Tool reviewmedia buyer software
All-in-one platform for experts selling courses, coaching, memberships and communities
By Dana Rourke, Lead Reviewer. Reviewed by Campaign Buyer Editorial. Updated 29 September 2026.
Our verdict
Kajabi is the pick if you are building a course or membership business and want the pages, the community, the email and the checkout under one login, with the strongest delivery experience in the category and no cut of your sales. The catch is cost. The entry plan jumped to $179 a month in 2026 and its contact limit was cut, so it only pays off once you are actually selling.
Kajabi is the platform experts reach for when the product is their own knowledge. Since 2010 it has grown into one of the most complete homes for a course, coaching or membership business, and the pitch is consolidation: one login for the courses, the emails, the community, the landing pages and the checkout, instead of five tools stitched together. For a coach or creator tired of reconciling separate systems, that is the whole appeal, and long-time users say the same in their reviews.
It is a creator business platform built around delivering courses and memberships. The center of gravity is delivery: a course builder with cohorts, quizzes and drip content, communities and access groups, memberships, podcasts, newsletters, and a branded mobile app on the top plan. Around that sit the marketing tools every platform now bundles, email with automations, landing pages and funnels, and a checkout that handles subscriptions, one-time payments, order bumps, upsells and downsells with automated tax.
The distinction decides who it fits. If your revenue turns on the quality of what students and members experience after they buy, Kajabi is built for that. If it turns on squeezing more out of each order at the point of sale, a funnel-first tool does that job harder.
We read the recent reviews before ranking it. The steady praise is having everything in one place and a builder that is intuitive to set up. Reviewers describe consolidating a website, emails, a blog and digital downloads into one dashboard as the thing that finally let them run the business rather than the tools. The steady complaint is price, and it got louder in 2026.
In January 2026 Kajabi ran its first major pricing change in years. Plan prices rose, the entry Basic plan's contact limit was cut sharply, and long-time customers lost their grandfathered rates while new signups were offered a discount. That contrast drew a visible backlash, including a petition and a wave of Trustpilot complaints. The entry price is now $179 a month, about $143 billed annually, and there is no free plan. The honest read is that it is priced for a business that is already selling.
Buy Kajabi if the delivery experience is the product: a course people finish, a membership they renew, a community they return to. It takes no cut of your sales and puts the whole operation under one login. If your growth is funnel-driven, with cold traffic, aggressive upsells and a high-ticket backend, read our ClickFunnels review and weigh a funnel-first tool instead. And price the plan on the contacts and products you actually need, because the entry tier is tighter than it used to be.
Experienced sellers like Kajabi pages but treat the native checkout as limited unless you customize it or plug in a dedicated cart.
“Their checkout page out of the box isn't super flexible. Again, there are 3rd-party templates to use and coding you can do. Some people use ThriveCart.”
A common complaint
Long-term Kajabi customers complain about plan cost and support that feels AI-first or slow on billing issues.
“usually told a few AI steps like 'refresh the app'”
“damn it sure is expensive”
We read the threads before we ranked. Here is where the sentiment above comes from, with links you can open.
“Their checkout page out of the box isn't super flexible. Again, there are 3rd-party templates to use and coding you can do. Some people use ThriveCart.”
“usually told a few AI steps like 'refresh the app'”
“damn it sure is expensive”
Plans from $143/mo, with a 14-day trial.
Basic $143/mo annual ($179 monthly), Growth $199 ($249), Pro $399 ($499); 20% off annual; no revenue share; Kajabi Payments 2.9%/2.8%/2.7% + $0.30; third-party processor fee 2%/1%/0.5% if not using Kajabi Payments (excludes PayPal); +25,000 contacts for $125/mo.
Prices as of 19 October 2026
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Written by
Dana Rourke
Lead Reviewer
Dana Rourke is the lead reviewer at Campaign Buyer. She covers trackers and attribution on this site: she reads what long-term users report about each tool, checks its documentation and pricing, and verifies prices with the vendor before writing the verdict. Keeping the rankings honest mostly means writing down what the top pick gets wrong, so she does that first.
Last checked 2026-09-29
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