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Future vs Squarespace

Squarespace is a good fit if you like to build from a template. Booking and email marketing use separate plans. Future puts three free design choices, booking, marketing tools and help together.

Read October 8, 2026. Website and booking prices were confirmed on the public pages. The email price and domain renewal were not verified. Future's plan prices use the current plans, and plans open soon.

Choose Squarespace if

You like its templates and want to build the site yourself.
You want Acuity's booking tools.
You are happy to manage separate site, booking and email plans.

Choose Future if

You want to see three designs made for your business, free.
You want booking, review requests and automatic follow-up emails in one plan.
You want a person to help when you get stuck.

Plans side by side

What	Future	Squarespace
Website, billed yearly	Starter $19, Pro $39, Premier $99 a month billed yearly. Founding prices, locked in: Pro $28/month and Premier $69/month, billed yearly. Founding prices are for yearly plans started by November 7, and are kept while your plan stays active. New yearly sign-ups after November 7: Pro $39/month and Premier $99/month.	Basic: $19 a month. Booking and email cost extra.^[1]
Booking, billed yearly	Included in Pro and Premier	Acuity Starter: $16 a month for one calendar^[2]

Features side by side

What	Future	Squarespace
How your site starts	See three designs for your business, free. Pick one to build, or start with a template made to fit you.	Pick a template and use the design tools.^[1]
Online booking	Included in Pro and Premier, with deposits	A separate Acuity plan, from Starter up^[2]
Marketing emails	Automatic emails only: review requests, rebooking nudges, win-back and welcome. Pro up to 1,500 a month; Premier 5,000. Newsletters go out from your own email tool.	Email Campaigns: a separate plan, starting at 500 sends a month. The price was not verified.^[3]
Domain	Connect your own domain. A free domain for year one on yearly plans is coming soon.	An eligible domain is free for year one on an annual site plan, then renews at the current rate.^[1]
Text reminders	Coming soonComing soon	Need Acuity Standard or above; not in the Starter cost example.^[2]

Cost of the same jobs

One site, three plans

Basic for the site, Acuity Starter for one booking calendar, and an email plan. No paid texts are included in this example.

Every Future plan includes

A website designed for your business and a free logo
Hosting, security and upkeep
Design changes when you need them
Edit by click or in plain words
Unlimited forms and contacts
Getting found on Google and in AI answers
Help from a person

Design and email limits vary by plan.

Squarespace

Squarespace Basic, a month billed yearly^[1]$19
Acuity Starter, a month billed yearly^[2]$16
Email Campaigns, a month billed yearly^[3]Unverified estimate$8

Monthly example; email price unverified$43

Future Pro

Get found, get booked, get paid.

$28/month, locked in

Online booking with deposits and no-show fees
Review requests
Automatic emails: 3 running, up to 1,500 a month
A shop with a 0% platform fee

See everything in Pro

Everything in Starter, plus:

Online booking and events
Shop with a 0% platform fee
Automatic tax, shipping zones and discount codes
Deposits and no-show fees
Customer accounts
Review requests
3 running automations: pick from review requests, rebooking nudges, win-back and welcome emails, in words you approve
Up to 1,500 automatic emails a month
Up to 150 pages and 10 GB of files
2 new designs and 1 site rebuild a month
5 team members

Also in every plan:

A website designed for your business and a free logo
Hosting, security and upkeep
Design changes when you need them
Editing by click or in plain words
Unlimited forms and contacts
Getting found on Google and in AI answers
Help chat and a person to help
Your own domain
Visitor insights: know who's interested

Coming soon: Gift cards, 100 text messages a month, Simple monthly report, Free domain for year one on yearly plans.

Future Pro, founding yearly rate, locked in$28

Prices are in US dollars. Tax, card fees, extra use and paid help are left out.
Email marketing here means emails to customers, not a business mailbox. Future's are automatic (review requests, rebooking nudges, win-back and welcome emails); it doesn't send newsletters, so those go out from your own email tool.
Future's free year-one domain is coming soon. Until then, add a domain bought elsewhere.
Founding prices, locked in: Pro $28/month and Premier $69/month, billed yearly. Founding prices are for yearly plans started by November 7, and are kept while your plan stays active. New yearly sign-ups after November 7: Pro $39/month and Premier $99/month.
Future's prices come from its current plans. Plans open soon.

Year one and year two

A five-page site, one booking calendar and 500 marketing email sends a month. The email price is an estimate.

Squarespace: Year one

$516 estimate

$19 × 12 + $16 × 12 + $8 × 12 = $516^[1][2][3]

Email price unverified. The site and booking alone cost $420 a year. An eligible domain is free for year one.

Squarespace: Year two

$516 + domain

($19 + $16 + $8) × 12 + domain renewal^[1][2][3]

Unverified: assumes plan prices stay the same. Email and domain renewal costs were not verified, so the full bill is unknown.

Future Pro: year one

$336 + domain

$28 × 12 = $336

Yearly plans started by November 7. Kept while your plan stays active. The free year-one domain is coming soon; add your own domain cost.

Future Pro: year two

$336 + domain

$28 × 12 = $336

The founding rate is kept while your plan stays active. Add domain renewal. Booking and up to 1,500 automatic emails a month are included.

Future Pro's emails are automatic follow-ups, not newsletters, so the send counts aren't like for like. Choose a bigger email plan if you need more sends.

Pick the plan for your business

Starter covers the website and marketing essentials. Pro adds booking and a shop.

Billed yearly Save up to $600Billed monthly

Every plan includes

A website designed for your business and a free logo
Hosting, security and upkeep
Design changes when you need them
Edit by click or in plain words
Unlimited forms and contacts
Getting found on Google and in AI answers
Help from a person

Design and email limits vary by plan.

Starter

A great website, ready fast.Your website and the marketing essentials.

$19/month

Billed yearly, $228 a year. Or $26/month billed monthly.

$26/month

Billed monthly

A website designed for your business and a free logo
Hosting, security and upkeep
Unlimited forms and contacts
Newsletter sign-ups saved to your contacts

Up to 50 pages and 5 GB of files · 1 new design a month · 2 team members

See everything in Starter

Everything you need to start:

Up to 50 pages and 5 GB of files
Newsletter sign-ups saved to your contacts
1 new design a month
2 team members

Also in every plan:

A website designed for your business and a free logo
Hosting, security and upkeep
Design changes when you need them
Editing by click or in plain words
Unlimited forms and contacts
Getting found on Google and in AI answers
Help chat and a person to help
Your own domain
Visitor insights: know who's interested

Coming soon: Free domain for year one on yearly plans.

Start free

Pro

Recommended

Get found, get booked, get paid.

Founding price:$28/month, locked in

Billed yearly, $336 a year. Or $47/month billed monthly.

Yearly plans started by November 7. Kept while your plan stays active.

New yearly sign-ups after November 7: $39/month ($468 a year).

$47/month

Billed monthly

Everything in Starter, plus booking, a shop, review requests and automatic emails.

Online booking with deposits and no-show fees
Review requests
Automatic emails: 3 running, up to 1,500 a month
A shop with a 0% platform fee

See everything in Pro

Everything in Starter, plus:

Online booking and events
Shop with a 0% platform fee
Automatic tax, shipping zones and discount codes
Deposits and no-show fees
Customer accounts
Review requests
3 running automations: pick from review requests, rebooking nudges, win-back and welcome emails, in words you approve
Up to 1,500 automatic emails a month
Up to 150 pages and 10 GB of files
2 new designs and 1 site rebuild a month
5 team members

Also in every plan:

A website designed for your business and a free logo
Hosting, security and upkeep
Design changes when you need them
Editing by click or in plain words
Unlimited forms and contacts
Getting found on Google and in AI answers
Help chat and a person to help
Your own domain
Visitor insights: know who's interested

Coming soon: Gift cards, 100 text messages a month, Simple monthly report, Free domain for year one on yearly plans.

Start free

Premier

More reach, with a person on your side.

Founding price:$69/month, locked in

Billed yearly, $828 a year. Or $119/month billed monthly.

Yearly plans started by November 7. Kept while your plan stays active.

New yearly sign-ups after November 7: $99/month ($1,188 a year).

$119/month

Billed monthly

Priority support from a person the same business day
A CRM pipeline from lead to customer
Unlimited automations
Up to 5,000 automatic emails a month

See everything in Premier

Everything in Pro, plus:

CRM pipeline: leads to customers
See which channels bring you customers
Unlimited automations
Up to 5,000 automatic emails a month
Up to 1,000 pages and 50 GB of files
5 new designs and 2 site rebuilds a month
15 team members
Priority support from a person the same business day

Also in every plan:

A website designed for your business and a free logo
Hosting, security and upkeep
Design changes when you need them
Editing by click or in plain words
Unlimited forms and contacts
Getting found on Google and in AI answers
Help chat and a person to help
Your own domain
Visitor insights: know who's interested

Coming soon: 250 texts a month, AI visibility report, Weekly rank tracking, Local map rankings, AI visibility check, Monthly growth report with suggestions, Competitor watch, Your own app included, Free domain for year one on yearly plans.

Start free

See your designs and templates free, and pay when you're ready to build and publish. 15 days money back, minus a claimed domain's cost.

Prices shown are per month for yearly plans, paid in full when you buy. Monthly plans are also available. You'll see the final price, including any tax, before you pay.

Pick your design now; plans open soon.

What Squarespace does well

A large choice of well-made templates.^[1]
Acuity offers larger booking plans for more calendars.^[2]

Sources

Squarespace website plans, read October 8, 2026
Acuity booking plans, read October 8, 2026
Squarespace Email Campaigns: send limits; price not confirmed, read October 8, 2026

Prices are in US dollars before sales tax and can change. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

FAQ

Future vs Squarespace: questions

What costs extra with Squarespace?

Booking uses Acuity and marketing emails use Email Campaigns. Domain renewal, tax and card fees can add to the bill.

Is Future cheaper than Squarespace?

The site, booking and email estimate is $516 a year before domain renewal. Its email price is unverified. Future Pro's regular rate is $468 a year. Founding prices, locked in: Pro $28/month and Premier $69/month, billed yearly. Founding prices are for yearly plans started by November 7, and are kept while your plan stays active. New yearly sign-ups after November 7: Pro $39/month and Premier $99/month.

See your new website, free

Tell us your business name, what you do and your city. See three homepage designs customized for you, or start with a template made to fit.

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