Squarespace built its name on beautiful templates. If you've seen a photographer's portfolio or a sleek restaurant site that made you think "that looks expensive," there's a good chance it was Squarespace. But looking good takes time to set up, and that's where these two products diverge.
What each one is
GetSite skips the template step entirely. You describe your business, the AI designs and writes a complete multi-page site in about a minute, and you adjust from there — in a visual editor or by telling the AI what to change. Hosting, SSL, custom domains, forms, SEO, and Stripe payments are all included at $10/month, with a 5-day free trial.
Squarespace is a template-based builder known for design quality. You pick a template, customize it section by section, add your content, and publish. The templates look great, especially for visual brands — photographers, artists, restaurants. There's a decent blogging engine and e-commerce too, plus some AI copywriting tools, but the core process is still manual. Plans start at $16/month with annual billing; Business is $23/month and online stores start at $28/month. No free plan.
How long until you're live
With GetSite, you have a finished site in about a minute. Spend 15-30 minutes adjusting, and you're live.
With Squarespace, even with a great template, you still need to replace all the placeholder content, adjust layouts, upload images, and fine-tune the design. Most people spend an evening or two getting it right. Squarespace sites do look good when you're done, but "when you're done" is the key phrase.
What Squarespace does better
The templates are genuinely attractive — this isn't marketing talk. If you're a photographer, artist, or anyone whose work is visual, Squarespace's layouts show it off well. The blogging tools are solid. E-commerce handles products, subscriptions, and digital downloads. They also have email marketing built in.
Where Squarespace costs you time
There's no AI that builds your site. You're starting from a template and customizing from there, which takes real time. Pricing is higher than most alternatives, and the cheaper plans are limited. If you realize your template isn't working, switching means starting over. Third-party integrations are more limited than Wix or WordPress.
What GetSite does better
Getting from zero to a live website takes minutes instead of hours. You can chat with the AI to make edits instead of digging through settings panels. Stripe checkout is included at $10/month — with Squarespace, you need at least the Business plan ($23/month) or a Commerce plan for real e-commerce. And you can export your site if you ever want to move.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | GetSite | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| AI Site Generation | Full site in ~60 seconds | No — template-based setup |
| Visual Editor | Yes | Yes |
| AI Editing Chat | Yes — AI Developer | No |
| Custom Domains | All plans | Paid plans |
| SSL Certificate | Included | Included |
| Contact Forms | Included | Included |
| Online Payments | Stripe on all plans | Commerce plans ($28+/mo) |
| SEO Controls | Built-in | Built-in |
| Site Export | Yes | Limited |
| Email Marketing | Via Zapier | Built-in |
| Starting Price | $10/month | $16/month (annual) |
Which one should you pick?
Go with Squarespace if your website is mainly a visual showcase — a portfolio, a gallery, a brand lookbook — and you enjoy the design process enough to spend a weekend on it. It's also a good fit if you need built-in blogging with a proper editorial workflow.
Go with GetSite if you'd rather describe what you want and have a site in minutes. If your Saturday plan is "finally build that website," GetSite finishes the job before your coffee gets cold. Squarespace makes it a weekend project — you get more control over the final look, but you pay for it in hours.
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