Leaving Squarespace
Leave Squarespace. Keep your exact website.
Squarespace's export gives you your text and keeps your design. We clone the whole site instead: same look, same words, same photos, rebuilt by hand as plain HTML for $99 a page, once.
Your Squarespace site stays up the whole time. Nothing switches until you approve the clone.
What Squarespace costs you from here
You'd be even in month 18, then never pay for a website again.
Squarespace just raised prices again
On July 6, 2026, Squarespace raised prices on its most popular plans by as much as 26%, with no announcement.
| Plan | Was | Now | Five years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic (annual) | $16/mo | $19/mo | $1,140 |
| Core (annual) | $23/mo | $29/mo | $1,740 |
| Plus (monthly) | $56/mo | $65/mo | $3,900 |
That followed a 2025 overhaul that replaced the whole plan lineup at roughly 28 to 33% higher entry prices. One documented subscriber went from $216 a year in 2021 to $348 in 2026 for the same site.
This is the pattern with every subscription builder: the price is whatever it is this year, and you find out next year's price when it renews. A typical five-page clone from us is $495, once. The full comparison is in our guide: do you have to pay monthly for a website?
What Squarespace's export actually contains
Squarespace does offer an export, which sounds reassuring until you open it. It's an XML file built for importing into WordPress.
What the export includes
- Blog posts and basic page text
- Text and embed blocks from standard pages
What it leaves behind
- Your design, custom CSS, and fonts
- Your navigation
- Gallery, album, product, and event pages
- Your forms
- Your images, which are only linked back to Squarespace's servers
And if your site runs on version 7.1, export options are narrower still. In other words, the export is your words in a box. The website itself has to be rebuilt, which is exactly what we do, pixel for pixel.
How we get you off Squarespace
Send us your address
We count your pages and reply with a fixed one-time price. You don't need to export anything or touch your account settings.
We clone the site by hand
Your layout, your typography, your words, your photos. Squarespace designs are typography-heavy, and we match them closely enough that you shouldn't tell the two apart.
You compare them side by side
Private preview link, honest feedback, two rounds of changes included.
We switch, then you cancel
We point your domain, handle the certificate, and redirect every old page address so rankings carry over. Then the bill stops.
Squarespace questions
Doesn't the export mean I can leave whenever I want?
Only in the narrow sense that your text can leave. The export contains no design, no images, and none of your page structure beyond basic pages and blog posts. Restoring your actual site from it is impossible; it has to be rebuilt by hand.
My domain and email are through Squarespace. What happens to them?
The domain is yours and your address doesn't change. We point it at the new site, or help you transfer it to a standard registrar where renewal is usually cheaper. If you use Google Workspace email through Squarespace, it keeps working; email lives on your domain, not on your website plan.
I'm on Squarespace 7.1. Does that change anything?
Not for us. Version 7.1's export limits matter if you're trying to move to WordPress yourself. We clone from your live site, not from the export file, so what version you're on doesn't affect the rebuild.
What about my Squarespace forms and appointment scheduling?
The clone includes a contact form that emails you. Scheduling tools like Acuity are software and don't carry over to a static site, though a booking link to an outside service can. Tell us what your site uses and we'll say honestly what carries over and what doesn't.
Should I cancel Squarespace before or after the rebuild?
After, always. Your site comes down the moment the plan lapses, so we build and launch the clone first, you confirm everything works, and only then do you cancel. Keeping the old plan for one extra billing cycle is a cheap safety net.
Ready to stop paying Squarespace?
Send your web address. We'll count your pages and reply with a fixed one-time price. Full refund if you're not happy.
On a different builder? See leaving Wix or leaving GoDaddy.