Squarespace's pricing page sells four plans and nothing else to think about. Basic is $19 a month billed annually or $25 month to month, Core is $29/$39, Plus is $49/$65 and Advanced is $99/$139. Everything sits on those plans: hosting, SSL, templates, the CMS, invoicing and storefront. The differences that matter are fees. Basic carries a 2% online store transaction fee applied when selling online products, services or donations, and a 7% fee on digital content and memberships; the page tells you to upgrade for lower or zero transaction fees. Card processing through Squarespace Payments runs 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic and Core, 2.7% + $0.30 on Plus and 2.5% + $0.30 on Advanced, with premium cards at 3.2% + $0.30 on every plan and ACH at 1.5% on Basic and 1.0% above it, subject to a $250 minimum and US availability. Annual plans also carry a free custom domain for the first year, and Basic allows up to two contributors.
TL;DR
Squarespace bundles hosting, CMS, commerce and payments into one bill: Basic $19 a month billed annually ($25 monthly) with a 2% online-store transaction fee and a 7% fee on digital content and memberships, Core $29 ($39) with the store fee at 0%, Plus $49 ($65), Advanced $99 ($139), plus card rates from 2.9% + $0.30 down to 2.5% + $0.30. Webflow bills separately: site plans run Starter free, Basic $15 and Premium $25 billed yearly with Team at $2,500 a month on a required annual contract, while stores buy a separate ecommerce plan - Standard $29 a month billed yearly with 500 items and a 2% transaction fee, Plus $74 with 5,000 items and 0%, Advanced $212 with 15,000 items and 0%. Pick Squarespace to run a business on one invoice; pick Webflow when design control and content operations matter more than a single bill.
Webflow bills by component. Site plans are Starter at free (a webflow.io subdomain, 2 static pages, 1 GB bandwidth, 50 form submissions), Basic at $15 a month billed yearly (custom domain, 300 static pages, 10 GB bandwidth, unlimited form submissions, password protection), Premium at $25 a month billed yearly, which is where the Webflow CMS is folded in, and Team at $2,500 a month on a required annual contract. Stores are a separate purchase: ecommerce plans run Standard at $29 a month billed yearly with 500 ecommerce items and a 2% transaction fee, Plus at $74 with 5,000 items and 0%, and Advanced at $212 with 15,000 items and 0%, all priced per site, per month in USD. Editors cost extra on the Workspace side - a full seat is $39 a month per seat billed yearly, a limited seat $15, and commenters are free - and Webflow sells AI credits, app hosting and database usage as metered extras.
So the comparison is between an all-in-one price and an assembled one. A simple store on Squarespace is $19 a month with a 2% fee on every sale; the same store on Webflow is the Standard ecommerce plan at $29 a month with the same 2% fee and no CMS on the basic site tier beneath it. Move up one Squarespace tier to Core at $29 and the store fee disappears, which is the exact point where the two products cost the same but charge differently.
| Feature | Squarespace | Webflow |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | None; 14-day trial only | Starter free: webflow.io subdomain, 2 static pages, 1 GB bandwidth |
| Entry paid site plan | Basic $19/month billed annually ($25 monthly) | Basic $15/month billed yearly |
| CMS tier | Core $29/month billed annually ($39 monthly) | Premium $25/month billed yearly, CMS folded in |
| Upper self-serve tiers | Plus $49 and Advanced $99/month billed annually | Team $2,500/month on a required annual contract |
| Store plan | Included on every plan; 2% store fee on Basic, 0% from Core up | Separate ecommerce plan: Standard $29, Plus $74, Advanced $212 a month billed yearly |
| Store item limits | No published product cap on the plan tiers | 500, 5,000 and 15,000 ecommerce items by plan |
| Transaction fees | 2% online store fee and 7% digital content and memberships fee on Basic | 2% on ecommerce Standard, 0% on Plus and Advanced |
| Card processing | 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic and Core, 2.7% on Plus, 2.5% on Advanced; 3.2% + $0.30 on premium cards | Not printed on the site-plan section of the pricing page; handled through the ecommerce plan's payment settings |
| Contributors | Up to 2 contributors on Basic | Full seat $39/month per seat billed yearly, limited seat $15, commenters free |
Pick Squarespace if
You can put a site, a store, a domain, invoices and email hosting on a single Squarespace bill and never open a second pricing page. The plan to buy for selling is Core at $29 a month billed annually, because that is where the 2% store fee drops to zero - at $29 it costs exactly what Webflow's Standard ecommerce plan costs, minus the separate site tier. Basic at $19 is the right answer only for a site that sells little, because the 2% fee scales with your revenue while the plan does not.
Pick Webflow if
Webflow is the pick when the site is a design system your team maintains rather than a template you fill in: real CSS control, a visual canvas, staged environments, editor seats for non-designers and a CMS that separates content from layout. It is also unbundled in a way that can be cheaper for a site that does not sell. The assembled bill is the trap - site plan, ecommerce plan, editor seats, AI credits and metered app hosting all appear separately - and the jump from self-serve to Team at $2,500 a month with an annual contract is a cliff rather than a step.
No independent ratings, review scores or user quotes were collected for this pair; nothing here comes from reviews or comparison sites. Prices were read on 2026-10-15 from squarespace.com/pricing and webflow.com/pricing.
For a small store, Squarespace: Core is $29 a month billed annually with a 0% online store transaction fee, and card processing at 2.9% + $0.30 on that tier. Webflow's equivalent is the Standard ecommerce plan at $29 a month billed yearly with a 2% transaction fee on 500 items, bought as a site plan. On a 100-item, $2,000-a-month store the 2% is $40, which is the whole difference.
Hosting is in the site plan: Basic is $15 a month billed yearly and covers a custom domain, 300 static pages, 10 GB bandwidth and unlimited form submissions. What Webflow charges separately is everything around it - editor seats at $39 or $15 per seat a month billed yearly, ecommerce plans, AI credits at $20 for 2,000 credits a month, and metered app hosting and database usage.
Webflow has one: Starter is free with a webflow.io subdomain, 2 static pages, 1 GB bandwidth and 50 form submissions, plus a free Workspace plan with one full seat. Squarespace publishes no free plan - only a 14-day trial with no card.
Card processing through Squarespace Payments at 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic and Core, 2.7% + $0.30 on Plus and 2.5% + $0.30 on Advanced; 3.2% + $0.30 for premium cards on every plan; ACH at 1.5% on Basic and 1.0% above with a $250 minimum in the US; a 2% online store transaction fee and a 7% digital content and memberships fee on Basic; and real-time tax calculation at 0.15% per transaction capped at $0.99.
Both export or expose content in different ways - Webflow publishes to its own hosting and offers CMS APIs, Squarespace exports content in standard formats - but neither will carry your design across. A migration between them means rebuilding layouts, which is the real cost, not a transfer fee.
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