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Kajabi vs Teachable, with OneCraft as a third option for courses
Kajabi costs more and bundles more: email marketing to thousands of contacts, a community with live meetups and a branded app, from 179 USD a month billed monthly. Teachable is the cheaper course specialist, from 39 USD a month with a 7.5% fee on Starter and 0% on Builder and up; OneCraft is a third route where an AI agent builds courses into your own website.
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Indunil Asanka · Co-founder
3 min read · Published
The short verdict
Pick Kajabi if you want one subscription to run courses, email marketing, a community and a branded app, and your revenue makes 179 USD a month small. Pick Teachable if the course is the product and you want hosted video, graded quizzes and certificates at a lower plan price, moving to Builder once sales make the 7.5% Starter fee hurt. Pick OneCraft if courses are one part of a wider business website, you want the code and data, and a lighter course feature set is enough.
| Feature | Kajabi | Teachable | OneCraft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly price, billed monthly | Basic 179 USD, Growth 249 USD, Pro 499 USD a month checked 2026-10-20 | Starter 39 USD, Builder 89 USD, Growth 189 USD a month checked 2026-10-20 | Free $0 with 100 credits a month (no publishing), Starter $8 with 500, Pro $25 with 1,500, Pro+ $125 with 7,500 |
| Monthly price, billed annually | 143, 199 and 399 USD a month checked 2026-10-20 | 29, 69 and 139 USD a month checked 2026-10-20 | Monthly prices only; there is no annual price |
| Fee on each sale | Kajabi Payments 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, 2.8% + $0.30 on Growth, 2.7% + $0.30 on Pro (US entities) checked 2026-10-20 | 7.5% transaction fee on Starter, 0% on Builder and Growth checked 2026-10-20 | Platform fee Starter 2%, Pro 1%, Pro+ 0.5% on your own Stripe account, Stripe fees on top |
| Products | 5 Products on Basic, 50 on Growth, Unlimited on Pro checked 2026-10-20 | 5 products on Starter, 10 on Builder, 50 on Growth checked 2026-10-20 | Courses are rows in the site's own database; sites per owner Starter 3, Pro 10 |
| Video | Kajabi stores media on its servers checked 2026-10-20 | Video storage Up to 1TB checked 2026-10-20 | No video hosting: lessons link YouTube or Vimeo |
| Quizzes | Kajabi supports course quizzes that you can place at any point in your curriculum checked 2026-10-20 | Auto-graded quizzes and Short answer assessments checked 2026-10-20 | A quiz form from the forms guide with a responses table; not graded against lessons |
| Certificates | Kajabi can automatically send a certificate to students when they complete a course. checked 2026-10-20 | Course certificates listed on Growth checked 2026-10-20 | None: completion is recorded, no certificate is issued |
| Drip content | Kajabi lets you schedule or drip modules and lessons so content becomes available on a specific date checked 2026-10-20 | Drip course content checked 2026-10-20 | The memberships guide gates lessons by plan and a free preview flag, not by date |
| Students on phones | Branded Mobile App among Kajabi's features checked 2026-10-20 | iOS & Android student apps checked 2026-10-20 | Your own Expo app; builds 5 credits each on paid plans, submitted from your own store accounts |
| Trial or free plan | Start Free Trial on the pricing page, with no trial length stated checked 2026-10-20 | 7-day free trial. 30-day guarantee. checked 2026-10-20 | Free plan builds and previews but cannot publish, connect a domain or take payments |
Where Kajabi is better
Email, community and app in one bill
Kajabi includes email marketing with 2,500 to 100,000 contacts, communities with live meetups and a branded mobile app. Neither Teachable's course focus nor OneCraft's 500 subscriber newsletter matches that breadth.
Hosted video on both
Kajabi and Teachable both store your lesson videos. OneCraft hosts none, so lessons depend on a YouTube or Vimeo account and its privacy settings.
Where Teachable is better
Course tools at a lower price
Teachable lists auto graded quizzes, short answer assessments, certificates, drip and up to 1TB of video storage from 39 USD a month, and 0% transaction fees from Builder.
Ready student apps
Teachable lists iOS and Android student apps on Starter. A OneCraft app needs a paid plan, build credits and your own Apple and Google developer accounts.
Where OneCraft is different
Courses inside a whole business website
OneCraft's agent builds courses next to bookings, classes, a catalog or a members feed, from 65 capability guides, on one site at your own domain. A sourdough baker can sell loaves for pickup and an online course from one place.
The lowest plan price of the three
OneCraft plans run from $8 to $125 a month. The trade is a platform fee of 2%, 1% or 0.5% per sale through your own Stripe account, plus credits to build and edit.
Code and data that leave with you
Each site is a React project in its own git repository with a zip download, and its data sits in a schema of its own or on your own Supabase account.
Kajabi vs Teachable on price
Billed monthly, Kajabi's entry plan is 179 USD and Teachable's is 39 USD, a gap of 140 USD a month. Annual billing brings them to 143 and 29 USD. Fees run the other way at first: Teachable Starter takes 7.5% of each sale while Kajabi charges card processing of 2.9% plus 30 cents through Kajabi Payments. On 2,000 dollars of monthly sales, Teachable Starter's fee is 150 dollars, so Builder at 89 USD with a 0% fee becomes the cheaper Teachable plan.
Kajabi vs Teachable on features
Both host video, run quizzes, drip lessons and send certificates. Kajabi adds email marketing with contacts by plan, communities with feed or chat channels and live meetups, and a branded mobile app, which is why it costs more. Teachable concentrates on the course: graded quizzes, short answer assessments, student apps and memberships. If you would otherwise pay for a separate email tool and community, Kajabi's price buys those; if you would not, Teachable is the leaner choice.
Where OneCraft fits
OneCraft is not a course platform. Its agent writes a whole website or phone app from a brief, and courses come from one of its 65 capability guides: courses, lessons, free previews, gating by plan and progress ticks, with payments through your own Stripe account. It builds no certificates, hosts no video and grades no quizzes. It suits a business that teaches on the side and wants one site that also takes bookings, sells products or runs a members feed.
How to decide in an afternoon
List what a student touches: the sales page, checkout, lessons, quizzes, certificate, community and emails after purchase. Mark which ones you would pay a separate tool for today. Then price your next twelve months on each pricing page using your own expected sales, and add the fee per sale. The cheapest headline plan is rarely the cheapest year.
Who should stay with Kajabi or Teachable
If you already run on Kajabi or Teachable and the course is your whole business, stay: both are mature course platforms with features OneCraft does not build, such as certificates and hosted video. Consider OneCraft when the course is a side line of a local business or studio that also needs its own website.
Questions people ask
Is Kajabi or Teachable cheaper?
On plan price Teachable is cheaper: 39 USD a month against 179 USD billed monthly. On fees Teachable Starter takes 7.5% of each sale, so at a few thousand dollars a month in sales its Builder plan at 89 USD with 0% fees costs less. Add card processing on both, and check each pricing page before you commit.
Which has better email marketing?
Kajabi includes email marketing with 2,500 contacts on Basic up to 100,000 on Pro. Teachable lists built in email marketing in its sales and marketing features. OneCraft sends only a plain newsletter to 500 confirmed subscribers per send, so for sequences and broadcasts at scale Kajabi is the stronger of the three.
Can I move from Teachable to Kajabi later?
Yes, but plan for work. Lesson text and videos can be moved, while student accounts, progress and active subscriptions generally cannot carry over as they are. Ask both vendors what migration help they offer, export your student list, and keep the old school open until paying students have moved.
Do any of them issue certificates?
Kajabi can send a certificate automatically when a student completes a course, and Teachable lists course certificates on its Growth plan. OneCraft does not issue certificates; its memberships guide records completion only. If students need proof of completion for an employer or a registration body, choose one of the course platforms.
Which is best for a beginner with one course?
Teachable Starter is the cheapest way into a dedicated course platform, with a 7-day trial. If you already need a business website, OneCraft can build the course into it from $8 a month with a 2% platform fee per sale. Kajabi suits a creator ready to use its email and community tools.
Try the website side of OneCraft
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