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Leaving Squarespace
Squarespace is the best hosted site builder for design-conscious users. It's also a closed ecosystem — the site you build there can't really leave there.
10-year cost projection
What Squarespace actually is
Premium hosted site builder with strong design defaults.
Pricing: Plans $16–49/mo. The Personal plan is $16; most working business sites are on Business at $23 or Commerce at $39+.
Migration off Squarespace is a rebuild, not a transfer. We use the live site as the design and content reference, and rebuild it in clean static HTML/CSS. The visual result matches; the underlying artifact becomes portable.
Squarespace migrations are usually quoted as Custom-tier projects, not the standard €600 plan, because the work is closer to a rebuild. That said, the savings still pay back the project quickly: $300–600/year vanishes after the migration.
What they do well
- Genuinely good design defaults
- Strong template ecosystem
- Smooth onboarding for non-technical users
Why people leave
- Recurring cost
- Lock-in
- Inability to take the site anywhere
What you keep when leaving
- Visual design (rebuilt to match)
- All page content
- Domain
- SEO authority
What you lose leaving
- Squarespace's visual editor (going forward, edits are email-based)
- Squarespace Member Areas (not migratable)
- Squarespace Commerce (a different tool — get a different solution)
Our take
Squarespace is the right tool when you need a beautiful site fast and you're not sure what you want long-term. After three years, when the design has settled and the bill has compounded, you can buy your site out of the platform — once.
Questions
Will my site look exactly the same after migration?
Visually, yes — pixel-close. The underlying HTML is different (clean and portable instead of Squarespace-templated) but visitors won't notice.
What about my Squarespace blog?
Migrates cleanly. Squarespace's blog export is the most portable part of their data.
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