Is Squarespace free? No: a 14-day trial, then a paid plan

Squarespace's pricing page answers the question in its FAQ: “Squarespace doesn't offer a free plan, but every site starts with a free trial—no credit card required.” The trial lets you build the whole site. Opening it to the public is what takes a plan, because a trial site stays private.

So a simple landing page on Squarespace costs money from the day it goes public. The facts below come from Squarespace's pricing page and help center, and each row links to the page it came from. Prices are Squarespace's US prices; its plans are priced per billing country, so the pricing page shows readers in other countries their own currency and amounts.

Squarespace's trial and Basic plan at a glance

Checked on October 12, 2026 against Squarespace's own pages, linked in each row. Prices in US dollars.

How the 14-day trial works

• Length: 14 days. Squarespace's help says “We don't require credit card information to sign up for a trial.”
• Who can see the site: “Your site is private during your trial, but you can allow certain visitors by adding a password.” Its help adds “Search engines don't index trial sites.”
• Forms: form entries aren't emailed during the trial. Squarespace's help says “To receive form submissions on a trial, use a third-party storage option like Google Drive or Mail Chimp.”
• Selling: “You can't accept payments through Squarespace Commerce, which includes donations.”
• More time: “If you need more time, we can extend your trial by seven days.”
• When it ends: “When your trial expires, the site won't be public, and all content is marked for permanent deletion.”

What Squarespace costs after the trial

The cheapest plan is Basic, at $19 a month, billed yearly, or $25 a month if you pay month to month. Core costs $29 a month, billed yearly, or $39 a month billed monthly, and it's the cheapest plan that runs JavaScript in a code block, which matters for an HTML page your AI wrote (below).

Every plan can sell. Squarespace's help says “With every Squarespace billing plan, you can build a site, send invoices, and sell products, courses, and memberships.”

Can you use your own domain on Squarespace?

Yes, on every plan. Squarespace's pricing page says “You can also connect a domain you already own or buy a new domain through Squarespace with any subscription.” Yearly billing adds a domain: “If you purchase an annual plan, you'll receive a free custom domain for one year.” After the first year, the domain renews at Squarespace's standard rate.

Every site also keeps its built-in address on squarespace.com. The help center describes it this way: “Every Squarespace site and parking page comes with a built-in domain (also known as a Squarespace URL) that looks like this: yoursiteid.squarespace.com”

Squarespace forms and visitor stats

Form blocks come with every plan, Basic included: “Create and customize forms to collect information from visitors using contact forms, surveys, polls, applications, and more.” Squarespace's help adds “New form block submissions are sent to your email by default, but you can connect more storage options if needed.”

Whether Squarespace also keeps the entries depends on the form:

• “If your form includes a required email address field, the block stores any submissions until you delete the contact who submitted or delete the specific submission.” Those entries also appear in the Contacts panel, under Form Submitters.
• “If your form doesn't include a required email address field, the block stores each submission for 30 days.”

Visitor stats are built in on Basic too. Squarespace's pricing page lists website metrics that track visits, traffic sources, visitor geography, and popular content.

An HTML page your AI wrote

Squarespace has no HTML file upload. Its code block is the way in: “Add HTML, Markdown, CSS, and more to customize your site beyond its built-in features.” On Basic, that stops at HTML and CSS: “To add JavaScript or an iframe to a code block, your site needs to be on the Core, Plus, or Advanced plan.” A code block holds up to 400 KB of code.

So a page ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini wrote that runs any JavaScript needs Core, at $29 a month, billed yearly, and it goes into a block on a Squarespace page rather than becoming the page.

What a live Squarespace site shows

A check on October 12, 2026, of a live Squarespace site on its built-in squarespace.com address, loaded without an account, found:

• the comment <!-- This is Squarespace. --> in its HTML
• no “Made with Squarespace” text; Squarespace's help calls that footer text optional and shows how to delete it
• an email signup form with no action address, so Squarespace's own script sends each entry

A year on your own domain: Squarespace or Convika

Say you want a landing page at www.yourbrand.com that's public for the next 12 months:

• Squarespace Basic: $228 for the year, billed yearly. A domain registered through Squarespace is free for that first year.
• Convika Free: $0, plus the domain. The page is public from the day you publish, on a subdomain such as www, with the form and visitor stats built in; the form shows 50 entries a month and keeps the ones past that for Pro.

A landing page that's public today, free: Convika

If what you need is one landing or waitlist page, Convika's Free plan publishes it at no cost, with no trial clock, and the form and visitor stats are built in. Convika hosts landing pages, one HTML page each. The Free plan includes:

• Your own subdomain, such as www.yourbrand.com or waitlist.yourbrand.com, with the SSL certificate issued for you. The Free plan connects 1.
• Commercial use on every plan, Free included, under section 7 of the terms. That covers a client's page you build, host, and bill for.
• A form that keeps the signups. Click Add a form to my page, and Convika adds a form that stores each entry, emails it to you, and exports to CSV, up to 50 entries a month on Free. Signups past that aren't turned away: they're kept, and show once you're on Pro.
• 90 days of visitor stats: visits, referrers, UTM campaigns, devices, countries, and button clicks.
• AI clients that publish for you. Claude, Claude Code, and Codex connect to Convika's MCP server and sign in to your account with OAuth, so you never paste a deploy token or API key into the chat. They can read the page's visits and form entries back to you, too.

3 ways to get your page onto Convika

1. Rebuild it from its link. Paste the address of the page you have now into the free rebuild tool and click Rebuild my page. You don't need an account. Convika reads the page, keeps its colors and fonts, writes a new version from its text, and lists what it changed and why. Click Keep this page to sign up free and move it into your account.
2. Describe it in the dashboard. Sign up free, click Create with AI, and describe the page, or paste a link to a page it should start from. A new page costs 1 AI credit on the default model, and Free accounts start with 10.
3. Upload the HTML your AI made. If ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini wrote the page as one HTML file, click Upload an HTML file in the dashboard and add the .html or .htm file, up to 2 MB, or paste its code. Uploading uses no AI credits. The free HTML publishing tool shows you a preview before you sign up.

The Free plan includes 10 pages, with a small “Powered by Convika” badge. Publish your first page and Pro is free for 14 days, no card needed. After that, Pro costs $12 a month and removes the badge and the monthly cap on form entries, or you go back to Free.

Where Squarespace fits better: a business site with many pages or an online store, built from Squarespace's templates.

Squarespace and Convika side by side

Which one to pick

• A multi-page business site or a store, built in a visual editor: Squarespace. Build it during the 14-day trial, then pick Basic, or Core if you need JavaScript in code blocks, before you publish.
• One landing or waitlist page, public now, at no cost: Convika's Free plan.
• A page ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini already wrote as an HTML file: Convika. Upload the file as it is; on Squarespace it would go into a code block, and its JavaScript would need Core.

Frequently asked questions

Is Squarespace free?

No. Squarespace has no free plan. Every site starts with a 14-day free trial, no credit card needed, and the site stays private until you upgrade. The cheapest plan, Basic, costs $19 a month, billed yearly, or $25 a month billed monthly.

Does Squarespace have a free plan?

No. Its pricing page says “Squarespace doesn't offer a free plan, but every site starts with a free trial—no credit card required.” After the trial, a site needs a paid plan to be public.

How long is the Squarespace free trial?

14 days. Squarespace's pricing page says “Every Squarespace website starts with a 14-day free trial.” Its help center adds “If you need more time, we can extend your trial by seven days.”

What are the limits of the Squarespace free trial?

The site is private: only people you give the site password to can open it, and search engines don't index it. Form entries aren't emailed to you, so Squarespace's help points you to Google Drive or Mailchimp storage instead. You also can't take payments through Squarespace Commerce until you upgrade.

What happens when a Squarespace trial expires?

“When your trial expires, the site won't be public, and all content is marked for permanent deletion.” Squarespace's help adds “Depending on how much time passes after expiration, you might be able to upgrade to paid service and continue to edit the site as you last left it.”

Is a custom domain free on Squarespace?

For the first year, on yearly billing: “If you purchase an annual plan, you'll receive a free custom domain for one year.” After the first year, the domain renews at Squarespace's standard rate. You can also connect a domain you already own, on any plan.

Can you upload HTML to Squarespace?

No. Squarespace has no HTML file upload. A code block on a page takes HTML and CSS on every plan, up to 400 KB of code, and JavaScript or iframes from Core, at $29 a month, billed yearly. To put an HTML file online as the page itself, upload it to Convika: click Upload an HTML file in the dashboard, check the private preview, and publish.

Is there a free alternative to Squarespace for a landing page?

Yes. Convika's Free plan publishes a landing page at no cost on 1 subdomain of your domain, such as www.yourbrand.com, with commercial use allowed, a form that shows 50 entries a month and keeps the rest for Pro, and 90 days of visitor stats. Upload an HTML file, or describe the page to Convika's AI in the dashboard.

Sources

Facts on this page about Squarespace come from these pages, read on October 12, 2026:

• Squarespace: Pricing
• Squarespace: Pricing, US prices (Internet Archive capture, October 7, 2026)
• Squarespace Help: Starting a Squarespace trial site
• Squarespace Help: Choose the right Squarespace plan
• Squarespace Help: Built-in domains
• Squarespace Help: Form blocks
• Squarespace Help: Set up form and newsletter storage
• Squarespace Help: Removing “Made with Squarespace”
• Squarespace Help: Add custom code to a page with code blocks