Squarespace vs. IONOS

The best platform for you is a personal choice. Squarespace delivers quality design and features, ensuring your brand is cohesive and professional no matter what you want to do with your website. Squarespace also offers a comprehensive set of tools for everything from ecommerce and selling services to photography portfolios, blogging, and marketing, all built into the platform.

Squarespace makes starting a beautifully designed website straightforward for anyone, including beginners. Choose from a curated library of website templates or use Blueprint AI to create a starting point, then secure a custom domain that fits your brand or idea. As you build out your website pages, you can customize every details, including colors, fonts, images, and content, with built-in design guidance at every step.

IONOS offers subscriptions starting at $1-17 per month, depending on promotions. Squarespace offers subscriptions starting at $16 per month. Squarespace's most affordable plan offers the ability to take payments and send invoices. The Starter Website plan on IONOS does not offer ecommerce tools.

Squarespace offers the flexible design, ease of use, and powerful sales tools small businesses need to stand out and grow. In addition to beautiful, intuitive websites, Squarespace offers the features small business owners need, like custom invoicing, in-person pickup and local delivery options, email marketing, and accounting integrations.

Squarespace plans include a robust set of ecommerce features, including unlimited product listings, shipping integrations, in-person POS, multi-channel selling, email and social media marketing tools, and third-party extensions to add custom functionality.

Squarespace features built-in, advanced SEO tools designed to make every website and online store more competitive in search results.

For example, your website comes with default SEO page titles and descriptions, which you can modify without changing the page content visitors see. You can also hide pages if you need to, and control the image people see alongside your content whenever it's shared on social media.

With AI SEO tools, you can also scan your website for key missing content and generate SEO-friendly website copy and image alt text. Squarespace's SEO tools are available on all plans, while IONOS requires an additional subscription for some tools on certain plans.

Yes, you can transfer a domain from IONOS or another third-party domain provider to a Squarespace website. Follow our step-by-step guide to transferring a domain or explore our domain transfers FAQ to get started.

Once you start a new website on Squarespace, you can save content and products from your IONOS website and transfer them over or hire a Squarespace Expert for hands-on help.

Squarespace is an all-in-one content management system (CMS) and website builder. With a single subscription, you can make a website, host your content, register your own custom domain name, sell products, track your site's analytics, and much more. All Squarespace websites come with both hosting and security, so you don't need to find a separate hosting provider. You get security features like SSL certificates, web application firewalls, and DDoS protection.

For a full list of features, visit our feature index and explore the Help Center for guides on Squarespace's many features.