You taught the workshop that morning, somebody filmed it on a phone from the back of the room, and the file is sitting on your desktop. You log in. There's a dashboard with a funnel report on it, a pipeline, an email automation you built once and have never opened since, a page for affiliates you don't have. Behind all of that, somewhere, is the screen where a video goes. You find it eventually. By then it's twenty past ten and the description can wait until next week, which is what you decided last week.
That bill has a name. Kajabi is built for a business whose entire job is selling online, with the launches and the tracking that go with it. If you teach four or five classes a week and put your recordings somewhere, you're paying for a launch department you do not have.
What $1,584 looks like in classes
Kajabi's plans start at $179 a month billed monthly, or $143 a month if you pay for a year up front. That's from their own pricing page, saved on 17 August 2026, and prices move, so open it yourself before you decide anything. Ours is $47, flat.
Month to month the difference is $132. Over a year it's $1,584.
Put that in your units rather than a software company's. A drop-in class at $15 a head with ten people on the mats brings in $150 for the evening, so the gap between the two subscriptions is about ten and a half of those classes a year. Close to one class a month, taught for no reason except a subscription. On their annual billing it's $1,152, or nearer eight classes. Your prices won't be mine, so use yours; what matters is that the difference is measured in evenings you already work.
The case for staying on Kajabi
If you run launches, meaning a sequence of emails into a webinar into a cart that opens and closes with money spent on ads behind it, Kajabi does that and we do not build it at all. Their pricing page lists unlimited funnels on every plan, including the entry one, and that's the machinery the price is for. They're also much bigger than us, a great deal older, and connect to far more other software. If you're using any of that, the $179 is buying you something real.
The six rows I'd decide on
| CourseSpaces | Kajabi, entry plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $47, one plan | $179 a month, or $143 a month paid a year up front |
| Cut of what you sell | none to us. Stripe's own 2.9% plus 30 cents and nothing else | 2.9% plus $0.30 through Kajabi Payments, and 2% on top if you take money through another provider |
| Students included | 1,000 active students | 2,500 contacts |
| Communities | unlimited | 1 |
| Hosted video | included, 1TB of bandwidth a month, $10 a terabyte after that | not itemised on the page we captured |
| Live sessions on a calendar | included, for a group or for one person | not itemised; cohort courses are listed as not on this plan |
The right-hand column is their entry plan exactly as their pricing page showed it on 17 August 2026, against our one plan on the same day. Two things in there cut against me. Contacts and active students aren't the same thing counted the same way, and on that row their entry plan holds more people than ours. Their page also says nothing either way about video hosting or scheduling, so the table says nothing either, rather than guessing on their behalf. Both pages change without telling anybody, so check theirs and check ours.
Yoga is not only a library of videos
Most course platforms assume what you sell is a set of recordings somebody works through alone at whatever hour suits them. Part of your teaching is that. The rest happens at a time, in a place, with people who turn up: the Tuesday evening class, the workshop on the first Saturday of next month, the four people you see one to one, the six-week beginners block that only exists between March and April.
You can set a session on the calendar for everyone or for one person, and it appears on the student's side next to whatever else they've bought from you. Same login, same place. The recordings from the last block sit beside the date of the next one, so somebody who joins in April can see that there's a Tuesday class and buy their way into it without you sending a single link by hand.
That's the product fit, and it's why we suit a yoga teacher better than we suit somebody selling one downloadable course. Two things I can't tell you, because nobody here has sat down and checked: whether a student gets a reminder before a session begins, and whether you can cap the numbers on one. Ask us before you build a term around either.
The blank screen is the actual obstacle
Most teachers I talk to have the course in their head and nine tenths of it in a notebook. What stops them isn't the teaching. It's the empty page on a Tuesday night.
You type what you're teaching, how many sections you want and who it's for, and it writes a first draft. A draft is all it is, and I'd rather say that than pretend it hands you a finished course. You rewrite it in your own words instead of starting from nothing.
You can build the whole thing by hand instead, section by section, if that's how you'd rather work. A lesson can be video, text, audio, a PDF, a quiz or an assignment you mark.
Your page, your colours, no funnel
You get a public page listing what you offer, with your logo and your colours, and people check out on it. Payment runs through your own Stripe account, so the money arrives with you and we take none of it. Stripe's 2.9% plus 30 cents is the only cut anybody takes, and you'd pay that wherever you went.
There are discount codes for when you want to do something for the regulars. There's no funnel builder, no webinar sequence and no upsell path, and that's a decision about who this is for rather than a hole we're hoping you won't look into.
While I'm being straight about what software fixes: the best class I've been to was in a scout hut with a floor cold enough to feel through the mat, run by a woman who took cash in an ice cream tub and had no website at all. She had a waiting list for eleven years. If that's your situation, none of this is urgent.
What changes, and what doesn't
The recorded classes live in one place. The Tuesday session and next month's workshop are on the same calendar your students already look at. The people doing your teacher training hand their written work in where the course is, you mark it there, and a certificate is issued when they finish. Messages arrive in one inbox instead of three. Your name and your colours are on all of it, from the sign-in page to the emails. What doesn't change is the teaching, which was never the problem.
Justine Lette runs Hypnosis New Zealand, and she was paying over $100 a month elsewhere for a platform she used a fraction of. Different room, same bill. There are around 3,670 students on the platform altogether, and I'd call that a small number, because it is.
Four reasons to stay where you are
If everything must sit on your own domain, end to end. You can point your own domain at your portal. What we do not offer is full white-label hosting, where every address a student sees is yours.
If nothing you teach is recorded and nothing ever will be. A teacher whose whole business is classes in a hall needs a way to take bookings and payments, not a course platform. Buy the cheaper thing.
If a studio booking system runs your week. Ask us before you move anything. The week after a switch is the worst possible time to discover the answer is no.
If you're past 1,000 active students. Our plan covers a thousand. Above that, talk to us before you plan around it.
$47, and that's the price list
One price. Nothing to work out, no tier to decode.
It covers unlimited courses and products, up to 1,000 active students, hosted video with 1TB of bandwidth a month, the AI course builder, the AI assistant with 1,500 messages a month, unlimited communities and chat. The calendar, the certificates on completion and the assignments you mark are in it rather than sold back to you as an upgrade. Extra video bandwidth is $10 a terabyte if you ever get near it. There's a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Start with the class you already teach
There's a 30-day free trial and it doesn't ask for a card.
Don't move anything. Put up the one course you've already made, give it to two students you trust, and set next Tuesday's class on the calendar to see whether they turn up from it. A fortnight is long enough to know whether the quiet version of this is the one you want your teaching to run on.