Squarespace pricing: what a business actually pays

Squarespace looks simple because it is: four plans, one price each. The complexity is in the transaction fees and the billing cycle, and that is exactly where businesses get caught out.

The short answer

There are four plans — Basic, Core, Plus and Advanced — and no free plan, just a 14-day trial. On annual billing, US prices run from about $16 to $99 a month; paying monthly instead costs roughly a third more. UK prices are shown at checkout and set by region. Two details matter more than the headline price: the Basic plan charges a 2 percent transaction fee on physical sales and 7 percent on digital products and memberships, and only the higher plans remove the physical fee and reduce the digital one.

Squarespace renamed its plans in late 2025 — the old Personal, Business, Commerce Basic and Commerce Advanced tiers became these four.

Prices checked September 2026 on annual billing; annual plans also include a free domain for the first year.

The fee nobody budgets for

Selling £2,000 of physical products a month on the Basic plan costs £40 in transaction fees — £480 a year, more than the plan itself. That is the arithmetic that makes Core the sensible choice for almost anyone actually trading. The 7 percent digital fee bites harder still: courses, memberships and downloads on Basic are taxed heavily by the platform.

What the plan price leaves out

• A domain. Annual plans include the first year free; renewal is billed separately at the standard rate.
• Professional email. A separate subscription, per mailbox, per month.
• The build. The subscription rents the stage, not the show — someone still designs, writes and structures the site.
• The monthly premium. Paying month to month costs roughly 30 percent more. Fine while testing; expensive as a habit.

What Squarespace is genuinely good at

• Design-led sites where the template does the heavy lifting
• Owners who want to edit everything themselves
• Selling a modest number of products without a separate shop system

Where it runs out

• Structured content: catalogues with filters, directories, rosters
• Member areas and logic-driven pages
• Anything where the site is the product

When it runs out, the upgrade path is custom WordPress or a fully custom build — and URL structures planned from day one keep the search authority through a later migration. See the builder comparison, what Wix actually costs, or our builder sites service. For a bracket on your own project, try the guided brief.