What the major marketing platforms cost, as of 6 August 2026

GoHighLevel

Transaction fees: None charged by HighLevel on your sales; it integrates your own payment provider. · 14-day trial

• Phone numbers, SMS, emails sent and premium AI — their FAQ states these are usage-based and billed separately, and the pricing page does not publish the per-unit rates
• AI Employee — $50/mo per sub-account (Growth) or $97/mo per sub-account (Unlimited)
• White label mobile app $497/mo; HIPAA compliance $297/mo; premium support $500/mo
• Branded client portal $49/mo, SEO $79/mo, online listings $30/mo, premium prospecting $29/mo and WhatsApp $10/mo — each per sub-account
• Dedicated email IPs $59/mo per IP; WordPress hosting from $10/mo per site; certification $97/mo

Kajabi

Transaction fees: 0% if you take payment through Kajabi Payments. 0.5%–5% of your sales, by plan, if you use another processor. · 14-day trial

• 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

Kartra

Transaction fees: 5% of your sales on Essentials. 0% on Starter, Growth and Professional. · 14-day trial · 30-day money back

• Exceeding your contact limit triggers an automatic upgrade to the next tier plus a mid-cycle reconciliation fee — the amount of that fee is not published
• The Essentials 5% fee on sales is billed monthly and separately from the subscription, even when the plan is billed annually

ClickFunnels

Transaction fees: None. Their FAQ answers "does ClickFunnels take a percentage of my sales?" with "No. You'll keep every penny you make." · no trial published · 30-day money back

Their pricing page states nothing is billed on top of the plan.

Systeme.io

Transaction fees: 0% on every plan, including the free one. · no trial published · free plan

Their pricing page states nothing is billed on top of the plan.

Keap

Transaction fees: None charged by Keap on your sales. · no trial published

• Additional users at $39/month each beyond the two included
• Text and voice tiers above the included one: $24, $39, $79, $139 and $279 a month for 1,000 up to 25,000 messages
• Overage at $0.015 per text message and $0.01 per voice minute
• Optional add-ons: 500 texts at $6/month, a local number at $10/month
• Implementation services, which their page describes as required, priced separately
• A $299 early termination fee if you leave an annual contract before the term ends

ActiveCampaign

Transaction fees: Not applicable — it does not process your sales. · 14-day trial · 30-day money back

• The price rises with your contact count — the page's own bands run from 1,000 to over 200,000
• Enhanced CRM (pipelines and sales engagement) is a paid add-on on every plan
• WhatsApp is priced as its own set of plans, and as bundles with email

Skool

Transaction fees: 10% of your sales on Hobby; 2.9% on Pro. Skool processes member payments itself. · 14-day trial

• The transaction fee on every sale you make through the group — 10% on Hobby, 2.9% on Pro
• Changing your group's custom URL after the fact costs $100 per change, per their own checkout strings

Thinkific

Transaction fees: No platform fee on your sales. Thinkific Payments processes at 2.9%, which their FAQ calls in line with Stripe and PayPal; other gateways add a per-plan fee. · 30-day trial

• The branded mobile app is $199/mo, included only on select Plus plans
• Using a payment gateway other than Thinkific Payments adds a third-party gateway fee that varies by plan; Thinkific Payments itself processes at 2.9%

Teachable

Transaction fees: 7.5% of your sales on Starter; 0% on Builder and above. Processing fees still apply on every plan. · 7-day trial · 30-day money back

• Payment processing on every plan: 2.9% + 30¢ US cards, 3.9% + 30¢ international cards, 3.49% + 49¢ US PayPal, 4.99% + 49¢ international PayPal
• A $15 chargeback fee
• An optional BackOffice fee of 2–2.8% for handling affiliate and author payouts

Podia

Transaction fees: 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker. · 30-day trial

• The plan price rises with email contacts — each plan card's own selector reprices the tier as your list grows (Mover at 500 contacts is $600 billed annually against $504 at the included 100)
• Card processing at the standard 2.9% + 30¢, charged by Stripe or PayPal rather than by Podia

What is the cheapest all-in-one marketing platform?

Of the 11 platforms priced here on 6 August 2026, the lowest published entry tier paying month to month is Systeme.io at $0/month (Free); the highest entry tier is Keap at $299/month (Keap). Entry price is not the bill: several of these charge a percentage of your sales, per-message usage, or card processing on top, and those are listed per vendor rather than estimated.

Which of these platforms have a free plan?

Systeme.io publish a permanently free plan. The rest publish a trial or nothing — checked 6 August 2026.

Why is my bill higher than the price on the pricing page?

Because the plan price is usually not the whole price. Across these 11 vendors the published extras fall into four families: a percentage of your sales, per-message or per-minute usage, card processing, and paid add-ons. Each vendor's own list is on this page, in their words, with the date it was read.

How current are these prices?

Every figure was read off the named vendor's own pricing page on 6 August 2026. Nothing here comes from a review site, an affiliate roundup or memory, and where a vendor publishes no figure this says so rather than estimating one. Prices move; check the vendor's page before you decide anything on the strength of ours.