Kajabi vs Teachable
Two ways to sell a course online.
Kajabi and Teachable are both built to sell courses, but they scope the job differently. Teachable is a focused course platform: host, sell, done, with a fee on its entry plan. Kajabi wraps courses inside a much larger marketing suite with funnels, email, and websites, at a much larger price. Disclosure: we make Drry, a competitor to both, and we cover it plainly at the end. This page is about which of these two fits how you actually sell.
The honest recommendation.
Pick Kajabi
Pick Kajabi if the course is one part of a broader business and you want funnels, email automation, and a website in the same place. It suits an established creator who will use the marketing machinery, and for whom consolidating tools is worth the premium price.
Pick Teachable
Pick Teachable if you want to publish and sell courses without running a marketing suite. It suits a creator whose product is the course itself, who wants a shorter learning curve and a lower entry price, and who can bring their own email and audience tools.
Where Drry fits.
Both center the course and treat community as a secondary feature, and both start paid, with a fee on the entry tier. If you want courses AND a real community together, without a platform cut and with a free way to begin, that is the case for Drry.
- Keep 100% of member payments. Only Stripe's standard processing fee applies, we take nothing on top.
- Payments run through your own Stripe account, so your customers and subscriptions belong to you, not the platform. No payment lock-in.
- Funnels built in: fast landing pages on your domain with views, joins, and revenue attributed per page. Standalone funnel tools charge $49 to $97 a month for less.
- A genuinely free tier: 100 members, 5 GB storage, unlimited courses, and the community feed, with no card required.
- Courses, a community feed, members, and payments in one branded space you own.
- Your own address like grace.drry.com out of the box, with custom domain and site white label on paid tiers, and white-label email from your own domain on Growth.
- Member analytics on the $29 Creator plan: who is showing up, what is landing, and who is quietly drifting away. The kind of insight other platforms save for their priciest plans.
- Get paid for 1:1s and packages: send a client a one-time or installment link with an agreement they sign before paying. Built in, free on every plan, and no platform fee. Other platforms make you bolt on a separate contract tool, and most never reach 0%.
- Email your whole community, built in on every plan, even free (100 sends a month free, unlimited on paid), no add-on and no second tool to wire up. Creator adds email automations: welcome journeys, lead-magnet delivery, and win-backs that run on their own. And on Growth, Spark drafts your emails AND your funnel pages for you, pulling from your own courses and writing in your voice, so you start from a finished draft instead of a blank page. Tweak it and send.
Kajabi vs Teachable, common questions
Is Kajabi or Teachable better for a small creator?
Teachable is usually the friendlier start for a small creator: a lower entry price and a narrower, easier product focused on selling courses. Kajabi is better once you need its marketing suite and can use the breadth. Starting small and moving up later is easier than paying for a suite you have not grown into yet.
Do Kajabi and Teachable charge transaction fees?
Teachable charges a platform fee on its entry plan and drops it on higher tiers. Kajabi advertises 0% but that requires its own processor and subscriptions still carry a small recurring fee. Neither fee is the whole cost, since standard payment processing applies on top of both. The fact boxes above show the current terms.
Which is better for building a community?
Neither is community-first. Both treat community as a feature bolted beside the courses rather than the center of the product. If an active community is central to what you are building, rather than a discussion tab next to your lessons, a community-first platform will serve you better than either of these.
Can I switch from Teachable to Kajabi later?
Yes, though there is no automatic migration between them. You rebuild your courses and move your students and email list by hand. Because the switch is real work, it is worth choosing for where you expect to be in a year, not only for where you are today.
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Courses and community together in your own branded space, and you keep 100% of what your members pay you.