GitFoundry vs Squarespace

Squarespace never stops charging

The subscription model is not a feature. It is the business model.

Squarespace charges £13–£35 per month. That is £156–£420 per year. Squarespace has raised its prices multiple times and there is no indication it will stop. If you cancel, your site goes offline immediately. There is no way to export your Squarespace site as a portable, self-hostable website. The design, the content, and the structure all stay inside Squarespace's platform.

GitFoundry charges once. A Landing Page starts at £349. A Professional site is £749 — a website with no monthly fees, running free on GitHub Pages indefinitely. If GitFoundry closed tomorrow, your site would continue running exactly as it did before. You own the source code and can host it anywhere.

What you cannot take with you

Squarespace allows you to export your blog posts as XML and some content as CSV. You cannot export your design, your layout, your CSS, or your page structure. If you want to leave Squarespace, you are rebuilding from scratch.

GitFoundry delivers the complete source code to your own GitHub account. It is standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: the same languages every web developer in the world uses. Any developer can open the files, read them, and modify them. Moving to a different host takes less than an hour. There is no GitFoundry-specific format, no proprietary system, and no rebuild required.

Template versus bespoke

Squarespace sites are built from templates. The templates are well-designed, but you are constrained by what the template allows. Every Squarespace site in your sector looks broadly similar because they are all drawn from the same template library. There are limits to how far you can deviate from the template structure without significant custom code.

GitFoundry builds from scratch. Your site is designed to your brief, not to a template. The layout, the typography, the spacing, and the interactions are built specifically for you. There is no template underneath constraining what is possible.

When Squarespace is the right choice

Squarespace is a reasonable choice if you need to build and update your own site regularly without developer involvement, if you need an integrated e-commerce store, or if you are running a short-term project where total cost is less important than speed of self-service setup.

For a sole trader or small business that wants a professional online presence, does not intend to update content daily, and would rather own what they have paid for, a GitFoundry site offers lower long-term cost, better performance, and complete portability. Submit a brief and get a fixed quote within 48 hours.