Elegant Themes vs Squarespace Comparison 2026
Both cover website builders. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Divi, on a licence for unlimited sites
Templates that look designed out of the box
At a glance
- Squarespace starts cheaper, at $19.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Elegant Themes | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $89 | From $19 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Annual only |
| Free trial | Not stated | 14 days |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Elegant Themes
Divi, on a licence for unlimited sites
Elegant Themes sells Divi, a WordPress page builder whose licence covers unlimited sites rather than counting them, which is why it has stayed in agencies for a decade. The visual editor works on the front end, so layout changes are made on the page rather than in a preview. A large marketplace of child themes and layouts sits beside it. Divi generates its own markup, and moving a site off it later means rebuilding, which is the cost nobody prices in at the start.
Our note
Buy the $89 tier unless the marketplace credit in the bundle covers something you were already going to purchase, because the bundle's saving is measured against products you may not want. Factor the rebuild cost before adopting Divi for a client site they might later take elsewhere.
Only on this side
- Covers design & graphics
Squarespace
Templates that look designed out of the box
Squarespace is the answer for a creator who wants a site that looks considered and never wants to think about it again. Templates are genuinely well made and the editor stops you breaking them. That constraint is also the ceiling, and its transaction fees on memberships and digital goods are high enough to matter on the cheaper plan.
Ratings are the average of reviews readers left. The facts are stated by each tool’s own listing and are not verified by CloutStack. How we make money.