Classentra vs Kajabi: start free instead of at $179 a month
Kajabi is a strong marketing platform, but it has no free plan. The cheapest door is $179/mo once the 30-day trial ends. Classentra has a free plan with two courses, $39/mo for unlimited, and is built to teach live: video, cohorts, attendance, and a gradebook.
Side by side
Where each platform wins
Free plan
- Classentra
- Yes, 2 courses at $0/mo
- Kajabi
- No, 30-day trial only
Lowest paid plan
- Classentra
- $39 / mo (Educator)
- Kajabi
- $179 / mo (Basic)
Courses / products
- Classentra
- Unlimited on Educator
- Kajabi
- 5 on Basic, 50 on Growth
Students / contacts
- Classentra
- Unlimited students
- Kajabi
- 2,500 on Basic, 25,000 on Growth
Admin users
- Classentra
- 1 (teams on Organizations)
- Kajabi
- 2 on Basic, 11 on Growth
Live video
- Classentra
- Zoom · Meet · Teams (native video coming soon)
- Kajabi
- Not listed on their pricing page
Attendance tracking
- Classentra
- Yes
- Kajabi
- Not listed on their pricing page
Gradebook
- Classentra
- Yes
- Kajabi
- Not listed on their pricing page
When to switch
Three reasons teachers move from Kajabi
There's no free plan
Kajabi's cheapest door is $179 / mo ($143 if you pay for the year up front), and only after the 30-day trial ends. Classentra starts at $0 with two courses, and $39 / mo for unlimited courses when you're ready to grow.
No product or contact caps
Kajabi Basic stops at 5 products, 2,500 contacts, and 2 admin users; Growth lifts that to 50 products and 25,000 contacts. Classentra Educator has no course cap and no student cap at $39 / mo, so your plan doesn't gate your audience.
Built to teach live, not just to market
Kajabi's funnels, email, and website builder are genuinely good. That's its real product. What its pricing page never mentions is the live classroom: live sessions on your own Zoom, Meet, or Teams, attendance, a gradebook, with native in-app video coming soon. If your business is teaching in real time, that's the half you'd be bolting on elsewhere.
Side-by-side pricing
Below about $4,500 / mo in sales, Classentra costs less in total
Classentra Free
- Price
- $0 / mo
- Courses
- 1
- Students
- Unlimited
- Transaction fee
- 9% + 30¢ all-in
Classentra Educator
- Price
- $39 / mo
- Courses
- Unlimited
- Students
- Unlimited
- Transaction fee
- 6% + 30¢ all-in
Kajabi Basic
- Price
- $179 / mo ($143 annual)
- Products
- 5
- Contacts
- 2,500
- Transaction fee
- 2.9% + 30¢ + your processor
Kajabi Growth
- Price
- $249 / mo ($199 annual)
- Products
- 50
- Contacts
- 25,000
- Transaction fee
- 2.8% + 30¢ + your processor
Move from Kajabi to Classentra
Rebuild your top offers, invite your audience by CSV, and add live cohorts, attendance, and a gradebook, without a $179 / mo floor.
Run both during transition. No commitment.
Pricing sourced from publicly available pricing pages as of August 21, 2026. Estimates shown for enterprise-priced products. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. Classentra is not affiliated with or endorsed by any named vendor. Classentra's all-in rate applies to Stripe accounts in the US and Canada. Elsewhere the fee is the percentage only and Stripe bills card processing to you.