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Both cover landing pages & funnels. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| ClickFunnels | Prefinery | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $97 | From $49 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | 14 days |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Everything, in an open format |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
| Covers | Landing Pages & Funnels, Courses & Coaching, Email Marketing & Automation | Giveaways & Referrals, Landing Pages & Funnels |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Funnels, courses and email in one subscription
ClickFunnels sells the whole sequence rather than the page: opt-in, offer, upsell, email follow-up and a course to deliver what you sold. Everything lives in one account, which is the argument for it and also the argument against, since leaving means moving five things at once. The community around it is a large part of what people pay for.
Our note
The maths only works if you would otherwise be paying for a page builder, an email tool and a course platform separately. If you already have two of the three, Unbounce or Leadpages will do the pages for a quarter of the money.
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Waitlists where position moves on referrals
Prefinery runs the waitlist you put up before launch and gives every signup a queue position that improves when they bring somebody. That mechanic is the product, and the rest is the plumbing around it: the embedded form, the emails, the fraud checks and the export. It bills on how many people join.
Our note
Buy this for the referral queue, not for the email sending, and check the numbers against what a waitlist is worth to you: $49 a month is cheap for a launch and expensive for a list that sits still.
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