Comparison
Squarespace is genuinely good at what it is — a $16–49/month landlord. The question is whether you want to rent your website forever, or own it.
The Business plan is $33/month billed annually — $396/year. Over five years, that's $1,980 for a site that still looks like a template, still carries platform limits, and still goes dark the month you stop paying. The subscription price also buys you a hard ceiling: your design is bounded by what the template system allows, your speed is what the platform serves, and your export options are deliberately incomplete.
An owned website is a set of files — yours — on a domain — yours — deployable anywhere, editable by any developer alive, with no platform that can raise prices or sunset features underneath you. Modern static architecture makes owned sites faster than platform sites and hostable for genuinely $0/month on global edge infrastructure. Stop paying anyone, and the site simply keeps running.
A custom-built owned site at $2,950 costs less than five years of Squarespace Business — and at year six you're $2,000 ahead and climbing, with a site designed rather than templated. The honest catch: you need someone to build it well the first time, and you should demand they hand over everything. That's our entire model: from $2,950, delivered in about a week, you own the code, the content, and the domain, with 90 days of free care and optional support after. We launched a national nonprofit on this architecture — $0/month since day one.
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