What the conversion costs
Turning your Squarespace site into a static site you own costs a one-time fee of $1,500 to $2,500. That is the published price on the Leave Squarespace page, and it is the same number whether you ask in January or November.
The exact price depends on how many pages you have, how much of the design has to be rebuilt rather than carried across, and whether your site does more than display information. A simple ten-page brochure site sits at the low end. A site with a members area, a booking form, and four years of blog posts sits at the high end, and sometimes above it.
After converting, hosting a static site of that size is free on Cloudflare Pages or Netlify at the traffic levels most small businesses see. Your domain renewal stays about $20 a year, which you already pay, so that is a wash rather than a saving.
What Squarespace charges in 2026
Squarespace introduced four new tiers in February 2025 to replace the old Personal, Business, and Commerce plans. On annual billing they are Basic at $19 a month, Core at $29, Plus at $49, and Advanced at $99. Paying month to month costs more, somewhere between $25 and $139 depending on tier.
These are the numbers everyone quotes, and they show up in most search results. For most people they are also the smallest part of the bill, which is the next section and the reason this page exists.
The part the plan price hides
The Squarespace plan buys you a website. Almost everything a business actually does with that website needs a separate subscription on top.
- Scheduling and appointments. Acuity is not included in any plan. It runs about $16 a month on the Starter tier, which has one calendar, $27 on Standard, which allows up to six, and $49 on Premium, which you need for more than six staff calendars or HIPAA.
- Email campaigns. Also a separate subscription, starting around $8 a month for a small list and climbing to $118 for a large one.
- Extensions. Third-party apps from the Extensions store typically run $5 to $25 a month each. A working business stack lands somewhere around $20 to $50 a month in total.
- Google Workspace for business email, if you want an address at your own domain.
None of it shows up in the prices you see in comparison articles, and you pay it every month whether you used it or not.
If you sell anything, there is a second layer. Squarespace Payments takes 2.5 to 2.9 percent plus 30 cents per transaction depending on plan, which is roughly what Stripe charges anyway. The one that is not a wash is the platform cut: the Basic plan takes an additional 2 percent of every sale, and courses and member areas are charged at 7 percent on Basic, 5 on Core, 1 on Plus, and 0 on Advanced. On a membership site doing real volume, that percentage dwarfs every subscription on this page, and it is the strongest argument for leaving that exists.
What three real sites actually pay
The plan price only fits if your site is a brochure and nothing else. Here is the breakdown most people should be looking at instead.
| Site | What it runs | Per year | Five years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brochure | Core plan only | $348 | $1,740 |
| Typical | Core, Acuity Starter, Email starter, one or two extensions | $816 | $4,080 |
| Busy | Plus, Acuity Standard, larger email list, two or three extensions | $1,452 | $7,260 |
Where break-even actually falls
Divide the conversion price by what you actually pay each year, and you get the year the decision starts paying for itself.
| Site | At $1,500 | At $2,500 |
|---|---|---|
| Brochure | 4.3 years | 7.2 years |
| Typical | 1.8 years | 3.1 years |
| Busy | 1.0 years | 1.7 years |
Paying month to month rather than annually shortens every row, because the monthly rate runs well above the annual one. If you are on monthly billing, switching to annual is the cheapest thing you can do today, and it costs nothing but a click.
What actually goes away, and what follows you
The table above is the gross number, and a page selling you a migration would stop there. It is not the saving, because some of what you pay Squarespace buys a function you will still need on Monday.
Gone entirely. The plan itself, and every extension that exists to patch something Squarespace does not do. On the typical stack, that is roughly $528 of the $816, and it is the larger half.
Follows you, usually cheaper. Scheduling and email are real functions. After a conversion, you still book appointments and still send campaigns; you just do it somewhere else. Cal.com has a free tier that covers most single-operator booking, and Buttondown starts around $9 a month for email. Call it $0 to about $110 a year, compared with the $288 those two cost on Squarespace.
So the honest net saving on a typical setup is between $706 and $816 a year, and break-even lands between about two and three and a half years depending on where the conversion prices out. That is a real return. It is just not the one you get by subtracting zero.
When you should not do this
If your site is just a brochure on Basic or Core with no add-ons, converting will not pay for itself soon enough to be worth it. Four to seven years on Core, longer on Basic. Most small business sites get rebuilt for other reasons before that happens.
That describes a lot of the people who arrive on this page looking for permission to leave. If saving money is your only reason, and your Squarespace bill really is $19 or $29 a month and nothing else, stay where you are and spend the $1,500 on something that earns.
The real question is not which plan you are on. It is what you spend in total each year, including everything above. Most people who add it up are surprised, which is the point of adding it up.
There is a version of this page that quietly omits the break-even table and lets the headline number do the work. Every agency selling migrations writes that version. The table is here because you would have found the arithmetic yourself within about a minute, and it is better for both of us if you find it before you pay for a call.
The reasons that are not about money
For anything above a brochure site, the math usually works on its own. Three things it still does not capture.
You own the files. A static site is just HTML, CSS, and images in a folder. You can hand it to anyone, host it anywhere, and read every line of it. A Squarespace site cannot leave Squarespace intact: the platform exports your content, not the site.
It gets much faster. Squarespace sites carry a lot of JavaScript that runs whether or not your page needs it, and every extension adds more. A static rebuild of the same content usually loads in under a second where the original took three or four. Run your own site through the Website Grader and you will see your own numbers rather than mine.
Nobody can reprice you. Squarespace restructured its plans in 2025, and each extension is a separate vendor who can do the same. Every increase applies to a site you cannot move without the work on this page. Doing that work once ends the exposure.
What the conversion involves
It takes two to three weeks, and you are only involved in a small part of that.
- Every page, image, and blog post is pulled across, including the ones you have forgotten about.
- The design is rebuilt to match your current site exactly, unless you have asked for changes.
- Forms are repointed at a service that emails you, since a static site cannot store a form submission on its own.
- Anything an extension was doing is either replaced with a direct equivalent or dropped deliberately, and you decide which.
- Redirects are written for every existing URL. This is the step that protects your search rankings, and the one most often skipped.
- Your new site goes live on your domain. Only then do you cancel Squarespace and the subscriptions stacked on it.
What you cannot take with you
Some Squarespace features are the platform rather than the site itself. A static rebuild either replaces them with something else or does without.
- Squarespace Commerce. A store can be rebuilt on Shopify or Stripe, but that is a separate project with its own cost, not part of a conversion.
- Member areas and paid content. These need a real backend. Worth weighing against the 1 to 7 percent Squarespace takes of that revenue today, which is often the number that decides it.
- Scheduling and appointments. Replaceable, and often for less, but moving them is a separate job with its own week.
- The visual editor. You can still have one, through a content management layer, but it will not be the Squarespace editor and there is a learning curve.
If two or more of those are essential to your business, converting stops being a cost question and becomes a rebuild. That is worth knowing before you book anything.