Ginta vs Squarespace
Ginta vs Squarespace: which is better for a small business website?
Squarespace is a polished, design-led website builder. Its Blueprint AI drafts a site from your description, and then you shape it in a visual editor known for good-looking templates. Ginta is built for owners who don't want to shape anything: you describe the business, Ginta designs and writes the site, and it's live in about a minute.
Squarespace has no free plan, so you pay before your site goes public. Ginta's free plan publishes, and your own domain starts at €5 a month.
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Ginta vs Squarespace at a glance
| What | Ginta | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| Price to start | Free plan. Paid from €5 a month (Hosting: you build with your own Claude or ChatGPT) or €19 (Light: Ginta's AI, 150 credits a month). Monthly billing; yearly = 10 months' price for 12. | Basic: $19 a month billed yearly, or $25 month to month (US). In the eurozone €11 yearly or €15 monthly. |
| Free plan | Yes: up to 20 websites live at name.ginta.page, with a small “Made with Ginta” badge. 25 AI credits when you confirm your email, then 5 a day. Booking, a shop and events included (up to 25 products, 30 bookings a month and 5 upcoming events per website), with online payments through your own Stripe, plus customer reviews you approve. | No free plan: a 14-day free trial. You need a paid plan to publish. |
| AI building | Yes: describe the business in a sentence, answer a few questions, and it's live in about a minute. Change anything by asking, or click a text on the page. | Yes: Blueprint AI builds a site from a description in your own words. AI features use credits: 10 once on Basic, 20 a month on Core. |
| Hosting included | Yes, on every plan, on Cloudflare's network. | Yes, fully managed hosting on every plan. |
| Forms that email you | Yes, on every plan: each message goes to your email (once it's confirmed) and to your Ginta inbox. | Yes, on paid plans: a form's Email storage sends each submission to an address. Turned off on trial sites. |
| Custom domain | On paid plans (from €5 a month): 1 domain on Hosting and Light, more on bigger plans. Connect one you own (Ginta shows the DNS steps for your registrar) or buy one in Ginta for €29 a year, registered in your name and set up for you. | Every plan, Basic included. Yearly plans include a free domain for the first year. |
| Owner admin | yoursite.com/admin, when the site has a form or a ready-made part: messages, menu, bookings and the like, without the editor. You plus 1 helper on Free, 3 helpers on Light. | Yes: contributors with roles such as Website editor and Store manager. Basic: one contributor besides you; Core and up: unlimited. |
| Build from Claude/ChatGPT | Yes: Ginta's MCP server (ginta.app/mcp, also in Claude's connector directory) lets Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor build, publish and change the site, using no Ginta credits. | Partly: the Squarespace GPT in ChatGPT drafts a layout that you finish and publish in Squarespace's editor. Its MCP server only searches domain names. |
Ginta's prices include tax and are the same number in euros (eurozone) or US dollars (everywhere else). Squarespace's prices can differ by country: check its pricing page before you buy.
When to pick Squarespace
- Design control matters most. Squarespace's templates and visual editor let you tune layouts, fonts and spacing yourself. Ginta has no visual editor.
- You sell a lot or sell courses. Squarespace has an online store, customer accounts, courses and memberships, and email and SMS campaigns. Ginta's shop is made for a handful to a few hundred products.
- A team shares the work. Contributor roles (Website editor, Store manager, Billing, Analytics and more) are fine-grained, and unlimited from Core up.
- You want a long-established company with a big help centre and experts for hire.
When to pick Ginta
- You want to see it live before you pay. Ginta's free plan publishes up to 20 websites at name.ginta.page; Squarespace needs a paid plan to publish.
- You don't want to design. Ginta writes the texts and makes the layout for your kind of business; change anything by asking in the chat.
- You want a lower monthly price. €5 (Hosting, with your own AI assistant) or €19 (Light, with Ginta's AI) a month, billed monthly, with your own domain.
- Form emails from day one. Contact form messages are emailed to you on every plan, including the free plan once your email is confirmed.
- You build with Claude or ChatGPT. Your assistant can design, publish and update a live Ginta site through Ginta's MCP server, without opening an editor.
Moving from Squarespace to Ginta
There's no automatic import. Paste your texts and prices into Ginta's chat, add your photos, ask for the parts you need (booking, menu, gallery, blog, reviews), then connect your domain in the website's Settings → Address & domain. Keep Squarespace until the new site is live.
Sources (checked 20 October 2026)
Squarespace pricing · AI website builder · Form storage and emails · Invite a contributor · Contributor roles · Squarespace GPT · Squarespace MCP server · Ginta: pricing and limits
See your website before you decide
Describe your business in one sentence and see it live in about a minute. Free to start: 25 credits when you confirm your email, then 5 a day.
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Is Ginta cheaper than Squarespace?
To start, yes: Ginta has a free plan that publishes, and your own domain from €5 a month. Squarespace Basic is $19 a month billed yearly or $25 month to month in the US (€11 or €15 in the eurozone), with a free domain for the first year on yearly plans. On Ginta you bring your own domain or buy one for €29 a year.
Does Squarespace have a free plan?
No. It has a 14-day free trial, and you need a paid plan to publish. Ginta's free plan keeps websites online at a Ginta address with a small badge.
Which one makes better-looking websites?
Both can look great. Squarespace gives you polished templates and the controls to perfect them yourself. Ginta designs each site for the business you describe and checks it on phones and computers before it goes live; you can send a screenshot of a site you like as inspiration.
Can ChatGPT build my site on Squarespace or Ginta?
On Squarespace, the Squarespace GPT drafts a layout and you finish and publish it in Squarespace's editor. On Ginta, ChatGPT or Claude can build, publish and change the live site through Ginta's MCP server: see build a website with ChatGPT.
Can someone else update my Ginta site?
Yes. Give a helper a login at yoursite.com/admin: they can read messages and change the menu, bookings or other parts, without a Ginta account. On Squarespace you invite contributors with roles.
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