Is Cardel an alternative to Kajabi or Mailchimp?

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

Can I use Cardel with Kajabi or Mailchimp?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Kajabi and Mailchimp?

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

How do I switch from Kajabi or Mailchimp 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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KajabivsMailchimp

Kajabi runs courses, funnels, and memberships from one vendor. Mailchimp is the small-business email standard with templates, automations, and reporting.

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How Kajabi and Mailchimp compare

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.

Mailchimp is the name most small businesses say first. Templates, a drag-and-drop editor, segmentation, customer journeys, A/B testing, reporting, forms and landing pages, and integrations with nearly everything make it a dependable marketing hub. The AI tools and Intuit's ecosystem keep it moving.

Where they are different

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

Choose Mailchimp when you want a mature email marketing hub with integrations into everything else you use.

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What's on Kajabi and Mailchimp

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included
Custom domain
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included
Theme and fonts
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included

Public content

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

Reach and quality

SEO
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included
AI Email Template Builder
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included
Marketing emails
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included
Campaign workflows
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Not included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Not included

Team

Admin users
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included
AI Assistant
Kajabi: Included
Mailchimp: Included

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

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