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VanVed vs Kajabi
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Why businesses choose VanVed over Kajabi
On cost, VanVed is not close to Kajabi — it is a different order of magnitude, with no contact cap, no platform cut on payments and no surcharge for bringing your own processor. It is also genuinely multi-tenant, so an agency can resell it; Kajabi cannot be resold and keeps its own branding on your site until $499 a month. And a course sale lands in the same ledger as the tenant's invoices, payroll and stock.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Kajabi |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | ₹3,999/month for the tier that includes courses, coaching, consulting, CRM, HR, POS and AI | $179/month Basic, rising to $499 for Pro; prices rose about 20–25% for existing customers in January 2026 |
| Contact limits | No contact cap on the course or CRM modules | Basic capped at 2,500 contacts, cut down from 10,000 in January 2026; 25,000 on Growth |
| Payment processing cost | The tenant's own gateway, no platform percentage | 2.7–2.9% + $0.30 on Kajabi Payments, and a further 0.5–2% surcharge for using any other processor |
| Email marketing and automations | A separate marketing module with lists, templates and campaigns, but nothing that triggers off a course enrolment or completion | Built-in email, advanced automations, webhooks and a universal inbox — its core strength |
| Funnels and landing pages | A sitebuilder module exists, but there are no course-specific funnels or checkout pages | Unlimited funnels and landing pages on every plan |
| Branded learner mobile app | No mobile app for this module at all | Branded app included on Growth and Pro |
| AI in the course product | The platform has an AI module, but nothing in courses uses it | Cofounder assistant, Expert Agents and a teaching assistant trained on your own content, all shipped mid-2026 |
| White-label multi-tenancy | Many branded tenants on one deployment, each on its own domain — you can resell it | Single-tenant; Kajabi branding only comes off on the $499 Pro tier and there is no reseller program |
| One system for the whole business | Courses share a ledger, a customer record and a checkout with billing, CRM, HR, inventory and POS | Deep on marketing and selling; no HR, payroll, inventory or POS |
Where Kajabi is ahead of us today
Kajabi is a marketing machine that happens to host courses, and marketing is exactly where VanVed's courses module is empty. Unlimited funnels, landing pages, email automations triggered by behaviour, affiliates on every plan, and a branded learner app from the middle tier — none of that exists here. Kajabi also shipped a genuine AI layer across its product in mid-2026, including a teaching assistant trained on the creator's own content.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Kajabi may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Courses module does
- Modules and lessons
Structure a course the way you actually teach it.
- Enrolment and progress
See who is enrolled and how far they have gotten.
- Quizzes
A pass mark per quiz, scored automatically.