Should you prioritize creating a community experience around your digital products, or focus on building a full-fledged digital business where digital products, sales, and marketing are seamlessly integrated in one platform?
That’s where Circle and Kajabi chart their differences.
Circle is a comprehensive community platform that also supports digital product delivery. It allows you to build and sell courses, coaching programs, and membership subscriptions. It’s the ideal solution for creators, educators, and coaches looking to sell their digital products while building an engaging online community around them.
On the other hand, Kajabi is a full-suite digital business platform. It offers tools for course creation, communities, website building, sales funnels, and email marketing. Simply put, it provides the essential tools you need to create, market, and sell your digital products.
But, which one should you choose? In this Circle vs Kajabi review, I’ll break down how both tools compare when it comes to:
- Course creation
- Online community building
- Membership site-building
- Marketing and sales capabilities
- Value for money
I won’t just compare features and pricing. I’ll also give clear recommendations on when to choose Circle and when Kajabi is a better fit. Let’s get started.
My verdict: Circle is the better choice if your community is the product: it has the stronger discussion, chat, moderation and live tools, and it starts cheaper at $89/month on annual billing. Kajabi is the better choice if you sell courses and need the marketing built in: email, funnels, landing pages, upsells and order bumps come with every plan, and it charges no transaction fee on Kajabi Payments. Once you sell more than about $2,500 a month, Kajabi Basic also costs less than Circle Professional on monthly billing.
Circle vs Kajabi: quick summary
At first glance, Circle and Kajabi look like they do nearly the same thing: help you build and sell courses and community memberships.
But after researching and testing each platform, it’s clear they serve different users.
Circle: best for building learning-focused communities.
Circle
- Pricing $129 to $499/month, or $89 to $419/month billed annually
- Best for Paid communities and cohort courses where members learn together
- Transaction fees 2% on Professional, 1% on Business and Scale
- Free trial 14 days, no credit card
Circle offers robust features for creating communities centered around your digital products. You can create individual spaces for learning, discussions, chats, and events.
It also has strong community engagement features including group chats, community posts, live streams, leaderboards, polls, and quizzes.
Circle is ideal for creators, coaches, and educators who want to build a community experience around their digital courses. That way, students can interact, learn from each other, and collaborate.
Kajabi: best for building an online education business.
Kajabi
- Pricing $179 to $499/month, or $143 to $399/month billed annually
- Best for Course creators and coaches who want marketing and sales built in
- Transaction fees 0% with Kajabi Payments, 0.5% to 2% with your own Stripe
- Free trial 14 days, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee
Kajabi, on the other hand, equips you with everything you need to build a sustainable business around your knowledge and expertise.
In addition to creating courses and coaching programs, Kajabi offers powerful tools for email marketing, sales funnels, and website building.
Kajabi best suits creators, coaches, and edupreneurs looking for an all-in-one platform to market and sell their digital products without integrating external tools.
Choose Circle if…
- You want to build and grow a community around your digital courses or coaching programs.
- Live sessions, group chats and member discussions are a big part of what members pay for.
- You need a straightforward membership solution with iOS, Android and desktop apps on every plan.
- You prefer using specialized marketing and sales tools separately.
Choose Kajabi if…
- You need a platform that combines digital product creation with built-in marketing tools.
- You want to offer certificates to students upon course completion.
- You plan to offer various digital products like courses, downloads, coaching, and podcasts.
- You want email, landing pages and funnels without paying for a second tool.
Circle vs Kajabi at a glance
Here is how the two platforms compare on price, fees and features. Prices are from each vendor’s pricing page, checked in November 2026.
| Feature | Circle | Kajabi |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $129/month, or $89/month billed annually (Professional) | $179/month, or $143/month billed annually (Basic) |
| Plans (monthly / annual) | Professional $129 / $89, Business $219 / $199, Scale $499 / $419, Circle Plus custom | Basic $179 / $143, Growth $249 / $199, Pro $499 / $399 |
| Free trial | 14 days, no credit card, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee | 14 days, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee |
| Transaction fees | 2% Professional, 1% Business and Scale, 0.5% Circle Plus, on top of Stripe fees | 0% on Kajabi Payments (0.7% on subscriptions); 2%, 1% or 0.5% with your own Stripe |
| Courses | Courses live inside community spaces; quizzes; no native completion certificates | Standalone course products; quizzes, certificates, AI outline generator; 5, 50 or unlimited products |
| Community | Unlimited members, 20 to 100 spaces, chat, gamification, moderation tools | 1 community (3 on Pro), discussions, chat, challenges, leaderboards |
| Live events | Live rooms for 15 to 50 people on camera, live streams for 100 to 500 viewers (by plan) | Live rooms for up to 200 people on video |
| Email marketing | Email Hub add-on from $19/month for 1,000 contacts | Unlimited marketing emails, 2,500 to 100,000 contacts by plan |
| Website and funnels | Website builder on every plan; no funnel templates | 1 to 3 websites, unlimited landing pages and funnels |
| Checkout | Stripe only; trials, coupons, installments, upsells, affiliates | Kajabi Payments, Stripe or PayPal; upsells, order bumps, coupons; affiliates from Growth |
| Mobile app | iOS, Android and desktop apps on every plan; branded app on Circle Plus | Kajabi app for members; your own branded app on Pro |
| Best for | Community-led memberships, cohorts and coaching | Course businesses that want marketing in the same tool |
Circle vs Kajabi: user experience
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Both Circle and Kajabi have intuitive interfaces, and honestly, tearing them apart based on this was a tough call. However, after a deeper look, a few things set Circle’s interface apart, making it easier to use. Let me show you.
Circle is easier to use, while Kajabi has a steeper learning curve.
Circle’s interface is beginner-friendly and feels more polished than Kajabi’s. It has a clear layout with its navigation organized into two distinct sections: a left sidebar and a top navigation bar.
The left sidebar serves as the control center. Here, you can add and manage community spaces, and space groups, and launch live streams.
For members, the same sidebar is visible displaying the spaces and space groups of your community.
On the other hand, the top menu bar offers quick access to settings for Courses, Events, Members, and Leaderboard.
Additional tools and settings are tucked away in a dropdown menu, keeping the interface clean while still providing access to more advanced options when needed.
Navigating Circle’s dashboard feels smooth and intuitive. The platform loads quickly, and I didn’t experience any lags or bugs. Despite being packed with a ton of community-building features, Circle manages to keep its interface clutter-free and easy to navigate for both admins and members.
Meanwhile, Kajabi’s interface looks modern and well-designed but with a few caveats. Like Circle, it has its main tools and settings on the left side for easy access.
However, due to its all-in-one nature, Kajabi has a steeper learning curve. With tools for course creation, marketing, and sales, it can feel overwhelming, especially for new users.
Even after using it for over a year, I still find myself referring to the platform’s knowledge base. But once you become familiar with its wide range of features, navigation feels smoother and easy to use.
In terms of performance, Kajabi is slightly slower to load compared to Circle, though not significantly so. I did run into a few bugs and glitches, but it performed better than platforms like ClickFunnels.
Verdict: Circle easily outpaces Kajabi with its intuitive, fast-loading, and clean interface. It’s simple to navigate for both admins and members. Kajabi on the other hand is loaded with extra tools, which can lead to feature fatigue for those looking to start quickly.
Kajabi vs Circle: online course creation
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Both Kajabi and Circle come with strong course creation tools, but they differ significantly in how they structure courses and engage students. After testing both platforms’ course-building capabilities, here’s what I discovered.
Kajabi offers courses as standalone products, while in Circle, they are part of a community experience.
Kajabi allows you to sell courses independently, meaning you can focus solely on course creation without linking it to other offers. This setup gives you flexibility if you want to build individual product lines like coaching or memberships later. The community feature is optional, so you’re not forced into blending courses with a forum.
Meanwhile, Circle ties courses to its community structure. Every course exists as a separate space within your community forum.
You can gate course spaces behind a paywall to offer exclusive content to specific member tiers.
Because courses live within the community, members can easily transition from discussion to learning. This makes Circle a better choice if you want to cultivate a community-centric learning experience to engage your students.
Kajabi has a more feature-rich course structuring system than Circle.
Kajabi provides an AI course outline generator that can create a full course structure based on your input. Just enter your course title, and description and enable the AI outline generation option.
Kajabi’s AI will generate an entire course outline, structured in Modules and Lessons, along with your course lesson descriptions.
However, I don’t see this as a big advantage over Circle. The reason being, you can get better course outlines by using external AI tools like ChatGPT using more detailed prompts. That said, Kajabi’s built-in AI generator can still be useful for beginners who need help structuring their course.
Once you’ve structured your courses, Kajabi lets you add Submodules. As I had stated earlier, Kajabi uses Modules and Lessons to structure your course curriculum.
Essentially, submodules let you add a subsection in your course chapters to break into more digestible chunks. This can come in handy if you have a longer course and you want to break it down into manageable subtopics.
Circle, on the other hand, keeps everything straightforward. Courses are structured into Sections and Lessons, which are less complex but still effective.
Both platforms let you upload videos, PDFs, and other learning materials, but Circle is more transparent about storage limits: its pricing page lists 200 GB on Professional, 500 GB on Business and 1 TB on Scale. Kajabi doesn’t publish a storage limit, which makes it harder to plan ahead.
However, both platforms let you import video content from Google Drive, Dropbox, Wistia, Vimeo, and YouTube. But Circle offers a smoother video embedding experience for videos. Its link embed feature allows you to easily insert videos directly into your course lessons without issues.
I tried using Kajabi’s link import feature and it never worked.
However, Kajabi does have an edge with its native video recording feature. You can record and upload videos directly within the platform, which can save you time.
Kajabi offers more course player design than Circle.
Kajabi provides over six customizable course player templates. You can modify the layout, color schemes, and typography, and even add widgets like gamification badges.
Meanwhile, Circle doesn’t offer course design templates. Its course player is simple with limited options for customizing the layout or branding for your course player.
Kajabi has more features for assessing students than Circle.
In Kajabi, you can create quizzes to track students’ understanding of your learning material. You can also issue certificates of completion automatically when a student finishes a course, which adds value to your course. On Growth and Pro you can make the certificate depend on passing a quiz.
On the other hand, Circle allows you to add quizzes to your course where you can set a minimum passing grade that students must attain to progress to the next course section. However, it has no built-in completion certificates (Circle’s own comparison pages say so), so you need a third-party tool for them.
Verdict: Kajabi is ideal for course creation if you need more course design freedom, and student assessments with certifications. However, if you want a simple, distraction-free course builder, Circle is a better solution.
Circle vs Kajabi communities: building and management
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Circle is a community-first platform. As such, all its digital product offerings are optimized around a community experience. In contrast, Kajabi treats its community feature as a separate product, much like its courses and coaching offerings.
So how do their community-building features stack up? Let’s find out.
On paper the limits differ too. Circle allows unlimited members on every plan, with 20 spaces on Professional, 30 on Business and 100 on Scale (more cost $20/month per 10). Kajabi gives you one community on Basic and Growth and three on Pro, with unlimited access groups inside each.
Both Circle and Kajabi offer strong community engagement features like discussions, group chats, live events, and gamification but Kajabi also has challenges.
In Circle, you can initiate discussions, create group chats, and host live events. Members can share various content formats, including text, images, videos, PDFs, code snippets, and polls.
The platform also offers gamification features, including leaderboards, and badges. Members can earn points for receiving likes on their posts, with one like equating to one point. The more points they accumulate, the higher they rank on the leaderboard.
Kajabi provides features similar to Circle’s community engagement. You can engage members through discussions, group chats, live events, and leaderboards.
However, Kajabi takes it a step further by allowing you to launch challenges. This allows you to create structured tasks or goals for members to work toward, providing them with an additional incentive to participate.
Both platforms allow for community post creation, but Circle’s post editor is more advanced.
Circle offers a robust post editor that gives you extensive options to create rich, interactive content. Its editor supports headings, bullet points, blockquotes, and CTA buttons, making it easy to format long-form content or simple threaded discussions.
You can add various content formats to your posts, including images, videos, audio files, PDFs, forms, GIFs, polls, and data tables. Its embed feature lets you integrate content from over 700 platforms.
Want to share a Notion template with your community? No problem. Have a Canva carousel? You can embed it. Need to share a Loom recording? That’s possible too.
Kajabi features a simple community post editor that allows you to share various content formats, including text, videos, images, and PDFs. However, compared to Circle’s editor, Kajabi’s post editor offers less extensive formatting options and flexibility.
Circle has strong community moderation features, while Kajabi doesn’t offer any.
Circle provides built-in tools to maintain a safe environment for your members. These include profanity filters, reporting tools, and options to flag members for review.
You can also assign roles like moderators to manage specific spaces or the entire community. Moderators can remove posts, review flagged content, and enforce content approval for individual members.
Kajabi, on the other hand, lacks automated community moderation. You can only appoint moderators to monitor content and manually delete inappropriate messages.
Both allow you to host live events but Circle offers more flexibility.
In Circle, you can schedule and host live events within the platform which eliminates the need for third-party platforms like Zoom. You have the flexibility to start:
- Live Rooms: ideal for interactive sessions like coaching, 1-on-1 meetings, or small group cohorts. All attendees can join via video, audio, and chat. Circle’s pricing page allows 15 participants on Professional, 20 on Business and 50 on Scale.
- Live Streams: perfect for webinars, Q&As, or AMAs, where only the host and co-hosts have speaking privileges. Circle allows 100 attendees on Professional, 200 on Business and 500 on Scale, and sells more at $20/month per 100.
Members can join from the Circle mobile app or any web browser. Additionally, you can record these sessions and repurpose the content for courses, providing long-term value for your community.
Meanwhile, Kajabi’s Live Rooms offer similar functionality, with the ability to screen share, chat, start breakout groups, and record sessions. Kajabi’s help centre puts the cap at 200 people on video at once, so for a big interactive call Kajabi holds more people than a Circle Live Room. Circle’s edge is choice: a small room for coaching, or a broadcast-style stream for larger audiences.
Verdict: Circle outperforms Kajabi in community-building with more flexible event formats and built-in moderation tools. It also offers stronger native content creation features for engaging and managing members.
Kajabi vs Circle: sales and marketing features
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Kajabi has built a reputation as an all-in-one platform for course creators, integrating robust sales and marketing tools. It includes a website builder, sales funnels, and an email marketing system, all baked into its core product.
Circle, originally known for its community-building features, now sells email marketing as an add-on called Email Hub, and it added a website builder to every plan. Neither comes close to Kajabi’s funnels yet.
Let’s learn a little bit more about how both platforms measure up in terms of sales and marketing.
Kajabi is a marketing powerhouse, while Circle’s Email Hub is a paid add-on.
Kajabi includes essential tools for marketing and scaling your educational business, such as:
- Sales funnels
- Website builder
- Email marketing
These features are included in all plans at no extra cost.
Circle, on the other hand, has limited built-in marketing features. Its Email Hub lets you send email broadcasts, capture contacts with forms and set up automated workflows.
However, Email Hub is a paid add-on: $19/month for 1,000 contacts and $99/month for 10,000, with the first 30 days free. Only Circle Plus includes it (with 10,000 contacts).
Circle also doesn’t offer a dedicated funnel builder with templates like Kajabi’s. When I tested it, the closest thing was its Lock Screen, which locks content behind a paywall. Since then, Circle has added a drag-and-drop Website Builder on every plan for homepages, landing pages and sales pages, which covers a simple sales page but not a multi-step funnel.
Kajabi supports more payment gateways than Circle.
Kajabi has a built-in payment system called Kajabi Payments, available to businesses registered in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and 20 euro-area European countries. It supports options such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, Afterpay, and Klarna.
In addition, Kajabi supports Stripe and PayPal as alternative payment gateways. Connecting your own Stripe account carries a Kajabi platform fee, which I priced out in what Kajabi costs in 2026.
Circle, on the other hand, only supports Stripe for payments (cards and digital wallets through Stripe, in more than 25 currencies).
Both platforms offer trials, coupons and upsells at checkout, but only Kajabi has order bumps.
Kajabi allows you to offer trials, discounts, and coupons during checkout, but it goes a step further with upsell and order bump features. This can help you maximize revenue by offering relevant add-ons at strategic points in the purchasing process.
Meanwhile, Circle also lets you offer paywall trials, discounts, coupons and installment plans. When I tested it, Circle had no upsells; in 2026 it added them, so members can now switch to annual billing or a higher tier right after checkout. Circle also has a built-in affiliate program for paywalls. It still has no order bumps.
Verdict: Kajabi outshines Circle when it comes to sales and marketing tools. Its all-in-one approach lets you manage every aspect of your marketing strategy without needing external integrations. Circle, while improving with its Email Hub and Website Builder, still lags behind in providing a comprehensive solution for creators focused on growing their business through marketing automation, and sales funnels.
Circle vs Kajabi: pricing
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | Transaction fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circle Professional | $129/month | $89/month | 2% |
| Circle Business | $219/month | $199/month | 1% |
| Circle Scale | $499/month | $419/month | 1% |
| Circle Plus | Custom | Custom | 0.5% |
| Kajabi Basic | $179/month | $143/month | 0% on Kajabi Payments (2% with your own Stripe) |
| Kajabi Growth | $249/month | $199/month | 0% on Kajabi Payments (1% with your own Stripe) |
| Kajabi Pro | $499/month | $399/month | 0% on Kajabi Payments (0.5% with your own Stripe) |
Card processing comes on top on both platforms: Stripe’s rates on Circle, and on Kajabi Payments 2.9%, 2.8% or 2.7% plus 30 cents in the US depending on the plan, plus 0.7% on subscriptions.
Circle offers affordable entry-level plans, while Kajabi provides advanced features at a higher price.
Circle’s pricing starts at $129/month for its Professional plan, or $89/month billed annually, whereas Kajabi’s lowest tier, Basic, starts at $179/month ($143/month billed annually). On annual billing Circle’s Business plan and Kajabi’s Growth plan cost the same $199/month.
However, as your business grows, Kajabi’s pricing offers better value for money. Kajabi’s Pro plan costs $499/month, or $399/month billed annually, and it includes unlimited products, three websites, three communities and your own branded mobile app. Circle’s Scale plan costs the same $499/month ($419/month billed annually) but still charges a 1% transaction fee, and Circle Plus is quoted on request.
Circle always charges a transaction fee, while Kajabi charges one only outside Kajabi Payments.
Circle charges a transaction fee on every sale: 2% on Professional, 1% on Business and Scale, and 0.5% on Circle Plus, on top of Stripe’s processing fees. Considering that you’re already paying a premium price to use Circle, that fee adds up as your sales grow.
Meanwhile, Kajabi charges no platform fee when you use Kajabi Payments, beyond its card processing rates (and 0.7% on subscriptions). If you connect your own Stripe account instead, Kajabi adds 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth or 0.5% on Pro. I would advise you to visit this page to understand more about the charges imposed on your transactions in Kajabi.
What you really pay each month
Here is the monthly cost of each entry plan at three sales levels, on monthly billing, counting the platform fee and transaction fee but not card processing (which you pay on both). It assumes one-time sales through Kajabi Payments; subscriptions add 0.7% on Kajabi.
| Monthly sales | Circle Professional | Circle Business | Kajabi Basic | Kajabi Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $149 | $229 | $179 | $249 |
| $5,000 | $229 | $269 | $179 | $249 |
| $10,000 | $329 | $319 | $179 | $249 |
The finding: Circle Professional is cheaper while you sell less than $2,500 a month. Above that, Kajabi Basic costs less, because its price stays flat while Circle’s 2% grows with every sale.
Kajabi’s free trial comes with a catch while Circle is transparent.
When I signed up for Kajabi’s free trial, you’re required to provide credit card details, where they place a temporary hold of $149 for validation.
While Kajabi doesn’t actually charge you until the trial ends, the hold feels downright sly.
I mean, there are better ways to verify a card, like how ClickFunnels only charges $1 for validation. Kajabi’s approach struck me as sneaky, almost like they’re hoping you’ll forget to cancel so they can charge you.
Circle, on the other hand, is transparent. It offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, letting you test any plan risk-free. Both platforms also offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on your first payment.
Circle vs Kajabi: pros and cons
Every software has its advantages and drawbacks. It’s no exception for Circle and Kajabi. Below I’ll break down key strengths and limitations of both platforms to help you make an informed choice.
Circle pros and cons
Pros
- Robust community builder
- User-friendly interface
- Flexible community spaces
- Native live-streaming
- Mobile apps
- Strong community engagement
- Zapier on every plan, plus API and webhooks on higher plans
Cons
- Limits the number of admins, moderators, and spaces.
- Expensive add-ons
- A transaction fee on every plan
- Limited sales and marketing features (no funnel templates, email is a paid add-on)
Kajabi pros and cons
Pros
- Robust sales and marketing features
- Strong course creation tools
- Diverse digital product offering
- Powerful checkout builder
- Live stream supported in courses and community
- No platform fee with Kajabi Payments
Cons
- Poor customer support
- Steeper learning curve
- Expensive for small businesses
- Product limits on lower plans (5 on Basic, 50 on Growth)
Final verdict: Kajabi vs Circle, which one should you use?
Circle and Kajabi are both strong platforms for course creation and community building, but each serves different needs.
Circle thrives as a community platform. It offers powerful community organization, moderation, and engagement features. Using it, you can start group chats, discussions, live events, and courses. Community-wise everything about Circle feels polished and well-built.
Meanwhile, Kajabi is a full business suite for creatives and coaches. It includes course creation tools, coaching options, sales funnels, website building, and integrated email marketing. Kajabi focuses on providing an all-in-one solution for digital product creation.
If you can’t decide, start from what members pay you for. If it is access to you and to each other, pick Circle. If it is a course you need to market and sell at scale, pick Kajabi. My Circle review and Kajabi review go deeper on each. And if neither fits, my Kajabi alternatives and best community platforms guides cover the other options.
Skool vs Circle vs Kajabi
Many people comparing Circle and Kajabi also look at Skool. It is the simplest of the three: one community feed, a Classroom for courses, a Calendar and built-in video calls, with leaderboards and levels to keep members posting. It is built around the community, not around marketing.
| Skool | Circle | Kajabi | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $9/month (Hobby) | $129/month ($89 billed annually) | $179/month ($143 billed annually) |
| Transaction fee | 10% on Hobby, 2.9% on Pro (card processing included) | 2%, 1% or 0.5% plus Stripe fees | 0% on Kajabi Payments |
| Free trial | 14 days | 14 days, no card | 14 days |
| Best for | A simple paid community with courses, at the lowest entry price | A branded community with more structure, chat and live formats | A course business with marketing built in |
Skool Pro costs $99/month. Pick Skool if you want the quickest set-up and don’t mind its plain design, Circle if you want a community you can shape and brand, and Kajabi if courses and marketing come first. I compare the first two in detail in Skool vs Circle, and you can read my Skool review.
Circle vs Kajabi: FAQs
Is Kajabi better than Circle?
Is Circle cheaper than Kajabi?
At the entry level, yes: Circle Professional is $129/month ($89 billed annually) against $179/month ($143) for Kajabi Basic. But Circle adds a 2% transaction fee on Professional, so once you sell more than about $2,500 a month on monthly billing, Kajabi Basic costs less.
Kajabi vs Circle for courses: which is better?
Kajabi. It sells courses as standalone products, has course player templates, quizzes and automatic completion certificates, and lets you record video in the platform. Circle’s courses live inside your community, which suits cohort courses, but it has no native certificates.
Circle vs Kajabi communities: which is better?
Circle. It allows unlimited members with 20 to 100 spaces by plan, group chats, gamification, moderation tools, live rooms and live streams. Kajabi’s community covers discussions, chat, challenges and live rooms for up to 200 people, but you get one community on Basic and Growth.
Does Circle charge transaction fees?
Yes. Circle charges 2% on Professional, 1% on Business and Scale and 0.5% on Circle Plus, on top of Stripe’s processing fees. Kajabi charges no transaction fee on Kajabi Payments (0.7% on subscriptions), and 2%, 1% or 0.5% if you connect your own Stripe account.
Does Circle have email marketing like Kajabi?
Only as an add-on. Circle’s Email Hub costs $19/month for 1,000 contacts and $99/month for 10,000, and is included only on Circle Plus. Kajabi includes unlimited marketing emails on every plan, with 2,500 to 100,000 contacts depending on the plan.
Do Circle and Kajabi have free trials?
Both offer 14-day free trials. Circle’s needs no credit card. Kajabi asks for a card, and when I signed up it placed a temporary $149 hold. Both also offer a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Which has better mobile apps, Circle or Kajabi?
Circle includes iOS, Android and desktop apps on every plan, and a custom branded app on Circle Plus. Kajabi has a mobile app for your members, and its Pro plan includes your own branded app in the App Store.
Is Skool or Circle better for a paid community?
Skool is simpler and cheaper to start at $9/month, but it takes 10% of every sale on that plan and looks the same for everyone. Circle costs more and takes 0.5% to 2%, but gives you spaces, chat, live streams and your own branding. See my Skool vs Circle comparison.
What are Kajabi’s pros and cons?
Kajabi’s strengths are its built-in marketing (email, funnels, landing pages), strong course tools and no transaction fee on Kajabi Payments. Its downsides are the price, a steeper learning curve and product limits on lower plans. My Kajabi review goes deeper.
What is the best alternative to Circle and Kajabi?
For a cheaper all-in-one, Systeme.io has a free plan and no transaction fees. For a community with courses, Mighty Networks and Skool are the closest to Circle. I compare nine options in my Kajabi alternatives guide.
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