The best Squarespace alternative: build your site by texting, for 49,90 € a year

Why look for a Squarespace alternative?

Squarespace is a solid product. Polished, clean, professional. But dig a little, and several things start to grate.

The price climbs fast. The actually-useful plan (Core) is $23 a month billed annually — that's $276 a year. For a basic business site. The Basic plan at $16/month ($192/year) is crippled: no analytics, no custom code, and a 2% fee on any sales.

Every Squarespace site looks like every other Squarespace site. The product's strength — its beautifully designed templates — is also its weakness. You spot a Squarespace site in two seconds: the type, the grid, the full-bleed hero photo. It's hard to get something that actually feels like you.

Domain and email are only free for the first year. After that, your domain renews at $20 to $70 a year depending on the extension, and Google Workspace email jumps to $7 to $22 per user, per month. Costs that don't show up in the upfront pitch.

You're locked into their world. Squarespace doesn't let you export your site. The day you want to leave, you start over from scratch.

You still have to learn the editor. Squarespace is simpler than WordPress, sure. But it's still a tool with a logic to figure out: sections, blocks, fluid engine, global styles. You'll spend hours before it looks like anything.

Leopar is the opposite of Squarespace

Where Squarespace drops you into a visual editor, Leopar drops you into a conversation. You describe your project to Claude like you're texting a friend:

"I'm an osteopath in Austin. I want a clean, calming site with my services, my hours, and a button to book online."

And your site goes live. No templates to pick. No blocks to drag around. No editor to learn. Claude — the AI built by Anthropic — gets your world, comes up with a layout that fits your project, picks a typography that makes sense, and builds the whole thing on the spot.

Want to change something later? Same deal: you text Claude from your phone. "Make the top bar quieter." "Add a contact page." "Rewrite my tagline — I want it warmer." The change ships immediately.

The price: 5x cheaper, all in

Squarespace

Basic is $192 a year, but it's crippled. Core, the plan most pros actually need, is $276 a year. Plus is $468. Advanced is $1,188. Domain is free year one, then $20 to $70 a year. Pro email is free year one, then billed separately.

Leopar

49,90 € a year. That's it. For that single price, you get a domain in .fr ou .com registered in your name (not Leopar's), hosting, an SSL certificate, full site creation with Claude, and 100 messages with Claude included to keep your site moving.

The domain stays in your name every year, not just the first one. No upcharge because you added a page. No plan upgrade because you want analytics.

If you need more changes, you can grab packs of 50 extra messages for 9,90 €, no commitment, as many times as you want.

A site that looks like you, not like another Squarespace

This is the most visible difference. Squarespace ships about 200 templates, shared by hundreds of thousands of users. You can pick out a Squarespace site in seconds — the grid, the hero, the type, it's all right there.

Claude doesn't start from a template. Claude starts from your project. Two people describing their work in different ways will get two completely different sites: layout, colors, typography, tone — all of it. It's the opposite of how templates work.

If the first take isn't right, you say so: "more minimal," "warmer," "I'd rather it on a black background." Claude adjusts. It's an actual creative back-and-forth, not a form to fill out.

Everything from your phone

Squarespace is built for desktop. You can open the editor on mobile, but it's clunky: blocks are tiny, menus stretch on forever, drag-and-drop barely works on touch.

Leopar is built for phones. You text Claude from your dashboard the way you'd text a friend. The change ships immediately. From your couch, on the subway, on a coffee break — no laptop, no software.

Your site really is yours

On Squarespace, your site is locked down. You can't export it in any usable format. The day you want to leave, you start over.

On Leopar, it's the opposite. Your domain is registered in your name from day one. Turn on expert mode in your profile and you get FTP access — you can download every HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP file. It's a real website, in plain code, not a proprietary format.

If you decide to leave one day, you walk out with your domain and your site. Nobody's holding them hostage.

How to switch from Squarespace to Leopar

Easier than you'd think. Squarespace doesn't really let you export, but that's not actually a problem here.

You describe your current Squarespace site to Claude — what's on each page, the tone, the sections, your prices, your contact info. You send your photos and copy along the way. Claude builds an equivalent version on your new Leopar domain, in minutes.

The result is often better than the original: faster, lighter, actually shaped around your project (not a template). And it belongs to you.

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Who Leopar is the right alternative for

Leopar is the right alternative to Squarespace if you're:

A freelancer, indie pro, coach, therapist, consultant. You want a real site to show your work, your rates, your contact info. Not a complex online store. Squarespace is overkill for what you actually need — and the price reflects that.

A creator, photographer, artist, writer. You want a portfolio that doesn't look like everyone else's, not yet another site with the same full-bleed hero. Claude starts from your world, not from a template.

Building something — a project, a nonprofit, an event. You want to ship fast, without committing to $300 a year and without burning three evenings learning an editor. You text Claude. It's live.

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