Is Squarespace worth the money in 2026?

Squarespace doesn't have a free plan. Its 14-day trial doesn't ask for a credit card, and that's the place to try building your site before choosing a subscription. No card needed.

A yearly Squarespace plan includes a free custom domain for the first year. Keep the "first year" part in mind when you're looking at what's included; it isn't a permanently free domain.

If you're a student, check Student Beans before paying. Students get 50% off their first yearly Squarespace plan through Student Beans, but that discount can't be combined with other codes.

The selling fees need a closer look

The table separates Squarespace's store transaction fee from US card processing. They're different charges. Basic has a 2% store transaction fee, while Core, Plus and Advanced have a 0% store transaction fee, but card processing still applies on those plans.

And digital products have their own fee schedule. Squarespace charges 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus and 0% on Advanced.

Selling digital products? Don't choose a plan by looking at the store fee alone. Core's 0% store transaction fee sits alongside a 5% digital product fee, and its US card processing rate is 2.9% + $0.30.

That's where the plan choice needs more attention than the monthly price. Plus has US card processing of 2.7% and a 1% digital product fee; Advanced has US card processing of 2.5% and no digital product fee. Those are the differences to compare against what you'll be selling, rather than treating every paid plan as the same store with a different subscription price.

What you can customize and take with you

Code injection is available on Core, Plus and Advanced, not Basic. If your site needs code injection, Basic is out.

Exporting is the bigger limitation I'd look at before committing. Squarespace exports only to a WordPress-format XML file, and that export leaves out product pages, store pages, portfolio pages, album and index pages, custom CSS and style settings.

It isn't a complete site download. You also can't import that export into another Squarespace site. If being able to take those parts of your site elsewhere matters to you, this is a reason to pause before paying.

For a link-in-bio page, Squarespace has a separate free option: Bio Sites at biosites.com. You can have up to 10 per account. You don't need a paid Squarespace website just to use that option.

Where Heya fits instead

We publish this guide at Heya, and our builder is an option for a simple site rather than a replacement for Squarespace's built-in selling. Heya is a no-code website builder at heya.page, and you sign in with Google to publish.

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.

Want the badge gone? Heya Pro Lite is $3 a month and includes 3 sites with up to 20 pages per site. Links are no longer marked nofollow on that plan.

Heya Pro Standard is $6 a month, with 5 sites and 1 custom domain per account with HTTPS. Heya doesn't sell domains, so you bring one from any registrar (custom domains start on Pro Standard).

Heya Pro Plus is $15 a month. It includes 25 sites, up to 10 custom domains and the option to download your site as a ZIP of HTML files.

There are building limits to check, too: 40 sections per page, 60 blocks per section and 10 block types. Images can be up to 20 MB. The 6 embed types are YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud, Calendly and Google Maps.

For SEO settings, Heya lets you add a title of up to 120 characters, a description of up to 300 characters, a favicon and a share image.

But Heya has no built-in store, checkout or form builder. You link a button to your checkout or store page, use a Google Form or a Tally form, and use the Calendly embed for bookings. If you want selling built into the website builder itself, Squarespace is the option to consider here.

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