Squarespace for musicians: an honest review
Squarespace is a good product, and for a lot of musicians it is the right answer. It is also the option we are most often compared with, so read this knowing we sell an alternative. We will say plainly where it wins.
Prices below were checked on Squarespace’s own pricing page in October 2026.
What it costs
The Basic plan is 19 US dollars a month billed annually, or 25 billed monthly. Core, which removes the transaction fee on physical sales, is 29 a month annually or 39 monthly. Annual plans include a custom domain free for the first year, and every site starts with a 14-day trial with no card required.
Watch the fees if you sell. Basic takes 2% of store sales and more on digital content and memberships. If selling downloads is the point, Bandcamp will usually do it better, and you can embed its player on a Squarespace page.
What it does well
- The templates look good out of the box, which is more than most builders can say.
- Hosting, security updates and backups are handled. Nothing breaks at two in the morning that you have to fix.
- The editor is genuinely usable by someone who is not a designer, and the result works on a phone.
- Embeds work. SoundCloud has its own block, and Bandcamp, Spotify and Mixcloud players go in through an embed block.
Where it fights you on music
Squarespace has no idea what a release is. There is no concept of a catalogue number, a release date, a tracklist or the artists on a record, so every release becomes a page or a blog post that you build by hand and keep consistent by hand. With ten releases that is fine. With eighty it is a part-time job.
It matters for search as well as for tidiness. Each release page is a way for someone searching the title or the catalogue number to find you, but only if it exists and says what it is. On Squarespace the title, the description and the links on every one of those pages are yours to write, and the ones you skip are the ones nobody finds.
The native audio block plays one track at a time, with no playlist. Most artists end up embedding SoundCloud or Bandcamp instead, which works but means your player looks like somebody else’s.
A label has the same problem twice. There is no roster that links each artist to their releases, so the connection between a record and the person who made it is something you maintain manually on both pages.
The cost that is not on the invoice
On Squarespace you are the designer. The templates are a starting point, and the distance between a template and a site that looks like you is your evenings. Some people enjoy that and are good at it, and for them Squarespace is the best value there is.
The other cost is recognition. Squarespace templates are used by millions of sites, and people who look at a lot of websites can tell. For a photographer that hardly matters. For an artist whose whole job is to sound and look like nobody else, it is worth thinking about.
Squarespace or a music-specific builder
Bandzoogle is built for musicians and costs less: from 11 US dollars a month billed monthly, with a music player, commission-free sales and a mailing list included. It understands tracks and shows in a way Squarespace does not. Its templates are less refined, and that is the trade.
If the look matters most and the catalogue is small, Squarespace. If the music features matter most and the budget is tight, Bandzoogle.
Who should use it
A solo artist with a modest catalogue, a good eye and a few free evenings should use Squarespace and not pay anyone, including us. It will look good, it will stay online, and you will be able to change it yourself.
It stops being the right tool when the catalogue is large, when there is a roster, or when you would rather spend those evenings making music. That is the point where you are paying in time for something you could pay for in money, and the question becomes which costs you more.
Common questions
- Is Squarespace good for DJs?
- For a DJ with mixes on SoundCloud or Mixcloud, a few dates and a biography, yes. The embeds work well and the templates suit a clean press-kit style site. It becomes awkward once you want every release or every show to have its own properly structured page.
- Can I sell music on Squarespace?
- You can sell downloads and merchandise, with a transaction fee on the Basic plan. Most artists are better off selling music on Bandcamp, which has buyers already browsing it, and embedding the Bandcamp player on their Squarespace site.
- Does Squarespace work for a record label?
- For a small label with a handful of releases, it can. It has no catalogue or roster model, so every release and every artist page is maintained by hand, and that cost grows with every record you put out.
- Can I leave Squarespace later?
- You can take your domain with you, especially if it is registered somewhere other than Squarespace. Moving the content is harder, because export is limited and the design does not move at all. If you expect to outgrow it, keep the domain at a separate registrar from the start.