For the coach, consultant or founder who chose Systeme.io because it was free — and is still doing all the work themselves

See What The Free Plan Actually Costs Once It's Doing Real Work

Add the automations, the pages, the sequences, the course hosting and the contacts you actually need — then watch "free" turn into a monthly number nobody quoted you.

  • The real monthly figure once one automation rule isn't enough
  • What each add-on quietly stacks on top
  • Empty tool vs. a system that ships already knowing what to say

The Systeme.io Cost Calculator: What You're Actually Paying — the real monthly cost once you add the automations, converting landing pages, email sequences, course hosting and contacts the free tier leaves out, side by side with what you thought you were paying.

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1 rulewhat the free tier gives you before real automation begins
Blankwhat every all-in-one tool hands you on day one
15–20 hrs/wkwhat the average owner still runs by hand — the market's own figure
Add-on by add-onhow a $0 plan becomes a monthly bill

Systeme.io vs. KBD — honestly

Systeme.io is an all-in-one funnel, email and course platform with a genuinely free tier — not a trial, a real free plan. If you want one cheap login and you're happy to build everything yourself, it's one of the most honest deals in the category. The question this calculator answers is what it costs once you need it to do real work, and who's doing that work.

Systeme.io planPublished allowancesMonthlyAnnual /mo
FreeNot a trial. A permanently free plan with real limits.Contacts: 2,000 · Emails sent: Unlimited · Sales funnels: 3 · Funnel steps: 15 · Courses: 1 · Students: 500 · Automation rules: 1 · Workflows: 1 · Custom domains: 1 · Websites: 1 · Sub-accounts: Unlimited · Transaction fee: 0%$0$0
StartupThe first paid step up.Contacts: 5,000 · Emails sent: Unlimited · Sales funnels: 10 · Funnel steps: 50 · Courses: 5 · Students: Unlimited · Automation rules: 10 · Workflows: 5 · Custom domains: 3 · Websites: 5 · Transaction fee: 0%$17
WebinarAdds evergreen webinars.Contacts: 10,000 · Emails sent: Unlimited · Sales funnels: 50 · Funnel steps: 300 · Courses: 20 · Automation rules: 100 · Workflows: 20 · Evergreen webinars: 10 · Custom domains: 10 · Websites: 20 · Transaction fee: 0%$47
UnlimitedEverything uncapped.Contacts: Unlimited · Emails sent: Unlimited · Sales funnels: Unlimited · Courses: Unlimited · Automation rules: Unlimited · Workflows: Unlimited · Custom domains: Unlimited · Websites: Unlimited · Transaction fee: 0%$97

Prices read from systeme.io/pricing on 6 August 2026. A “—” means Systeme.iopublishes no figure — we don’t estimate. Transaction fees: 0% on every plan, including the free one.

Where Systeme.io is genuinely better

  • A permanently free plan that is not a trial — real contacts, funnels, a course and unlimited email sending at no cost (see their live pricing).
  • Unlimited emails sent on every single tier, including the free one — almost nobody else in this set does that.
  • 0% transaction fees on your sales at every tier, free plan included.
  • Unlimited sub-accounts on every plan, which is unusual generosity at this price.
  • Its top tier removes every cap for a sticker several rivals charge just to get in the door.

Where kbdsystems wins

  • Systeme.io ships empty — blank funnels, blank sequences, blank pages. KBD ships loaded: it captures your voice and offer once and writes the actual assets.
  • Their free tier stops you at one automation rule; KBD runs the whole follow-up that fires off what people actually do, done for you.
  • Done-FOR-you, not done-with-you — you approve the work instead of being the strategist, the copywriter and the builder.
  • One system running the whole business — attracting, selling, delivering, getting paid, keeping people — not a toolbox you assemble department by department.
  • A knowledge layer keeps every word grounded in your business, so what ships sounds like you, not a template.

If you want the cheapest possible box and you enjoy building inside it, pick Systeme.io — it's a genuinely fair deal. If you're tired of being the one who fills the empty box every night, that's the gap KBD is built for. Run the calculator first; the number decides more than the sticker does.

The free plan was never the problem. The empty box was.

You didn't switch away because the sticker was too high — it was zero. You switched because zero doesn't write your emails, doesn't know your offer, and can't run a second automation. The calculator shows you what that box costs the moment you ask it to actually do the work.

The free plan was never the problem. The empty box was.

One automation rule kills the experiment before it starts.

The whole point of automation is the second rule, and the third — the follow-up that fires off what someone actually did. When the free tier stops at one, you go back to doing it by hand. That's the real cost, and it doesn't show up on the pricing page.

One automation rule kills the experiment before it starts.

KBD ships loaded — it arrives already knowing what to say.

Instead of a blank page and a builder, KBD captures how you talk and what you sell once, then runs the whole business from it: the content, the pages, the follow-up, the checkout, the delivery. You approve the work; you don't build it. The growth runs on your passion, not your evenings.

KBD ships loaded — it arrives already knowing what to say.

There's no wall of testimonials here. That's on purpose.

KBD is pre-launch. We haven't shipped it to a single paying customer yet, so we're not going to paste quotes or star ratings we don't have. What we can show you honestly today is the calculator and the plain math behind it. If you want in before the proof wall exists, there's an early-access link for people willing to hand over a real business and give feedback — everyone else can just leave an email and hear from us the day it opens.

See the real number. Then decide.

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Questions people ask about Systeme.io

How much does Systeme.io cost?

Read off systeme.io/pricing on 6 August 2026: Free is $0/month, or $0/month billed annually, or $0 for the year. Startup is $17/month. Webinar is $47/month. Unlimited is $97/month. There is a free plan. No free trial is published.

Does Systeme.io charge fees on top of the subscription?

Their pricing page, read on 6 August 2026, states nothing is billed on top of the plan. On transaction fees: 0% on every plan, including the free one.

What does Systeme.io do well?

A free plan that is not a trial: 2,000 contacts, three funnels, a course and unlimited email sending, permanently. Unlimited emails sent on every plan, free tier included. Almost nobody else in this set does that. 0% on your sales at every tier. Unlimited sub-accounts on every plan, free tier included. $97/mo removes every cap in the product — the same sticker several rivals charge for their entry tier. That is from their own pricing and product pages, read on 6 August 2026.

Where does Systeme.io fall short for a small business owner?

The builder and the templates are plainer than ClickFunnels' or Kajabi's, and it is not pretending otherwise. One automation rule and one workflow on the free plan, so real behavioural automation starts at $17. Fewer native integrations and a much smaller ecosystem of people who already know it. It is the clearest example in this set of the thing these pages are about: extremely capable, and completely empty on day one. That is our reading of their published plans and limits as of 6 August 2026 — check systeme.io/pricing before you decide anything on it.

What's a cheaper alternative to Systeme.io?

Systeme.io's lowest published tier is $0/month, read off systeme.io/pricing on 6 August 2026. No platform priced on this site publishes a lower entry tier. Read that carefully before switching on price alone: the entry tier is not the bill. Systeme.io's pricing page states nothing is billed on top of the plan. On transaction fees: 0% on every plan, including the free one. Several of the cheaper options above charge a percentage of your sales or per-message usage instead, and every one of those is listed per vendor, in their own words, at /data/platform-pricing — all of it read on 6 August 2026. The alternative this page is about is KBD Systems, which is priced at /pricing; the difference it is arguing is not the monthly figure but what you still have to do yourself after you have paid it.

Is Systeme.io worth it?

That depends on who is going to run it, and their own pages make it answerable. Systeme.io is an all-in-one funnel, email, course and affiliate platform with a genuinely usable free tier, sold to solo operators and small businesses who want one cheap login for everything. What it genuinely does better: A free plan that is not a trial: 2,000 contacts, three funnels, a course and unlimited email sending, permanently. Unlimited emails sent on every plan, free tier included. Almost nobody else in this set does that. Where it is hardest on a small business owner running it alone: The builder and the templates are plainer than ClickFunnels' or Kajabi's, and it is not pretending otherwise. One automation rule and one workflow on the free plan, so real behavioural automation starts at $17. Its lowest published tier is $0/month. There is a free plan, so this is testable before it is decided. That is our reading of their published plans, limits and product pages as of 6 August 2026, not a rating — we publish no scores, and you should check systeme.io/pricing yourself before deciding anything on the strength of ours.