Kajabi does everything. Teachable keeps it simple. The honest tradeoff.
A fair, row-by-row look at both, from public 2026 pricing. Then a third option worth knowing: Fayne, the academy that arrives finished.
KajabiOne of the two you are weighing
TeachableOne of the two you are weighing
FayneThe academy that arrives finished7-day free preview · No card needed
Which of the two is right for you?
Both are real, capable platforms. Here is who each one genuinely suits, and the one thing each does best.
Choose Kajabi ifYou want one platform to run the whole business, courses, email marketing, sales funnels, and a community, and you will use enough of that suite to justify the $179 entry.
The all-in-one marketing suite: email sequences, funnels, and pipelines under one login.
Choose Teachable ifCourses are the focus and you want a low $39 entry with global tax handling at checkout, and you are fine moving off Starter to escape its 7.5% fee.
Straightforward course selling, with sales-tax handling and a hire-an-expert marketplace.
Kajabi, Teachable, and Fayne, row by row.
Both named platforms hand you an empty editor. The third column does not.
KajabiTeachableFayneDay one
Your brand
The AI
The price
Competitor cells from public vendor documentation and published pricing, 2026.
The third option
There is a third option that arrives finished.
Kajabi and Teachable both hand you an empty editor and a monthly bill. Neither loads a single course, and neither includes a student-facing AI tutor or full white-label without climbing tiers. Fayne starts you finished: a branded academy, stocked and teaching, in about two minutes.
Fayne$49/mo- 149+ business courses loaded and branded on day one
- White-label included on every plan: your domain, logo, and email sender
- An AI tutor that answers students around the clock, in your voice
- AI that writes complete lessons from your notes, files, and links
$49 a month, with white-label and the AI included. Every plan carries the full feature set; tiers differ by caps, not gates.
Kajabi vs Teachable, answered.
The questions people ask when they weigh Kajabi against Teachable.
Teachable is cheaper to start, at $39 a month against Kajabi's $179, but Teachable's Starter plan takes a 7.5% fee on every sale until you move up, while Kajabi charges 5% down to 0.5% by plan on an outside processor. Kajabi's price buys a full marketing suite; Teachable's buys a focused course tool.
You start finished, not empty.
Drop your site and watch a branded academy build itself, stocked with courses and taught by AI, in about two minutes. No card.
