Kajabi alternatives: cheaper and free course platforms

Kajabi alternatives at a glance

For a free start with courses, funnels and email, pick systeme.io: its Free plan holds 1 course for up to 500 students, per the plan card, and Startup is $17 a month, billed monthly. Kajabi Basic is $179 a month, billed monthly, as read on October 6, 2026, and includes 5 products, 2,500 contacts, 1 website, 1 community and 2 admin users.

Five alternatives are priced the same way below, on monthly billing, with Kajabi as the baseline. Annual billing is left out because the vendors print it in different ways: Kajabi, Teachable, Skool and Kartra as per-month rates, and Podia with a yearly total.

Teachable's monthly price comes from the Monthly tab of its pricing page and Podia's from that page's structured data, since both pages open on yearly billing.

Free and cheaper Kajabi alternatives for courses

On systeme.io the Free plan includes 1 course and Startup, at $17 a month billed monthly, includes 5, with no transaction fee on any plan, while Stripe or PayPal bill card processing on their own. Free accounts top out at $10,000 in lifetime sales revenue, per the terms.

The systeme.io course builder supports video lessons, PDF downloads, quizzes, module locking and student progress tracking. It also offers drip scheduling, which releases lessons step by step after a delay you set. Lessons can embed YouTube, Vimeo or Wistia videos, and a video uploaded to systeme.io is capped at 2 GB a file.

Skool Hobby is $9 a month, billed monthly, with unlimited courses and a 10% transaction fee; systeme.io vs Skool compares the two. Teachable Starter is $39 a month, billed monthly, with 5 products and a 7.5% fee, and its Builder plan, $89 a month, billed monthly, has 10 products and a 0% fee.

Kajabi Basic takes no revenue share, but Kajabi Payments card rates are 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, shown for US entities only.

Podia and Kartra: storefront and funnel suite

Podia Mover is $49 a month, billed monthly, with 50 products, 500 videos and a 5% fee, and it includes up to 100 email subscribers; a list above a plan's included subscribers is paid for in addition. Shaker, $99 a month, billed monthly, has no Podia fee and up to 500 email subscribers.

Kartra Essentials is $59 a month, billed monthly, with 500 contacts, 5 pages, 1 product, 1 membership or course and a 5% transaction fee, and Kartra says the plan is for solopreneurs, freelancers and creatives who are launching. Kartra Starter, $119 a month, billed monthly, holds 2,500 contacts with a 0% transaction fee.

Guarantees and trials compared with Kajabi

Kajabi lists no free plan; the systeme.io free plan hosts a first course with no card.

• Kajabi: a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan.
• Teachable: a 7-day free trial and a 30-day guarantee.
• Skool: a 14-day free trial, per its page description.
• Podia: a 14-day free trial, and a refund if you message within 72 hours of your latest payment.
• Kartra: a 30-day money-back guarantee.
• At systeme.io: a free plan and no trial of a paid plan; subscription plans are not refundable.

Pick Teachable for a seller who wants a 30-day guarantee, and Skool for a community-led course with live calls. Best software for online coaches covers the coaching case.

Moving a course off Kajabi

Kajabi is also on the list of platforms the systeme.io migration team moves, and the move is free only with the Unlimited monthly plan, $97 a month billed monthly, or any annual plan. The team works by hand in a queue, 17 days on average per the help center.

Kajabi can stay live while the team builds in the new account, so no cancellation comes first. The first step is to contact support with the details of your setup, and a time estimate comes before the work begins. The comparison systeme.io vs Kajabi goes plan by plan.