An all-in-one platform for course businesses: courses, website, email marketing, funnels, payments and a community, sold as one subscription.
Do not build this all at once. Every piece already connected is what you are paying for, and rebuilding it means rebuilding five products. Courses, a website, email, funnels, payments and a community sharing one customer record. Each of those is a project on its own, and the value is that a person who bought the course is the same row as the one on the mailing list. FIRST, THE NUMBER - This is one of the most expensive subscriptions on the list. Work out what you actually use — if it is courses and email, two focused tools cost a fraction, and the shape of both is under Teachable and Ghost elsewhere in this catalogue - If you use all six and the connection between them, the price is doing real work IF YOU DO REPLACE IT, DO IT IN THIS ORDER - **Courses and payments first.** That is where the revenue is. Hosted checkout, access derived from an active subscription rather than a stored flag, signed expiring playback URLs tied to an enrolment - **Email second**, on the same customers table. One contacts table and one sends table, so a person is never mailed twice by two systems - **The site third**, as a static generator. It is the easiest piece and the least urgent - **The community last, or never.** A community that moves loses members, and it is the one asset that genuinely cannot be exported THE SCHEMA DECISION THAT MAKES OR BREAKS IT One customers table shared by every part. The course student, the newsletter subscriber and the community member are one row. That costs nothing to get right at the start and is a painful migration to fix afterwards — and it is the entire thing the all-in-one platform is selling. WHAT TO CHECK BEFORE MOVING ANYTHING Export everything and look at what comes out: students with their progress, email subscribers with their consent dates, orders, and the videos themselves. Progress and consent dates are the two that are often missing, and both matter. THE ONE-LINE VERSION Count what you use. If it is two of the six, leave — and share one customers table from the first commit.
What you lose
- Courses, email, payments, funnels and a community sharing one customer record, which is a lot of integration you would otherwise write
- Deliverability on a managed sending reputation
- A single vendor to call when something breaks
If you would rather not build
- Separate tools plus your own customer table
- Podia, cheaper and similar in shape
What it costs
read from their page 15 Aug 2026
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Last read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $179/mo | $143/mo | 23 Aug 2026 |
| Growth | $249/mo | $199/mo | 23 Aug 2026 |
| Pro | $499/mo | $399/mo | 23 Aug 2026 |
Their pricing page is where these came from. Seeing a different price? Tell us.
The escape hatch
open source · no votes, no paid placement
Ghost
$0Publishing with memberships and Stripe, covering part of the same job.
TryGhost/Ghostfree · open source
Listmonk
$0The email half, self-hosted, driven by your own customer table.
knadh/listmonkfree · open source
Why this verdict
our own opinion · changed only by a person
32/100
Verdict no at 32. Any one piece is easy; the fee is for them sharing one customer record, and reproducing that is the actual project.
History
tracked since 10 Aug 2026 · nothing is ever overwritten
Questions about Kajabi
answered from the record above
Is Kajabi free?
No — the plan we track is $179 a month. Basic at $179/month billed monthly, $143 annually.
Can you replace Kajabi by building your own?
KEEP IT. The value is the network, the data or the infrastructure. Keep paying. Replacement score 32 out of 100, build time longer than it saves. Read what you lose before you decide.
How much does Kajabi cost?
$179 a month on Kickstarter — $2,148 a year. Recorded 23 Aug 2026.
What do you lose by replacing Kajabi?
Courses, email, payments, funnels and a community sharing one customer record, which is a lot of integration you would otherwise write; Deliverability on a managed sending reputation; A single vendor to call when something breaks. If any of those carry weight for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Kajabi?
Yes: Ghost, Listmonk. The prompt on this page is for when you want it your way instead.
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