Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Kajabi?

Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Beacons or Kajabi when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Beacons and Kajabi are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Kajabi?

Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Beacons or Kajabi for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Kajabi?

You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when your site goes live. Beacons and Kajabi set their own prices, so check their pricing pages on this page for current plans.

How do I switch from Beacons or Kajabi to Cardel?

Start with Build Your Site, set up your home, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.

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BeaconsvsKajabi

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Kajabi runs courses, funnels, and memberships from one vendor.

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How Beacons and Kajabi compare

Beacons is more than a link page. A link-in-bio, digital product store, email marketing, media kit, brand-deal invoicing, and AI tools give a creator a mini back office without leaving the app. For someone monetizing social attention with sponsors and downloads, it is a clever, generous bundle.

Kajabi is a proven all-in-one for experts who sell courses, coaching, and memberships, then market them with funnels and email from one vendor. That is real strength. If the product is a program people log in to and work through inside Kajabi, it is built for exactly that.

Where they are different

Choose Beacons when you are monetizing a social audience with sponsors, downloads, and a bio link.

Choose Kajabi when the center of the business is courses, a sales pipeline, and memberships that live inside Kajabi.

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What's on Beacons and Kajabi

A check means that capability is available. Beacons and Kajabi are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included
Theme and fonts
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included
Brand kit
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Not included

Public content

Blog
Beacons: Not included
Kajabi: Included
Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included
Marketing emails
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included
Campaign workflows
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included

Team

Admin users
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included
AI Assistant
Beacons: Included
Kajabi: Included

Feature comparison for Beacons and Kajabi
Feature	Beacons	Kajabi
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Brand kit	Included	Not included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Beacons or Kajabi, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Beacons or Kajabi may add or remove features that are not shown here.