespace order and form copying
To fill that gap, you add a workflow tool. It watches for something to happen, such as a new order or a submitted form.
It then runs a short list of steps you set up once, and from then on it does the typing a person would have done.
Below, an order and a form entry sit on the left, a workflow box in the middle, and a spreadsheet, customer list and chat window on the right. The box replaces the person who used to sit between them, copying one to the other.
Activepieces can send each Squarespace order and form entry into a spreadsheet, a CRM and Slack in one flow, and its published pricing page lists that whole trip as 1 credit per flow run, whatever the number of steps.
Zapier's pricing page bills per task and Make's bills per module, so the same three-destination job counts as several units there. The free plan carries 1,000 credits a month with unlimited flows, which is room for 1,000 orders a month before anything is billed.
Check the terms before you build around one, because many of these tools charge their own fees as volume grows. But that cost sits outside your Squarespace plan, and the plan price stays where it was.
Your Monday Squarespace site check
Open your billing page and the real cost of your site shows up in one sitting; the check runs in five steps, each feeding the next:
- Open Billing and confirm your plan and whether you pay monthly or yearly.
- Total twelve months of transaction fees, the cut taken from each sale on some plans.
- Compare that total with the price gap to the next tier up.
- List every domain and extension renewal with its date.
- Decide: stay, upgrade or leave.
Doing nothing is the expensive choice, because fees and renewals hit your card whether or not you look.
Check your Squarespace plan and billing term
When you open Billing, it names your plan and your term. The term matters: a monthly payer is paying extra for flexibility they may never use, and a yearly payer has a renewal date that can reset the price without a reminder. Write both down.
Then add up the fees on twelve months of sales, not your best month. One busy season can hide a slow rest of the year, and the full-year total is the only figure fair enough to compare against a plan price.
Price the next tier up
Set your fee total beside the price gap to the next tier. If the fees are larger than the gap, staying put is the costlier choice, and the upgrade is the cheaper plan in practice.
If the fees are smaller, stay, and you now know it rather than assuming it.
Set Squarespace domain renewal reminders
Because domains bill separately from the plan, often on different dates, and each extension (the ending, such as .com or .shop) can renew at a different price, you should list each one with its date and set a reminder ahead of it.
A missed domain renewal can take your address offline, which costs more than the fee you skipped.
Then write down your decision, stay, upgrade or leave, with the date you'll run this check again.
What Activepieces does about this
The plan price is the smallest number on your bill, and the hand-copying around it is a cost you never see. Activepieces takes over that copying.
A new Squarespace order or form entry triggers one flow that writes a spreadsheet row, adds the contact to your CRM and posts to Slack.
The pricing page counts that whole trip as 1 credit per flow run, however many steps it has. The free plan includes 1,000 credits a month with unlimited flows, so a small shop can automate its orders without adding a line to the bill.
The core is open source under the MIT licence, so you can self-host it and read what it does with your order data. Your Squarespace renewal, fees and domain dates stay where they were.
Frequently asked questions
Once you have a date on the calendar, these are the four questions that usually decide whether the decision holds. Each answer is worth confirming on Squarespace's own help center before you pay.
Does Squarespace still offer a free trial?
On new sites Squarespace has offered a trial, but its length and terms are set by Squarespace and can change. Read the sign-up page on the day you start.
If you assume the trial is longer than it is, the first charge arrives before you've decided anything, and it lands on the plan you picked at sign-up, not the one you might have chosen later.
Can I switch plans or cancel in the middle of a billing term?
You can change plans or cancel from your billing settings, but a change mid-term doesn't automatically hand back what you already paid. Cancelling generally stops the next renewal; it doesn't necessarily return the months you've prepaid.
So put your renewal date in the calendar next to your review date. Missing it costs a full new term, which is far more than the price difference between plans.
Treat the displayed price as the amount before tax. Whether sales tax or VAT is added depends on where you and your business are located, and the final amount appears at checkout.
Budget for a total higher than the sticker price, and compare plans using the checkout figure, not the pricing page.
Does Squarespace refund annual plans?
Against a twelve-month commitment, the limited refund window on annual plans closes quickly. Check the current window in the billing help article before you buy, not after.
If you're unsure the platform fits, the safer move is to start on a shorter term and accept the higher monthly rate, because that costs less than being stuck in a year you can't get back.
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