Is Cardel an alternative to Kajabi or Simplero?

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

Can I use Cardel with Kajabi or Simplero?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Kajabi and Simplero?

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

How do I switch from Kajabi or Simplero 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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KajabivsSimplero

Kajabi runs courses, funnels, and memberships from one vendor. Simplero runs courses, coaching, email, CRM, and checkout from one login.

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How Kajabi and Simplero 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.

Simplero is built for coaches, course creators, and teachers who are tired of paying for a stack of tools that do not talk to each other. Courses with drip schedules, quizzes, and certificates, memberships and communities, email and a CRM that remembers every purchase and lesson, scheduling links, and a checkout with payment plans, upsells, and order bumps all share one contact record, and Simplero takes no transaction fee on sales. Its AI, Simplero Coach, can draft a course, a sales page, and the welcome sequence inside your account. For a coach whose business is a program people pay for and finish, Simplero covers the whole job.

Where they are different

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

Choose Simplero when the business is a program: courses, coaching, or a membership people pay for and work through, sold with funnels and affiliates, with an AI that builds inside the account.

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What's on Kajabi and Simplero

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Kajabi: Included
Simplero: Included
Shop pages
Kajabi: Included
Simplero: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Kajabi: Included
Simplero: Included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Built-in chat
Kajabi: Included
Simplero: Included
Messaging Center
Kajabi: Not included
Simplero: Included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Kajabi: Included
Simplero: Included
AI Assistant
Kajabi: Included
Simplero: Included

Feature comparison for Kajabi and Simplero
Feature	Kajabi	Simplero
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	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
Messaging
Built-in chat	Included	Included
Messaging Center	Not 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 Kajabi or Simplero, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Kajabi or Simplero may add or remove features that are not shown here.