Is Cardel an alternative to Kajabi or Thinkific?

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

Can I use Cardel with Kajabi or Thinkific?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Kajabi and Thinkific?

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

How do I switch from Kajabi or Thinkific 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.

Compare

KajabivsThinkific

Kajabi runs courses, funnels, and memberships from one vendor. Thinkific builds courses, communities, and memberships with a site around them.

Compare Pricing Compare Features

How Kajabi and Thinkific 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.

Thinkific is a reliable place to build and sell learning. Courses, assessments, certificates, communities, memberships, and a branded mobile app option let a training business grow without moving platforms, and the site builder is good enough that many creators never need another. It is steady, well documented, and built around the student.

Where they are different

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

Choose Thinkific when courses, assessments, and student communities are the business.

Compare features

What's on Kajabi and Thinkific

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

Site and brand

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

Public content

Blog
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Not included
Showcase pages
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Included
Shop pages
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Included

Reach and quality

SEO
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Included

Audience and email

Audience
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Included
Marketing emails
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Included
Campaign workflows
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Not included

Commerce

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

Team

Admin users
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Included
AI Assistant
Kajabi: Included
Thinkific: Included

Feature comparison for Kajabi and Thinkific
Feature	Kajabi	Thinkific
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Showcase pages	Included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Included
Reach and quality
SEO	Included	Included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Not 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 Thinkific, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Kajabi or Thinkific may add or remove features that are not shown here.