The Squarespace alternative that shows you the whole bill
Where Squarespace ends and Aglyn begins
Squarespace has restructured its plans: the current tiers are Basic, Core, Plus and Advanced, and the older Personal, Business and Commerce names are legacy. Its fees, from Squarespace's own help centre in September 2026: 2% on online-store sales on Basic and 0% above it, and 7%, 5%, 1% and 0% on digital content and memberships across Basic, Core, Plus and Advanced.
Aglyn has a fee ladder too, and pretending otherwise would be exactly the kind of thing this page exists to avoid. It is 2% on physical goods on Starter and 0% from Pro up; on digital goods and memberships it is 5% on Starter, 3% on Pro, 2% on Business, 1% on Scale and 0% from Advanced.
What Squarespace leaves to other software is the rest of the business. A form there stores a submission and emails you. A form here writes a contact record in the same console, and a workflow can tag it, notify a colleague, add it to an audience or start an email sequence — and the audience it joins carries a recorded consent basis, because the email tool and the consent records are the same system.
Included from Starter ($25/mo): custom domain and SSL, forms, contacts, workflows and automations, data tables, bookings, commerce and digital goods, and your own branding. Business ($139/mo) adds: the REST API, webhooks and multi-language.
Aglyn vs Squarespace, side by side
| Aglyn | Squarespace | |
|---|---|---|
| Current tiers | Free · Starter · Pro · Business · Scale · Advanced · Agency | Basic · Core · Plus · Advanced |
| Online-store fee | 2% on Starter, 0% from Pro | 2% on Basic, 0% above |
| Digital / membership fee | 5% · 3% · 2% · 1% · 0% from Advanced | 7% · 5% · 1% · 0% on Advanced |
| Sites per plan | 1 · 3 · 10 · 15 · 25 · 100 | One plan per site |
| Team | 2 · 5 · 15 · 25 · 50 · 100 seats; extra $2–$5/mo | Unlimited contributors above Basic |
| CRM, email marketing, automations | Included | Email Campaigns plus third party |
| Multi-language | Included from Business | Third-party or duplicate pages |
| Source available | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary |
Aglyn prices and fees read from the plan entitlements on 3 September 2026. Squarespace fees from its help centre the same day. Payment processing is separate on both and goes to the processor.
What Squarespace does better
Written honestly, because a comparison page that claims a clean sweep is not worth reading.
- Design craft out of the box. Squarespace's templates are the best art-directed set in this category, and a Squarespace site looks good before you touch it.
- Unlimited contributors. Above Basic there is no seat count to think about at all. Aglyn bands seats and charges past the band.
- Maturity and a real support organisation. Aglyn is in public beta and does not publish an uptime SLA.
- Scheduling and email at one price on the plans that include them, with no third party to wire up.
You can take it with you
Aglyn is licensed under Apache 2.0. The whole platform can be run on your own infrastructure using the Docker Compose setup in the repository and your own Firebase project, and a site's content can be exported from Pro up.
Squarespace will export your content as WordPress XML, which is genuinely useful and more than some competitors offer. What does not come with it is the platform: the commerce, the members area, the scheduling and the hosting behaviour stay behind. The difference is between exporting the output and being able to run the system.
Self-hosting means building from source with the repository's Docker Compose setup. We do not currently publish prebuilt images.
Comparison researched 3 September 2026 against Squarespace's own published pricing and help documentation. Squarespace is a trademark of Squarespace, Inc. Aglyn is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Squarespace.