Website Builders Comparison

Squarespace vs. Webflow

At a glance

Squarespace

Best for

Best for small businesses and creatives who want a template-led, hosted website with a domain and a shop in one plan.

Freelancers
Small and mid-sized

Webflow

Best for

Best for designers and agencies who want a visual canvas with real CSS control, a CMS and an export path out.

Freelancers
Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion	Squarespace	Webflow
Starting price	From $19 / month Basic plan, billed yearly; $25 billed monthly. Core $29, Plus $49 and Advanced $99 per month billed yearly. Prices in USD.	lower value Free; site plans from $15 / month Site plans are per site and billed yearly: Basic $15, Premium $25, Team $2,500 on an annual contract, Enterprise on request. Workspace plans are charged on top for staging, custom code and code export: Core $19, Growth $49. All prices in USD, before tax.
Free trial	14-day free trial	Free Starter site plan on a webflow.io domain, plus a free Starter Workspace
Output	Hosted websites, online stores and blogs on a custom domain	Hosted websites with a CMS, and exportable HTML and CSS
API	Yes, Commerce APIs for orders, products, inventory and transactions, webhooks, and Reseller APIs	Yes, REST Data and Designer APIs, SDKs, a CLI and an official MCP server
What it makes	Hosted websites, blogs and online stores built from templates or an AI-generated draft	Responsive websites built on a visual canvas, with a CMS, hosting, site search, localization and SEO and AEO tooling
Styling and layout control	Drag-and-drop editor with one design system for fonts, colors, buttons and spacing across the site, responsive layouts for every screen, and custom CSS. Code injection is available on Core, Plus and Advanced	Class-based style system with combo classes, breakpoints, variables and components, Shared Libraries that reuse components, variables and assets across every site in a Workspace, plus a template marketplace
CMS and dynamic content	Blog pages and collection pages for galleries, portfolios, events and products, managed inside the site editor	Webflow CMS with Collections of structured items on a shared template: 50 items and 20 Collections on the free Starter plan, none on Basic, 20,000 items and 40 Collections on Premium. Premium adds scheduled and per-item publishing, RSS feeds and CMS data in custom code, and REST APIs manage CMS content
Hosting and domains	Hosting and SSL are included, and a custom domain is free with every plan. Squarespace is an ICANN-accredited registrar and handles domain search and transfer itself	Hosted by Webflow on a global CDN, on a free webflow.io subdomain or a custom domain from Basic. Bandwidth runs from 1 GB a month on Starter and 10 GB on Basic to a selectable 50 GB to 2.5 TB on Premium, with automatic backups and a hosting uptime SLA of 99.00 % on Team and 99.99 % on Enterprise
SEO controls	Editable SEO titles and descriptions per page and collection item, editable URL slugs, an automatically maintained sitemap, 301 redirects through URL mappings, and an AI Visibility report on whether the business appears in AI answers	Title tags, meta descriptions, alt text and Open Graph settings for every page, plus canonical tags, an auto-generated XML sitemap, crawler access controls for search and AI bots, robots.txt and LLMs.txt, and schema markup. Some technical controls need a paid Workspace plan on a free Starter site
E-commerce	Online stores on every plan. Basic charges a 2% store transaction fee, Core and above 0%. Card rates start at 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic and Core, 2.7% on Plus and 2.5% on Advanced. Digital content and memberships carry 5%, 1% or 0% depending on plan	Separate ecommerce site plans, billed yearly: Standard $29 a month with 500 items and a 2 % transaction fee, Plus $74 with 5,000 items and Advanced $212 with 15,000, both without a transaction fee. Custom cart and checkout, Stripe, PayPal and Apple Pay, and automatic sales tax and VAT calculation
Publishing and code export	Publishes to Squarespace hosting only. Export is an XML file for WordPress that carries layout pages, one blog and gallery pages; store, portfolio, index and other page types, style settings and custom CSS do not export, and a site cannot be copied into another Squarespace site	Publishes to Webflow hosting on a webflow.io or custom domain. Code export produces clean, semantic HTML and CSS for a developer and is available on the Core and Growth Workspace plans, but dynamic CMS items and pages cannot be exported. Figma to Webflow and DevLink move designs and React components between tools
AI features	An AI website builder turns a description of the business into a personalised site, an AI assistant answers questions and makes changes, and a text-to-image tool generates and transforms images. AI credits per plan: 10 one-time on Basic, then 20, 40 and 120 per month on Core, Plus and Advanced	An AI site builder starts a site from a prompt, and AI also modifies page designs, generates copy, generates React code components and turns sitewide SEO and AEO audits into actionable suggestions. AI credits are allocated per Workspace plan: 200 on Starter, 300 on Core, 400 on Growth
MCP-ready	No	stated Yes
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	more entries Email helpdesk, Chat, Community forum	Email helpdesk, Community forum
Onboarding	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials, Live online demos and webinars	Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials
Company size	Freelancers, Small and mid-sized	more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations	more entries Mailchimp, QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks, TaxJar, Avalara, Weglot, Printful, Printify, ShipStation, ShipBob, Shippo, AfterShip, Instagram	Figma, Zapier, Make, HubSpot, Slack, Algolia, Wistia, Adobe Marketo Engage, Microsoft Clarity, Unsplash, Memberstack, Claude, Google Gemini

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Squarespace From $19 / month Webflow Free; site plans from $15 / month
Free trial Squarespace 14-day free trial Webflow Free Starter site plan on a webflow.io domain, plus a free Starter Workspace
Company size Squarespace Freelancers, Small and mid-sized Webflow Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Support Squarespace Email helpdesk, Chat, Community forum Webflow Email helpdesk, Community forum
MCP-ready Squarespace No Webflow Yes

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Squarespace

Strengths

Hosting, SSL and a custom domain are included in every plan, with no separate registrar or host to manage
No store transaction fee from the Core plan upwards
One site-wide design system keeps fonts, colors and spacing consistent
14-day free trial before any payment

Limitations

Export covers only some page types and leaves out store pages, styles and custom CSS
Code injection is not available on the Basic plan
The Basic plan adds a 2% fee on store sales
Developer APIs cover commerce data, not page content or design

Webflow

Strengths

Visual canvas writes real HTML and CSS, with a class-based style system rather than fixed templates
Code export produces clean, semantic HTML and CSS instead of locking the markup in
Official MCP server lets AI agents design, manage and analyse a site within existing permissions
Deep developer platform: Data and Designer APIs, SDKs, DevLink, CLI and Webflow Cloud

Limitations

Two separate plans to pay for, since site plans and Workspace plans are billed apart
Code export is a Workspace add-on and cannot carry CMS items or pages
The jump from Premium at $25 to Team at $2,500 a month leaves nothing in between
The class-based style system expects an understanding of how CSS cascades

Plans

Pricing

Squarespace

Basic $19 Per month, billed yearly ($25 monthly). Up to 2 contributors, 2% store transaction fee, 10 one-time AI credits.
Core $29 Per month, billed yearly ($39 monthly). Unlimited contributors, 0% store transaction fee, 20 monthly AI credits, Google Workspace email free for the first year.
Plus $49 Per month, billed yearly ($65 monthly). Lower card rates from 2.7% + $0.30, 1% fee on digital content and memberships, 40 monthly AI credits.
Advanced $99 Per month, billed yearly ($139 monthly). Card rates from 2.5% + $0.30, 0% fee on digital content and memberships, 120 monthly AI credits.

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Webflow

Starter (site) $0 Webflow.io domain, limited CMS, 2 static pages, 1 GB bandwidth, 50 form submissions.
Basic (site) $15 Per month, billed yearly. Custom domain, 300 static pages, 10 GB bandwidth, unlimited form submissions.
Premium (site) $25 Per month, billed yearly. Adds the Webflow CMS, code components, site search and form file upload.
Team (site) $2,500 Per month, annual contract required. Adds Webflow Localize, AEO agents, publishing workflows, activity log and governance.
Enterprise (site) Custom Granular permissions, custom roles, advanced governance, dedicated account manager and enhanced SLAs.
Starter (Workspace) $0 200 AI credits, 1 full seat.
Core (Workspace) $19 Per month, billed yearly. 10 staging sites, 300 AI credits, custom code, code export and Shared Libraries.
Growth (Workspace) $49 Per month, billed yearly. Unlimited staging sites, 400 AI credits, site password protection, 301 redirects and site-level roles.

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Where this comes from

Squarespace https://www.squarespace.com · checked against the official source on 2026-10-05

Webflow https://webflow.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-13

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.