Kajabi vs Ruzuku Comparison 2026
Kajabi bundles landing pages, email, checkout, community and courses from one vendor, from $143 a month billed annually, with no free plan to test it first. Ruzuku sells course hosting alone, with no transaction fee and a free plan that never expires, then Core at $99 a month, or $997 a year, for unlimited courses and students. Kajabi is a full marketing stack built for an offer that already sells; Ruzuku is a teaching tool built for finding out whether anybody wants the course at all.
At a glance
- Ruzuku starts cheaper, at $99.
- Only Ruzuku has a free tier.
Side by side
Kajabi | Ruzuku | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $143 | From $99 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | None |
| API | Not stated |
Kajabi
Courses, funnels and email under one roof
Kajabi is the expensive end of course platforms and sells the reason for it plainly: landing pages, email, checkout, community and the course itself all built by one company, so nothing has to be wired together. Coaches with a working offer tend to stay. Anybody still testing whether the offer works is paying several hundred a month to find out.
Our note
This is the expensive end of the category by a distance, and the money buys one bill and one support line rather than a better course player. Worth it once the offer is proven. An expensive way to find out whether it sells.
Only on this side
- Covers landing pages & funnels
Ruzuku
Course hosting that takes nothing per sale
Ruzuku sells course hosting with no transaction fee and a free plan that is not time limited, which between them make it a reasonable place to find out whether anybody wants the course before paying for the privilege. Lessons can be dripped, students can be graded and the whole thing runs on Ruzuku's own domain. It will not build you a funnel. Anybody who needs one is in the wrong category.
Why people weigh these two
- Ruzuku instead of Kajabi
- Ruzuku takes nothing per sale and keeps a free tier to start on, the fit for a coach still testing whether an offer sells before paying Kajabi's $143 a month.
- Kajabi instead of Ruzuku
- Kajabi puts courses, funnels and email under one roof at $143, the heavier all in one.
Which one should you pick
Pick Kajabi once the offer is proven and revenue can absorb $143 a month billed annually and up for funnels, email and community alongside the course itself. It is the expensive end of the category by design, buying one vendor and one support line rather than a better course player specifically.
Pick Ruzuku to find out whether a course sells in the first place. The free plan has no card, no expiry and no transaction fee, which makes it a real trial rather than a demonstration. Core is $99 a month once enrolment is real, still without a cut of sales, but it will not build a funnel or send marketing email the way Kajabi does.
Common questions
- Which has a free plan?
- Ruzuku does, and it never expires or asks for a card, making it a genuine way to build a course before paying anything. Kajabi has no free plan; the cheapest paid tier is $143 a month billed annually.
- Does either take a percentage of course sales?
- Neither does. Ruzuku states no transaction fee at any tier as a headline feature. Kajabi's payment processing runs from 2.9 percent plus 30 cents down to 2.7 percent, but that is the card processor's charge, not Kajabi's own cut.
- Can Ruzuku build a marketing funnel like Kajabi?
- No, its own listing is explicit that it will not build a funnel, and that anybody needing one is in the wrong category. Kajabi treats a funnel, pages plus an email sequence, as a first-class part of the product.
- Which is cheaper for a first course?
- Ruzuku, by a wide margin, since the free plan costs nothing and never expires. Kajabi's cheapest plan is $143 a month billed annually, which its own listing calls an expensive way to find out whether an offer sells.
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