Squarespace vs Webflow: A Practical Comparison for Interior and Landscape Firms

Squarespace vs Webflow is mostly a question of who will build and maintain the site. Squarespace is an all-in-one builder that an owner can run alone, with a fixed design system and fewer settings. Webflow gives close control over layout and a structured CMS, but it asks for real web design knowledge and its pricing is split into two kinds of plans. For a small interior design studio or landscaping company, the right pick depends on the next three years of upkeep more than on launch day.

We don't have a default platform. We choose one with each client after looking at how the site will be updated. We took every price and plan detail below from each platform's own site in October 2026.

Squarespace vs Webflow pricing

Squarespace has one set of website plans. Webflow has site plans and workspace plans, and many owners only discover the second kind after they start.

On Squarespace's pricing page as of October 2026, plans run $19, $29, $49, and $99 a month billed annually (Basic, Core, Plus, Advanced), or $25 to $139 a month billed monthly. Hosting, templates, and the editor are all inside that one fee.

Webflow's pricing page as of October 2026 lists three site plans:

• Starter, free, on a webflow.io address with 2 static pages and 50 form submissions.
• Basic, $15 a month billed yearly, with a custom domain and 300 static pages, but no CMS. Webflow describes it as "for simple sites that don't need a CMS."
• Premium, $25 a month billed yearly, which adds the Webflow CMS (up to 20,000 items), site search, and form file uploads.

Separate ecommerce site plans start at $29 a month billed yearly. The page didn't show month-to-month prices for the Basic and Premium site plans when we checked, so check current pricing if you don't want an annual term.

Webflow site plans vs workspace plans

A site plan pays for one live website. A workspace plan pays for the place where sites are built and where people get seats to work on them. Webflow puts it this way: "A Workspace is a space where you stage sites," and you invite teammates and clients there.

As of October 2026, the workspace plans are Core at $19 a month and Growth at $49 a month for in-house teams, and Freelancer at $16 and Agency at $35 for people building sites for clients, all billed yearly. Each paid workspace includes one full seat. Extra seats cost $39 a month for a full seat ("design full sites or manage admin settings") or $15 for a limited seat ("edit content or build pages with components"), billed yearly. Free seats are for reviewers who comment without editing.

Here's why that matters to a studio owner. Say a freelancer builds your site inside their own workspace and you only pay for the Premium site plan. Your monthly cost looks like $25. But if you later want your office manager to edit project pages alongside you, or you want code export, you're into workspace and seat pricing. Ask who owns the workspace before the build starts.

Design control and the learning curve

Webflow gives a designer control close to hand-coded CSS: spacing, grids, breakpoints, and animations set element by element. Squarespace gives a limited set of sections and style settings that apply site-wide.

On Squarespace 7.1, every site shares the same features and style options. That's a constraint and a safety net. An owner can change a section without breaking the mobile layout, because the system won't let them stray far.

Webflow's editor assumes you understand how web layout works: classes, containers, and how a design reflows on a phone. A designer comfortable with that can build almost any layout. An owner who isn't can get stuck on things like why one heading changed every heading on the site.

For a landscaping company, that freedom rarely pays off on its own. For an interior design studio whose brand depends on a very particular look, with unusual type, asymmetric galleries, and slow page transitions, it can.

CMS: project portfolios and service areas

The Webflow CMS is the strongest reason to pick Webflow for a studio with a lot of projects. Squarespace handles portfolios through pages and galleries, which works well for smaller collections.

In Webflow, you define a collection, say "Projects," with fields you choose: room type, city, style, square footage, designer, and a photo gallery. Every project page then uses one template, and you can build filtered lists, like all kitchen projects or all work in one county. Remember that the CMS needs the Premium site plan; Basic has none.

For a landscaping company, a CMS can also power service-area pages. Each town gets its own entry with local photos, a short note on typical soil or HOA rules, and nearby projects pulled in automatically.

On Squarespace, you build project pages from page sections and gallery blocks. For a portfolio of 15 to 30 projects, that's perfectly workable. At 80 projects with filters by room and city, the manual approach gets slow.

The structure of the portfolio matters more than the tool. Our article on interior design website examples walks through what each page of a studio site should show.

Forms, booking, and SEO basics

Both platforms include contact forms. Webflow's free Starter plan caps form submissions at 50, while Basic and Premium allow unlimited submissions, per the pricing page.

Booking works differently. Squarespace sells scheduling as its own product, and every website plan lets you embed it on your site at no extra charge. Webflow's pricing page doesn't list a scheduling tool, so booking on a Webflow site usually means embedding a third-party scheduler.

On SEO basics, both cover the essentials. Squarespace's SEO checklist covers page descriptions, clean URLs, and alt text, and redirects are added in URL mappings. Webflow lets you set 301 redirects on a paid site plan or paid workspace. Neither will rank a site that lacks clear service pages and real projects. If ranking in nearby towns is the goal, start with our guide to local SEO for landscapers.

Who maintains the site after launch

This is the deciding question for most small firms, and it's rarely asked before the build.

Think about the first year after launch. Someone will add new projects, swap the hero photo for the season, update a team bio, and fix a typo in the services page. Then ask who that person is.

• The owner or an office manager, alone. Squarespace's narrower editor is easier to keep tidy. Webflow is possible with a limited seat for content editing, but layout changes will need a designer.
• A designer on retainer. Webflow makes sense. They'll work inside a workspace, and you'll pay for their time plus the plans.
• Nobody in particular. Pick the platform with the fewest moving parts, and keep the site small enough that updates are rare.

A useful test before you choose: ask the person who'll maintain the site to add one fake project on a trial of each platform. The one they finish without help is usually the right answer.

Export options and moving later

Webflow offers code export; Squarespace offers a partial content export. Neither gives you a complete, working copy of the site elsewhere.

Webflow says code export is only available on Workspace plans. It exports the pages as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images. CMS content doesn't render in the exported files (collection lists show empty), and forms, site search, ecommerce, and password protection stop working. You can export CMS collections separately as CSV files.

Squarespace exports to a WordPress-format .xml file. It includes layout pages, one blog with its posts, and text and image blocks, but not portfolio or store pages, style settings, or custom CSS.

Going from Squarespace to Webflow is a rebuild too. Webflow's own guide says migrating from Squarespace to Webflow "is a rebuild, not a transfer," and notes that Squarespace doesn't support bulk image export. Keep original photos and copy outside any platform, and plan redirects before you switch the domain. The website redesign checklist lists those steps.

Decision by situation

Neither platform wins for every firm. Here's how we'd think through it with a client.

• Squarespace is the better fit if the owner will update the site alone, the portfolio is modest, you want one predictable monthly fee, and you'd like booking from the same company.
• Webflow is the better fit if a designer will maintain the site, you need a structured project database with filters or many service-area pages, or the brand calls for a layout Squarespace's sections can't produce.
• Either can work if you have a small site, a clear page plan, and good photos. Then choose by who'll be editing it.

If you're also weighing Wix, our Squarespace vs Wix comparison covers booking, template switching, and export there.

We build studio websites starting from $1,000, covering structure, copy written from your answers, custom design, the build, mobile layout, basic SEO, and launch. For a landscaping company, see what that looks like on our page about websites for landscapers.