Squarespace Pricing 2026: Every Plan and Every Fee

Squarespace pricing in 2026 runs across four website plans — Basic, Core, Plus and Advanced — and at least three separate charges that sit underneath them. This page sets out the whole account: the subscription, the commerce fee, the card rate, the digital product band, the domain, and the two add-on products most buyers end up adding within a year.

Everything below was checked on 20 September 2026. Where a figure comes from a third party rather than Squarespace's own documentation we say so rather than presenting it as gospel.

The subscription, all four tiers

The annual figures are the ones Squarespace leads with, and the discount against monthly billing is substantial — between roughly 24% and 29% depending on tier. It is charged as one payment for the year, so the monthly number is a comparison unit rather than a direct debit.

Card rates in that table are Squarespace Payments rates on domestic cards. If you use a different processor, its schedule replaces those figures entirely.

What the plan step actually buys

Moving from Basic to Core removes the 2% commerce transaction fee, lifts the contributor cap from two to unlimited, drops the digital product fee from 7% to 5%, and adds automatic discounts, carrier-calculated shipping, product waitlists, Google Shopping and third-party commerce integrations. For a site that sells anything, that is the only step most people need to think about. The full comparison is in our entry on Basic versus Core.

Moving from Core to Plus buys a lower card rate, 2.7% instead of 2.9%, and cuts the digital product fee from 5% to 1%. Moving from Plus to Advanced takes the card rate to 2.5% and removes the digital product fee entirely. Both steps are volume arithmetic rather than feature purchases.

One availability note: Plus depends on Squarespace Payments being offered in your market, and is not sold everywhere. Confirm from your own country before planning around it.

The fees the plan price does not include

Three separate fee ladders run underneath the subscription and they stack.

1. The commerce transaction fee — Squarespace's own cut, 2% on Basic and nothing from Core upward.
2. The card processing rate — 2.9%, 2.7% or 2.5% plus $0.30 per domestic transaction through Squarespace Payments, depending on tier.
3. The digital product fee — 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus and nothing on Advanced, charged on downloads, courses and other digital goods.

For a physical-goods seller on Core, the effective cost of a $60 order is the card rate alone: about $2.04. For a digital seller on Basic, a $60 course costs $4.20 in digital product fee plus $1.20 in commerce fee plus $2.04 in card processing — nearly $7.50 on a single sale. Digital sellers should read the fee bands before they read the plan prices.

Domains: free for a year, then not

An annual plan includes one year of domain registration for a new site. It is a real inclusion and a real discount, and it is also a first-year offer. Afterwards the domain renews at the registrar's standard rate, which is roughly $20 a year for a .com at the time of checking.

If you already own a domain elsewhere you can point it at Squarespace instead and keep it at your existing registrar. That forfeits the free-year offer but keeps your registration where you can manage it, which some people prefer for reasons that have nothing to do with price.

Extension pricing varies widely and the fashionable ones cost considerably more than a .com, both to register and to renew. Current rates are listed on Squarespace Domains, and it is worth checking the renewal price rather than the first-year price before you fall in love with an extension.

The two add-ons most accounts end up with

Email Campaigns is billed separately from the website plan. Third-party pricing round-ups put the entry tier at around $8 a month with unlimited contacts and a capped send volume, rising through several tiers as sends increase, with a discount for paying annually. Squarespace publishes current figures on its own email marketing page, and we would check there before budgeting.

Acuity Scheduling is also separate. Published comparisons put the tiers at roughly $16, $27 and $49 a month on annual billing, with a short free trial. It is a full scheduling product rather than a booking widget, which is why it is priced like one.

Neither is required. Both are the kind of thing a business adds in month four and then forgets is on the bill, which is exactly why they belong on this page. The combined picture is worked out in the second-year bill.

What is already included

It is worth posting the credits as well as the debits, because several things people budget for separately are covered by the subscription.

• Hosting, bandwidth and storage, with no metered overage to watch
• An SSL certificate, issued and renewed without you doing anything
• The full template library, with no premium-theme upsell
• Platform updates and security patching, which is the whole maintenance line item on a self-hosted build
• Unlimited products, subscription products and memberships on every tier, including Basic
• Customer support, which on this platform is genuinely responsive rather than nominal

That list is the real argument for a hosted builder. Priced individually — managed hosting, a certificate, a commercial theme, someone to apply updates — the equivalent stack costs more than $29 a month and takes attention you were not planning to spend.

Discounts and the partner route

Squarespace runs periodic promotional codes, usually around 10% off a first annual subscription. They are ordinary marketing discounts, they apply to the first term only, and they are not worth restructuring a purchase around.

The more durable route is Circle, the company's free partner programme for people who build on the platform. Silver status carries a 10% discount on new annual subscriptions and extended trials of around three months; Gold raises that to 20% and roughly six months. It is aimed at designers and agencies building client sites rather than at someone making a single site for themselves, but if you expect to build more than one it changes the arithmetic. Details are on the Squarespace Circle page.

Trials, refunds and getting your money back

The trial is 14 days and you cannot publish during it. There is no free plan underneath it — the entry price to a live Squarespace site is a paid subscription, which is covered in detail in our entry on the Squarespace free trial.

Annual website subscriptions can be refunded in full if cancelled within 14 days of purchase, with the cost of any domain registration deducted from the refund. Renewal payments are not refunded. Refunds take several business days to appear on a card statement.

What a realistic first year costs

A brochure site on Basic, billed annually, with the included domain: $228 for the year. The same site on Core: $348. Add Email Campaigns at the entry tier and you are near $450. Add Acuity and a domain renewal in year two and a modest service business is paying somewhere around $600 a year for what the pricing page advertises as $29 a month.

None of that is deceptive on Squarespace's part — every figure is published. It is simply spread across four pages, and the total is never shown in one place. That total is what this ledger exists to keep. When you are ready to price it against what you actually need, the full Squarespace review puts the costs next to the capabilities.