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Nightly vs Squarespace

Squarespace gives you templates and an editor to build with. Nightly builds the website from your own answers, then you change what you like.

By the Nightly team · Checked 4 November 2026

The short answer

Which one fits you

Choose Squarespace if

You'd rather build it

You want an online store or payments today, more than 10 pages, and to design every page yourself from a template.

Choose Nightly if

You'd rather have it made

You'd rather it was made for you, in your own words, with search basics, blog drafts and Business Brain for your files included.

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Nightly and Squarespace

Nightly and Squarespace compared, checked 4 November 2026
FeatureNightlySquarespace
Made for you from your answersYes. You answer questions about your business. Nightly builds the website from your answers.Partly Its AI gives you a multi-page starting point. You edit it yourself.
Builds from your Google listingYes. Find your business on Google as you sign up, and tick the reviews and photos for your website. Reviews go in word for word.No. Not on its own pages.
Nothing made upYes. Any sentence with a review, number or promise you didn't give is dropped. Prices show only as you wrote them.No. Its own pages say to check what its AI writes.
Suggested replies to inquiriesYes. Turn them on and each inquiry can get a suggested reply, written only from your answers, for 10 credits. You check it and send it yourself.No. Not on its own pages.
A plan for your business's own filesYes. A folder plan and kit. Your own AI assistant can connect, record where each file sits and find a file by name. It sees file names only.No. Not on its pricing page.
Change it yourselfYes. Change any section yourself, free. Or ask in plain words, for 10 credits.Yes. A drag-and-drop editor.
Search basicsYes. On a live website: a sitemap, an llms.txt, your business details for Google on every page, and a Get found score with the jobs that raise it.Yes. SEO tools on every plan.
Your own web addressYes. On Launch and Grow, with a domain you already own, even one bought through Squarespace. Nightly doesn't sell domains.Yes. On every plan. Free for the first year on yearly plans.
Try it before you payPartly Free to see: the whole website on a private link for 14 days, with no card. It goes live on Launch.Partly A 14-day free trial. There's no free plan.
PagesUp to 10 pages. Describe a new one and it's written for you, for 10 credits.Up to 1,000 pages.
Online storeNo. Not yet.Yes. On every plan. Basic adds a 2% transaction fee.
Take paymentsBeing built Customers paying online.Yes. On every plan, through Squarespace Payments.
Online bookingBeing built Customers booking online.Partly Sold separately, as Acuity Scheduling.
PriceLaunch: $25 a month, or $255 a year. Grow: $49, or $492 a year. No set-up fee.Basic: $19 a month billed yearly, or $25 billed monthly (checked 21 Oct 2026).

✓ yes, ✗ no. Read from each company's own pages (sources below). In the shaded rows, ✗ means it isn't on that company's own pages. Their US prices are before sales tax.

Questions answered

Choosing between Nightly and Squarespace

  1. Is Nightly cheaper than Squarespace?

    No. Squarespace Basic is $19 a month billed yearly, and Nightly's Launch is $25 a month (or $255 a year). Nightly costs more because the website is made for you. Seeing yours is free for 14 days, so you can judge before you pay.

  2. Can I keep my domain if I move from Squarespace?

    Your domain comes with you. If you bought it through Squarespace, it's still yours: on Launch or Grow, change a few settings in Squarespace and your Nightly website shows on it. Your project page says which settings, checks them and emails you when it's live. Your old pages aren't copied across: Nightly makes a new website from your answers about your business.

  3. Does Nightly have an online store or booking?

    Not yet. Customers booking and paying online are being built now, and come with the plan at no extra charge. If you need a store today, Squarespace has one on every plan.

Sources

Where these facts come from

Each company's own pages, read on 4 November 2026 unless a date says otherwise. Prices and plans change, so check their pages before you choose. Squarespace is a trademark of its owner, and Nightly isn't connected with it.

Squarespace

  • Pricing, trial, domains and AI toolssquarespace.com/pricing
  • AI website buildersquarespace.com/websites/ai-website-builder
  • Acuity Schedulingsquarespace.com/scheduling
  • Page limitssupport.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543087-Page-limits
  • Pointing a Squarespace domainsupport.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/215744668
  • Using Squarespace AIsupport.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/16282290976013-Using-Squarespace-AI

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