Alternatives
Squarespace video hosting alternative.
Keep the website. Move the films.
Squarespace makes beautiful websites, and its plans now include video hosting. But the video allowance is counted in minutes and hours by plan, and selling memberships or digital content carries a fee below the top plan. For a filmmaker whose site is mostly films, a dedicated platform alongside Squarespace often costs less and shows the work better.
Video hosting for filmmakers · 5 GB free · Paid plans from USD 9/month
By uncompressed.io · Updated October 2026
Short answer
What is a good alternative to Squarespace video hosting for filmmakers?
Keep the Squarespace website and move the films to a dedicated video platform. Squarespace caps video at 30 minutes, 5 hours or 50 hours below its Advanced plan and charges 7% to 1% on memberships and digital content below Advanced. uncompressed.io hosts films as exported and sells them with 0% commission from a shop you link from your site.
- Squarespace video: 30 minutes to 50 hours below Advanced
- Squarespace fee on memberships: 7% to 0% by plan
- uncompressed.io: storage by plan, 0% commission
- Films stream as exported, with no re-encode
- Shop on your own domain or subdomain
- Optional Leak Shield, USD 99 a month or USD 1,188 a year
Squarespace video
The limits by plan
read from squarespace.com/pricing
Squarespace describes its video feature as: upload video, display your video library and let visitors stream directly on your site. The allowance is measured in running time, not gigabytes.
30 min
video on Basic
7% fee on digital content and memberships
5 hours
video on Core
5% fee on digital content and memberships
50 hours
video on Plus
1% fee on digital content and memberships
Unlimited
video on Advanced
0% fee on digital content and memberships
Side by side
Squarespace and uncompressed.io
for a filmmaker's site
Squarespace figures from squarespace.com/pricing, read 12 October 2026, displayed in CA$. The streaming platform is included with every paid plan for members who switch it on before 31 December 2026, and stays included for them afterwards; after that date new activations add USD 39 a month.
Keep both
The money
Fees versus a flat plan
when members pay to watch
On Core, Squarespace keeps 5% of digital content and membership sales; on Basic, 7%. Moving to Advanced removes the fee but raises the plan.
Move the films if
Your site exists mainly to show and sell films, you need more than a few hours of video, you sell memberships or rentals, or you care how a graded film looks.
Stay on Squarespace video if
You show a reel, trailers and a few short clips, sell nothing per view, and want one tool for everything.
What the films get on uncompressed.io
Read from the live price list. Verified 2026-10.
| Commission on sales | 0 percent, at any volume. Buyers pay into your own payment account; your card processor's fee applies. |
|---|---|
| What you can sell | Purchases (stream forever), downloads, rentals with a viewing window, memberships with monthly or yearly tiers, bundles and series. |
| Member tools | Free trials per tier, coupon codes, gift memberships, refunds and free access from your earnings page. |
| Your storefront | A shop under your name at yourname.uncompressed.io/on-demand, or on your own domain. Buyers need no account. |
| Picture quality | Films stream as you exported them: no re-encode of video or audio, with an optional lighter copy for slow connections. |
| Viewing hours included | Lite 1,000, Pro 5,000, Max 15,000, Studio 25,000 hours a month, then USD 29 per extra 20,000-hour block. Playback never pauses. |
| Plans | Starter free (5 GB, one film at a time); Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month; yearly is one month free. |
| Leak Shield (optional) | Every buyer gets their own invisibly marked copy; the open web and torrent indexes are searched; a confirmed leak names and blocks the buyer and sends the takedown. USD 99 a month or USD 1,188 a year, any paid plan. |
| Inclusion window | The streaming platform is included with every paid plan for members who switch it on before 31 December 2026, and stays included for them afterwards; after that date new activations add USD 39 a month. |
Plans and add-ons: pricing. The whole cluster starts at the creator platform guide.
Setting it up
How to switch
next to your Squarespace site
Upload your films
Upload the graded exports. They are stored and streamed as exported.
Price them
Purchase, rental and download prices, and membership tiers that open collections.
Point a subdomain
Put the shop on watch.yourdomain.com, or use yourname.uncompressed.io/on-demand.
Link from Squarespace
Add a Watch link to your Squarespace menu and remove the large video blocks.
Questions
Frequently asked
How much video can you host on Squarespace?
Squarespace's pricing page, read 12 October 2026, lists video hosting and storage of 30 minutes on Basic, 5 hours on Core, 50 hours on Plus and unlimited on Advanced.
Does Squarespace take a fee on memberships and digital content?
Yes, below Advanced. The pricing page lists a digital content and memberships fee of 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus and 0% on Advanced.
How much does Squarespace cost?
Read from Canada on 12 October 2026, Squarespace showed Basic at CA$30, Core CA$45, Plus CA$59 and Advanced CA$139 a month with monthly billing, or CA$21, CA$32, CA$46 and CA$109 a month billed yearly. Prices shown depend on your country.
What is the best Squarespace video hosting alternative for filmmakers?
A video platform that sells the films, linked from your Squarespace site. uncompressed.io stores and streams films as exported, sells purchases, rentals and memberships with 0% commission, and can run on your own domain or subdomain, so the website stays on Squarespace.
Can I embed uncompressed.io video on Squarespace?
For free showcase films, yes, with an embed. For films you sell, the film is locked everywhere except to buyers, so you link from Squarespace to your shop at yourname.uncompressed.io/on-demand or a subdomain such as watch.yourname.com.
When is Squarespace video enough?
When you show a few short clips, a reel or a trailer on a site that is mostly pages, shop items or a portfolio. The included minutes cover that, and one tool is simpler than two.
Keep Squarespace for the site. Sell the films here.
Hosting, a shop and memberships come with every paid plan (Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month), with no commission. Start free with 5 GB.
Sources
- 1.Squarespace pricing (read 12 October 2026, prices displayed in CA$)