Kajabi Review
Courses, funnels, and email marketing under one login — at a price that jumped hard in 2026
Overview
Kajabi bundles marketing automation, sales funnels, and email into its course platform far more aggressively than LearnWorlds or Teachable, positioning itself as the whole back office for a creator business rather than just a course host. That breadth comes at a real cost premium, especially after Kajabi's first price increase in a decade landed in January 2026.
Who It's For
Creators and coaches who want email marketing, sales funnels, and course delivery running from a single platform instead of stitching in Mailchimp or ClickFunnels.
Who Should Pass
Solo educators focused on course quality over funnel-building, or anyone put off by the 2026 price hikes, should look at Teachable's simpler pricing or LearnWorlds' course-first toolset.
Key Features
- Best for creators who want email marketing, funnels, and course delivery in one subscription
- Best for launch-driven and membership businesses monetizing beyond one-off course sales
- Best for sellers who want to drop a separate ESP or funnel-builder tool entirely
Benchmarks
Scored against category peers using our standard 1–5 depth scales.
Scales well into multi-product businesses with communities and coaching offers, but contact-count and admin-seat caps push upgrades faster than course-only platforms
Pros & Cons
What Works
- Native email marketing, marketing automation, and a visual funnel builder go well beyond what LearnWorlds or Teachable ship natively
- Unlimited funnels, landing pages, and marketing emails even on the entry Basic plan, with prebuilt launch/webinar funnel templates
- Kajabi Payments plus built-in checkout collapse a typical launch tech stack (ESP + funnel tool + course host) into one login
What Doesn't
- A January 2026 repricing pulled the lower Kickstarter tier from public sale and pushed the entry plan to $179/mo ($143 annual) — noticeably above Teachable's entry pricing and LearnWorlds' comparable tier
- A 2% revenue share applies on top of the subscription for any payment processor other than Kajabi Payments, a stacking cost LearnWorlds' flat-fee model avoids
- Course-authoring depth (quizzes, assessments, structured curricula) trails LearnWorlds, which was built course-first rather than funnel-first
Pricing
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Alternatives
Final Verdict
Kajabi wins when the business is really a marketing funnel with courses attached to it — if you just need to teach well, LearnWorlds or Teachable do it for less.