Kajabi vs Teachable

Kajabi is the all-in-one: course, site, email, checkout, and no Kajabi transaction fee on its plans according to this directory. It is also the expensive one for a beginner, with a trial and no free plan. Teachable is the focused course host, familiar to students, with transaction fees on lower plans. Neither current price or fee percent was re-read.

A first course with a small list does not need Kajabi’s funnels. An established business that is tired of stitching Teachable to an email tool is the Kajabi customer this directory describes. The fee on Teachable’s lower plans can erase a cheap subscription. Read the current fee before you call Teachable the budget option.

Kajabi is for An established creator who wants one vendor for the whole business. The working method is An all-in-one. You stop stitching a course host to an ESP and a site. Teachable is for A first or second course. The working method is A focused course host. Students already understand it. If those two sentences describe the same afternoon, you do not need this page. They usually do not.

The strength you are paying for on Kajabi is this: Funnels and a single login for the business. The strength on Teachable is this: Setup is straightforward, and it handles tax and payouts. Strengths are not a score. They are the hour the product gives back.

The starting-price row is not in the table. Kajabi did not have a dollar figure we were willing to quote. Teachable did not have a dollar figure we were willing to quote. Starting price is omitted because at least one vendor’s current dollar figure was not read from its own pricing page. A feature row is not a price.

How the bill is structured is a separate question from the sticker. Kajabi: Monthly or yearly plans. Prices omitted. Teachable: Monthly plans. Transaction fees vary by plan. Both the price and the fee percent are omitted.

Free, or the absence of free, changes the first month more than the feature list does. Kajabi: No free plan, per this directory. There is a trial. Teachable: Not confirmed. This directory does not claim a lasting free plan.

What the free or entry plan actually holds: Kajabi: Dollar prices were not read from kajabi.com for this update. This directory says Kajabi does not add its own transaction fee on its plans. Teachable: Dollar prices were not re-read. This directory says lower plans charge a transaction fee.

On Kajabi, the platforms are Courses, coaching, community, a website, email and checkout. You get A course, a site, email and a checkout. The team shape is A small education business. The learning curve is Medium. The product is wide. Branding or watermark, stated only if we could support it: No free-plan watermark.

On Teachable, the platforms are Courses, coaching and downloads, with checkout. You get A course with checkout. The team shape is A solo course creator. The learning curve is Short. Branding or watermark: Not confirmed.

Where Kajabi gets awkward: Expensive for a first course, and a lot of the business sits on one vendor. Leave it when A first course with a dozen students, where the platform bill would dwarf the revenue. Where Teachable gets awkward: Fees on lower plans, and the site design is limited. Leave it when A school that needs quizzes, certificates and a community as the main product, or a business that wants email and the site in the same login.

A practical way to decide, without a winner’s badge: spend one real piece of work in each, using the free plan or the trial, and keep the one whose limit you did not hit. Kajabi’s limit is “Expensive for a first course, and a lot of the business sits on one vendor.” Teachable’s limit is “Fees on lower plans, and the site design is limited.” If your week collides with the first sentence, the second product is the one to try. If it collides with neither, pick the bill you can read.

Put the two offers on one sheet before you subscribe. Kajabi leaves you with A course, a site, email and a checkout. You pay like this: Monthly or yearly plans. Prices omitted. You should walk away when A first course with a dozen students, where the platform bill would dwarf the revenue. Teachable leaves you with A course with checkout. You pay like this: Monthly plans. Transaction fees vary by plan. Both the price and the fee percent are omitted. You should walk away when A school that needs quizzes, certificates and a community as the main product, or a business that wants email and the site in the same login. The sheet is dull on purpose. A comparison that cannot be written as those six sentences is usually a comparison of logos.

The table is the same facts as the paragraphs, in rows, so a search engine can see them without reading the essay. “Checked on” is 27 October 2026 for every filled comparison on this site. Public ratings from review sites are not in the table: we did not pull a fresh G2 or Capterra number for this update, and an old star count would be a fake precision.

Omitted on purpose: Starting price is omitted because at least one vendor’s current dollar figure was not read from its own pricing page. A feature row is not a price.

Re-check before you buy. Kajabi and Teachable both change plan names and buttons. This page is a reading of 27 October 2026, not a quote.