For coaches, consultants & course creators already running on Kajabi
See What Kajabi Is Really Costing You — Beyond The Monthly Bill
The sticker price was never the expensive part. The blank funnel, the blank email, the hours you fill them in — that's the real invoice. This calculator shows you the whole number.
- ✓Your true monthly spend — base plan plus every add-on you forgot you're paying
- ✓What you're handing freelancers to fill the empty builder
- ✓A true done-for-you cost, side by side, for your revenue stage
The Kajabi Cost Calculator — What You're Actually Paying: your real monthly spend (base + every add-on), what you're outsourcing to freelancers to fill the blank-builder gap, and what a true done-for-you alternative costs, side by side, specific to your revenue stage.
Tell us your stage
Answer a few plain questions about your revenue and what you're currently paying for. No account, no card.
See your real number
The calculator adds up your base plan, the add-ons stacked on top, and the freelancer hours filling the empty builder — the whole invoice, not the sticker.
Compare it, side by side
Line up what you pay today against what a true done-for-you alternative would cost at your stage. No spin, just the math.
Decide with your eyes open
Keep what you have or don't — either way you finally know the real cost of the empty builder. That clarity is the point.
kbdsystems vs. Kajabi — the honest version
Kajabi is a genuinely good course, membership and digital-product platform, and if that's the exact job you need done, it does it well. Most people land here because they wanted an all-in-one to make things simpler — and found they were still the one writing every email and fixing every funnel at 9pm. Here's the fair comparison.
| Kajabi plan | Published allowances | Monthly | Annual /mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| BasicThe cheapest tier shown on their pricing cards. | Products: 5 · Contacts: 2,500 · Websites: 1 · Communities: 1 · Admin users: 2 · Marketing emails: Unlimited · Funnels: Unlimited · AI credits: 0 | $179 | $143 |
| GrowthThe tier their page marks as the common choice. | Products: 50 · Contacts: 25,000 · Websites: 1 · Communities: 1 · Admin users: 11 · Marketing emails: Unlimited · Funnels: Unlimited · AI credits: 500 | $249 | $199 |
| ProAdds the branded mobile app and API access. | Products: Unlimited · Contacts: 100,000 · Websites: 3 · Communities: 3 · Admin users: 26 · Marketing emails: Unlimited · Funnels: Unlimited · AI credits: 1,000 | $499 | $399 |
Prices read from kajabi.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. A “—” means Kajabipublishes no figure — we don’t estimate. Billed on top: A payment-provider fee on your sales if you do not use Kajabi Payments — 5% on Starter, 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth, 0.5% on Pro, on top of that processor's own fee (PayPal excepted); Kajabi Payments card processing, US entities: 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, 2.8% + $0.30 on Growth, 2.7% + $0.30 on Pro; Capacity, bought in increments: +5,000 contacts $25/mo, +10 products $50/mo, +1 website $49/mo, +1 admin user $5/mo, +500 AI credits $15/mo; Branded mobile app with community, $199/mo, on any plan below Pro. Transaction fees: 0% if you take payment through Kajabi Payments. 0.5%–5% of your sales, by plan, if you use another processor.
Where Kajabi is genuinely better
- Kajabi is built for course, community and membership delivery — that's what it was made for, and it shows in the product experience.
- Marketing emails, funnels and landing pages are unlimited on every Kajabi plan, including the cheapest, with no send cap anywhere.
- Its entry tier isn't gutted — advanced automations, affiliate programs, a custom domain and branding removal are included from the bottom plan up.
- It has real owned payments infrastructure with processing rates that improve as you move up plans.
- Capacity is elastic — you can buy small increments of contacts instead of jumping a whole tier.
Where kbdsystems wins
- Kajabi hands you the builders empty; kbdsystems ships the plays already wired in, so a funnel or email starts written, not blank.
- It's done-for-you: the system drafts your next move and you approve it — versus a platform where you're still the strategist and the labor.
- Everything comes out in your captured voice, so you're not rewriting freelancer copy that doesn't sound like you.
- One price covers the work; you're not stacking add-ons, AI credits and freelancer hours on top of the base plan to actually get anything shipped.
- The problem it solves is your evenings back — not just where your content lives, but who has to write it.
If you mainly need a beautiful place to host and sell courses and you're happy doing the marketing yourself, Kajabi is a strong choice. If you're tired of being the one who fills every blank field at midnight, that's the exact seam kbdsystems was built for. Run the calculator, see both numbers, and decide with your eyes open.
The bill was never the expensive part
You signed up for an all-in-one platform to make things simpler. Then came the contacts add-on, the extra product slots, the AI credits, the freelancer to write the emails it left blank. The sticker price is the smallest line on the invoice.
Every builder ships empty — and hands the work back to you
A funnel builder gives you a blank funnel. An email tool gives you a blank email. Twenty tools in one login still leaves you with a blinking cursor at 9pm. The tools were never the hard part; filling them was.
What your evenings are actually worth
Count the hours you pour into the marketing you never wanted to run — the Tuesday nights, the lost Sundays. Those hours are finite and they don't come back. This calculator puts a real number on the trade you've been making.
You built a business to get more life — not less
Every business runs on fuel, and most experts have been burning their own evenings and weekends as that fuel. Those hours are finite; they run out. Your passion for the work doesn't — so your business should run on the thing that renews you, not the hours you never get back.
Here's what a lean owner actually pays every month to keep the lights on — before a single blank field gets filled.
| What you’re paying for today | Like | Typical /mo |
|---|---|---|
| All-in-one course & marketing platform | Kajabi, Kartra | $179 |
| Email marketing & automation | ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit | $49 |
| Funnel & landing page builder | ClickFunnels, Leadpages | $97 |
| Scheduling & booking | Calendly, Acuity | $15 |
| Design & creative | Canva Pro | $15 |
| Webinar & live delivery | Zoom, WebinarJam | $20 |
| Automation glue between tools | Zapier, Make | $29 |
| Freelance copy & content help | Upwork, Fiverr writers | $300 |
| Virtual assistant hours | part-time VA at market rate | $260 |
| The tools alone | $964/mo |
And the tools still hand you the work
Every one of those subscriptions ships empty. You're still the one writing the emails, fixing the funnel, and chasing the launch — 15 to 20 hours a week that used to belong to your craft and the people you love. At even a modest value on your time, that's the biggest line on the invoice, and it never shows up on a bill.
Or pay a human to run it all
The other option is hiring it out. A freelancer or agency to actually operate this machinery runs $500 to $2,000 a month — and they still need onboarding calls and Loom videos, and still never quite sound like you. You pay for it twice: in dollars, and in the parts of your voice that get lost.
Tools you fill yourself. Hours you don't get back. A retainer that never sounds like you. kbdsystems replaces all three — done for you, in your voice.
Why the empty builder was always the real cost
The difference isn't the software — it's that ours never ships blank
Every platform in this category sells you a 'done-for-you' system and then hands you empty rooms to furnish. We built the opposite: a system that already knows what a funnel has to say and what an email has to do, because the plays are wired in and the words come out in your voice.
They hand you twenty tools and a blinking cursor — and the blinking cursor was always the job.
The proven plays, already wired in
The specific jobs — landing page, sales page, email, launch, webinar registration, follow-up, first leads — aren't blank fields waiting on your strategy. The structure that's run real launches is built into each one, so nothing starts from a guess.
17 battle-tested plays wired in, distilled from 250 source documents.
Your voice and your customer, captured once
Before anything is written, the system already holds who you are, who you serve, how you talk, and where the lines are. So what comes out sounds like you wrote it — not like software filled a template.
Your own brand profile and a deeper messaging layer, roughly 33k characters of your voice, guiding every draft.
The whole library, pulled in at the moment of writing
When it drafts your next move, it doesn't lean on a generic prompt. The exact passages relevant to that specific task are pulled and fed in, so every asset is informed by the entire library, every single time.
2,256 retrievable passages, searched fresh for each task.
They sell you the tools. We bring the plays — and fill the blank page for you.
We're pre-launch, and we'd rather say so
There's no wall of testimonials here, no five-star screenshots, no named customers raving. That's because we haven't launched yet — and we won't dress up a guess to look like proof. This whole page is built on the one thing we can stand behind honestly: the math, the published prices, and a system that fills the blank page instead of handing it back. Founding members get in before the proof wall exists, at the lowest price we'll ever offer, locked for life — that's the trade for believing the honest version first.
See your real number — then decide
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