Squarespace pricing explained: what each plan costs (2026)

Squarespace sells four website plans: Basic at $19 a month, Core at $29, Plus at $49 and Advanced at $99 on the annual plan, or $25, $39, $65 and $139 if you pay month to month. This article covers the pricing itself, so every figure below comes from Squarespace’s pricing page or its help center, checked on 26 October 2026. I haven’t built a site on Squarespace, so I’m not describing how it feels to use.

If you’re still choosing a builder, see the best website builder for UI/UX designers. For the same breakdown on two competitors, see Framer pricing explained and Webflow pricing explained.

The plans at a glance

	Basic	Core	Plus	Advanced
Annual plan	$19/mo	$29/mo	$49/mo	$99/mo
Paying monthly	$25/mo	$39/mo	$65/mo	$139/mo
Contributors	2	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Code blocks and code injection	Not listed	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pages	Up to 1,000	Up to 1,000	1,000	1,000
Video storage	30 minutes	5 hours	50 hours	Unlimited
Online store transaction fee	2%	0%	0%	0%
Digital product fee	7%	5%	1%	0%
AI credits	10, one-time	20 a month	40 a month	120 a month

Every plan lists unlimited bandwidth, SSL, SEO tools and 24/7 support. Squarespace says there is no free plan, only a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.

Which plan do you need for a portfolio?

Basic is the plan for a template-led portfolio that you edit yourself. You get a custom domain, unlimited bandwidth and up to 1,000 pages, which is far more than a portfolio needs. The limits that matter to a designer are two contributors, including you, and no code injection. If you want to add an analytics script or paste in third-party embed code, Basic doesn’t list it.

Core is the plan Squarespace marks as recommended, and for a designer it is the real entry point if you want any custom code. It adds unlimited contributors, code blocks (for JavaScript and iframe code) and code injection, site-wide and per page. It also removes the 2% store transaction fee and cuts the digital product fee from 7% to 5%.

Plus and Advanced are store plans. Their extras are lower payment and digital product fees, more video hosting and, on Advanced, carrier-calculated shipping. A portfolio doesn’t need them, but if you sell digital downloads such as templates or mockups through Squarespace, the fee drop from 7% on Basic to 1% on Plus is the number to look at.

A simple rule: if you’ll publish case studies from a template and nobody else edits the site, Basic is enough. If you need to add code, or a client or teammate will edit, start at Core.

What the sticker price leaves out

• Billing period. The lower prices are the annual plan. Paying monthly costs 32% to 40% more per month on the listed figures, so the annual plan saves 24% to 29%. The pricing page’s heading says paying annually saves “up to 36%”, but I couldn’t find what that figure is measured against, and the listed prices don’t reach it.
• The domain. Annual plans include one custom domain free for its first year, on select domain endings, and Squarespace’s help center says it renews at $20 after that. A domain you already own can’t be converted into the free one. If you switch to monthly billing, the free domain expires at the end of your annual cycle.
• Payment fees. Squarespace Payments charges 2.9% + $0.30 per card on Basic and Core, 2.7% + $0.30 on Plus and 2.5% + $0.30 on Advanced. The pricing page also lists a 1.5% international card fee and a 1.0% currency conversion fee on all plans, and says both are available only with Squarespace Payments.
• Tax. The renewal footnote for domains mentions applicable taxes on top of the listed price, so expect the checkout total to differ.
• Country prices. The prices in this article are Squarespace’s US prices. Squarespace shows different prices in some countries, so the number at your checkout may not match.

What a year actually costs

	Basic	Core
Annual plan, 12 months	$228	$348
Paying monthly, 12 months	$300	$468
Free domain in year one, then	$20 at renewal	$20 at renewal

The 12-month totals are the monthly figures multiplied by twelve. For a side-by-side with other builders, including the domain, use the website builder cost calculator or the price tracker.

How billing, changes and refunds work

• Trial. 14 days, no credit card required, and no permanent free plan. During the trial a new site is private by default, and you can set a site-wide password.
• Upgrading. Squarespace charges the prorated difference between your old and new plan. Keeping the same billing cycle, or switching to annual, applies the upgrade immediately. Switching to monthly applies the change at the end of the current cycle.
• Downgrading. You keep the features until the end of your current billing period, and there are no prorated refunds for downgrades. If you move from a plan with unlimited contributors to Basic, you need to remove extra contributors first.
• Refunds. A full refund is available for annual plans cancelled within 14 days of purchase, with the cost of the free domain deducted. Monthly plans and renewals aren’t refunded, so cancel before the renewal date shown on your invoices.

How it compares

Squarespace Basic at $19 a month is the most expensive of the three entry plans I’ve covered: Framer’s Basic is $10 and Webflow’s Basic is $15, both billed yearly. What Squarespace adds is unlimited bandwidth and a free first-year domain, and Core is where it lets you add custom code. If you want the cheapest way to get a portfolio online at all, see the cheapest way to host a portfolio site, and for the domain side, see how to choose a domain name for your design portfolio.