Squarespace pricing: which plan do you need?

Squarespace sells four plans - Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced - and the real difference between them is contributor limits and commerce fees, not design features. Every plan uses the same template system and page-section editor. What changes as you go up is how many people can edit the site, how much Squarespace takes from a sale, and a handful of commerce extras like purchase analytics. Here's what each plan costs and unlocks, sourced from Squarespace's own pricing page and help center (checked September 2026).

What do the four plans cost, and on which billing view?

Squarespace's pricing page shows two numbers per plan: a monthly rate, and a lower per-month rate if you pay for the year upfront. These are the numbers shown on Squarespace's pricing page as of this check:

"Contributors" means people with edit access to the site, not site visitors. Basic caps that at two; every plan above it removes the cap. Squarespace changes these prices periodically, so treat this table as a snapshot and check the live pricing page before you buy.

What does each plan unlock beyond the price?

The plans are cumulative: each one includes what's below it, plus more. Per Squarespace's own plan-comparison guidance (Squarespace, "Choosing the right Squarespace plan", checked September 2026):

• Basic fits smaller sites with one or two people editing it - a small shop, an invoicing setup, paywalled content, a portfolio, or a blog.
• Core is aimed at more substantial sites that need unlimited contributors and premium features like custom code and third-party integrations - a good fit once you have a team of editors or admins managing a larger amount of content.
• Plus carries everything Core has, with lower payment-processing rates and more built-in video storage.
• Advanced is Squarespace's own description of who it's for: "larger e-commerce stores that process many orders" (same source), reflecting the lowest transaction and processing fees of the four plans.

Every plan, including Basic, includes commerce tools: selling unlimited products, selling content and memberships, selling subscription products, abandoned checkout recovery, local and regional shipping, customer reviews, sending invoices, and customer accounts, per Squarespace's own commerce breakdown (Squarespace, "Selling on the Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced plans", checked September 2026). Commerce analytics and third-party integrations are Core-and-above additions on top of that base set.

Every plan also includes Squarespace's built-in AI tools with a monthly credit allowance and unlimited bandwidth, per the current pricing page. If you're deciding what those AI tools can and can't do on an existing site, our guide to using AI with a Squarespace site covers Squarespace's own AI chat and what an outside tool like ChatGPT or Claude can do through a browser instead.

How do the commerce and Digital Product fees differ by plan?

This is where the four plans actually diverge in cost, and it's two separate fees, not one. Squarespace's commerce help article lays out both schedules plan by plan (Squarespace, "Selling on the Basic, Core, Plus, and Advanced plans", checked September 2026):

The online store transaction fee applies to physical and service product sales; it drops to 0% starting on Core. The Digital Product fee is a separate charge on content and memberships sold through Squarespace's Digital Products tools, and it only reaches 0% on Advanced. Card processing through Squarespace Payments is a third, separate charge that applies on every plan regardless of the other two fees. If selling is the main reason you're picking a plan, our Squarespace ecommerce guide covers product types, checkout, and what these fees mean for an actual store in more depth than fits here.

What comes with every plan - domain, email, and trial?

A few things apply across all four plans rather than being plan-specific unlocks. Squarespace's pricing page states that "all Squarespace website plans purchased for an annual term include one (1) year of free domain registration on available domains on our cheapest pricing tier" - an annual-term purchase, not a monthly one, and only for the first year. Separately, Squarespace states that signing up for "select plans" and registering or connecting a domain gets you "one (1) professional Gmail and Google Workspace account, free for the first year" (Squarespace pricing page, checked September 2026); on the current pricing page, that Google Workspace offer is listed under Core, Plus, and Advanced, not Basic. Our guide to Squarespace domains and guide to Squarespace email cover how the domain and inbox setup actually work after that first free year ends.

Every Squarespace website also "starts with a 14-day free trial," per the same pricing page - useful for testing the editor and template before you commit to a billing cycle, though a trial site's own publishing and indexing behavior is a separate question from the plan price itself.

Which plan should I actually pick?

• Pick Basic if you're a solo site owner or have one collaborator, want to sell a modest amount, and don't mind the highest transaction fees on your first sales.
• Pick Core the moment a second or third person needs edit access, or once the 2% online-store fee on Basic would cost you more than Core's higher monthly price - it's also the plan where custom code and third-party integrations open up.
• Pick Plus if you're already on Core-level features but want lower processing rates and more built-in video storage, and the price difference is worth it at your sales volume.
• Pick Advanced if you're running a higher-volume store where a percentage point of fees adds up fast across many orders.

Compare that against your actual order volume and contributor count on Squarespace's own pricing page before committing to a year of billing, since the annual discount only pays off if you're confident in the plan.

Where does Figment fit in?

Nowhere directly for this decision - Figment isn't a Squarespace alternative in the plan-and-commerce sense above. Figment publishes a website from a Figma design you've already built, through its Figma plugin; it has no store, no product catalog, and no transaction-fee schedule of its own. If what you need is a store, memberships, or paywalled content on a plan with the commerce tools above, Squarespace's own plans are the right comparison. If you're weighing a dedicated commerce platform against Squarespace's bundled approach instead, our Shopify vs Squarespace comparison covers that trade-off directly.

Bottom line: the four Squarespace plans mostly buy you fewer fees and more contributors as you go up, not different design tools. Basic works for a small, low-volume site; Core is the plan most sites with any real commerce or team editing land on; Plus and Advanced exist to shave processing costs off higher sales volume. Check the current numbers on Squarespace's own pricing page before you commit, since prices and fee schedules are the kind of detail vendors update.