Kajabi vs Teachable (2026): Which Is Right for You?
Written by people who pay for this software · Pricing and offer terms checked August 2026 · Destination links auto-checked 21 August 2026
We get asked this constantly, and the honest answer starts by admitting the two are not the same product. Teachable is a course platform; Kajabi is a business platform that happens to include one. We run ours on Kajabi — and there are still people we would send to Teachable instead.
Short answer: choose Teachable if the course is the product and you already have an email platform, a website and a way to sell. Choose Kajabi if you want the course, the emails, the landing pages, the funnels, the community and the coaching in one account with one contact database and 0% revenue share.
A note on numbers: Kajabi's prices below are the figures it published in August 2026. We deliberately do not quote Teachable's current prices or fees, because they change and a stale number in a comparison is worse than no number. Open Teachable's pricing page alongside this one and fill in today's figures yourself.
Kajabi in numbers
All four figures come from Kajabi's own August 2025 announcement. They describe creators who stayed and succeeded, not the average sign-up, and they are not a forecast of your results. We publish no equivalent Teachable statistics here because we have not verified current ones.
The comparison that matters
| Kajabi | Teachable | |
|---|---|---|
| Core identity | All-in-one creator commerce platform | Course creation and selling platform |
| Entry price | $89/mo Kickstarter; $179/mo Basic | Lower than Kajabi — check current pricing |
| Revenue share | ✓ 0% on all paid plans | ≈ Transaction fees have historically applied on lower tiers |
| Email marketing | ✓ Built in, unlimited sends, visual automations | ≈ Basic messaging; most users add a separate tool |
| Landing pages & funnels | ✓ Unlimited on every plan | ≈ Sales pages yes; funnels are not the focus |
| Community | ✓ Included on all plans since Sept 2025 | ≈ Lighter; often paired with a separate tool |
| Coaching | ✓ Native product type with scheduling and notes | × Sold as a course, plus external scheduling |
| Course delivery depth | ✓ Drip, prerequisites, quizzes, member app | ✓ Strong, and famously simple to publish |
| Learning curve | ≈ Steeper — more surface area | ✓ Gentler — fewer decisions |
| Best for | Businesses selling several offers to one audience | A single well-made course with an existing stack |
Kajabi pricing: monthly vs annual billing
Billed monthlyAnnual, per month
Where Teachable genuinely wins
- Time to first published course. Fewer concepts, fewer decisions, faster to a live lesson. If your only goal this month is "course online and sellable", that simplicity is worth real money.
- Entry cost. The lower tiers cost less than Kajabi's, which matters when the course has not sold anything yet.
- Focus. You will not pay for automations, funnels and community tooling you never open. Paying for capability you do not use is the most common way an all-in-one platform becomes bad value.
- It plays nicely with a stack you already like. If your email platform, your website and your checkout all work today, replacing all of them to gain integration you do not need is churn, not progress.
Where Kajabi wins
- One contact record. A purchase can tag the buyer, trigger a sequence, grant course access and drop them into a community without a single connector. That is the whole argument, and it holds up.
- 0% revenue share on paid plans. On a business doing $10,000 a month, a few points of transaction fee is more than the difference in subscription price — every month.
- Email that can replace your email tool. Unlimited sends, segmentation on purchase behaviour, and visual automations. Cancelling a separate email subscription changes the maths of the comparison immediately.
- Multiple offers to one audience. Kajabi's own August 2025 figures claim multi-product creators earn about 4.5× single-product ones. Vendor data, but the mechanism is obvious: the same list buys the course, the coaching and the membership.
- Coaching and community included, rather than assembled from three subscriptions.
Pick by what you are actually building
Choose Teachable if: you are publishing your first course; the course is a side product rather than the business; you already pay for an email platform you are happy with; or your budget genuinely cannot carry $179 a month even at a discount.
Choose Kajabi if: you sell — or intend to sell — more than one thing to the same audience; you want the community and coaching under one roof; you are paying for three or more tools you would rather consolidate; or transaction fees on your current platform are already costing you more than a subscription would.
The cost comparison people forget
Comparing $179 against a cheaper Teachable tier is not the comparison. The honest version totals your stack. On the Kajabi side: one bill, 0% revenue share, plus card processing at roughly 2.9% + 30¢ through Kajabi Payments — or a 2% surcharge on Basic if you insist on your own Stripe. On the Teachable side: the subscription, plus whatever transaction fee applies to your tier, plus your email platform priced per subscriber, plus a page builder if you want one, plus a community tool if you run one.
What a transaction fee costs you per year
0% revenue share (Kajabi paid plans)A 2% platform feeA 5% platform fee
For a small course selling a few hundred dollars a month, Teachable-plus-tools usually stays cheaper. Somewhere around consistent four-figure months, with a growing list and more than one offer, the arithmetic flips — and it flips harder the more you sell, because a percentage scales and a subscription does not.
If you are migrating
We have done this move, and it is manual work on any route: download your videos and lesson content, rebuild modules and drip schedules, import students as contacts, then re-point your domain and rebuild your sales page. A mid-sized course is about a week. That is precisely why we suggest not attempting it inside a 14-day trial — either take the 30-day extended trial or the $99 three-month offer, which gives you 90 days of the Basic plan for the price of half a month. Terms verified August 2026; confirm at checkout.
Frequently asked questions
Is Kajabi better than Teachable?
Kajabi is the better business platform; Teachable is the leaner course platform. If you want your email marketing, funnels, community and coaching in the same place as your course, Kajabi wins clearly. If you want to publish a course quickly on a smaller budget and already have an email tool you like, Teachable is the more proportionate choice.
Which is cheaper, Kajabi or Teachable?
Teachable’s entry pricing sits below Kajabi’s — check its current pricing page for today’s figures, as they change. The comparison that matters is total cost: Kajabi bundles email marketing, landing pages, funnels and community into its price, and takes 0% revenue share on paid plans, while a cheaper course platform plus a separate email tool and page builder often lands in the same place or higher.
Does Teachable charge transaction fees?
Teachable has historically charged transaction fees on its lower tiers, with the fee reducing or disappearing as you move up. Because the details change, verify the current fee on Teachable’s pricing page before deciding — on a business doing real volume, a few percent of revenue dwarfs any difference in subscription price.
Can I move a course from Teachable to Kajabi?
Yes, though it is manual: you download your video and lesson content, rebuild the structure in Kajabi, and import your students as contacts. Budget a solid week for a mid-sized course. This is the main argument for the 30-day extended trial or the $99 three-month offer rather than a 14-day trial — migration eats trials alive.
Which one is better for coaching?
Kajabi, by some distance since coaching became a native product type in September 2025 with scheduling and client notes built in. Teachable is designed around courses first; coaching there tends to mean a course plus an external scheduling tool.
Is there a discount for either platform?
Kajabi has no public coupon codes, but there is a partner offer of three months of the Basic plan for one $99 payment, and annual billing saves roughly 20%. Teachable runs its own promotions from time to time. Terms verified August 2026 — confirm at checkout.
Keep reading
- Kajabi 3 Months for $99
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- Kajabi Pricing
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- Kajabi Review
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- Kajabi Alternatives
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