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Framer vs Squarespace
2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.
Side by side
| Metric | Framer | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Easy to adoptA designed, fast-to-publish marketing site with a small CMS for $10 a month on yearly billing, built on a canvas that feels like a design tool. | Easy to adoptA polished template site that can sell products, services, courses and memberships from the first plan, without adding a store or membership tool. |
| Overall score | 6.2 | 6.3Best |
| Free option | Free plan | 14-day free trial |
| Card to start | –Not measured | No card needed |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $10/site/mo | $19/site/mo |
| Pricing model | Tiered | Tiered |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing unit | Per site, plus $20 per extra editor and $20 per extra language | Per site; fees on sales by plan |
| Free option | Free plan on a Framer domain with the badge; refund within 7 days worldwide | No free plan; 14-day trial, no card |
| Reference scenario (annual) | $10/mo on Basic | $19/mo on Basic |
| Month-to-month price | Not listed; the help center says monthly costs more | $25 on Basic ($25 / $39 / $65 / $139) |
| Free custom domain | Listed on yearly plans; the help center says Framer does not sell domains | For 1 year on annual plans |
| Second editor | $20/mo per editor, $10/mo per content editor | 2 contributors on Basic, unlimited from Core |
| Multiple languages | $20 per locale per month, up to 20 | Weglot integration: free for 1 language up to 2,000 words |
| Online selling | Not offered | Every plan; 2% store fee on Basic, 0% from Core |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 | SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001; reports to Enterprise customers on request | Not stated; PCI-DSS for built-in payments |
| Refund window | 7 days worldwide, 14 days in the EU and Turkey (refund policy) | 14 days on new annual plans; monthly plans not refunded |
| Export | CMS to CSV or JSON through plugins; HTML export described differently on two pages | WordPress XML of layout pages and one blog; forms to CSV |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Framer offers the cheapest designed site with a CMS among the canvas builders here, at $10 a month on yearly billing, with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 stated. Editors and languages cost extra, and some pages disagree on domains, refunds and export. | From its public pages, Squarespace is the builder that sells from the first plan: products, services and memberships on Basic at $19 a month billed yearly, with fees that fall on higher plans. It states no SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and its export covers only part of a site. |
Evidence: Framer: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Squarespace: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
When to pick each
In the words of each review, with the date its facts were checked.
From our Framer review
Checked Oct 16, 2026- Pick Framer when
- You want a free-form design canvas and a vendor-stated SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
- Pick Squarespace when
- You want to sell products, courses or memberships from the same site.
From our Squarespace review
Checked Oct 16, 2026- Pick Squarespace when
- You want to sell from the same site and give a second contributor access at no extra cost.
- Pick Framer when
- You want a free-form design canvas and a stated SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Entry price
Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.
- FramerLowest priceBasic$10/site/moBilled yearly; monthly billing offered, price not listed
- Custom domain, complimentary domain on yearly
- 30 pages, 2 CMS collections, 1,000 CMS items
- Password protection and site search
- 50 GB bandwidth, 30 days of analytics
- SquarespaceBasic$19/site/moBilled yearly; $25 month to month
- Free domain for 1 year on annual terms
- 2 contributors
- Sell products, services and memberships (2% store fee, 7% content fee)
- 30 minutes of video storage
Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: Framer 2026-10-16, Squarespace 2026-10-16.
Which one fits
- If you need to start today without a sales call
- SquarespaceSelf-serve sign-up, no card needed; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (6.3/10).
- If you want to try it without entering a card
- Squarespace14-day free trial, no card needed; scored 6.3/10.
- Lowest starter price
- Framer$10/site/mo for the Basic (billed yearly) plan.
- Highest overall score
- Squarespace6.3/10 (Good). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.
Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score
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