Squarespace vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Squarespace
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.
$12
per month
WordPress VIP
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
Pricing
SquarespaceWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SquarespaceWordPress VIP
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPersonal: $12/month (paid annually) $16/month (paid monthly) Business: $18/month (paid annually) $26/month (paid monthly) Basic Commerce: $26/month (paid annually) $35/month (paid monthly) Advanced Commerce: $40/month (paid annually) $54/month (paid monthly)
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Features
SquarespaceWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Squarespace
8.5
59 Ratings
6% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.6
2 Ratings
5% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.559 Ratings7.62 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Squarespace
8.3
51 Ratings
8% above category average
WordPress VIP
7.6
2 Ratings
1% below category average
API8.044 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language8.733 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Squarespace
7.8
88 Ratings
3% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.3
2 Ratings
9% above category average
WYSIWYG editor9.076 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness8.069 Ratings7.62 Ratings
Admin section8.387 Ratings8.32 Ratings
Page templates7.188 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Library of website themes7.185 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design6.784 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Publishing workflow9.076 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Form generator7.569 Ratings00 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Squarespace
8.2
78 Ratings
11% above category average
WordPress VIP
8.1
2 Ratings
10% above category average
Content taxonomy8.966 Ratings7.31 Ratings
SEO support7.171 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Bulk management8.044 Ratings7.62 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions8.058 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Community / comment management8.958 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Best Alternatives
SquarespaceWordPress VIP
Small Businesses
Divi
Divi
Score 9.8 out of 10
Divi
Divi
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
SquarespaceWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(88 ratings)
8.7
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(4 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(4 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.7
(19 ratings)
User Testimonials
SquarespaceWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
Squarespace
I have a gorgeous website that I made myself, thanks to Squarespace. I'm able to integrate marketing emails, SEO, analytics, online carts, pretty much instantly. If you want to get started fast, it's really great. I think if you want to customize square space and you're having trouble, it would be most helpful to hire a square space designer. That's what I would have done in retrospect.
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Automattic
WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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Pros
Squarespace
  • Stupid simple to use. I know very creative people who cannot code and this is probably the easiest ever platform for them!
  • Pretty website templates and great functionality with showing off portfolios.
  • They've already figured out what are the problems that non-coding people have when creating websites and they've figured out a simple solution for all of it.
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Automattic
  • Security - class leading security, ensuring sites are protected and operate hassle free
  • Scalability - provide patches and updates first before the market place
  • Reliability - up to 99.9% up time, with a fantastic track record
  • Performance - hitting the high notes for Core Web Vitals and ensuring WordPress is operating at its peak performance
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Cons
Squarespace
  • As a wine company it would really love it if Squarespace had an easy plugin for wine club subscriptions.
  • Squarespace would be awesome if it could automatically take your photos that you upload on the site and optimize them for the web and for the website.
  • I do wish we could have more than two contributors for the basic website costs.
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Automattic
  • Too many different dashboard formats
  • Everything should have the same look and feel.
  • The admin portal looks different than the user content portal
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Likelihood to Renew
Squarespace
Unless our website requires significantly more functionality in the future, I can't see us terminating our contract
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Automattic
It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies
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Usability
Squarespace
It's simple to use for someone who is really good with computers as well as those who are not. I've been using my personal squarespace for years and have also helped clients build a starting page which they are later able to manage theirselves.
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Automattic
There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
Squarespace
Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated
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Automattic
The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
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Alternatives Considered
Squarespace
Overall, as a designer, it makes perfect sense for small to large businesses to use a site such as SquareSpace. Costs are relatively reasonable with the ability to go in and do custom code.
The issue is certain aspects of it, depending on the plan, you can't do. So, if you want to do API to the site, you need to use the top-tier program to do so. Even at custom code, you won't have access to the API section.
As well, like all templates and themes, everybody is using the same style too.
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Automattic
Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
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Return on Investment
Squarespace
  • The key positive impact on my overall business objectives is how simple Squarespace sites are to implement new information. Whenever our services change, we can quickly update pages or even change how the website flows, in a very short window of time. This allows me to get back to more urgent work sooner.
  • Our Squarespace site for Club Swim Show helped present our web series to potential partners; Club Swim Show went on to partner with a popular swimming magazine and reach a larger audience through that magazine's hosting thanks to the professional design of our original website.
  • Squarespace does not bring in customers to my storefront, which is fine for me, since I sell things infrequently and it is not my main business, but might work against someone who is expecting a Shopify or Etsy level connection with buyer markets.
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Automattic
  • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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