Squarespace Pricing (2026): Every Plan, the Fees Most People Miss, and When It Stops Being Cheap

How much does Squarespace cost?

As of September 2026, Squarespace costs $19, $29, $49, or $99 a month billed annually ($228, $348, $588, or $1,188 a year), or $25, $39, $65, or $139 billed monthly, for its Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced plans. There is no free plan. Every site starts with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required. The sticker price is the easy part. The line that changes your real bill is the transaction fee: 2% of online store sales on Basic, and 7%, 5%, or 1% of digital content and membership sales on Basic, Core, and Plus. Below is every plan, those fees turned into dollars, and the point where a website builder stops being the cheap option.

Sourcing note: prices are the US offers in the structured data on squarespace.com/pricing, and fees, plan features, and policies are from the comparison table and FAQ on the same page, all read September 14, 2026. Squarespace changes prices and runs promotions, so confirm on its page before you buy.

Squarespace plans and prices, side by side

Every plan includes hosting, SSL, unlimited bandwidth, the drag-and-drop editor, designer templates, SEO tools, 24/7 support, Squarespace Payments, point of sale, unlimited products, gift cards, invoicing, abandoned cart recovery, and checkout on your own domain. What climbs with the tiers is the AI allowance and video: AI credits run 10 one-time on Basic, then 20, 40, and 120 a month, and video hosting runs 30 minutes, 5 hours, 50 hours, and unlimited. Above Advanced, Squarespace sells a Premium tier through its sales team, pitched on "our lowest credit card processing rates" and a dedicated customer success manager.

Monthly vs annual billing: what paying monthly costs

Squarespace's page says "Pay annually to save up to 36%." On the US list prices we read, the saving is smaller: 24% to 29%, depending on the plan.

Annual billing also includes one year of free domain registration for a new website. The trade is commitment: you can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time, but changes take effect at the end of the current billing cycle, and a cancelled plan runs through the period already paid for. If you are not sure the site will stay on Squarespace, pay monthly for the first month or two, then switch.

The Squarespace fees most people miss

• Online store transaction fee: 2% on Basic. Core, Plus, and Advanced list 0%. This is the fee that makes the cheapest plan expensive the moment you sell a product.
• Digital content and memberships fee: 7%, 5%, 1%, 0%. If you sell digital content or memberships, every plan below Advanced takes a cut, and Core's 5% is the one people forget when they upgrade to Core to escape the 2% store fee.
• Automated tax calculation: 0.15%, 0.10%, or 0.05%. Automated global tax rate calculations are not included on Basic, and on Core, Plus, and Advanced they cost 0.15%, 0.10%, and 0.05% "(Capped per transaction)." The page does not print the cap.
• Card processing, which the pricing page does not print. Squarespace's FAQ says Squarespace Payments fees "vary per subscription plan," and a note under the payments rows reads "Available only with Squarespace Payments." Budget for processing on top of everything above. For a benchmark of what published card rates look like, see our breakdown of Stripe fees.

The good news in the same table: "No invoice transaction fees" is marked included on all four plans. One inconsistency to know about: the plan descriptions in the page's own structured data still describe Core as selling "with a 3% transaction fee on commerce sales," while the visible comparison table lists 0% for Core. We use the table. If a guide quotes a 3% Core fee, check the live page.

What Squarespace's transaction fees cost in dollars

This is arithmetic on the fees above, before card processing and tax calculation.

Selling products on Basic. At $3,000 a month in online store sales, Basic's 2% is $60 a month, or $720 a year. Core costs $10 a month more than Basic on annual billing ($120 a year) and charges 0%, so Core pays for itself once store sales pass $500 a month. On monthly billing the gap is $14, so the break-even is $700 a month. If you sell anything at all, Basic is rarely the cheap plan.

Selling digital content or memberships. Plan price plus fee, per month, on annual billing:

The rule falls out of the table. At exactly $500 a month in digital sales, Basic, Core, and Plus all cost $54. Above $500, Plus is the cheapest of the three. Above $5,000 a month, Advanced beats Plus, because its extra $50 equals 1% of $5,000. A course or membership business at $10,000 a month on Core pays $529 a month; the same business on Advanced pays $99. On monthly billing, Plus beats Core above $650 a month and Advanced beats Plus above $7,400.

What Basic leaves out

Beyond the 2% store fee, the comparison table marks these as not included on Basic and included from Core up:

• Professional email from Google Workspace, code injection, the advanced code block, and premium integrations and blocks
• Discounts, payment plans, Google Shopping listings, shipping labels, and carrier-calculated shipping
• Commerce APIs, Mailchimp and Zapier integrations, promotional pop-ups, and ecommerce analytics

Basic also caps contributors at 2 (unlimited on Core and up) and video at 30 minutes. For a five-page service site with a contact form, none of that matters and Basic at $19 is fine. For anything that sells, connects to other tools, or has more than two people editing, Core at $29 is the real entry price.

Domain, free trial, and cancelling

• Domain: annual plans include one year of free domain registration for a new website. You can also connect a domain you already own or buy one through Squarespace on any plan. The pricing page does not print what the domain costs from year two, so check at checkout and budget for it.
• Free trial: 14 days, no credit card required, and you can upgrade during or after it. There is no free plan once it ends.
• Changing or cancelling: upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time; changes take effect at the end of the billing cycle.
• Hosting: fully managed and included on every plan. Squarespace also lists a student discount for eligible students.

When Squarespace stops being cheap

Squarespace is cheap when the site is a brochure: $19 to $29 a month for a site that looks designed with no one to maintain it. If you are still choosing a builder, our Wix vs Squarespace and Squarespace vs WordPress comparisons cover that decision. It stops being cheap in four situations:

1. The fees outgrow the plan. A membership business at $10,000 a month pays $500 a month in transaction fees on Core, before card processing. Moving to Advanced fixes the platform fee. It does not fix processing, and it does not fix the next three.
2. The site has become a system. Quotes, bookings, intake forms, customer logins, or a lead pipeline that has to talk to your CRM and phones. Making a builder do that means stacking extensions and Zapier connections, and each one is another cost and another thing that breaks.
3. You pay for traffic that does not convert. When ads or rankings bring visitors and the template caps what the page can do with them, the platform is the ceiling. SuperDupr's published figure is 40% to 60% higher conversion for custom-coded sites over templates.
4. The store is the business. Once online sales are the revenue rather than a side line, checkout speed, product data, and search visibility decide the month. Our ecommerce website best practices guide covers what that store needs.

That is where we fit. SuperDupr's custom web design is hand-coded in Rails 8 or Next.js with no page builders, typically $10,000 to $30,000 over three to six weeks. A custom site carries no platform transaction fee; you still pay your payment processor. That is the wrong spend for a new business on its first site, where a $19 or $29 Squarespace plan is the right one. It is the right spend when the fees, the extensions, and the traffic you are not converting cost more per year than the build.

The bottom line

Squarespace costs $19 to $99 a month billed annually, or $25 to $139 billed monthly, and annual billing saves 24% to 29% on US list prices. Basic at $19 is the right plan only for a site that sells nothing; Core pays for itself past $500 a month in store sales. If you sell digital content or memberships, Plus is the cheapest plan above $500 a month and Advanced beats it above $5,000. Add card processing on top, since the pricing page does not print it, and revisit the decision when the fees and extensions cost more than the site itself.