European Alternatives to Squarespace

Looking for a European alternative to Squarespace? Squarespace is a US company hosting your site, your domain and often your shop, and its handling of European requirements — imprint obligations, consent-first cookie banners — is an afterthought aimed at a minority of its customers.

These European builders bundle hosting and domains from providers in Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania and the Czech Republic, with EU compliance built in rather than bolted on.

7 Alternatives
100% GDPR Compliant

7 European Alternatives to Squarespace

Framer

Design-led site builder with a real CMS and global CDN

#2 in AI Website Builders
Netherlands

Hostinger Website Builder

AI site builder bundled with inexpensive European hosting

#2 in Website Builders
Lithuania

Jimdo

German builder with a legal-text generator built in

#3 in AI Website Builders
Germany

IONOS MyWebsite

Builder plus domain and hosting from a large German host

#5 in Cloud Computing
Germany

Webnode

Multilingual sites in minutes, hosting included

#5 in Website Builders
Czech Republic

Webador

Simple builder with a webshop and Dutch-language support

#6 in Website Builders
Netherlands

Mozello

Multilingual builder with a built-in store, no coding

#7 in Website Builders
Latvia

Frequently Asked Questions

Framer is widely considered the best European alternative to Squarespace. Based in Netherlands, it offers design-led site builder with a real CMS and global CDN. Other strong options include Hostinger Website Builder and Jimdo.

Yes. Every provider on this page is established in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, which means GDPR (or its UK and Swiss equivalents) applies to them directly rather than through standard contractual clauses. In practice that gives you an EU-law data processing agreement, EU data residency and a supervisory authority you can actually complain to.

Squarespace is headquartered in New York, New York, so the data it processes falls under US jurisdiction and can be reached through instruments such as the CLOUD Act regardless of which region you select. A European provider keeps processing under EU law, removes the transfer impact assessment from your compliance workload, and keeps the money inside the European technology economy.

This page compares 7 of them, chosen for European establishment, GDPR compliance and genuine feature parity rather than for being merely available in Europe. See our full website builders category for the wider list.

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Three people touch every comparison page: one writes it, a second edits it, and a third checks the compliance and pricing claims against the vendor's own documentation.

Marta Kowalczyk
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Marta Kowalczyk

Senior Analyst, Infrastructure & Developer Tools · Warsaw, Poland

Covers hosting, developer tooling and the practical side of moving workloads to European providers.

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