Squarespace

A website builder bundled with the hosting

Hostinger bundles the builder with the hosting itself, starting at $10.99, a plainer design toolkit than Squarespace's template library.

Managed WordPress hosting that holds up in a spike

Kinsta is managed hosting for a WordPress site you build yourself, starting at $35 with no free tier, for somebody who wants WordPress's flexibility rather than a template editor.

A site builder aimed at people building for clients

Duda is built for an agency managing sites for clients rather than one site for yourself, starting at $19 with no free tier.

Unlimited sites on one subscription

Dorik covers unlimited sites on one subscription, starting at $20.75 with no free tier, one plan instead of a separate Squarespace subscription for each site.

Divi, on a licence for unlimited sites

Elegant Themes licenses Divi for unlimited WordPress sites at $89 a year, cheaper per site once you build more than one.

A free store plugin that takes no cut at all

WooCommerce is a free store plugin that takes no cut, for a shop on WordPress rather than a hosted template.

A site generated from a sentence about the business

Durable generates a starting site from one sentence about the business, with a free tier before a $22 plan, a faster first draft than picking a Squarespace template.

A site you can build without touching a template file

Wix keeps a free tier and starts at $17, with more layout freedom than Squarespace's template constraints and its own separate fee structure to check for digital sales.

Design a site and publish it from the same canvas

Framer designs and publishes from the same canvas, with a free tier and a $10 plan, more layout freedom than Squarespace's template constraints allow.

A hosted store priced against how much you sell

BigCommerce prices its plans against how much you actually sell, starting at $29 with no free tier, worth checking against Squarespace's transaction fees once volume is real.