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Systeme.io or Kajabi: choose courses before contacts
For testing a first course, Systeme.io Free advertises one course and 2 000 contacts. As soon as you need two separate courses, the course limit becomes decisive even with a small list. Kajabi Basic advertises five products and 2 500 contacts: check that its additional features meet your teaching and sales workflow before paying for that scope.
Analysis of official documentation, with no testing on a paid account.
Differences that change choice
| Published capacity | Systeme.io | Kajabi |
|---|---|---|
| First level studied | Free: one course, three funnels and 2 000 contacts. | Basic: five products and 2 500 contacts. |
| Change trigger | A second separate course already exceeds the ceiling Free. | Count the products according to their actual organization in Kajabi. |
| Payment | Zero transaction fees announced platform, out of service. | Check the payment method and package fees, with their exclusions. |
Describe a sale and what comes next
Prepare a presentation page, a purchase, a welcome message and a first lesson. Add the case of a student who misses access or requests a refund. This work chain reveals the manual tasks that a sales page demonstration does not show.
Systeme.io offers a free plan with limits on contacts, funnels and courses, among other things. It can be used to check a user journey, but does not represent the capabilities of every plan. For Kajabi, match product and contact counts to the plan you need, rather than counting only videos.
Do not assimilate lack of commission and free payment
A vendor can announce zero transaction fees platform while using a provider that charges the payment. Check currency, country, method of payment and processing fees. At Kajabi, the conditions also depend on the payment solution and the region.
If you sell a subscription, test a failed deadline and the resulting access. Check separately the first sale and the management of the following deadlines. Document how to contact the student and regularize the situation.
Choose a manageable scope
Create a short module with content, an exercise and instructions for getting help. Ask a test user to follow the journey on a phone. Then check what the team can view and export to continue following up.
Choose Systeme.io if the necessary functions are covered in a simple configuration. Choose Kajabi if its organization of products and members brings a used advantage. Add the time for creation and support to the budget, then plan the sales actions and follow-up of the students.
A training beginning then an advanced training: the quota that comes first
Let's take this case: a trainer has 800 contacts and prepares two training courses sold separately. The grid Systeme.io limits Free to one course, even if the 2 000-contact limit has not been reached. If the two learning paths need to be separate courses, she must consider another plan. Artificially combining the content to stay on the free plan only makes sense if it matches the access being sold.
The grid Kajabi lists five products in Basic. Also check how someone buys the advanced level, finds their content and keeps access to the first level. The pricing table also distinguishes processing fees from fees for certain third-party providers, with PayPal and Kajabi Payments excluded from the latter category.
- Define the access of a student in the first, second and two levels.
- Ask for a demonstration of the transition from one to the other without double student count.
- Control host emails and support instructions specific to each purchase.
- Evaluate the cost after adding a third course and the resumption of data if the platform changes.
Choose according to the teaching structure you need and the follow-up work involved. The payment processing charges shown for a US entity are not applied here to a French business. No paid course or real student journey was created for this comparison.
Reviews to consult
Sources and methodology
Supplementary Audit of the 11 October 2026: grid Systeme.io ; grid Kajabi. Initial References for 27 September 2026: Kajabi: rates and fees ; Kajabi: presentation of the platform ; Systeme.io : offers ; Methodology Logicelio