Kartra vs Systeme.io Comparison 2026
Both cover courses & coaching and landing pages & funnels. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Courses, funnels and email with a cart attached
Funnels, email and courses on one free plan
At a glance
- Systeme.io starts cheaper, at $17.
- Only Systeme.io has a free tier.
- Systeme.io takes no share of what you earn. Kartra takes 5%.
Side by side
Kartra | Systeme.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $59 | From $17 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | None |
| API | Yes |
Kartra
Courses, funnels and email with a cart attached
Kartra sells the whole stack in one subscription: pages, checkout, email, membership and the course itself, with everything wired together on arrival. The trade is stated plainly on the pricing page, because the cheapest plan takes five percent of what you sell. Contact limits are the other constraint and they bind sooner than most people expect. Anybody with an email platform they like is paying twice.
Our note
Work out the transaction fee against your expected sales before choosing Essentials, because at any real volume the dearer plan is cheaper once the percentage stops applying. Systeme.io covers similar ground on a free tier and Kajabi is the closer comparison at the top end.
Only on this side
- Covers email marketing & automation
Systeme.io
Funnels, email and courses on one free plan
Systeme.io bundles funnels, an email list, a course platform and an affiliate program into one account, and the free plan carries 2,000 contacts with no transaction fee. That combination costs several hundred a month elsewhere. Every individual piece is plainer than the tool that specialises in it, and the page editor is the weakest of them.
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