Looking for a Kajabi alternative?
Kajabi is a capable funnel and course suite, and if that is all you need it will do the job. The friction is what it costs to be taken seriously on it: $179/mo buys you five products and 2,500 contacts, your own payment processor costs an extra 0.5-2% per sale, and you cannot remove Kajabi's branding from your own site until you are paying $499/mo. Ziion charges $99/mo with no revenue share at all, no branding tax at any tier, and a native mobile app included rather than sold as a $199/mo add-on. The deeper difference is structural: Kajabi is built for one creator selling to an audience. Ziion is built for an institution whose members sell to each other.
Kajabi pricing read from their own pricing page on 2026-10-02. If they have changed it since and we have not caught up, tell us and we will fix it.
What each one charges
Every plan on both sides — no picking their most expensive tier against our cheapest. Platform fee is the cut taken off each sale, separate from card processing.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual / mo | Platform fee on sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ziion | |||
| Ziion Starter | $59 | $49 | 10% network due |
| Ziion Growth | $99 | $82 | 0% — keep 100% |
| Kajabi | |||
| Kajabi Basic | $179 | $143 | 0% revenue share — but 2% if you use your own payment processor2.9% + $0.30 (Kajabi Payments) |
| Kajabi Growth | $249 | $199 | 0% revenue share — 1% with your own processor2.8% + $0.30 (Kajabi Payments) |
| Kajabi Pro | $499 | $399 | 0% revenue share — 0.5% with your own processor2.7% + $0.30 (Kajabi Payments) |
Ziion's member-to-member services marketplace takes a flat 10% on both plans, and Ziion absorbs the card processing on those sales — the seller keeps a clean 90%.
What it actually costs you
Platform fee and card processing together, because some of these bundle processing and some don't. Comparing headline rates alone would hide the ~2.9% you pay Stripe either way. Ziion figures use the Growth plan.
| Your sales / month | Ziion Growth | Kajabi Basic | Kajabi Growth | Kajabi Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | $128 | $208 | $277 | $526 |
| $2,000 | $157 | $237 | $305 | $553 |
| $8,000 | $331 | $411 | $473 | $715 |
Ziion Starter is $59/mo with a 10% network due, which is cheaper below roughly $400/mo in sales. Above that, Growth costs less — and keeps costing less, because there is no fee at any volume.
What Kajabi does well
- Mature funnel, email and checkout tooling
- Large template and partner ecosystem
All-in-one course and funnel suite for solo creators selling info products.
Where it stops
- Entry price is $179/mo — three times Ziion Starter — and caps you at 5 products and 2,500 contacts.
- You cannot remove Kajabi branding until the $499/mo Pro plan.
- Using your own payment processor costs you an extra 0.5–2% on every sale, so "0% revenue share" only holds if you use theirs.
- A branded mobile app is a $199/mo line item, and the API is Pro-only.
- Contacts are metered: another 25,000 is $125/mo.
- Built for one creator selling to an audience — there is no member-to-member commerce.
What Ziion adds
Four things that none of the platforms in this comparison offer — not cheaper versions of them, none at all.
Members who sell to each other
A services marketplace inside your community: citizens list what they do, other citizens hire them, and the nation takes a cut of a transaction that would not otherwise exist. Not one platform in this comparison has an equivalent — every one of them is built for a single creator selling to an audience.
Real multi-tenancy
Nations with their own staff roles, permissions and passports. No cap on administrators, no metered spaces. Structure is a billable resource almost everywhere else.
A credential layer
Learning paths that issue verifiable certificates and a passport ladder members carry with them. None of these platforms can certify anyone — a membership ends when the subscription does.
A native mobile app, included
A branded app is $199/mo at Kajabi, a $199/mo add-on at Thinkific, and custom-priced at Circle. Ziion ships one as part of the product.
Build the institution instead of renting the audience
Nations are by application — we are selective about who gets one. Fourteen-day trial once you're in.