For the coach or consultant weighing up Kajabi right now
The pages, emails and launches — already written from your own business
Kajabi hands you the builder and the blank page. See the one question that tells you whether a platform runs your business or just waits for you to.
- ✓What arrives already written vs. what you still have to write
- ✓The blank-page work no platform tour ever mentions
- ✓One bill vs. the stack that quietly grows
The Platform Comparison Checklist: What Actually Gets Built For You — see exactly what you're operating vs. what's operating for you, and the one question that separates a platform you have to run from one that runs the business.
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You capture your business once
Who you serve, what you sell, how you actually talk — the things only you know. This is the fuel everything runs on, given one time instead of typed into a blank field every week.
It writes the whole thing from that
Landing pages, the emails in your voice, the follow-up, the offer, the launch built out end to end — assembled from proven plays and grounded in your business, not dropped in your lap as empty templates.
You approve, it ships
The next move is already drafted when you open the laptop. You read it, you approve it, it goes out. That's the whole interaction — you make the decision, not the labour.
The laptop closes at a normal hour
The business keeps finding people, selling, delivering and getting paid while you're at the dinner table. It grows on your passion and a proven formula — not on the evenings you don't get back.
Kajabi and KBD, for the person deciding between them today
Kajabi is a course, membership and digital-product platform with marketing, email and checkout arranged around it. It sells courses well — that's what it was built to do. What it leaves you holding is the writing: the funnel is a builder, the email is a blank field, and the words that decide whether any of it works are still yours to produce, every week, alone.
| 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.
What KBD Systems does that Kajabi doesn’t
- KBD arrives already written from your own business — its plays, your stored voice and offer, and finished pages, emails and launches — instead of an empty builder waiting for you to fill it in.
- It's done FOR you: you approve the next move, you don't build it — where a builder is done WITH you, meaning it's still your hours doing the work.
- KBD runs the whole business between a stranger and a paying customer and everything after — attracting, selling, delivering, getting paid, keeping them — not one department bolted to a course platform.
- Every word stays grounded in your business through a knowledge layer, so the email sounds like you and the offer is yours — not a template that reads like everyone else's.
- One system carries the writing, the follow-up, the launch and the delivery together, instead of you being the strategist and the labour across a set of tools.
- The follow-up fires off what people actually do, assembled end to end, rather than sequences you have to design and write yourself.
What Kajabi does
- Kajabi is a course, membership and digital-product platform with a built-in checkout and email.
- Its marketing emails, funnels and landing pages are unlimited on every plan, and course, community and membership delivery is what it was built to do.
- It runs its own payments infrastructure, and if you take payment through another processor it charges a fee on your sales by plan — the current rates and plan limits are shown live on their pricing page.
If you're an expert who already built a real business and you're tired of being the one who writes the pages, the emails and the launches every week, KBD is the one for you — because it arrives already written from your own business, and Kajabi hands you the builder and leaves the blank page on your desk.
The blank page was always the actual work
Every platform in this category hands you a builder — a blank funnel, a blank email, a blinking cursor and a library of templates that are still empty pages. The writing, the offer, the follow-up: none of it comes done, and that's the part you've been stuck on at 9pm. KBD never starts from blank. Every page and email is generated from your own business and a proven structure, so what you open is finished, not a form to fill in.
One voice, running the whole business — not one department
Kajabi is built to sell courses and memberships, with marketing and email arranged around that. KBD runs everything between a stranger and a paying customer and everything after it: attracting people, selling to them, delivering what they bought, getting paid, keeping them. All of it written in your voice, from your offer, on a proven formula.
The evening that stops disappearing
You built the business to get more life, not less. When the next move is already drafted and just needs your yes, the work stops eating the weekends and the Tuesday nights. The craft gets the sharp hours again, and the table gets you back — present, not half-checked-out thinking about the funnel that broke.
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Questions people ask about Kajabi
How much does Kajabi cost?
Read off kajabi.com/pricing on 6 August 2026: Basic is $179/month, or $143/month billed annually. Growth is $249/month, or $199/month billed annually. Pro is $499/month, or $399/month billed annually. There is no free plan. The free trial is 14 days.
Does Kajabi charge fees on top of the subscription?
Yes — on 6 August 2026 their own pages listed: 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. On transaction fees specifically: 0% if you take payment through Kajabi Payments. 0.5%–5% of your sales, by plan, if you use another processor.
What does Kajabi do well?
Marketing emails, funnels, landing pages and access groups are unlimited on every plan, including the cheapest. There is no send cap anywhere on the page. The entry tier is not gutted: advanced automations, webhooks, affiliate programs, a custom domain, checkout pages and branding removal are ticked on every plan. Real owned payments infrastructure with rates that improve by plan, down to 2.7% + $0.30, plus ACH at 0.80% capped at $5. Capacity is elastic — you can buy 5,000 more contacts for $25/mo instead of jumping a whole tier. Course, community and membership delivery is the thing it was built for, and it shows. That is from their own pricing and product pages, read on 6 August 2026.
Where does Kajabi fall short for a small business owner?
The page says "no revenue sharing" in the same view as a 0.5%–5% fee on sales taken through any other processor. Kajabi Payments adds 0.7% to every subscription and payment-plan transaction — the exact business model it sells you on. Contacts are the binding limit: 2,500 on Basic, and at 100% you get 30 days' grace before the account locks. Basic, at $179/mo, includes zero AI credits. That is our reading of their published plans and limits as of 6 August 2026 — check kajabi.com/pricing before you decide anything on it.
What's a cheaper alternative to Kajabi?
Kajabi's lowest published tier is $179/month, read off kajabi.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Of the 11 platforms priced on this site, these publish a lower entry tier: Systeme.io at $0/month, Skool at $9/month, Teachable at $39/month, Podia at $49/month, Thinkific at $54/month, Kartra at $59/month, GoHighLevel at $97/month, ClickFunnels at $97/month. Systeme.io publishes a permanently free plan. Read that carefully before switching on price alone: the entry tier is not the bill. Kajabi's own pages list these on top of the plan: 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. On transaction fees: 0% if you take payment through Kajabi Payments. 0.5%–5% of your sales, by plan, if you use another processor. 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 Kajabi worth it?
That depends on who is going to run it, and their own pages make it answerable. Kajabi is a course, membership and digital-product platform with marketing, email and checkout built around it, sold to creators and coaches selling courses, coaching and memberships. What it genuinely does better: Marketing emails, funnels, landing pages and access groups are unlimited on every plan, including the cheapest. There is no send cap anywhere on the page. The entry tier is not gutted: advanced automations, webhooks, affiliate programs, a custom domain, checkout pages and branding removal are ticked on every plan. Where it is hardest on a small business owner running it alone: The page says "no revenue sharing" in the same view as a 0.5%–5% fee on sales taken through any other processor. Kajabi Payments adds 0.7% to every subscription and payment-plan transaction — the exact business model it sells you on. Its lowest published tier is $179/month. There is a 14-day free trial, 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 kajabi.com/pricing yourself before deciding anything on the strength of ours.
What it costs to stay, and what it takes to leave
This page put KBD beside one platform. The related pages cover what to use instead of it, what it charges in full, and what actually happens when you move.