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A Squarespace alternative for artists

Situ.art is a Squarespace alternative for artists who don’t want to build a website: upload a photo of a work and its size, and it’s on your website, with framed images, in-room shots, installation shots and a walk-through video made automatically.

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It’s built the moment you open it, from the works you’ve uploaded, or from two sample paintings until you upload your own. No account needed to look.

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Price: £9 a month, or £7.50 a month billed yearly. Build and preview it free.
Each work: Upload a photo of a work and its size, and it’s on your website, with framed images, in-room shots, installation shots and a walk-through video made automatically. No pages to build.
Details: Title, year, medium, size in cm and inches, framed size, signed, Available or Sold.
Enquiries: Inquire on every work emails you. Your address stays private.
Address: situ.art/en/yourname. No own domain.
AI crawlers: AI training crawlers are told to stay out. Search engines still read it.
Included: 20 AI images and 2 AI videos a month, room mockups of up to 30 works, unlimited downloads.
Works in: Any browser, on a phone or a computer.

Situ.art and Squarespace compared

Squarespace is a general website builder: four plans from $19 a month billed yearly ($25 monthly), designer templates, a store, a blog and paid email campaigns. Its portfolio pages hold projects you build from images and text, and its app can’t edit them. Situ.art is made for artists: upload a photo of a work and its size, and it’s on your website, with framed images, in-room shots, installation shots and a walk-through video made automatically.

Prices and features checked 21 October 2026, as published on Squarespace’s own site, in the currency it showed us.

At a glance

	Squarespace	Situ.art
What it is	A general website builder for businesses, with templates for portfolios.	An artist’s website made from the works already in your Situ.art library. Each work is shown whole, then in a room at its true size, with a person for scale and a walk-through video.
Price to start	Basic $19 a month billed yearly ($228), or $25 monthly. Core $29, Plus $49 and Advanced $99 a month billed yearly.	£9 a month on the Artist plan, or £7.50 a month billed yearly (£90). Room mockups, AI images and videos are included.
Free plan	None. A 14-day trial, during which the site stays private.	Build and preview it free, without an account. Making it public needs the Artist plan.
Setting it up	Choose a template, then build your pages, portfolio projects and galleries. Its AI builder works on a computer only.	Nothing to design. Add your name, one line about you and an About; every work you upload appears on it.
How many works	Up to 60 projects on a portfolio page, and 250 images in a gallery section.	Up to 30 on Artist; as many as you like on Pro (£29 a month).
Your work in a room	Not built in: galleries show the photos you upload.	Every work hangs at its true size in a room, with a person in view for scale, plus a walk-through video in a gallery. Made for you, from the work’s size.
Details with each work	A title and a caption per image. No fields for medium, size, year or sold.	Title, year, medium, size in cm and inches, framed size, signed, and Available or Sold.
Your own domain	Yes. Free for the first year on annual billing.	No. Your website is at situ.art/en/yourname.
Selling	On every plan. Basic adds a 2% transaction fee on store sales.	No shop or checkout. Each work can be marked Available or Sold.
Contact	Contact forms, and Email Campaigns as a paid add-on.	Inquire on every work emails you, with your address kept private. Plus your link on every page: your own site, Instagram or email.
AI training crawlers	A setting, “Block known artificial intelligence crawlers”, that is off until you switch it on.	Kept out, with nothing to switch on: AI training crawlers are told not to read your pages. Search engines still can.
Editing on a phone	In its app, “you can’t add new portfolio pages or edit projects”, or add and rearrange blocks.	Yes. All of it is edited in the browser, on a phone as on a computer.
Made for	Businesses and creative professionals of every kind.	Artists who want a site that looks like a gallery’s and keeps itself up to date.

Features

	Squarespace	Situ.art
Upload a work and it’s on your website	✗	✓
Every work in a room at its true size	✗	✓
A person in view for scale	✗	✓
A walk-through video, made for you	✗	✓
Fields for medium, size and sold	✗	✓
AI training crawlers kept out by default	✗	✓
Room mockups and AI images included	✗	✓
Edit it all on a phone	✗	✓
A free plan with a public site	✗	✗
Your own domain	✓	✗
Online shop and checkout	✓	✗
Blog	✓	✗
Email newsletter	✓	✗

✓ yes · ✗ no · – not stated on their site

Where Squarespace is stronger

Everything in one place: a store, a blog, bookings, member areas and email campaigns.
Your own domain, free for the first year on annual billing.
Designer templates and full control of every page.
Email support around the clock, and live chat on weekdays.

Where Situ.art is stronger

Nothing to design. Upload a photo of a work and its size, and it’s on your website. On Squarespace you build every page and project yourself.
Every work in a room at its true size, beside a person for scale and in a walk-through video, made for you from the size you entered. Squarespace’s galleries show the photos you upload.
The details buyers look for, in a gallery’s order: title, year, medium, size in cm and inches, framed size, signed, and Available or Sold. Squarespace gives each image a title and a caption.
AI training crawlers are kept out from the start. Squarespace’s blocking setting is off until you switch it on.
Edit all of it on your phone, in the browser. Squarespace’s app can’t edit portfolio projects.
Less to pay: £9 a month with room mockups, 20 AI images and 2 AI videos included, against $19 a month billed yearly for Squarespace Basic.
Inquire on every work: a buyer’s message comes straight to your email, and your address stays private.

Which should you choose?

Choose Squarespace if you want one site for a shop, a blog, bookings and newsletters, on your own domain, and are happy to build it. Choose Situ.art if what you need is your work shown as a gallery shows it, each piece in a room at its true size, on a site that keeps itself up to date.

Questions

Is Squarespace good for artists?: It’s a good general builder if you want a shop, a blog and your own domain, and have time to design the pages. It doesn’t show your work in a room or at its size, its portfolio projects are built by hand, and its app can’t edit them. A Situ.art website does all three for you.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Squarespace for artists?: Situ.art is £9 a month, or £7.50 billed yearly, against $19 a month billed yearly for Squarespace Basic. It has no shop or own domain; it does show every work in a room at its true size, and room mockups come with it.
Can’t I add ArtPlacer to my Squarespace or Wix site?: You can. ArtPlacer’s website widget is an add-on on its Standard and Plus plans and included from Professional ($40 a month billed yearly, $45 monthly), on top of what you pay for the site. Each room view is one you set up, and its videos come from credits, 4 a month on Professional. They’re made by an AI model, which redraws every frame, so the painting can change. A Situ.art website already shows every work in a room at its true size, with a walk-through video for every work and no credits; it’s drawn from your upload, so the work itself is never changed.
Do I need photos of my work in rooms?: No. Upload a straight photo of the work and its size, and Situ.art hangs it in a room at that size, beside a person for scale, and walks a camera past it in a gallery. The work itself is never changed.
Can I use my own domain?: Not yet. Your website is at situ.art/en/yourname. Put that link in your Instagram bio, your email signature or your own domain’s homepage.
Does it keep AI crawlers off my work?: Yes, with nothing to switch on. Your pages tell AI training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot and others) to stay out, while search engines, and the assistants that search for people, can still find you.
How much does a Situ.art website cost?: £9 a month on the Artist plan, or £90 a year (£7.50 a month). The same plan makes your room mockups: 20 AI images and 2 AI videos a month, up to 30 works, and unlimited downloads. You can build and preview the website free first.

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Sources

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