OutrightSite vs Squarespace
A Squarespace site is polished, and it is rented: a monthly bill, on their platform, for as long as it exists. OutrightSite delivers a polished, professional finish and hands you the whole thing for one payment. You choose the template, palette and fonts; we build it and you own it.
What it actually costs
A Squarespace plan looks small at around fifteen to twenty pounds a month. Left running, it quietly overtakes the cost of a site you own outright inside the first two years, and keeps climbing every year after that.
OutrightSite is a single payment of £299. The site is then free to run on your own hosting. The longer you keep it, the wider the gap gets.
Side by side
| OutrightSite | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost over 5 years | £299, paid once | Roughly £900 to £1,200 in fees |
| Monthly fee | £0 | Yes, for as long as it is online |
| Who owns the design | You, in your own accounts | Squarespace, on their platform |
| Take the design elsewhere | Yes — it is standard code you hold | Only a limited content export |
| Who builds it | We build it from your choices | You do, from a template |
| How you change it | Plain English to Claude Code | Their editor |
| If you stop paying | It keeps running | The site goes offline |
Figures are typical market rates at the time of writing and change often. Check squarespace.com for current pricing.
Why businesses switch
You pick from professional templates, curated palettes and font pairings, and we deliver a fast, sharp site. The look holds its own; the difference is that you own it.
No monthly plan and no renewal. Your only ongoing cost is the domain, typically £1 to £20 a year, paid straight to the registrar.
Everything is deployed into your own Cloudflare and GitHub accounts. Nobody can switch it off or hold it hostage.
Describe a change in plain English and it is made and published. No editor to learn and no monthly seat to keep.
Your site ships with a caretaker pack built into your code repository, so Claude Code already knows how it is put together. Ask for a change in plain English — new photos, new copy, a new section — and it makes the edit and publishes it, no design tool to learn.
Claude Code is about £20 a month while you use it, billed monthly with no lock-in: pay for one month, make all the changes you want across those 30 days, and cancel any time. Prefer not to pay at all? The free GitHub editor lets the technically confident edit the code directly. And either way, it is a small, optional cost for a skill that stays with you, unlike a plan that climbs every year.
Common questions
Yes. You choose the template, palette and font pairing, and we build a fast, modern, polished site. You end up with a finished design you own outright, rather than one you rent by the month.
Squarespace exports limited content and not the full design, so we rebuild rather than migrate. We use your existing words and brand to create a fresh site deployed into your own accounts.
No. Your hosting is included, free, on Cloudflare in your own account. You get the same handled-for-you feeling without the monthly charge or the platform lock-in.
A blog and a contact and enquiry flow are part of the build. Simple selling is coming as a later tier on your own Stripe. Full scheduling and membership systems are not in the core build today.
Yes. The build is £299 once. After that you pay only your domain, typically £1 to £20 a year, straight to the registrar. Hosting is free and there is no OutrightSite subscription.
One payment. Your accounts. Your website, for good. Founding price £299, going up to £399.
Build my siteSquarespace is a trademark of Squarespace, Inc. OutrightSite is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Squarespace. Comparisons reflect publicly available information at the time of writing.