LearnWorlds vs Kajabi (2026): Pricing, Tools & Fit

Profit-first verdict

Match the course requirements, then price the operating stack.

Choose LearnWorlds when the product is the learning experience and you already have a workable marketing stack. Choose Kajabi when one connected system for courses, email, funnels, automation, checkout, community, and audience management justifies the $64 annual-budget monthly premium over LearnWorlds Pro Trainer. Both have built-in marketing and learning features; this is a fit judgment, not a measured learning outcome or guaranteed saving.

Published pricing

The plans that define the decision

Platform and plan	Annual-plan equivalent	Platform charge to check	Best fit
LearnWorlds Starter	$24/month	$5 per paid enrollment	Low-volume validation of one paid course
LearnWorlds Pro Trainer	$79/month	No enrollment fee	Certificates, Basic video tools and capped SCORM; confirm recurring-program tier
Kajabi Basic	$143/month	2% with affected third-party providers	One connected expert-business stack
Kajabi Growth	$199/month	1% with affected third-party providers	More products, contacts, counted admin seats and conditional automations

USD annual-plan equivalents rechecked October 4, 2026. Kajabi's listed third-party provider fees exclude PayPal and Kajabi Payments. Card processing, tax, refunds, currency conversion, and optional services are separate.

These costs use current-plan annual billing and exclude normal processing and optional capacity. Kajabi's extra provider fee applies to affected directly connected third-party card processors where Kajabi Payments is available, not to Kajabi Payments or PayPal. Its migration notice also exempts retained legacy plans. Native recurring-payment charges remain separate; confirm the account's actual plan and rate. For Australia-registered accounts, compare the Australian card-rate dates and source mismatch. A new checkout setting does not prove existing subscriptions moved. Check payout timing and recurring-billing evidence before budgeting cash availability or a provider switch.

Capacity is not one slot per listing: all Kajabi Downloads together use one product slot, while Community does not use a product slot. Compare available paid capacity with a full upgrade; published contact-add-on increments disagree, so do not assume a universal $25 minimum. Our capacity-source check, payment-cost examples and current-versus-legacy check explain the scope. This October 4 check is not a completed full audit.

Three sales scenarios

Modeled costs before tool replacements

These annual-budget, no-refund examples assume a $149 course and that the named plan meets the required features; a required higher tier changes the comparison. They compare subscription plus documented platform charges. Normal payment processing is excluded because both platforms' rates vary by provider and region.

Monthly sales	LearnWorlds lowest modeled plan	Kajabi Basic with preferred payments	Kajabi Basic with 2% provider fee
5 sales ($745 gross)	Starter: $49	$143	About $158
15 sales ($2,235 gross)	Pro Trainer: $79	$143	About $188
30 sales ($4,470 gross)	Pro Trainer: $79	$143	About $232

LearnWorlds Starter and Pro Trainer tie at 11 paid enrollments per month. Pro Trainer becomes cheaper from the twelfth enrollment.

What the premium buys

Kajabi is not just a more expensive course host

Kajabi Basic includes five products, 2,500 contacts, one website, one community, two counted Owner/Admin users including the Account Owner, unlimited landing pages, unlimited funnels, and unlimited marketing emails. That bundle can replace outside subscriptions when its actual workflow meets your needs.

LearnWorlds Pro also lists a built-in community, 15 page funnels and 2,000 mass-email credits per month. An email credit is not an unlimited contact allowance. Add an outside tool only when those included capabilities do not meet your needs; do not assume every LearnWorlds school must pay for a separate email, funnel or community service. Native LearnWorlds automations require Learning Center. One mass email to one recipient consumes one credit; scheduled sends are cancelled when credits run out. Its page funnels do not automatically redirect after Shopify payment, so that payment step belongs last. Compare cancelled subscriptions and new costs for the same billing period.

Kajabi Basic has trigger/action automations; Growth and Pro add conditional rules. Its contact count includes unsubscribed records, while marketing campaigns require subscribed recipients. Paid community entry uses an Offer linked to an Access Group; a group is not another Community. A bundle of features does not prove a configured workflow, email delivery or reduced workload.

Learning experience

Test the exact teaching feature on the eligible plan

Check LearnWorlds when

Video editing fits the plan: Pro lists Basic; Learning Center lists Advanced. Added interactions, questions and chapter contents need Learning Center or higher in the reviewed documentation.
Certificates on Pro or higher fit the configured award rule. A certificate alone does not establish assessed learning.
File-response assessments on Pro or higher meet the task. Recorded video/audio responses and prerequisite rules need Learning Center or higher.
SCORM reporting meets your needs: Pro permits 20 packages, 2 GB total and 400 MB per package. The report covers overall completion, final score and pass/fail, not every internal module or assignment.
You want unlimited courses on Pro Trainer.
Its built-in marketing or your existing outside tools already meet the workflow.

Check Kajabi when

Email, funnels, checkout, and automation need to share data.
Offer-linked community Access Groups fit the paid customer experience.
You sell coaching, memberships, and digital products beside courses.
You want fewer integrations and vendor accounts to manage.
Native quizzes, certificates and module gates meet the learning task; SCORM is not required.

Kajabi quizzes support multiple choice, checkboxes, short answer and file upload. The first two can be graded automatically; graded short answers and uploads need manual grading. A configured passing score and completion-blocking option can gate module access. Certificates can follow course completion or an automation event, which need not be a passing result. Kajabi's course documentation explicitly excludes SCORM compliance.

For LearnWorlds, graded SCORM requires the relevant graded-activity setup; package configuration and accessibility remain your responsibility. Check video, certificate and program tier boundaries. If coaching is the job, check Kajabi's scheduling and live-video fit before treating it as a replacement.

Limits that can force an upgrade

Count products, contacts, learners, and administrators before choosing

Constraint	LearnWorlds implication	Kajabi implication
Course catalog	Pro Trainer includes unlimited courses and learning paths	Basic includes five products; Growth includes 50
Audience capacity	Pro Trainer: 2,000 learners accessing the school that month, not all stored enrollments	Basic includes 2,500 contacts; Growth includes 25,000
Team	Pro Trainer includes five combined admin/instructor seats	Basic: Account Owner + one additional Owner/Admin; Growth: Account Owner + ten. Current Assistant/Support roles are separate; legacy counting differs.
Multiple websites	Separate school subscriptions; one login can manage several schools	Pro is the listed three-website plan

LearnWorlds' monthly active learners and Kajabi's contacts count different populations. Do not compare 2,000 with 2,500 as equivalent audience capacity. Kajabi includes unsubscribed contacts; a purchase alone does not subscribe a customer to marketing email.

Payment reality

Regional eligibility can decide before features do

LearnWorlds documents Stripe, PayPal, and Shopify as built-in payment routes. Stripe is required for documented web subscription sales, and Shopify cannot be used alongside the other built-in gateways. Optional mobile-app store subscriptions have a separate billing owner and cancellation route; check the mobile billing boundary.

Kajabi Payments is available only to businesses registered in the regions Kajabi lists as supported. Its additional third-party provider fee does not apply where Kajabi Payments is unavailable. Still confirm the provider your account can use, normal processing, payout country, and settlement currency. A working buyer checkout does not automatically guarantee a workable creator payout.

If the offer recurs, compare cancellation evidence before choosing. LearnWorlds' pending and confirmed states differ; Kajabi's general and Payments articles disagree about revocation and access timing. Keep the actual billing route and end dates rather than assuming content removal stops charges.

Decision checklist

Choose based on the bottleneck you actually have

Choose LearnWorlds if

Your course experience is the main competitive advantage.
You want a lower modeled base subscription when the eligible plan meets your requirements.
The specific SCORM, assessment or video capability fits the eligible plan.
Your existing marketing stack already works.

Choose Kajabi if

Your bottleneck is lead generation and customer follow-up.
Integrated email, funnels, community, and automation replace real costs.
You sell several types of expertise, not only courses.
You value one support relationship and one operating dashboard.

Frequently asked

LearnWorlds vs Kajabi questions

Which is better for a first course?

Under the annual-billing, no-refund model above, LearnWorlds Starter has a lower base-plus-enrollment cost below 11 paid enrollments a month, ties Pro Trainer at 11, and costs more at 12 or above. Features can require Pro Trainer or Learning Center regardless of enrollment volume. Check those requirements first. Kajabi Basic may fit when its included tools meet the workflow; count savings only for separate subscriptions you actually avoid.

Does Kajabi's higher price include email marketing?

Yes. Kajabi's published plan comparison includes unlimited marketing emails, landing pages, and funnels across Basic, Growth, and Pro, subject to the plan's contact and feature limits.

Does LearnWorlds have better course features?

Compare the task and plan. LearnWorlds supports capped SCORM on Pro and tiered video tools; advanced video interactions need Learning Center, as do recorded responses and prerequisite rules. Kajabi has native quizzes, passing/module gates and certificates, but its Courses are not SCORM compliant. Neither feature list proves better learning outcomes.

Should I choose the platform with the lower monthly fee?

Not automatically. Compare included tools first; add outside costs only for unmet requirements, then check payment eligibility and the time cost of maintaining integrations.

Official sources

Verify current pricing and payment eligibility

The original pricing and payment sources were reviewed August 17, with later scoped billing checks noted above. Selected feature and plan boundaries were reviewed in official public documentation on October 6, 2026. This is not an account entitlement test or completed cross-platform audit; the full-audit and Dataset dates remain September 2.

Video tier details reuse the editor guide dated April 24, 2025 and AI quick-start guide dated June 8, 2026. The separate-school subscription guidance is dated May 24, 2024; confirm current terms before opening another school.

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