Courses · Sep 16, 2025 · 6 min read
Why You Should Ditch Kajabi to Host Your Course
Kajabi is powerful. It is also $149+/month, bloated with features you do not use, and overkill for the way most creators actually ship courses in 2025.
Kajabi is powerful. It promises an all-in-one platform to run your online course business. In 2025 it is also starting to feel like overkill. High monthly cost, complicated setup, dozens of features you never touch. If that is your stack, there is a leaner way.
Kajabi is overkill for most creators
A course creator usually needs four things:
- A place to structure and deliver content
- A way to accept payment
- Access control so only buyers can view it
- Basic analytics on enrollments and progress
You probably do not need a website builder, a funnel builder, drip automations that require their own training, or a CRM you will not maintain. Kajabi locks all of it into one expensive plan and asks you to learn the whole platform before you ship.
Why a native, focused builder wins
Cajobo is built for one job: turning your knowledge into a course or digital product that you can sell, deliver, and track. Nothing else.
- Build the course natively - modules, lessons, files, video - directly in the editor.
- Publish to your own domain with a clean branded URL.
- Stripe connects in one click; payouts go straight to your account.
- Access is gated by purchase and revoked automatically on refund.
- Analytics show enrollments, lesson completion, drop-off, and revenue per source.
No funnel builder you will not use. No bloated all-in-one tax. Just the parts of a course platform that actually matter.
The pricing math
Kajabi starts around $149/month. Cajobo plans start at $0 and scale with revenue. For a creator doing under five figures a month in course sales, the savings alone fund the next launch.
What about the Notion crowd?
If your course content currently lives in Notion, you have two clean options on Cajobo:
- Import it once. Paste the Notion page and Cajobo pulls it in as native modules and lessons.
- Rebuild it natively. Use the Cajobo editor and gain richer media, real progress tracking, and proper analytics from day one.
Either way you stop sharing a fragile public Notion link and start shipping a real product.
The switch is not as scary as you think
Most creators move off Kajabi in an afternoon. Export the lesson outlines, drop them into Cajobo, reconnect Stripe, point the domain, send an "everything just got better" email to your students. Done.
The course content is what students paid for. The platform is just plumbing. Use the leanest, cheapest plumbing that lets you ship.
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