Wix vs Squarespace
Wix or Squarespace is one question asked two ways, and the honest answer turns on how much of the building you want to do yourself. Both are site builders you drive; Rowbo is the third option, where the pages are built for you from your Google listing. A look before you keep it, no card.
Wix or Squarespace?
Both are builders you drive yourself, billed by the year, so the real choice is how you like to work. Wix lets you drag any element anywhere, which suits an owner who wants to move every block and does not mind the time it takes. Squarespace keeps you inside templates that hold their shape, so a quick edit still looks tidy and you fiddle with it less. Reach for Wix if you want that control, and Squarespace if you want it to look designed with less effort.
What you pay in year one
Wix Light is £9 a month, billed annually. Prices checked 12 August 2026.
A designer builds a brochure site from £500, per UK agency guides. Prices checked 21 September 2026.
£608 in year one
Squarespace Basic is £12 a month, billed annually before VAT. Prices checked 12 August 2026.
A freelancer's small-business site is about £850, per UK agency guides. Prices checked 21 September 2026.
£994 in year one
£30 a month, 12 months, £360. Built for you, included, no setup fee.
£360 in year one
That is £248 less in year one at UK designer rates, and nobody to hire.
Side by side
Prices checked 12 August 2026.
Wix and Squarespace figures are the UK list prices, billed annually, from our August pricing research; the Squarespace ones are before VAT. Ours is £30 a month, billed monthly.
What you get for £30 a month
- A real multi-page website, built from the Google listing you already have.
- Your own .com, registered and pointed at it, in the price.
- Hosting and updates, so there is nothing else to renew and nothing to install.
- Your photos, your hours, your services and your reviews, already on the page.
- Any change you want, made by us: the words, the photos, the colours, a whole new page. Just tell us.
- A site Google can index and ChatGPT can read.
- We go through your Google listing and fix what is holding it back: the link to your site, the categories, the hours and the photos.
- Built and checked by us, and yours to look at before you keep it.
- No setup fee, no minimum term, and you can cancel any month.
- A price one extra customer a week covers, with nothing else to pay for.
- Our estimate: around 10 more customers a month. Based on typical monthly searches for a local business in a UK town and what a page-one result gets.
Why owners pick Rowbo
There is a third answer to Wix or Squarespace, which is not building it at all. When somebody searches for what you do, they open a website and decide from it. That page can come off the Google listing you already have. Rowbo reads your photos, your hours and your reviews off that listing and builds the pages. They go on your own .com, at £30 a month, with the hosting and the updates in it. Need a price changed? Send us a message and we change it. No template to fill in, and no weekend spent laying one out. And once the pages are live we show you where you stand, with the date on it. There is a scan today, then a plain report every month, so it is a number you can read rather than a guess.
If you want to lay out every page by hand, Wix and Squarespace are built for exactly that, and Rowbo builds the pages for you instead.
Questions owners ask.
Wix or Squarespace, which is right for me?
Choose Wix if you want to move every element yourself, and Squarespace if you would rather stay inside templates that hold their shape. Both are billed by the year and built by you. Rowbo is the third option, where the pages are built for you from your Google listing.
What do Wix and Squarespace cost in the UK?
Wix is £9 a month for Light and £16 for Core, billed annually. Squarespace is £12 a month for Basic and £17 for Core, billed annually before VAT. Rowbo is £30 a month with the .com, hosting and updates in it. Prices checked 12 August 2026.
Is there a way to get the site built for me?
Yes, that is Rowbo: tell us your business name and how to reach you, and we build the pages from your Google listing. Your own .com, the hosting and the updates are in the price, and we make any change you ask for.
See the third option first.
£360 a year, built for you. Give us your business name and read the pages we build. No card, and a look first.
No card needed