Squarespace alternatives
Squarespace alternatives, judged on the year rather than the month
Squarespace publishes $16 a month billed annually against $21 a month billed monthly, and the first of those is the number people carry around in their head. Every alternative below is shown on the same basis, with the billing term named in the cell, because that’s where most of these comparisons go wrong.
squarespace.com/pricing, currency set to USD read September 3, 2026Today you pay $1 for the website plus your first month of hosting. After that hosting is $8.99 a month, billed on the same date each month until you cancel, and you can cancel in any month. The .com is included on the Complete plan at $18.99 a month. On Basic at $8.99 a month the name is registered in your own name and run for you, and the registry’s own annual fee for it, about $12 a year, is billed separately at cost.
Start here
Three reasons people leave Squarespace, and where each one leads
They point at completely different products, so know which one is yours before you read a table.
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The annual payment
A year in one go is a real cash-flow event for a small business, and the monthly rate at $21 is a different proposition from the advertised one. squarespace.com/pricing, currency set to USD read September 3, 2026 If that’s the issue, look at anything billed a month at a time and read what it renews at.
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The template ceiling
Squarespace decides a lot for you, which is exactly why people buy it and exactly why some people outgrow it. That leads to Webflow if you want more control, or to a designer if you want the control without the learning curve.
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The realization
That you didn’t want to design anything. You wanted a website. A tidier editor doesn’t fix that, and it’s the only case where a done-for-you service is the right recommendation.
There’s a fourth reason that people rarely put into words: the site is beautiful and it doesn’t bring in any work. That’s a writing and structure problem, and moving it to a different template does nothing. What a redesign should fix is the more useful page if that’s where you are.
Side by side
Six alternatives, with the billing term stated
The building column matters as much as the price column. Five of these six hand you a tool. One hands you a finished site.
| Option | What it costs | Who does the building | Source |
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| DEVIQOBuilt for you | $1 once, then $8.99 a month | Our designer and our copywriter. You answer a questionnaire and the finished site comes back in seven days. | our own price table |
| WixBuilder you drive | $17 a month on Light, billed yearly | You do. Wix supplies the templates, the editor and the app market. | wix.com/plans read September 3, 2026 |
| WebflowDeveloper tool | $25 a month on the Basic site plan, $15 billed annually | You do, or the designer you hire. It’s closer to a design tool than a builder. | webflow.com/pricing read September 3, 2026 |
| WordPress.comBuilder you drive | $4 a month on Personal for the first term, renewing at $5, or $9 billed monthly | You do, and on the self-hosted version you also own the updates, the plugins and the security. | wordpress.com/pricing, country set to US read September 3, 2026 |
| HostingerHost with a builder | $18.99 a month on the one-month term, $4.99 on a twelve-month term, renewing at $16.99 | You do, with an AI-assisted builder on top of shared hosting. | hostinger.com/web-hosting read September 3, 2026 |
| UENIBuilt for you | $79 setup, then $24.99 a month | They do. It’s the same idea as ours: you answer questions and a site comes back. | ueni.com/pricing read September 3, 2026 |
Every figure above was read from the vendor’s own public pricing page on September 3, 2026, in USD, and the source is printed in the row. Prices move, and a vendor can change one the day after this was written, so check the source before you rely on it. Anything we couldn’t read from a United States connection is marked not verified instead of guessed at. Annual rates are labeled as annual. Where a vendor publishes a different rate for month-to-month billing, both are in the cell.
One at a time
Who each of these is for
With the catch attached, because they all have one.
DEVIQO
Best for. A small business that wants the site to exist without spending a weekend on it, and wants one number instead of a quote.
The catch. You aren’t driving the first build. If designing it yourself is the part you enjoy, a builder is the better buy and we’ll say so.
On this list because. The option where the design decision is made for you by a person rather than by a template, and where the bill is monthly instead of annual.
Wix
Best for. People who want the widest template choice and the biggest app ecosystem, and who are willing to lay the site out themselves.
The catch. The plans page prices are yearly subscriptions paid in full at purchase, so month one is a whole year. The included .com is a one-year voucher on first-time yearly upgrades.
On this list because. More templates, more apps, more freedom to move things. Also more decisions, which is the thing some people left Squarespace to avoid.
wix.com/plans read September 3, 2026Webflow
Best for. Designers, and businesses with a designer, who want full control of layout without writing the front end by hand.
The catch. The learning curve is real and the plan price is only the software. Most Webflow sites are built by someone who was paid to build them.
On this list because. The upgrade path if you hit the ceiling of what a Squarespace template will do and you have someone who can drive a design tool.
webflow.com/pricing read September 3, 2026WordPress.com
Best for. Anyone who wants to own the platform, publish a lot, and either has a developer or is willing to become one.
The catch. The cheap headline is the first term billed annually and it renews higher. Self-hosted WordPress is free software with a real maintenance bill behind it.
On this list because. The option if you want to own the platform, publish heavily, or move the site somewhere else in three years without rebuilding it.
wordpress.com/pricing, country set to US read September 3, 2026Hostinger
Best for. People who want the lowest possible headline price and are comfortable paying for several years in one payment to get it.
The catch. The advertised rate needs the long term bought up front, and it renews at a different number. A .com renews at $19.99 a year.
On this list because. The option if the annual bill was the whole problem and you want the lowest headline number in the market.
hostinger.com/web-hosting read September 3, 2026UENI
Best for. A very small business that wants someone else to do the first build and is comparing done-for-you services rather than builders.
The catch. The setup fee sits on top of the first month, and it’s advertised against a list setup of $599.
On this list because. The other done-for-you service worth pricing, and the fair comparison if you have decided you aren’t going to lay out another page yourself.
ueni.com/pricing read September 3, 2026Staying put
Squarespace is a good product and most people should stay on it
It has the best out-of-the-box typography in the builder market, the editor gets out of the way, and a Squarespace site put together carelessly still looks better than most sites put together carefully somewhere else. If you like designing and you’re getting the work you want, there’s nothing on this page worth acting on.
Switch for one of two reasons only. Either the annual bill doesn’t suit how your money moves, in which case a monthly-billed option is a real improvement. Or you have worked out that the design was never the bottleneck, and what you need is someone to write eight pages about your business and put them live. That’s the one we do, and the head-to-head page takes it row by row without pretending Squarespace is bad at what it does.
If you’re comparing the other end of the builder market at the same time, the Wix alternatives page covers that half, and what a small business website costs puts every one of these numbers next to what a US agency charges for the same job.
Questions
What people ask next
Why does Squarespace look cheaper than it bills?
Because the advertised rate is the annual one. Squarespace publishes $16 a month billed annually against $21 a month billed monthly, so the number most people remember is the one that requires a year in a single payment. squarespace.com/pricing, currency set to USD read September 3, 2026 Do the multiplication before you compare it with anything billed a month at a time.
What happens to the free Squarespace domain?
It’s a first-year arrangement, and that’s the pattern across this whole market. support.squarespace.com, "Included custom domains" read September 3, 2026 The renewal is the year the bill comes back and almost nobody is looking at it when they buy. The .com in year one and year two lays out what each vendor does at renewal, with the figures we could read and the ones we couldn’t.
Which alternative is best for a design-led business?
Webflow, if you have someone who can drive it, at $25 a month on the Basic site plan or $15 billed annually. webflow.com/pricing read September 3, 2026 It’s a design tool rather than a builder, so it removes the ceiling and adds a learning curve. Most Webflow sites you admire were built by someone who was paid to build them, and that cost belongs in the price.
Can I keep my Squarespace design if I move?
No, and neither can you take a Wix or a Webflow design with you. Every one of these is a rebuild rather than a migration, so think of switching as buying a new site and keeping your domain, your words and your photographs. The domain moves cleanly if you’re the registrant, which is why we put the name in your own name from the first day. The domains page covers that.
Is a done-for-you service cheaper?
Over two years, on our numbers, yes, and we’d rather show the arithmetic than assert it. The build here is $1 once and hosting is $8.99 a month. Squarespace at the annual rate is $16 a month and buys the software, not the pages. squarespace.com/pricing, currency set to USD read September 3, 2026 DEVIQO vs Squarespace runs the whole two-year comparison row by row, domain included.
What if I only need a one-page site?
Then almost anything on this list will do the job and you should buy on whichever bill you find least annoying. What a one-page site can’t do is answer several different searches at once, so if the plan is to be found for more than your own business name, the page count starts to matter. Local SEO is the longer answer to that question.
The offer
A site someone draws for you, billed by the month
Our designer draws it and our copywriter writes it, live in seven days, for $1 once and then $8.99 a month. Billed monthly from the start, with no year to pay up front and no term to see out.
Today you pay $1 for the website plus your first month of hosting. After that hosting is $8.99 a month, billed on the same date each month until you cancel, and you can cancel in any month. The .com is included on the Complete plan at $18.99 a month. On Basic at $8.99 a month the name is registered in your own name and run for you, and the registry’s own annual fee for it, about $12 a year, is billed separately at cost.
The same build is openly sold at $1,500, which is what a US agency charges for a small business site of this size. No contract, no minimum term and no exit fee: cancel in any month from the dashboard.
The other comparisons
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What a website costs
The real US range, sourced, against a build here for $1.
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Pay monthly websites
Who charges what per month, and which "no contract" offers have a term underneath.
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The .com, year one and year two
Whose included domain lapses after twelve months, and what ours does instead.
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DEVIQO vs Wix
A builder you drive yourself, against a site drawn for you.
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DEVIQO vs Squarespace
Templates and an annual bill, against seven days and a monthly one.
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DEVIQO vs GoDaddy
What we can verify, what we can’t, and where the upsells sit.
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DEVIQO vs WordPress
Free to download, and someone still has to run it. The upkeep, priced.
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DEVIQO vs UENI
Two done-for-you services, compared on the setup fee and the monthly.
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Wix alternatives
Seven of them, sorted by whether you want a better tool or want to stop building.
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GoDaddy alternatives
Six of them, counted at renewal rather than at the introductory price.
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Our own price list
The build, the two hosting plans and the charges that won’t appear later.
All of them are indexed on the comparisons page, together with every source we read and the date we read it.