GoDaddy vs Square Online in 2026

What you'll pay to sell with Square

Square Online has a Free plan at $0, Plus at $49 a month and Premium at $149 a month. The part to look at alongside the plan price is the fee on each online sale.

On Free, that's 3.3% + 30 cents per online sale. Plus and Premium charge 2.9% + 30 cents. You can start taking payments without a paid subscription, but you'll still pay the transaction fee.

Does paying for Premium get you a lower card fee than Plus? No. Both have the same listed rate, so a decision between those plans needs to rest on something other than the card fee.

For a business choosing a site builder to sell through, Square gives you a direct comparison: the subscription cost alongside the fee you'll pay when a customer buys. Keep both in view.

The free plans aren't interchangeable. Square's includes taking payments, GoDaddy's includes an allowance of AI credits, and Heya's is for publishing sites without a built-in store.

How GoDaddy's AI builder works

GoDaddy's website builder is now called Airo AI Builder. You describe your idea, and AI generates the site. You can publish that version as it is or edit it before publishing.

That's the starting point. Rather than beginning with a template and building out the site yourself, you're asking Airo to produce a draft from your description, then deciding how much of that draft you want to keep.

The free plan includes 50 AI credits a month and doesn't require a credit card. Those credits expire at the end of each billing cycle; they don't roll over. And if you run out, you either buy more or wait for the next cycle.

Beyond Starter, the listed Professional prices are $24.99 or $49.99, and Ultimate is $99.99 or $199.99, following the yearly-billed and month-to-month order.

GoDaddy also shows 4.4 out of 5 on Trustpilot from about 143,000 reviews. W3Techs puts GoDaddy Website Builder at 0.6% of all websites. Neither figure is a comparison of online sales fees.

Check the domain terms

GoDaddy lets you connect your own domain to any published project, including one on its free plan. It also includes a free domain with the purchase of an annual plan.

Buying a domain separately? Read the term attached to the offer, not just the price.

GoDaddy's domain page advertises a .com for $4.99 with code GDWELCOME. That's a 1-year term for new customers only. The .net offer is $0.01 for the first year, but it requires a 3-year purchase, then costs $24.99 for each additional year.

Those are domain offers, not the monthly price of the builder (keep them separate when you're comparing plans).

Where Heya fits

Heya, which publishes this guide, is a no-code builder at heya.page. You sign in with Google to publish. It doesn't have a built-in store, checkout or form builder.

For selling, you link a button to your checkout or store page. For forms, you can link to a Google Form or a Tally form; bookings use the Calendly embed.

Heya Free costs $0, with no credit card and no time limit. It includes 3 sites, up to 5 pages per site, all 68 templates and a free yourname.heya.bio address with HTTPS. There's a small Made with Heya badge.

Pro Lite is $3 a month. It keeps the 3-site allowance, raises the page limit to 20 pages per site, removes the badge and stops marking links nofollow.

Pro Standard is $6 a month, with 5 sites and 1 custom domain per account with HTTPS. Heya doesn't sell domains, so you'll need to bring one from a registrar.

Pro Plus is $15 a month. It allows 25 sites, up to 10 custom domains, and lets you download your site as a ZIP of HTML files.

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