How to read this page: every number below was read from the vendor’s own public pricing page on the date shown, and the pages are re-checked daily. Currencies differ because that is what each vendor showed an EU visitor. Some links on this page are affiliate links — if you subscribe through one we earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. Per our method, that never changes a number or a verdict. Source links always point to the vendor’s plain page.
The two pricing pages, side by side
These two are not quoted in the same currency. Squarespace is priced in EUR and WordPress.com in USD, as each page showed it to us. Figures below are what each vendor charges, not a conversion — ranking them against each other depends on the rate your bank applies, and paying in a foreign currency usually adds a fee on top.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
Plan
Price
What the page says
Basic
$25/mo ($19 annual)
US read 2026-09-06: '$25 /mo' billed monthly, '$19 /mo' on annual billing. EU read 2026-09-07 through verified DE, FR and ES exits: €17 monthly, €12 annual — the same figure in all three markets.
Core
$39/mo ($29 annual)
US read 2026-09-06: '$39 /mo' monthly, '$29 /mo' annual. EU read 2026-09-07 through verified DE, FR and ES exits: €24 monthly, €18 annual — the same figure in all three markets.
Plus
$65/mo ($49 annual)
US read 2026-09-06: '$65 /mo' monthly, '$49 /mo' annual. EU read 2026-09-07 through verified DE, FR and ES exits: €42 monthly, €32 annual — the same figure in all three markets. ⚠️ A 2026-09-07 read filed as DE recorded NO Plus tier on the EU page; the three verified reads that day all show one. See the note on the two readings.
Advanced
$139/mo ($99 annual)
US read 2026-09-06: '$139 /mo' monthly, '$99 /mo' annual. EU read 2026-09-07 through verified DE, FR and ES exits: €79 monthly, €69 annual — the same figure in all three markets. ⚠️ The same read filed as DE put Advanced at €42/€29, which is this ladder's PLUS row. Not reconciled — see the note on the two readings.
Source: https://www.squarespace.com/pricing · read 2026-09-21 (UTC) · ⭐ RE-READ 2026-09-07 (D6, EU egress): both billing states walked. The EU ladder is three plans — Basic €11, Core €17, Advanced €29 per month on annual billing, and €15, €24, €42 billed monthly. The Price column holds the US read of 2026-09-06, which is a four-plan ladder including Plus. ⚠️ The '50% off' the cron saw on 2026-09-06 is NOT on the page today.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
Prices as this vendor showed them to a visitor in the United States — USD. A reader elsewhere may be quoted a different figure — we publish what we were served, never a conversion.
Plan
Price
Free
Custom
Personal
$3.25/mo
Premium
$6.5/mo
Business
$20/mo
Commerce
$36/mo
Source: https://wordpress.com/pricing/ · read 2026-10-13 (UTC) · Correction, 2026-09-05: two plan names on this record were published garbled — “Business Free Personal Premium” and “Commerce Free Personal Premium” appeared where the vendor's page says “Business” and “Commerce”. The names are corrected here; no price changed. The cause was ours, not the vendor's: our reader joined a pricing card's heading with the tab strip beside it and then truncated the result to the maximum length a plan name may have, which defeated the check that would have refused it. The reader is fixed and the case is now a test. The corrected names are the ones this record's own dated observation already carried (Business €40/€25, Commerce €70/€45, read 2026-09-04); those observations were not edited.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
Plan
United States USD · 2026-10-13
United Kingdom USD · 2026-10-13
EU USD · 2026-10-13
Free
—
—
—
Personal
$3.25
$9
$9
Premium
$6.5
$18
$18
Business
$20
$40
$40
Commerce
$36
$70
$70
What the record says
The shapes are different. Squarespace publishes one price for one product and climbs steadily: €17, €24, €42, €79. WordPress.com opens with a free tier and then spreads $9, $18, $40 and $70 across a range that starts far below Squarespace and ends above its middle.
For anyone whose first question is what a site costs to put online at all, that difference decides it. Three WordPress.com paid rungs sit at or under Squarespace's entry price, and there is a free tier beneath them. The ladders only draw level around $40, which is also the rung where WordPress.com starts behaving like the software rather than the service.
What the figures cannot tell you is which one you will still be using in two years. Squarespace sells one integrated product; WordPress.com sells graded access to a platform you could in principle host yourself. That is a portability question, and portability never appears on a pricing page.
Beyond the price tag
The floor
WordPress.com publishes a free tier and then $9. Squarespace's lowest published plan is €17.
Where they draw level
WordPress.com's $40 against Squarespace's €17 to €24 band. Below that, WordPress.com has rungs Squarespace does not.
The top
Squarespace €79 against WordPress.com $70. Both aim at selling rather than publishing.
What this does not tell you
Whether you can leave. One is an integrated product, the other graded access to software you could host elsewhere — and that is worth more than a rung either way to some buyers.
Questions people actually search
Which is cheaper, Squarespace or WordPress.com?
WordPress.com, at the bottom: a free tier and then $9 against a Squarespace floor of €17. They draw level around $40.
Does Squarespace have a free plan?
Not on the pricing page we read — its lowest published plan is €17 a month. WordPress.com does publish a free tier.
Is WordPress.com the same as self-hosted WordPress?
No, and the record does not price self-hosted WordPress because the software itself has no pricing page. WordPress.com sells graded hosted access to it.
THE VERDICT, ONE MORE TIME
Our pick on price alone: WordPress.com — a free tier, then $9 against a Squarespace floor of €17. The ladders only draw level at WordPress.com's $40.
This verdict is scoped to the published ladders. WordPress.com lists a free tier and then $9 and $18 at or below Squarespace's floor of €17. They draw level around $40, and above that the comparison stops being about price.
Both ladders come from each vendor's own pricing page, read on the date shown beside every table. WordPress.com's free tier is recorded as published and carries no monthly figure. The method →
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