Kajabi Courses Review: How to Build a Course People Finish

My first Kajabi account dates back to 2012, on the original Founders plan. Today my courses, my community and my sales pages all run on it. That includes the High Converting Sales Page course, the Mastermind Retreat Playbook and the AI Coach Playbook.

So when someone asks me whether Kajabi is a good place to build a course, my answer comes from years of building real ones. This guide walks through what Kajabi Courses can do, how to set one up, what it costs in 2026, and how to keep your first course simple enough to finish.

My first course on Kajabi was Content Alchemy, back in 2012. It drew on Howard Gardner's ideas about the different ways people learn. Readers usually find writing easiest, listeners often speak well, and people who love to watch tend to feel more at home on camera, though not always. The course showed you how to create in the style that suits you, then repurpose it so your readers, listeners and watchers all get served. People bought it through the online checkout, then watched the videos, asked their questions and grabbed the downloads, all in one place. For my business back then, that simple setup made a huge difference, and Kajabi made every part of it easy.

What are Kajabi Courses?

Kajabi Courses is the course builder inside Kajabi. You organise your lessons into modules and submodules, and each lesson can hold video, audio, written content and downloadable files.¹ Your students log in and learn on your website, in the Kajabi mobile app, or in your own branded app.¹

To show you how it looks, I built an example course in my Kajabi partner account. It's called Simplify Your Funnel in 30 Days, and it has five modules and eleven lessons.

The part that matters most to me sits around the course itself. The same account runs your sales page, your checkout, your emails and your community, so nothing needs stitching together. Kajabi reports that courses on its platform have earned creators more than $8 billion, across more than 900,000 courses and 25 million students.³

What can you build with Kajabi Courses?

You can choose between two course types. An evergreen course is open all year, and people work through it at their own pace. A cohort course takes a group through the material together from a set start date, with live sessions built into the schedule.⁴ Kajabi's guide to evergreen and cohort courses covers the differences in more detail.

Kajabi · New course

Inside either type, you have a good set of teaching tools to work with:

Here's my honest take on that list. Most good courses only need modules, lessons and one or two quizzes. The extra tools are there when you need them, and it's fine to leave them switched off at the start.

Your course · Student view

How do you create a course in Kajabi?

Setting up the shell of a course takes a few minutes. These are the steps from Kajabi's courses overview, in the order you'll see them.¹

1. Start a new courseIn your Kajabi dashboard, go to Products, then Courses, and click New course. Then choose an evergreen or cohort course.
2. Add a title and descriptionKeep the description short and clear. Kajabi allows up to 700 characters.
3. Decide on the AI draftLeave the AI switch on and Kajabi drafts your modules and lessons. It also creates a landing page, a form and an email to promote the course.
4. Pick your coloursChoose a main colour, an accent colour and a thumbnail image.
5. Create an offerThis is how people pay. Choose free, a one-time payment, a payment plan or a subscription, or skip it for now.
6. Build and previewFrom the course outline, add your modules, lessons and quizzes, then preview everything on desktop and mobile.

Which Kajabi plan do you need for courses?

Every Kajabi plan includes courses. The plans differ in how many products you can sell, how many contacts you can email, and a few extras like cohort courses and your own app. You can compare them all on the Kajabi pricing page.²

Prices in US$, checked on 7th November 2026. A product means any course, coaching program, membership, download or podcast you sell.

Kajabi takes no share of your sales on any plan, and every plan comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.² If you haven't sold your first course yet, start on Basic. Kajabi gives the same advice on its pricing page, and you can move up the moment you need more.²

The standard free trial lasts 14 days, as Kajabi's trial information page explains.⁷ Through my partner link you get 30 days instead, which is enough time to build a real first course before you pay anything.

How do you keep a Kajabi course simple?

The courses that sell best for my clients are rarely the biggest ones. They solve one clear problem, and they get someone one clear result. That's the thinking behind the framework I teach in Simplify the Funnel®, and I call it the Minimum Viable Funnel.

In Kajabi, a course usually becomes the core offer in that funnel. One landing page, one email sequence and one checkout can carry it, and Kajabi holds all of those in the same account. My example course follows the same shape, with one simple step each week, and the later weeks drip out after the first.

Kajabi · Course outline

Here's how I'd shape the course itself:

A smaller course is quicker to launch, easier to finish and easier to improve. You can always add a bonus module later, once real students tell you what they need.

“It’s time to reject complexity as strategy. Embrace the power of doing less, but better.”

From Simplify the Funnel® by Ant Hodges

Where does AI help with Kajabi Courses?

The way I use AI is simple. It belongs in the back office, carrying the repeatable jobs, while you stay fully human in the front office where your students meet you.

Your stories, your judgement and your feedback are what people actually pay for. Short answer and file upload quiz questions are marked by you and your team, and that's a good thing.⁵ It's one of the best places to show up personally, so let AI draft the busywork and keep that part for yourself.

Who are Kajabi Courses best for?

Kajabi Courses fits best when the course is part of a wider business. That covers coaches, consultants, authors and experts who also want a website, an email list, a community or coaching in the same place. It also suits people who'd rather spend their time teaching than managing five different tools.

Kajabi says plainly that its courses don't support SCORM, so formal corporate training is the main case where it isn't the right tool.³ And if you only need somewhere to host a single free video series, a full business platform may be more than you need right now.

Kajabi Courses FAQs

Sources

1. Kajabi Help Center (2026) "Courses overview." help.kajabi.com ↩
2. Kajabi (2026) "Pricing." kajabi.com/pricing ↩
3. Kajabi (2026) "Online Courses." kajabi.com/product/online-courses ↩
4. Kajabi Help Center (2026) "Course types: Evergreen vs. Cohort." help.kajabi.com ↩
5. Kajabi Help Center (2026) "Course quizzes." help.kajabi.com ↩
6. Kajabi Help Center (2026) "Drip Course content time limit." help.kajabi.com ↩
7. Kajabi Help Center (2026) "Kajabi trial information." help.kajabi.com ↩
8. Kajabi Help Center (2026) "Course completion certificates." help.kajabi.com ↩
9. Kajabi Help Center (2026) "Lock content in a Course." help.kajabi.com ↩

All sources checked and live on 7th November 2026.