Kajabi Pricing 2026: Every Plan, Fee and Real Yearly Cost

Kajabi is the best-known all-in-one platform for creators: courses, coaching, communities, newsletters, podcasts, email marketing, funnels and websites under one subscription. It's also one of the most expensive, and the price on the plan card isn't the whole bill. Product and contact limits decide which plan you need, and Kajabi Payments has its own fee schedule.

This post lists every Kajabi plan with its price, what each one includes and leaves out, the fees on each sale, how payouts work, what costs extra, and what a year really costs at a realistic sales volume. Every figure comes from Kajabi's own pricing and help pages.

The short answer

Kajabi costs $179, $249 or $499 a month (Basic, Growth and Pro), or $143, $199 or $399 a month billed yearly. There's no free plan; the standard trial is 14 days. Kajabi takes no cut of sales on Kajabi Payments or PayPal, but card processing is 2.9%, 2.8% or 2.7% + 30¢ by plan, and other payment providers cost 2%, 1% or 0.5% extra.

Key takeaways

• Basic ($143 a month billed yearly) allows 5 products and 2,500 contacts. Growth ($199) raises that to 50 products and 25,000 contacts and adds affiliates, cohort courses and advanced automations. Pro ($399) adds unlimited products, a branded app and the API.
• Kajabi Payments adds 0.7% on subscriptions and payment plans, 1.5% on international cards and $0.15 a sale for its sales tax tool.
• New Kajabi Payments accounts are paid monthly, with a seven-business-day delay.
• On $60,000 of sales a year, Basic costs $1,716 in plan fees on Kajabi Payments; using another payment provider on Basic adds $1,200.

Disclosure: we make Klasira, a course platform that competes with Kajabi. Every price and rule here comes from Kajabi's own public pages, checked in October 2026 and linked at the end. Prices change, so confirm on the vendor's page before you buy.

Kajabi plans and prices

Prices are in US dollars. Yearly billing works out 20% cheaper, and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.

How much does Kajabi cost per month?

Kajabi Basic costs $179 a month on monthly billing, Growth $249 and Pro $499. Pay for a year up front and they drop to $143, $199 and $399 a month: $1,716, $2,388 and $4,788 a year. There's no cheaper tier and no free plan, so Kajabi starts well above Teachable, Podia and Thinkific's entry plans.

Every plan includes unlimited funnels, landing pages and marketing emails, the Kajabi app for your students, video transcriptions and translations, a custom domain, checkout pages, third-party integrations and Kajabi's AI features. What changes between plans is capacity (products, contacts, admins, communities and websites) and a handful of gated features.

What does each Kajabi plan include?

Five products is the limit most people meet first: a couple of courses, a coaching offer and a community use most of it. Contacts count everyone on your list, not only buyers, so a free lead magnet can push you past 2,500 before your sales justify Growth.

Kajabi values the branded app at $199 a month and the API at $25 a month, and includes both only on Pro.

Does Kajabi charge transaction fees?

Kajabi doesn't take a revenue share as a platform. Sell through Kajabi Payments or PayPal and the only cut is processing. Connect another payment provider and Kajabi adds its own fee on top of that provider's: 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth and 0.5% on Pro.

Kajabi Payments, the built-in processor, has this fee schedule in the US:

So a $200 one-time sale to a US card on Basic costs $6.10 in processing. Sold as a payment plan instead, each installment pays 3.6% + 30¢.

How and when does Kajabi pay you?

New Kajabi Payments accounts start on monthly payouts with a seven-business-day transaction delay, which Kajabi says is for regulatory and compliance reasons. Daily or weekly schedules may unlock after your first sale, but availability varies by site, and an account can be held to monthly payouts after a chargeback.

Changing your linked bank account puts a mandatory seven-day hold on all payouts. Instant Payouts cost 1.5% (minimum 50¢) if you need cash before the next scheduled date. To be paid on your own processor's schedule instead, you can connect another provider, at the 2%, 1% or 0.5% Kajabi fee above.

What costs extra on Kajabi?

• More contacts: blocks of 25,000 for $125 a month, on any plan.
• AI credits: Basic includes none. Kajabi's pricing page mentions 500-credit top-ups for $15, with the details still marked as coming.
• A branded app or the API: only on Pro, so either one means paying $399 a month billed yearly.
• Processing extras: 0.7% on subscriptions and payment plans, 1.5% on international cards and $0.15 a sale for tax add up for recurring and global sellers.
• Another payment provider: 2%, 1% or 0.5% of each sale, by plan.

Is there a free plan or free trial?

Kajabi has no free plan. The standard free trial is 14 days, and Kajabi sets the trial length at sign-up, so the date in your billing settings is the one that counts. During the trial, editing email templates, "send an email" automations and bulk contact imports stay locked until you choose a paid plan. Every plan also carries a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Which Kajabi plan should you choose?

• Basic if you sell up to five products to fewer than 2,500 contacts and don't need affiliates. Use Kajabi Payments: the 2% fee on another provider wipes out much of Basic's saving over Growth.
• Growth if you want an affiliate program, cohort courses, advanced automations or no Kajabi branding, or your list is past 2,500 contacts.
• Pro if you run more than one brand, want your own app in the App Store, or need the API and custom code.

Kajabi's real strengths are breadth and polish: courses, coaching, communities, podcasts, newsletters, unlimited marketing email, funnels and a student app in one login, with no revenue share on its own payments. If you'd use most of that, the price buys genuine consolidation. If you mainly sell courses, compare the best Kajabi alternatives or read Kajabi vs Teachable.

What it costs on real sales

Example (illustration, not data): $60,000 of course sales in a year, as 300 sales of $200 to US cardholders, on yearly billing where offered. Card processing of about 2.9% + 30¢ a sale (about $1,830 here) comes on top on every platform unless a row says it's included, so it's left out of the totals.

On Kajabi Payments, Growth's lower card rate saves about $60 a year on these sales and Pro's about $120, compared with Basic's 2.9%. Payment plans and subscriptions would add 0.7% (up to $420) on any plan.

To run the numbers with your own prices and sales, try our course platform fee calculator.

How Kajabi's fees compare with Klasira

Kajabi's fees are lowest when you sell through Kajabi Payments, which pays new accounts monthly. Klasira takes 0% on every plan and pays each sale into your own Stripe account on Stripe's schedule, so only Stripe's or PayPal's processing comes off.

Klasira: 0% transaction fees on every plan, with each sale paid into your own Stripe account. Plan prices are on Klasira's pricing page; we leave them out here so this post doesn't go stale when they change.

Frequently asked questions

How much is Kajabi a month?

Basic is $179 a month, Growth $249 and Pro $499 on monthly billing. Billed yearly, they're $143, $199 and $399 a month.

Does Kajabi take a percentage of sales?

Not on Kajabi Payments or PayPal; you pay only processing. With another payment provider, Kajabi adds 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth or 0.5% on Pro.

Is Kajabi worth the price?

It can be if you'd otherwise pay separately for a course platform, email marketing, funnels, a community and a student app. If you sell one or two courses to a small list, cheaper platforms cover the same ground; see course platform transaction fees compared.

How long is the Kajabi free trial?

The standard trial is 14 days, with no free plan after it. Some email features and bulk contact imports are locked until you pay.

Can I change Kajabi plans later?

Yes. Kajabi says you can upgrade, downgrade, or move from monthly to yearly billing at any time.

Try Klasira with your own course

If Kajabi's price or monthly payouts are the sticking point, rebuild one course in Klasira and compare. Pick a theme, add one course and connect Stripe, then judge it on your own material. Start your school or see pricing.

Related: Klasira vs Kajabi, course platform transaction fees compared, Teachable pricing, Podia pricing, all course platform pricing and alternatives.

Sources

Details about other companies in this post were checked against these public pages in October 2026. Products, prices and rules change, so confirm with each source before you decide.

• Kajabi pricing
• Kajabi Payments fees (United States)
• Kajabi Payments payouts
• Kajabi trial information