Seven alternatives and our own product, each with its entry price, what it actually hosts itself, and the watch-out its pricing page does not lead with. We are one of the eight — listed first, labelled, and disqualified out loud wherever we are the wrong answer.
Teachable at $39/mo, or Thinkific at $54 if you need a community bundled in. Podia at $49 if you also want real email.
Skool at $9 or $99/mo for the simplest version, Circle at $89/mo for the premium, branded one.
ClickFunnels at $97/mo, or Kartra at $59 — the only alternative here that hosts webinars itself, from its $229 tier.
Agorix, ours, at $149/mo — and only if you do not need a community, SMS or a mobile app, because we have none of the three.
If Agorix is already on your list, the head-to-head goes through twelve jobs one at a time — what Kajabi does natively, what it hands to Zoom, what its live video really covers, and the pricing comparison at matched contact counts, where Kajabi is the cheaper machine.
Kajabi bundles courses, community, email, checkout, podcasts and mobile apps into one product, which is why leaving it is hard: you are not replacing a feature, you are unbundling a business. So this page is organised by what you sell rather than by rank. Every option below is the right answer for someone, and the wrong answer for most people reading.
We make one of them. Agorix is listed first with a disclosure badge and a section stating exactly who should not buy it — no community product, no SMS, no mobile app, and the highest entry price here. If you came looking for a course platform or a community platform, the honest answer is one of the other seven, and they are described well enough to choose from.
Every reason below comes from a Kajabi-owned page — its pricing page or its help center. Complaints we could not verify that way are not here, and the last card is the one nobody writing this kind of page usually includes.
Kajabi Events builds the registration page, the reminders and the countdown, but the Location field takes “a meeting link or physical address”, and Kajabi’s own help center states that Zoom is not a native integration. If a public webinar is how you sell, the most important hour runs in software Kajabi cannot see. [2][3]
Kajabi meters marketing contacts: 250 on Starter, 2,500 on Basic, 25,000 on Growth, 100,000 on Pro. Crossing a threshold moves you up an entire plan rather than buying capacity, and no contact add-on price appears on Kajabi’s pricing page. [1]
One product on Starter, five on Basic, fifty on Growth, unlimited on Pro. A business running several offers, a workshop series and a coaching track hits the product ceiling long before it hits the contact ceiling. [1]
On Basic, affiliate programs, advanced automations, webhooks, the universal inbox and removing Kajabi branding are all absent. API access is Pro-only, and the custom-branded mobile app is included on Pro or a $199/mo add-on below it. [1][4]
Kajabi Payments runs at 2.9% + $0.30, falling to 2.7% on Pro. Using any third-party payment provider instead adds a Kajabi fee of 5% on Starter, 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth and 0.5% on Pro, on top of that provider’s own fee. [1]
That Kajabi “has no live video”. It does — inside course, coaching and community products, for people who already enrolled. That is a genuine, working product, and if your live sessions are cohort calls and office hours it already covers you. The gap is specifically the public room a stranger can register for.
Kajabi is expensive to outgrow rather than expensive to start. The switch usually happens when the list crosses a tier, the offers cross a product limit, or the webinar becomes the thing that sells — which the head-to-head covers in detail.
We picked the seven alternatives to cover the four segments a Kajabi customer usually falls into — course-first, community-first, funnel-led and budget-conscious — rather than the seven with the biggest affiliate payouts.
Whether the vendor hosts the session itself, or hands you a field to paste someone else’s meeting link into. The registration page is not the room, and a replay page is not an evergreen webinar.
Plan price is the smallest part. We read every published transaction fee, platform fee, overage price and add-on, because the entry tier that looks cheapest is usually the one carrying a percentage of your revenue.
Several platforms here bundle courses and community but meter, gate or separately sell the email marketing — which is the part that turns a list into revenue.
The single most common reason a Kajabi customer cannot leave. We checked whether each vendor ships one, how many spaces you get, and — in one case — whether the vendor still recommends using theirs.
Contacts, products, students, admins, spaces, email sends, live hours, AI credits. Every platform meters something; the question is whether it meters the thing your business grows.
Only vendor-owned pages count: pricing pages, feature pages and help centers. No review sites, no ratings, no user quotes. Anything we could not verify that way is named in the sources note instead of estimated.
Every entry reads the same way: what it is, who it is for, who it is not for, what runs natively, and the watch-outs. Ours is first because it is ours — not because it wins.
DisclosureOur product — here is exactly who it is for and who it is not for.
We build Agorix, so treat this entry as an argument rather than a review, and hold it to the same test as the seven below: does it answer a need Kajabi left open, and does it say plainly what it cannot do? Agorix runs the public webinar room natively — registration page, reminders, browser-based live session, chat, polls and the timed offer — on the same customer record as the follow-up, checkout and course. That is the one thing on this page that Kajabi does not have, and it is the only reason to consider us.
Businesses where a live or evergreen webinar is how customers get made: coaches, consultants, course sellers and agencies whose revenue starts in a session and continues into a program or a high-ticket offer. You want follow-up that branches on who stayed 47 minutes and clicked the offer without buying — which is only possible when the room and the CRM are the same system.
If a members’ community is part of what you sell, stop here — we do not have one, and Skool, Circle or staying on Kajabi will serve you better. We also have no native SMS and no branded mobile app. And if your live sessions are only ever for enrolled students, Kajabi already covers that natively and the reason to move mostly disappears.
The straightforward answer for someone who bought Kajabi to sell courses and never used the rest of it. Builder is $89/mo ($69 annually) and Growth is $189/mo ($139 annually), with a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Free iOS and Android student apps ship on every plan — something most platforms on this page charge for or do not offer at all.
Course-first sellers who want a cheaper, simpler place to host, sell and deliver courses, coaching and digital downloads — and who already run their community somewhere else, or do not run one.
Anyone who needs a community inside the platform, or who plans to stay on the entry tier while selling seriously: Starter takes 7.5% of every sale and has no email marketing at all.
The other serious course platform, and the one that bundles a community without an upsell. Start is $109/mo ($82 annually) and Grow is $219/mo ($164 annually), with a 30-day free trial. The catch is email: Thinkific ships automation on every plan but broadcasting to your students requires Grow at $219/mo, because Mass User Email is the only way to send one and it is gated to Grow and above.
Course businesses that want a community bundled in, run a catalogue rather than a launch calendar, and either do not lean on broadcast email or are already sized for the Grow plan.
Anyone whose marketing is email-led on a budget, or who needs to run more than one live session at a time — Thinkific supports only one connected Zoom account per site.
The closest thing here to “Kajabi, smaller”. Courses, downloads, coaching, community spaces, a website, a blog and checkout, plus a genuinely native email suite — broadcasts, campaigns, automations and segmentation — on every plan. Shaker is $99/mo ($84 annually), Earthquaker is $179/mo ($150 annually), and the trial is 30 days with no credit card.
Solo creators and small teams who want one affordable home for courses, a community and an email list, and are comfortable running the live part on Zoom or YouTube.
Anyone with a large list. Podia’s plan price includes very few email subscribers, so the real monthly cost is the plan plus the subscriber add-on — which is where a Kajabi refugee with 25,000 contacts finds the savings disappear.
The nearest like-for-like replacement for Kajabi in scope, and the only alternative on this list that hosts webinars itself. Pages, funnels, email and SMS, CRM, memberships and courses, checkout with upsells and downsells, affiliates, a helpdesk, calendars and surveys — plus a native browser-based webinar room. Starter is $119/mo ($99 annually), Growth $229/mo ($189 annually) and Professional $549/mo ($429 annually), after a 14-day trial.
Funnel-led sellers who want webinars, email, SMS, affiliates and a helpdesk from one vendor on one bill, and who are sized for the Growth plan where most of that actually turns on.
Anyone who needs true simulated-live evergreen webinars, a community product, or who wants to start cheap: the $59 entry tier has no webinars, 500 contacts and a 5% cut of sales.
Built for people whose business is offers rather than a catalogue. Unlimited funnels and pages, courses and community, email marketing and automations, a CRM with a unified inbox, appointments and opportunities, a store, checkout and an affiliate center. Scale is $197/mo ($164 annually), Optimize $297/mo ($248 annually) and Dominate $5,997/yr, annual only, after a 14-day trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Offer-led marketers who build and test funnels constantly, want pages and checkout to be the fastest part of the job, and already pay for a webinar tool they are happy with.
Anyone hoping the webinar comes with it. ClickFunnels sells webinar funnels, not webinar hosting — the room is a separate subscription on top.
A deliberately narrow product: one feed, one classroom, one gamified leaderboard, one price. It is the fastest way to turn an audience into a paid group, and — unusually for a community tool — the live video is genuinely its own. Skool states you can “go live natively in the app or on the browser without needing any third-party streaming platforms”, and a separate one-to-many Webinar exists on the Pro plan.
Creators whose product is the group: one membership, one price, a course attached, and a leaderboard doing the retention work. If that is your business, nothing else here is simpler.
Anyone who markets by email or sells more than one thing. Skool documents no email marketing product at all — no sequences, no campaigns, no automations — and no landing pages or funnels.
Where Skool is deliberately plain, Circle is deliberately designed. Spaces, courses, events, chat and DMs, a member directory, gamification, a custom domain and a white-labelled community — plus two kinds of native live video: broadcast live streams and interactive live rooms. Business is $199/mo and Circle Plus is custom; the trial is 14 days with no credit card and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Established community businesses that want a premium members’ space under their own brand, run real events inside it, and have the volume to justify the tier caps.
Anyone expecting the plan price to be the price. Email marketing is a separate purchase, live hours are metered, and admins, moderators, spaces and AI credits each have their own overage line.
Entry price is the cheapest paid tier, which is rarely the tier you will actually run on — the notes say what that tier withholds. Competitor figures verified 28 July 2026; Agorix figures from our pricing page.
| Platform | Entry price | Live room | Email marketing | Community | The fee to watch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kajabi (where you are now) | $179 / moBasic, billed monthly · $143/mo annually. A lower Starter tier appears in the feature table without a visible price. | Via another toolEvents builds the registration page; the Location field takes a meeting link or physical address, and Kajabi states Zoom is not a native integration. Native live video exists for people already enrolled. | NativeMarketing emails read as unlimited on every plan. Contacts are metered at 250 / 2,500 / 25,000 / 100,000. | NativeIncluded on every plan — one community on Starter, Basic and Growth, three on Pro. | Kajabi Payments at 2.9% + $0.30, falling to 2.7% on Pro. A third-party provider adds 5% / 2% / 1% / 0.5% by tier on top of that provider’s fee. |
| Agorix | $149 / moLaunch, billed monthly · $119/mo billed annually. | NativeRegistration, reminders, browser room, chat, polls and the timed offer on one record. Evergreen sessions are limited on Launch and expand from Growth. | NativeBroadcasts, sequences and a shared customer timeline on every paid plan; 25,000 to 1,000,000 sends a month by tier. | Not offeredNo community product. If a members’ space is part of what you sell, this rules us out. | No platform transaction fee published. Plans meter marketing contacts, monthly email volume, live-attendee capacity and AI Credits. |
| Teachable | $39 / moStarter, billed monthly · $29/mo billed annually. | Not offeredZoom is documented as a third-party tool you bring yourself, or you embed a YouTube, Twitch or Vimeo stream with custom code. | NativeBuilt-in email marketing — but it starts on Builder at $89/mo. Starter has none. | Via another toolA Community feature exists, but Teachable has paused investment and recommends Discord or Slack instead. | 7.5% on Starter. 0% on Builder and above when using teachable:pay or the Monthly Payment Gateway; US card processing 2.9% + $0.30. |
| Thinkific | $54 / moBasic, billed monthly · $40/mo billed annually. | Not offered“The actual coaching sessions or webinars cannot be hosted directly in Thinkific.” You bring Zoom; Zoom Webinars need a separately purchased Zoom add-on. | NativeOne automation sequence on every plan, but broadcasting requires Grow at $219/mo — Mass User Email is the only way to send one. | NativeOne community on Basic and Start, three on Grow. | Thinkific Payments at 2.9%. Stripe or PayPal instead adds 5% on Basic, 2% on Start and 1% on Grow, waived above $1M in annual sales. |
| Podia | $49 / moMover, billed monthly · $42/mo billed annually. | Via another toolPodia builds the registration page, checkout and replay; the session runs on Zoom, Google Meet or YouTube Live. | NativeBroadcasts, campaigns, automations and segmentation on every plan — but only 100 subscribers are included on Mover. | NativeCommunity spaces on every plan: 25 on Mover, 100 on Shaker, unlimited on Earthquaker. | 5% on Mover, none above it. Email subscribers above the included count are a published monthly add-on — 5,000 is +$45/mo. |
| Kartra | $59 / moEssentials, billed monthly · $52/mo annually. Webinars require Growth at $229/mo. | NativeA native browser room from Growth up — Kartra states webinars are not included with Starter. Six presenters and a four-hour cap; attendee counts differ between Kartra’s own pages. | NativeUnlimited email and SMS from Starter; Essentials is capped at 10,000 emails a month. | Not offeredMemberships and courses, but no community product appears in Kartra’s module list. | 5% on Essentials, 0% above it. Passing your contact limit triggers an automatic upgrade plus a mid-cycle reconciliation fee. |
| ClickFunnels | $97 / moLaunch, billed monthly · $81/mo billed annually. | Not offeredWebinars are an integration category on ClickFunnels’ own site — GoTo Webinar and WebinarFuel. Its AutoWebinar funnel plays a YouTube, Vimeo or Wistia video. | NativeEmail marketing and automations on every plan; 10,000 contacts and 50,000 sends a month on Launch. | NativeCourses and community counted together — 3 on Launch, 6 on Scale, 10 on Optimize, 20 on Dominate. | No platform fee — “You’ll keep every penny you make.” The metering is on contacts, sends, workspaces and AI words. |
| Skool | $9 / moHobby. Pro is $99/mo; annual totals are not published. | NativeSkool Call runs natively in the app or browser with no third-party streaming platform. A separate one-to-many Webinar is Pro-only. Capacity is not documented. | Not offeredNo email marketing product appears in Skool’s documentation — no sequences, campaigns or automations. | NativeThe product itself: feed, classroom, gamified levels and leaderboards. | 10% + $0.30 per transaction on Hobby. On Pro, 2.9% + $0.30 up to $899 and 3.9% + $0.30 above $900. |
| Circle | $89 / moProfessional, quoted on annual billing. No month-to-month price is published. | NativeLive streams for 100 attendees on Professional and 200 on Business, plus live rooms capped at 15 and 20 on-camera participants. Live hours are metered. | Paid add-onEmail Hub is listed as an add-on on both Professional and Business — $99/mo for 10,000 contacts. | NativeThe product itself: spaces, courses, events, chat, member directory and gamification, under your own brand. | 2% on Professional, 1% on Business, 0.5% on Circle Plus, on top of processing. Admins, moderators, spaces, live hours and AI credits each meter separately. |
That is the row we built the company around. Run one registration page and one live session on Agorix, and look at what the follow-up knows when the room closes.
Six situations, six answers. Only one of them is us, and the last one tells you to stay where you are — which for a lot of people reading this is the correct decision.
Courses are the product and the budget is the constraint
Teachable starts at $39/mo with free student apps, but budget for Builder at $89 so you escape the 7.5% fee and get email. Thinkific costs more at $54 but includes a community on every plan — just remember broadcasting needs Grow.
Courses, a small community and an email list, on one cheap bill
The only budget option here with real broadcasts, campaigns, automations and segmentation on every plan. Price the subscriber add-on before you commit — the plan includes 100 subscribers on Mover, and 5,000 costs another $45/mo.
The community is the product
Skool is $9 or $99 a month with native live video and gamification, but no email marketing and a 10% cut on the cheap tier. Circle is the designed, branded version at $89/mo on annual billing — with email as a $99/mo add-on and live hours on a meter.
Offers and funnels drive the business
Both replace Kajabi’s marketing side comfortably. The deciding question is the room: ClickFunnels sends you to GoTo Webinar or WebinarFuel, while Kartra hosts webinars itself from the $229 Growth plan — with replay pages rather than simulated-live evergreen.
A public webinar is how customers get made
This is the one need Kajabi structurally leaves open, and the only reason we belong on this list. If you also need a community, SMS or a branded app, we are the wrong answer — and Kartra is the honest second look, since it is the only other option here that hosts the room itself.
Nothing above beats what you already have
If community, courses, podcasting and a branded mobile app are what you sell, your live sessions are for enrolled students, and your list fits inside a tier, Kajabi is already the most complete answer on this page. Switching would cost you a rebuild and buy you very little.
Still deciding? Read the Agorix vs Kajabi head-to-head or compare Agorix plans.
Kartra, on scope. It covers pages and funnels, email, CRM, memberships and courses, checkout with upsells, affiliates and a helpdesk — and unlike Kajabi it hosts webinars itself from the Growth plan. Podia is the closest cheaper equivalent if you want courses, community and email in one place, and Thinkific is the closest if courses plus a community are the whole job.
Four. Kartra runs a native browser room from its $229/mo Growth plan. Skool runs native live calls in-app or in the browser, with a separate one-to-many Webinar on Pro. Circle runs live streams and live rooms for its members. Agorix — ours — runs a public live room plus evergreen sessions.
Teachable, Thinkific, Podia and ClickFunnels do not. All four document a third party for the session itself: Zoom, Google Meet, YouTube Live, GoTo Webinar or WebinarFuel. Kajabi sits in between — native live video for people who already enrolled, but no public room a stranger can register for.
Not on this list. The cheapest entry is Skool at $9/mo, but it takes 10% + $0.30 of every transaction on that tier, so it stops being the cheapest as soon as you sell anything. Free trials are the realistic way to test: 30 days on Podia with no card and 30 on Thinkific, 14 on Circle with no card, 14 on Skool, Kartra, ClickFunnels and Agorix, and 7 on Teachable.
Partly, and the split is the same everywhere. Contacts, tags, offers and purchase history export and map onto the new platform. Pages, email sequences, funnels and course structure are rebuilt rather than migrated — no platform exports those into another. Plan the rebuild around one journey that earns, not around your whole account.
Kajabi includes a custom-branded app on Pro, or sells it as a $199/mo add-on below that. Teachable ships free iOS and Android student apps on every plan, though they carry Teachable’s branding. Thinkific sells a branded app at $199/mo. Circle includes iOS and Android apps on every plan and reserves fully branded apps for Circle Plus. Agorix has no mobile app at all.
Because it is checkable. Every competitor claim above links to the vendor’s own pricing page, feature page or help center, all 33 of them listed at the bottom and dated 28 July 2026. Where a vendor contradicts itself we say so rather than pick the flattering number, and the facts we could not verify are named instead of estimated. The section that matters most is the one telling you to stay on Kajabi.
Seven of the eight options above hand the live session to someone else, or scope it to people who already bought. Start with the next webinar you were going to run anyway and see what the follow-up knows when it starts.
14 days · $0 due today · Payment method required · Cancel before first charge and pay nothingAgorix plan prices, capacities and trial terms come from our own pricing page. Seven facts we could not verify from a vendor-owned page are deliberately not stated anywhere above: Kajabi’s Starter price, which does not appear in the visible plan cards; Kajabi’s price for additional contacts, which is not published; Kajabi’s announced January 2026 pricing change, whose announcement URL now returns a 404 on Kajabi’s own site; a single trial length for Kajabi, because its pricing page currently shows both a 14-day trial on the plan cards and a 30-day offer in its plan finder; Skool’s annual totals, advertised as two months free without figures; Skool’s live-room capacity, which is undocumented; and Circle’s month-to-month prices, which are not published. Where Kartra’s own pages disagree on webinar attendee capacity we report the disagreement instead of choosing a number. Competitor pricing and features change; this page is re-verified quarterly and the stamp above moves with it. No competitor logos, interface screenshots, ratings, review scores or user quotes appear on this page by design.