Kajabi pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Kajabi (kajabi.com) is a course platform. Flat monthly subscription in three tiers capped by products, contacts and admin users; no platform fee on Kajabi Payments, a 0.5-2% fee on third-party gateways.. No free plan.
What Kajabi costs
- 1 course, $1k/mo sales: $179/mo (Basic $179/mo monthly billing (5 products, 2,500 contacts); Kajabi Payments at standard 2.9% + $0.30 adds no platform fee)
- 5 courses, $10k/mo sales: $249/mo (Growth $249/mo monthly: Basic covers 5 products, 1,000 contacts and 2 admins, but removing Kajabi branding needs Growth (branding removal tier from Kajabi's plan comparison, not confirmed in fetched text); no platform fee on Kajabi Payments)
Plan compared: Basic. Monthly USD on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for a defined course business, including any transaction fee the platform itself takes on sales at that volume; card processing fees and hosting for WordPress plugins are not included. The headline is selling 1 course to 100 students at $1,000 a month; we also compare a 5-course business with 1,000 students, 2 admins, your own domain without platform branding and $10,000 a month in sales.
Kajabi price hikes
- Kajabi doubled Basic's third-party payment fee from 1% to 2% · May 26, 2026
Kajabi raised its fee on sales through third-party gateways such as Stripe from 1% to 2% on Basic and from 0.5% to 1% on Growth, while cutting Pro's from 2% to 0.5%. Subscription prices did not change.
Cheaper alternatives to Kajabi
At 1 course selling $1,000 a month to 100 students, Kajabi costs $179/mo. 2 course platforms cost less:
Kajabi alternatives: 2 course platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- May 26, 2026 · Price increase: Kajabi raised its fee on sales through third-party gateways such as Stripe from 1% to 2% on Basic and from 0.5% to 1% on Growth, while cutting Pro's from 2% to 0.5%. Subscription prices did not change.
Sources
Pricing page: kajabi.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from kajabi.com/pricing (monthly $179/$249/$499; annual $143/$199/$399) and PricingSaaS history; no Kickstarter/Starter plan is listed any more. Earlier list-price changes (pre-2026) could not be verified because web search was unavailable; the fee change does not affect the ref point when using Kajabi Payments.