Wix vs Squarespace in 2026

• Wix

  Wix is a website builder and domain registrar. Its AI website builder makes a site from a single prompt, which you keep shaping by prompting or by hand in the drag-and-drop editor, or you start from one of over 2,000 templates. Wix hosts every site, and a free site goes online at a wixsite.com address with Wix branding. Paid plans connect your own domain and add storage, collaborators and monthly AI credits, and from Core they take payments and run a store, bookings and customer accounts. Wix's plans also cover events, restaurants, hotels and online courses, and Velo lets developers add their own code. Wix also owns Base44, an AI app builder it runs as a separate product.

  Choose it if

  • You want to start on a free plan and upgrade when the site is ready
  • You take bookings or sell services, with scheduling from Core
  • You want AI agents for site chats and phone calls, which Wix's plans include up to a monthly limit
  • You want to write backend code with Velo, run with the site on Wix

• Squarespace

  Squarespace is a website builder known for its templates, and its AI site builder turns a description of your business into a multi-page starting point you edit in its drag-and-drop editor. Every plan includes hosting, SSL, unlimited bandwidth and storage, and selling products, services and subscriptions, with Squarespace Payments taking cards, Apple Pay, Klarna, Afterpay and ACH in 13 countries. There is no free plan: every site starts with a 14-day free trial, no card needed. Higher plans lower the fees on sales and add CSS and JavaScript, more contributors and more AI credits each month.

  Choose it if

  • You want unlimited bandwidth and storage, so traffic and files never push you up a plan
  • You want to sell from the cheapest plan, with no store fee from Core
  • You want unlimited contributors on Core, at $29 a month billed yearly
  • You want to pay month to month and cancel anytime, with the plan running to the end of the period paid

• Wix

  Free

  A site at a wixsite.com address, with Wix branding.

  Light, $17 a month

  Billed yearly, paid up front. Your own domain, 2 GB of storage, 2 collaborators and 150 AI credits a month; no payments.

  Core, $29 a month

  Billed yearly. Payments, a store, bookings and customer accounts, 50 GB of storage and 200 AI credits a month.

  Business, $39 a month

  Billed yearly. 100 GB, 10 collaborators, automated sales tax and 300 AI credits a month.

  Business Elite, $159 a month

  Billed yearly. Unlimited storage, 100 collaborators, priority care and 1,000 AI credits a month.

• Squarespace

  Free trial

  14 days, no card needed. There is no free plan.

  Basic, $25 a month

  $19 a month billed yearly. 2 contributors, a 2% store fee and 10 AI credits to start.

  Core, $39 a month

  $29 billed yearly. Unlimited contributors, CSS and JavaScript, no store fee and 20 AI credits a month.

  Plus, $65 a month

  $49 billed yearly. Card rates from 2.7% + $0.30, a 1% fee on digital content and 40 AI credits a month.

  Advanced, $139 a month

  $99 billed yearly. Card rates from 2.5% + $0.30, no fee on digital content and 120 AI credits a month.

Wix's pricing page shows yearly prices, paid up front, and Squarespace's shows both, so set them side by side billed yearly: Light at $17 a month against Basic at $19, and Core at $29 on both. The plans buy different things. Wix's Light can't take payments, which start at Core, while every Squarespace plan sells, with a 2% store fee on Basic and none from Core. Squarespace includes unlimited bandwidth and storage on every plan, while Wix caps storage below Business Elite, at $159. Wix has a free plan to start on; Squarespace has a 14-day trial, and paying it monthly costs $6 to $40 a month more than yearly.