Kajabi vs Teachable

Updated October 2026 · AppBreakup editorial

Kajabi

All-in-one platform for creators selling courses, coaching, communities and memberships.

Paid

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Teachable

Course and digital product platform for creators, with built-in checkout and student apps.

Paid

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The short answer

Kajabi is an all-in-one creator business platform with courses, email, funnels, website, podcasts and community in one subscription; Teachable is a simpler, cheaper hosted course store. Established coaches who want a single system and can afford it lean Kajabi. Solo creators starting out, or those happy to use separate marketing tools, usually find Teachable easier and less expensive, though its entry plan charges a transaction fee.

Kajabi or Teachable: our take

Kajabi's pitch is replacing a stack of tools. Course hosting, coaching, communities, memberships, podcasts, a website builder, sales funnels, email marketing and checkout with upsells and order bumps all live in one product. Teachable focuses on the course store: creators build video courses, coaching offers, downloads and memberships and sell them through its own checkout, which handles global payments and sales tax. It has added upsells, cart recovery and AI outline help, but email marketing and funnels are basic, so marketing usually happens in other tools. Teachable is quicker to learn.

Pricing reflects that difference in scope. Kajabi starts at $179/month monthly, or $143/month billed annually, on Basic, which is limited to 5 products and 2,500 contacts, and growing businesses move up tiers quickly. It takes no revenue share and offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. Teachable starts at $39/month billed monthly on Starter, with a 7-day free trial and no free plan, but Starter carries a 7.5% transaction fee and low product limits; the Builder plan is $89/month billed monthly. For anyone with meaningful sales, the transaction fee makes Teachable's entry plan less of a bargain than it looks.

Both run in the browser. Teachable includes student apps for iOS and Android, while on Kajabi a branded mobile app can be added on higher plans. Choose Kajabi when courses are one part of a larger coaching or membership business and paying more to avoid stitching tools together is worth it. Choose Teachable for a straightforward course store with payments and tax handled, a lower monthly bill, and freedom to pair it with a preferred email or website tool.

Choose Kajabi if…

Established coaches and course creators who want courses, email, funnels and community in one bill
Courses, email, funnels, website and community in one product
No revenue share taken by Kajabi on its plans

Choose Teachable if…

Solo creators who want a simple hosted course store with payments and tax handled
Quick to set up a course and checkout
Handles global payments and sales tax

What is Kajabi?

Kajabi bundles most of what a knowledge business needs into one subscription: course hosting, coaching sessions, communities, memberships, podcasts, a website builder, sales funnels, email marketing and checkout. Its pitch is that a creator can stop stitching together a course tool, an email service and a page builder, and it does not take a cut of sales on its own plans. That convenience is also the drawback. Kajabi sits at the expensive end of the creator market, plan limits on products and contacts push growing businesses up the tiers quickly, and each built-in tool is less flexible than a dedicated alternative. Pricing is a monthly or annual subscription with a free trial and no free plan. Creators and their students use it in the browser, and higher plans can add a branded mobile app. It suits established coaches and course sellers who would rather pay more for one tidy system than manage several cheaper ones.

What is Teachable?

Teachable is one of the longest-running hosted course platforms. Creators build video courses, coaching offers, digital downloads and memberships, then sell them through Teachable's own checkout, which handles global payments and sales tax. Students get a clean course player on the web and in Teachable's iOS and Android apps. It is easier to learn than Kajabi and leaves marketing largely to other tools, though it now has upsells, cart recovery and AI course-outline help. The catch is in the plan structure: the entry plan carries a transaction fee and a low product cap, so anyone selling seriously ends up on a higher tier. Pricing is a monthly or yearly subscription with a short free trial; there is no free plan. Teachable runs in the browser. It suits individual creators who want a straightforward place to host and sell courses without building a site from scratch.

Side by side

Attribute	Kajabi	Teachable
Pricing	Paid	Paid
Open source	No	No
Self-hostable	No	No
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android	Web, iOS, Android
Best for	Established coaches and course creators who want courses, email, funnels and community in one bill	Solo creators who want a simple hosted course store with payments and tax handled
Status	Active	Active

Verified facts, compared

Facts both apps publish, checked on each vendor's own site.

Fact	Kajabi	Teachable
Starting price	$179/month monthly, $143/month billed annually (Basic)	$39/month billed monthly (Starter)