What Wix and Squarespace cost in the UK
We checked both price pages from the UK in October 2026. Prices change and both run offers, so check again before you buy.
| Plan | Price a month | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wix Light | £9 | Billed yearly. Wix says prices don't include tax, which depends on your billing address |
| Wix Core | £16 | Billed yearly. Can take payments |
| Wix Business | £25 | Billed yearly |
| Wix Business Elite | £119 | Billed yearly |
| Squarespace Basic | £12 billed yearly, £16 monthly | Free domain for the first year on yearly plans |
| Squarespace Core | £17 billed yearly, £24 monthly | Lower card fees than Basic |
| Squarespace Plus | £29 billed yearly, £36 monthly | |
| Squarespace Advanced | £79 billed yearly, £89 monthly |
From wix.com/plans and squarespace.com/pricing, viewed from the UK in October 2026.
Free plans and domains
Wix has a free plan, but you need a paid plan to connect your own domain and remove Wix branding. Most Wix paid plans come with a voucher for a free domain for the first year, for a new domain bought through Wix. Squarespace's yearly plans include a free domain for the first year. With both, you pay to renew the domain after that.
The cost nobody counts: your time
The monthly fee is the easy bit. The real cost is the hours. These builders are good at what they do, but they give you a template, not a finished site. You still have to do all of this yourself.
- Pick a template and make it look like your business, not like everyone else using it
- Write every page: what you do, where you work and why someone should pick you
- Sort, crop and resize your photos
- Set up your Google Business Profile and link it to the site
- Get the basics right for Google: page titles, descriptions and your business details
- Check it works properly on a phone
- Keep it up to date when prices, phone numbers or services change
How long it really takes
This is our estimate, not a measured figure. A first-timer can easily spend 20 to 40 hours getting a decent five-page site live, spread over evenings and weekends. After that, an hour or two a month keeping it current. Some people enjoy it and get it done quicker. Some start and never finish.
Put your own rate on it. If an hour of your time is worth £30, 30 hours is £900 before you've paid Wix or Squarespace anything. If those hours would otherwise go on paid work or time with your family, the cost is real either way.
Three years, side by side
Here's the cash cost over three years, with a rough time cost alongside. The time figures are our estimate. Swap in your own.
| Option | Cash over 3 years | Your time (our estimate) |
|---|---|---|
| Wix Light, billed yearly | £324 plus tax, plus domain renewals after year one | About 30 hours to build, then about an hour a month |
| Squarespace Basic, billed yearly | £432, plus domain renewals after year one | About 30 hours to build, then about an hour a month |
| Squarespace Core, billed yearly | £612, plus domain renewals after year one | About 30 hours to build, then about an hour a month |
| Our Starter plan | £1,603 (£199 setup plus £39 a month) | Filling in the order form and checking the draft |
| Our one-off site, up to 5 pages | £1,415 (£695 plus £20 a month hosting) | Filling in the order form and checking the draft |
At £30 an hour, 30 hours to build plus 35 hours of updates comes to about £1,950 over three years. That's an illustration, not a measured figure.
Getting found: the part DIY sites often miss
A good-looking site that nobody finds won't bring in work. The builders give you the tools for search engines, but they don't decide what goes in them. That's down to you.
For a local trade, the basics are simple but easy to get wrong. Each page needs a clear title that says what you do and where. Your business name, phone number and area need to match on your site and your Google Business Profile. Your services need their own pages rather than one long list. And the site needs to be linked from your Google profile.
None of this guarantees a position on Google, whoever builds the site. Nobody can honestly promise that. But skipping the basics makes it harder for Google to work out what you do and where. It's also the part that's easiest to miss when you're doing it yourself.
On every one of our plans, we set up these basics for you, including your Google Business Profile. Standard adds pages for up to 3 of the towns you cover and Growth up to 6.
When DIY makes sense
DIY is a sensible choice if you enjoy this kind of thing, you've got the time, money is very tight or you just need something simple up while you get going. Plenty of small businesses run perfectly decent Wix and Squarespace sites.
It also makes sense if you want to change things yourself, often. With us there's no login. You send us changes and we make them. Some people would rather be hands-on. That's fine.
Before you start, check whether you could move the site to another company later. Not every builder lets you take your design with you.
What you get when it's built for you
With us, the difference is that you don't do the work. You fill in an order form, send your logo and photos. We do the rest: the design, the words, your Google Business Profile, basic local SEO so Google knows what you do and where, hosting and your domain registered in your name.
Changes are included every month on every plan: one small change on Starter, up to an hour on Standard and up to two hours on Growth. Bigger jobs are £45 an hour, in 15-minute blocks.
Our monthly plans are £39, £69 or £99 a month plus £199 setup, with a 12-month minimum, then 30 days' notice. Or pay once from £695, then £20 a month for hosting and support.
Questions to ask yourself
- Will I actually finish it, or will it sit half built?
- Am I happy writing about my own business?
- Who will update it when I'm flat out?
- If I want to move away from the builder later, can I take my design with me?
- What's an evening of my time worth?