Wix · WordPress · Squarespace vs Professional Website

DIY builders let you build a website.
They don't help anyone find it — or pay for it once.

Wix charges ₹10,800–42,000 per year. Squarespace charges ₹18,000–48,000 per year. WordPress needs a developer. A professionally built website from LiveSite24 costs ₹9,999 one-time — live in 72 hours, SEO included.

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What Wix, WordPress & Squarespace actually cost in India

The monthly fee is only the start. Here is the full picture.

⚠️ Wix
Monthly cost
₹900–3,500 / month
Year 1 total
₹10,800–42,000 / year
3-year total
₹32,400–1,26,000
Build time (your hours)
20–40 hrs of your time
SEO included?
Basic — no local schema
You pay every month and still have to build it yourself. The "free" plan shows Wix ads on your URL.
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⚠️ WordPress
Monthly cost
₹1,250–6,700 (hosting + plugins) / month
Year 1 total
₹15,000–80,000 (incl. developer) / year
3-year total
₹45,000–2,40,000+
Build time (your hours)
30–50 hrs + developer needed
SEO included?
Good — if configured correctly
Powerful but complex. You need a developer for setup, updates, security patches. It costs more — not less.
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⚠️ Squarespace
Monthly cost
₹1,500–4,000 / month
Year 1 total
₹18,000–48,000 / year
3-year total
₹54,000–1,44,000
Build time (your hours)
15–30 hrs of your time
SEO included?
Limited — no local schema
The most expensive per-month option. Beautiful templates but still a DIY tool — you build and pay forever.
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✅ LiveSite24 Professional Website
One-time cost
₹9,999 — no monthly builder fee
Year 1 total
₹15,499 (incl. 9 months hosting)
3-year total
₹27,499 — then ₹6,000/yr only
Build time (your hours)
Zero — we build it for you
SEO included?
Full local SEO + schema markup
Professional, SEO-ready, mobile-optimised website delivered in 72 hours. Fill a brief — we handle everything else.

⏰ The DIY tax: every hour building your website is an hour not running your business.

A typical Wix or Squarespace site takes 20–40 hours for a non-technical business owner to set up properly. WordPress takes even longer — often requiring a developer to get right. And at the end of all that time, you still don't have the local SEO configuration, schema markup, or conversion structure that makes Google find you and visitors contact you. Compare that to 72 hours to a complete, live, optimised site — without touching a single setting yourself.

Everything DIY makes you figure out yourself:

→ Choose and pay for a plan
→ Pick a template that fits
→ Write all your own copy
→ Source and resize photos
→ Set up contact forms
→ Configure SEO settings
→ Add schema markup
→ Submit to Google Search Console
→ Connect Google Analytics
→ Buy and connect your domain
→ Set up hosting / DNS
→ Handle security & plugin updates

With LiveSite24: you fill a brief, we handle everything above. Done in 72 hours.

Side-by-side comparison

The honest table most website builders don't want you to see.

Feature
Wix
WordPress
Squarespace
LiveSite24
Live in 72 hours?
✗
✗
✗
✓ Guaranteed
You do the building?
✓ You do it
✓ You do it
✓ You do it
✗ We do it
Monthly fee?
₹900–3,500/mo
₹1,000+ /mo
₹1,500–4,000/mo
₹500/mo hosting only
Local SEO included?
⚠ Basic only
⚠ Plugins needed
⚠ Basic only
✓ Full local SEO
Schema markup?
✗ None
⚠ Plugin needed
✗ None
✓ Built-in
Mobile optimised?
⚠ Template varies
⚠ Theme-dependent
✓ Mostly yes
✓ Always
Money-back guarantee?
✗
✗
✗
✓ 100% refund
No ads on free plan?
✗ Wix ads shown
✗ WP.com ads
✗ No free plan
✓ Your brand only
Support on setup?
✗ Self-serve
✗ Community forums
⚠ Email only
✓ We handle setup

Three things all DIY website builders consistently fail at

It's not about how it looks. It's about what happens after you publish.

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Getting found on Google

Wix, WordPress and Squarespace give you a website. They don't do your local SEO. Most DIY sites launch without meta descriptions, no LocalBusiness schema, no Google Search Console setup, and no keyword-optimised content. The result: a site that exists but doesn't rank. You get the monthly bill but no Google traffic.

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Surviving when you get busy

Most business owners build their site, feel proud, and then stop touching it. Six months later: outdated content, broken links, plugins not updated, unresponded forms. A website that dies when you get busy is not an asset — it's a liability. Professional websites are maintained without your involvement.

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Converting visitors into leads

DIY tools optimise for the builder's experience — drag and drop, visual editing. They don't optimise for the visitor's decision to contact you. Professional websites are built with conversion in mind: clear service descriptions, trust signals above the fold, one prominent CTA, social proof near the contact form. The difference can be 3–5× more enquiries from the same traffic.

Frequently asked questions

From business owners who considered Wix, WordPress or Squarespace.

How much does Wix cost in India per year?+
Wix's free plan shows Wix ads and gives you a URL like yourname.wixsite.com — not a real business domain. The paid plans cost ₹900–3,500 per month, which adds up to ₹10,800–42,000 per year, every year. A LiveSite24 website costs ₹9,999 one-time, plus ₹500/month hosting after the first 3 free months — meaning your first year total is around ₹15,499 for a professionally built site. From year 2 onwards you only pay ₹6,000/year hosting. Wix users pay the monthly fee forever and do all the building themselves.
Is WordPress free in India?+
WordPress.org (self-hosted) software is free, but you still need: a hosting account (₹3,000–8,000/year), a domain (₹800–1,200/year), a premium theme (₹3,000–8,000 one-time), SEO plugins, security plugins, contact form plugins, and a developer to set it all up correctly (₹10,000–40,000+). The real cost of a properly built WordPress site in India ranges from ₹20,000 to ₹60,000 — plus ongoing maintenance. WordPress.com (the hosted version) starts from ₹380/month with very limited features. A LiveSite24 website gives you a complete, SEO-ready site for ₹9,999 with zero setup overhead.
How much does Squarespace cost in India per year?+
Squarespace plans in India cost approximately ₹1,500–4,000 per month depending on the plan — that is ₹18,000–48,000 per year, every year. You also do all the building yourself, which takes 20–40 hours of your own time. A LiveSite24 website costs ₹9,999 one-time — we build it for you in 72 hours with SEO, mobile design, and hosting included. Over 3 years, Squarespace costs ₹54,000–144,000. A LiveSite24 site costs ₹27,499 total (₹9,999 + 30 months of ₹500 hosting).
Can't I just build my own website on Wix or Squarespace?+
You can — but the real question is whether you should. The average business owner spends 20–40 hours building a DIY site. At your hourly rate, that time is expensive. The output is usually a site that looks okay but has no local SEO, no schema markup, and poor conversion structure. LiveSite24 delivers a professionally built, SEO-configured site in 72 hours. The time you save and the better leads it generates make the price difference disappear within the first month.
What about WordPress — isn't that what professionals use?+
WordPress.org (self-hosted) is powerful but requires: hosting setup, domain configuration, WordPress installation, a paid theme, multiple plugins for SEO, security, forms and speed. For a non-technical user this is a 30–50 hour project with ongoing maintenance every month. Professional WordPress development costs ₹30,000–80,000+ in India. That is more than a LiveSite24 site, not less — and you still don't have 72-hour delivery or a money-back guarantee.
I've already started building on Wix. Should I abandon it?+
If it has been more than 2 months and it is still not live — yes. An unfinished website is not an asset. A live, professionally built, SEO-configured website that starts sending you enquiries is. The hours already spent are gone regardless. If your DIY site is genuinely live and driving Google traffic, keep it. But if you are still tweaking it on weekends with no traffic, the cost of continuing to do it yourself is already higher than having us build it from scratch.
What if I want to update my website myself after it's built?+
All LiveSite24 websites allow straightforward text and image updates without any technical knowledge — you can change phone numbers, update pricing, add new services, and swap photos. For larger changes, our maintenance plan handles everything. You are not locked in — but you will not need to log into a drag-and-drop editor at midnight either.
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