Is Cardel an alternative to Kajabi or Memberful?

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 Memberful when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Kajabi and Memberful are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Kajabi or Memberful?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Kajabi and Memberful?

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

How do I switch from Kajabi or Memberful 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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KajabivsMemberful

Kajabi runs courses, funnels, and memberships from one vendor. Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run.

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How Kajabi and Memberful 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.

Memberful is a clean way to charge for membership. Stripe billing, plans and gifts, gated WordPress content, Discord and podcast access, member newsletters, and now a landing-page and newsletter builder on your own domain. Publishers who want a paywall without rebuilding their whole site have trusted it for years.

Where they are different

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

Choose Memberful when you want a paywall and member billing on a WordPress or custom site you already run.

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What's on Kajabi and Memberful

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Kajabi: Included
Memberful: Included
Custom domain
Kajabi: Included
Memberful: Included

Public content

Blog
Kajabi: Included
Memberful: Not included

Audience and email

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

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Kajabi: Included
Memberful: Included
AI Assistant
Kajabi: Included
Memberful: Not included

Feature comparison for Kajabi and Memberful
Feature	Kajabi	Memberful
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not 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	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Not included

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