Comparison — from the record, 2026-08-30
Squarespace vs Framer: the same tier costs a different amount in every country
OUR PICK
Our pick: Framer — its entry tier costs £8 against Squarespace's £12, and it is a design tool that publishes rather than a template you fill in.
Framer's cheapest paid tier is £8 a month against Squarespace's £12. Both cover a small site on a custom domain. Framer's editor works the way a design file works, which is why designers reach for it; Squarespace's works the way a template works, which is why people who do not design reach for that instead.
The other way: Squarespace is the better answer if you want the shop, the scheduling and the email in one bill rather than assembled — and if you are buying from the UK or the eurozone, where its entry tier is materially cheaper than the US figure suggests.
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
Squarespace — USD, read 2026-08-30
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 | Contacts | What the page says |
|---|
| Basic | $19/mo | | |
| Core | $29/mo | | |
| Plus | $49/mo | | |
| Advanced | $99/mo | | |
Source: https://www.squarespace.com/pricing · read 2026-08-30 (UTC) · Three website plans behind a Pay annually / Pay monthly switch. The page opens on Pay annually — confirmed by aria-checked on the control, not inferred from layout — so the €11, €17 and €29 shown first are annual-billed monthly equivalents. Switching to Pay monthly gives €15, €24 and €42. The page's own line reads 'Pay annually to save up to 36%', but none of the three website plans reaches that: the savings are 26.7%, 29.2% and 31.0%. Transaction fees differ by plan and are part of the real cost. Read in a browser on the date shown above with the switch clicked both ways and the active state read from aria-checked.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
| Plan | United States
USD · 2026-08-30 | United Kingdom
GBP · 2026-08-30 | EU
EUR · 2026-08-30 |
|---|
| Basic | $19 | £12 | €12 |
| Core | $29 | £17 | €18 |
| Plus | $49 | £29 | €32 |
| Advanced | $99 | £79 | €69 |
Framer — USD, read 2026-08-28
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 | Contacts | What the page says |
|---|
| Creative personal sites | $10/mo | | |
| Pro | $30/mo | | |
| Convert | $50/mo | | |
| Advanced hosting | $200/mo | | |
Source: https://www.framer.com/pricing · read 2026-08-28 (UTC) · Three site plans with a genuine free tier, priced per month. The page carries a 'Yearly billing' control and a note that a free .com domain is included on yearly, but that control reported no usable on-screen position in our reads and we could not actuate it reliably — so no yearly rate is quoted here rather than one being inferred. What makes Framer's headline price misleading is not billing period but the add-on stack: editors, content editors, locales, A/B testing and multi-site hosting are all metered on top of the plan. Read in a browser on the date shown above.
What this vendor quotes in each market, as its own page printed it — not one price converted three ways.
| Plan | United States
USD · 2026-08-28 | United Kingdom
GBP · 2026-08-28 | EU
EUR · 2026-08-28 |
|---|
| Creative personal sites | $10 | £8 | €10 |
| Pro | $30 | £23 | €30 |
| Convert | $50 | £38 | €50 |
| Advanced hosting | $200 | £154 | €200 |
What the record says
The interesting thing about this pair is not the feature list, it is the map. Squarespace prices itself separately for each market we read: $19 to a US visitor, £12 in the UK and €12 in the eurozone for the same Basic tier. Framer quotes $10 in the US and the same figure in euros to a German visitor, and only the UK gets its own number at £8.
So the gap between them is not fixed. In the United States, Framer's entry tier undercuts Squarespace's. Move the same purchase to the eurozone and the two sit within a couple of units of each other. Nothing about either product changed; only the country did. That is worth knowing before you read anyone's verdict, including ours.
Up the ladder the two diverge in shape. Squarespace runs £12, £17, £29 and £79 — four steps that add commerce, then scheduling and marketing, then developer access. Framer runs £8, £23 and £38, with the steps buying pages, CMS items and bandwidth rather than whole product lines.
That difference in shape is the real decision. Squarespace's higher tiers exist because Squarespace wants to be the only bill you pay: shop, bookings, email campaigns, domain. Framer's exist because a bigger site needs more of the same thing. If you want one supplier, the first shape suits you. If you want a site that looks like it was designed rather than chosen, the second does.
Beyond the price tag
What the entry tier costs where you are
Squarespace Basic: $19 in the United States, £12 in the United Kingdom, €12 in the eurozone. Framer's entry tier: $10, £8 and €10 respectively. Both were read on the dates beside the tables below.
The full ladders
Squarespace: £12, £17, £29, £79. Framer: £8, £23, £38, with a separate £154 hosting step above them.
Where the money goes
Squarespace's steps buy capability — selling, scheduling, campaigns. Framer's buy capacity — pages, CMS items, bandwidth. A shop that outgrows Squarespace Core is paying for a feature it just started using; a site that outgrows Framer Pro is paying for the traffic it just started getting.
Questions people actually search
Which is cheaper, Squarespace or Framer?
In this market Framer's entry tier is £8 against Squarespace's £12. That ordering is not the same everywhere: Squarespace re-prices per country and Framer largely does not, so the gap narrows or widens depending on where you buy.
Does Squarespace really charge different amounts by country?
Yes, and we read all three on the same day: Basic was $19 to a US visitor, £12 in the UK and €12 in the eurozone. That is the vendor's own page in each country, not a conversion.
Is there a free plan?
Neither publishes one. Both offer a trial, which is a deadline rather than a tier, so neither appears in our free-plan shortlists.
Which should a designer choose?
Framer, almost always. Its editor treats a page as a design surface, which is the thing designers are buying. Squarespace is built so that someone who does not design can still finish a site, which is a different and equally legitimate goal.
THE VERDICT, ONE MORE TIME
Our pick: Framer — its entry tier costs £8 against Squarespace's £12, and it is a design tool that publishes rather than a template you fill in.
Framer's cheapest paid tier is £8 a month against Squarespace's £12. Both cover a small site on a custom domain. Framer's editor works the way a design file works, which is why designers reach for it; Squarespace's works the way a template works, which is why people who do not design reach for that instead.
Every figure above was read from Squarespace's and Framer's own pricing pages, in the market this edition covers, on the dates shown beside each table. Figures marked for another country were read from that country on the same day. Nothing here is converted between currencies. The method →
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