Partner offer · verified August 2026
Kajabi: 3 Months for $99 (Save $438)
Written by people who pay for this software · Pricing and offer terms checked August 2026 · Destination links auto-checked 21 August 2026
We sell courses and coaching for a living, and Kajabi's Basic plan — the one we pay $179 a month for — is where that business lives. New customers can get the first three months for one $99 payment through a partner link: the full platform, not a stripped-back trial.
Everything below is written from the buying side of the transaction: we pay for these tools out of the same account as everyone else, and we have run into every limit described here. Where we have not tested something ourselves, we say so rather than guessing.
That works out to roughly $33 a month for a platform that bundles courses, coaching, communities, memberships, podcasts, email marketing, landing pages, funnels, automations and checkout into one subscription. It is the cheapest legitimate way into Kajabi that we are aware of, and it exists because the offer is distributed through partner links rather than advertised publicly — which is how Kajabi keeps its list price intact.
The Kajabi $99 offer at a glance
- What you get: 3 months of the Kajabi Basic plan (lists at $179/mo)
- What you pay: $99, once, up front
- Who qualifies: New Kajabi customers only
- After 3 months: Renews at $179/mo unless you cancel or change plan
- Commitment: Cancel anytime — no contract, no exit fee
- Trade-off: It replaces the free trial rather than stacking with it
- Terms: Verified August 2026 — confirm at checkout
What you actually get on the Basic plan
This is not a feature-limited demo tier. Basic is the plan most solo creators and small teams run their whole business on, and after Kajabi's September 2025 platform update it carries a noticeably longer feature list than it used to:
- Products: up to 5 — and a "product" can be a course, a coaching programme, a membership, a podcast or a downloadable.
- Contacts: 2,500, with unlimited marketing emails to them. There is no per-email charge and no separate email tool to pay for.
- Admin users: 2, which covers you plus a VA, editor or business partner.
- Website, landing pages and funnels: unlimited, with a custom domain.
- Communities: included on every plan since September 2025, so you can run a paid community without adding Circle or Skool to your stack.
- Coaching: now a native product type, with session scheduling and client notes rather than a bolted-on calendar link.
- Kajabi Checkout: the rebuilt checkout Kajabi announced in September 2025, which the company says lifted conversion by 68% for early adopters — their figure, not ours.
- Kajabi AI: the "AI Cofounder" toolset for outlining courses, drafting emails and generating landing-page copy.
- 0% revenue share on every paid plan. What you charge is what you keep, minus card processing.
What makes Kajabi different
Plenty of platforms will host a course. What we were actually buying — and what took us a year of paying for four subscriptions to understand — is the connective tissue between selling and delivering. Five things set Kajabi apart from the cheaper options we tried first.
One contact record instead of five tools pretending to agree
When someone buys, the tag, the email sequence, the course access, the community invitation and the receipt all fire from the same record. There is no connector in the middle, nothing to re-sync at 2am, and no month where your email tool and your course platform disagree about who paid you. That sounds like housekeeping until the first time a launch depends on it.
0% revenue share — the number that grows with you
Every paid plan takes nothing from your sales. Card processing through Kajabi Payments runs at roughly 2.9% + 30¢ and no platform fee on top. Compare that with any platform taking a percentage: at $10,000 a month, a 5% cut is $500 — nearly three times the Basic subscription, every month, forever. A subscription is a fixed cost you can plan around; a percentage is a tax on your best months.
Unlimited email, pages and funnels on every tier
Not "unlimited on the top plan". Unlimited landing pages, unlimited funnels and unlimited marketing emails on Kickstarter, Basic, Growth and Pro alike. The contact cap is the only thing you buy more of as you grow, which makes the pricing legible in a way that per-send email billing never is.
Community and coaching stopped being separate bills
Since September 2025 communities are included on every plan, and coaching is a native product type with session scheduling and client notes rather than a course with a calendar link taped to it. Two of the four subscriptions we used to carry disappeared into the one we already had.
Things almost nobody else offers
A unified member mobile app carrying courses, community and coaching in one place — most competitors have no app at all. Kajabi Checkout, rebuilt in September 2025, which Kajabi says lifted conversion 68% for early adopters (their figure, and one worth treating as marketing rather than a promise). Visual automations with Instagram comment-to-DM as a native trigger. And Kajabi AI for drafting outlines, emails and page copy when the blank page is the thing stopping you.
| The job | What it usually means buying | On Kajabi Basic |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting and delivering the course | A course platform | Included — 5 products |
| Emailing your list | An email platform priced per subscriber | Included — unlimited sends to 2,500 contacts |
| Sales and landing pages | A page builder subscription | Included — unlimited, with a custom domain |
| Taking payment and offering upsells | A checkout or cart tool | Included — Kajabi Checkout, 0% revenue share |
| Running a paid community | A community app | Included on every plan since Sept 2025 |
| Selling and scheduling coaching | A scheduling tool plus manual admin | Included — native coaching product |
| A mobile experience for members | Usually not available at all | Included — unified member app |
So why take the $99 offer rather than the free trial?
Because the value above only shows up once your own content, your own list and a real payment are inside the account — and that takes longer than fourteen days. Ninety days at about $33 a month is enough to migrate, launch, email and sell, and Kajabi's own August 2025 figures suggest the compounding starts with the second product: multi-product creators, the company says, earn roughly 4.5× what single-product creators do. One quarter is what it takes to get the first two live. Terms verified August 2026 — confirm at checkout.
Kajabi pricing, and where the $99 deal sits
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Products | Contacts | Admins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kickstarter | $89 | $71 | 1 | 250 | 1 |
| Basic — the $99 deal plan | $179 | $143 | 5 | 2,500 | 2 |
| Growth | $249 | $199 | 50 | 25,000 | 11 |
| Pro | $499 | $399 | Unlimited | 100,000 | 25 |
Every plan includes unlimited landing pages, funnels and marketing emails, plus 0% revenue share. Kickstarter is the one tier we would steer people away from: no custom domain and a 250-contact cap make it a starter kit rather than a business platform. Full breakdown on our Kajabi pricing page.
Against that table, the deal reads clearly: $99 buys three months of the $179 tier, which is less than two months of Kickstarter — the plan you would otherwise settle for on a tight budget — and none of Kickstarter's limits apply.
Who this offer suits
It is a good fit if you:
- already know what you are selling and want to launch inside 90 days;
- are paying for three or four separate tools (course host, email platform, page builder, checkout) and want to collapse them into one bill;
- coach or teach and want courses, community and 1:1 sessions under one login and one member app;
- are migrating from a platform that takes a percentage of every sale, where 0% revenue share pays for the subscription on its own.
It is the wrong purchase if you: have not validated an offer yet, need SEO-driven blog traffic as your main channel, or want the cheapest possible host for a single $47 course — in that last case a lighter tool will serve you better, and our Kajabi alternatives page names the honest options.
How to claim the $99 deal
- Open the partner link. The offer only exists behind a partner link — Kajabi has no promo-code field at checkout, so there is nothing to paste in.
- Check the checkout screen before paying. You should see the Basic plan and a $99 charge covering three months. If the screen shows $179/month or a 14-day trial instead, the offer has changed — do not assume it will apply later.
- Create the account with the email you will keep. Migrating an account to a different owner email later is fiddlier than getting it right now.
- Set a calendar reminder for day 80. That is your decision point: continue at $179, move up to Growth, or cancel before the first full-price charge.
- Use the runway. Import or build one product in week one, connect a domain and payments in week two, and run a real promotion inside the first month. Ninety days disappears quickly.
What our first 90 days on Kajabi looked like
We took the $99 route rather than the trial, and the shape of the quarter was fairly predictable: month one is admin, month two is when it starts paying for itself, and month three is when you find out whether the platform fits the way you actually work.
Weeks one and two were unglamorous. Re-uploading video and rebuilding module structure took longer than we had budgeted — not because Kajabi is slow, but because we treated the migration as an excuse to re-edit lessons that were fine as they were. Doing it again, we would move the course across untouched, publish it, and improve it later with real students inside.
Week three was the week that mattered. Connecting a custom domain, switching on Kajabi Payments and pushing a live $1 test purchase through our own checkout taught us more in an afternoon than a fortnight of reading comparisons had. Watching the receipt, the course access and the buyer tag all fire from one click is the moment the all-in-one argument stops being marketing copy and starts being a reason to consolidate.
Weeks four to six were email. Importing contacts, rebuilding tags, and reassembling a welcome sequence in the visual automations builder. That is the point where we cancelled a separate email subscription — and where $179 a month started reading as a replacement cost rather than an additional one.
The rest of the quarter was selling: one promotion to the existing list in month two, a second product added in month three.
Two things we would do differently. We would set the day-80 renewal reminder at signup instead of remembering it in week ten, because deciding whether to continue deserves more than a day's notice. And we would prune the list before importing it — dragging dead contacts across ate into Basic's 2,500 allowance and brought forward the $249 Growth conversation months earlier than our revenue justified.
If there is one thing to take from our quarter, it is this: treat the 90 days as a deadline to sell something, not a licence to keep building.
The honest objections
Most deal pages stop before this section. These are the four things that actually irritated us, and the honest answer to each.
"$179 a month is a lot after the discount ends." It is, in isolation. It stops looking expensive when you total what it replaces — a course host, an email service priced per contact, a landing-page builder, a checkout tool and often a community app. If your stack today is cheaper than $179 and it works, the deal is not a reason to move.
"2,500 contacts is not many." True, and it is the limit most growing lists hit first. Crossing it means Growth at $249/month. Plan for that step rather than being surprised by it; if you are already past 2,500 contacts today, budget for Growth from the start.
"All-in-one platforms have a learning curve." They do. Kajabi asks you to learn its way of connecting products, offers, funnels and emails. Ninety days of paid access, templates and the AI assistant is a far kinder runway for that than a 14-day trial.
"I want to keep my own Stripe account." You can, but Kajabi adds a platform surcharge when you do — 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth, 0.5% on Pro. On Basic that is $200 on every $10,000 you process. Kajabi Payments at roughly 2.9% + 30¢ carries no such surcharge.
What Kajabi says about its own results
Kajabi's 2026 reporting puts more than $11.7 billion in cumulative creator revenue through the platform since 2010, across 100,000+ creators. In the same release the company said roughly 1,800 creators have passed $1 million in lifetime sales and 70-plus have passed $10 million, with average creator earnings around $190,000 and multi-product creators earning about 4.5× single-product ones. Kajabi also noted that many six-figure earners have audiences of only 1,000–10,000 followers.
Those are vendor-published figures, and they describe the people who stuck around, not the median buyer. Read them as evidence that the platform can carry a serious business — not as a forecast of yours. Nothing here promises you will earn anything.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Kajabi 3 months for $99 offer real?
Yes — it is a partner offer rather than a public coupon, which is why you will not find a promo-code box for it at Kajabi checkout. You reach it through a partner link, pay $99 once, and get three months of the Basic plan. Terms were verified in August 2026; confirm the price and plan on the Kajabi checkout screen before you pay.
Which Kajabi plan does the $99 deal apply to?
The Basic plan, which lists at $179 per month. A small number of write-ups claim the offer works across every tier, but the consistent, repeatable version of the deal is Basic — so that is what we describe here. If a higher tier is offered to you at checkout, treat that as a bonus rather than the expectation.
What happens after the three months are up?
Your account rolls onto the standard Basic plan at $179 per month unless you cancel or change plans first. There is no lock-in contract and no cancellation fee. Put a reminder in your calendar for day 80 or so, which gives you time to decide before the first full-price charge lands.
Can I still get a free trial instead?
You can. Kajabi runs a 14-day free trial as standard, and some partner links open a 30-day extended trial. The $99 offer replaces the trial rather than stacking with it, so the question is really whether you want 30 days free or 90 days paid at roughly a third of the normal rate. Our Kajabi free trial page compares the two side by side.
Does Kajabi take a cut of my course sales?
No revenue share on paid plans. If you use Kajabi Payments you pay roughly 2.9% + 30 cents per transaction, which is standard card processing. If you connect your own Stripe account instead, Kajabi adds a platform surcharge that is 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth and 0.5% on Pro — so Kajabi Payments is usually the cheaper route on Basic.
Is $99 for three months enough time to launch?
For most people, yes — but only if you treat it as a deadline rather than a free look around. Ninety days is enough to migrate or build a course, wire up a landing page and email sequence, and run one real promotion. If you have not yet decided what you are selling, spend that time before you start the clock.
The bottom line
If Kajabi is already on your shortlist, paying $99 instead of $537 for the first quarter is what we would do again without much thought: it is the real platform, on the plan most businesses actually run, with 0% revenue share and no contract. If you are still deciding what to sell, keep your $99 and come back when you have an offer — we have watched people buy a platform hoping it would make that decision for them, and it never does. Terms were verified in August 2026 and can change without notice; confirm everything on the checkout screen.
Learn more about Kajabi
Everything else we have researched and written about Kajabi, all of it kept in step with the same August 2026 pricing check:
- Kajabi Pricing
Every 2026 plan, contact caps and the cheapest legitimate route in.
- Kajabi Review
Honest verdict on whether $179/month is defensible.
- Kajabi Free Trial
14-day standard vs 30-day partner trial vs the $99 deal.
- Kajabi vs Teachable
All-in-one marketing suite vs a lean course platform.
- Kajabi Alternatives
Cheaper and free options, and when each one actually wins.
- Kajabi vs ClickFunnels
Courses vs funnels — two different jobs, compared properly.
- Kajabi for Coaches
Coaching, courses and community in one subscription.