Alternatives
Kajabi alternative for video creators.
When what you sell is the film, not the funnel.
Kajabi is a full business suite: courses, email marketing, funnels, landing pages, a website and community, priced for that breadth. If your product is a film, a series or a members-only video library, you may be paying for tools you never open.
Video hosting for filmmakers · 5 GB free · Paid plans from USD 9/month
By uncompressed.io · Updated October 2026
Short answer
What is a good Kajabi alternative for creators who mainly sell video?
A video-first storefront rather than a business suite. uncompressed.io sells memberships, rentals and films with 0% commission from plans that start far below Kajabi's USD 179 a month Basic plan. It does not replace Kajabi's courses, email marketing or funnels, so it fits creators whose product is the video itself.
- Paid plans from USD 9 a month, Starter free
- 0% commission on memberships, rentals and sales
- Charges land in your own payment account
- Films stream as exported, with no re-encode
- No courses, email marketing or funnels
- Optional Leak Shield, USD 99 a month or USD 1,188 a year
The price gap
Kajabi's three plans
billed monthly
Kajabi prices its plans for a whole online business. These are the list prices on its pricing page, before payment processing.
USD 179
Kajabi Basic
a month billed monthly, USD 143 a month billed annually
USD 249
Kajabi Growth
a month billed monthly, USD 199 a month billed annually
USD 499
Kajabi Pro
a month billed monthly, USD 399 a month billed annually
For comparison, uncompressed.io paid plans are Lite at USD 9, Pro at USD 39 and Max at USD 99 a month. They are priced by storage and by the hours your audience watches, not by contacts or products. The gap is real, and so is the difference in scope: Kajabi's price buys email, funnels, courses and a website builder that a video platform does not include.
Side by side
Kajabi and uncompressed.io
for a video product
Kajabi figures from kajabi.com/pricing, read 12 October 2026. Kajabi Payments processing is listed at 2.9% + USD 0.30 (Basic) for US entities; Basic also includes 2,500 contacts. The streaming platform is included with every paid plan for members who switch it on before 31 December 2026, and stays included for them afterwards; after that date new activations add USD 39 a month.
Be fair to Kajabi
What Kajabi does
that uncompressed.io does not
Courses
Lessons, modules and cohort courses with progress for each student. If your buyers need structure and completion, this is Kajabi's core.
Email and funnels
Kajabi's page lists funnels, landing pages and marketing emails on every plan with no cap stated. That replaces a separate email tool for many creators.
Website and community
A site builder and a community space in the same account, with contacts and products managed in one place.
When Kajabi is the better choice
What a video-first platform gives you
Read from the live price list. Verified 2026-10.
| Commission on sales | 0 percent, at any volume. Buyers pay into your own payment account; your card processor's fee applies. |
|---|---|
| What you can sell | Purchases (stream forever), downloads, rentals with a viewing window, memberships with monthly or yearly tiers, bundles and series. |
| Member tools | Free trials per tier, coupon codes, gift memberships, refunds and free access from your earnings page. |
| Your storefront | A shop under your name at yourname.uncompressed.io/on-demand, or on your own domain. Buyers need no account. |
| Picture quality | Films stream as you exported them: no re-encode of video or audio, with an optional lighter copy for slow connections. |
| Viewing hours included | Lite 1,000, Pro 5,000, Max 15,000, Studio 25,000 hours a month, then USD 29 per extra 20,000-hour block. Playback never pauses. |
| Plans | Starter free (5 GB, one film at a time); Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month; yearly is one month free. |
| Leak Shield (optional) | Every buyer gets their own invisibly marked copy; the open web and torrent indexes are searched; a confirmed leak names and blocks the buyer and sends the takedown. USD 99 a month or USD 1,188 a year, any paid plan. |
| Inclusion window | The streaming platform is included with every paid plan for members who switch it on before 31 December 2026, and stays included for them afterwards; after that date new activations add USD 39 a month. |
Plans and add-ons: pricing. The whole cluster starts at the creator platform guide.
Getting started
From Kajabi to your own film shop
in an afternoon
Upload the video
Upload your films or recorded classes as exported. Vimeo users can import a whole library in one step.
Set your offer
Purchase, rental and download prices, membership tiers by month or year, and bundles or series.
Link from your emails
Keep your email list where it is and point it at the new shop. Buyers need no account; they sign in with the email they bought with.
Protect the premieres
Turn on Leak Shield for releases you would hate to see on a torrent site.
Each paid plan includes viewing hours a month for your audience (Lite 1,000, Pro 5,000, Max 15,000, Studio 25,000); above that, playback never pauses and an extra block is added. If you sell tutorials and are leaving a course platform for that reason, read sell video tutorials without a course platform.
Questions
Frequently asked
What is the best Kajabi alternative for selling video?
If your product is mainly video (films, episodes, recorded classes or a members-only library), a video-first platform costs less and shows the picture better. uncompressed.io sells memberships, rentals and purchases with 0% commission and streams each file as exported. If you rely on courses with lessons, email marketing and funnels, Kajabi or another course platform remains the better tool.
How much does Kajabi cost?
Kajabi's pricing page lists Basic at USD 179, Growth at USD 249 and Pro at USD 499 a month billed monthly, or USD 143, 199 and 399 a month billed annually. Basic allows 5 products and 2,500 contacts.
Does Kajabi take a fee on sales?
With Kajabi Payments, the page lists processing at 2.9% + USD 0.30 on Basic, 2.8% + USD 0.30 on Growth and 2.7% + USD 0.30 on Pro for US entities. With a third-party payment provider, Kajabi lists a 2%, 1% or 0.5% fee by plan.
Can uncompressed.io replace Kajabi?
Only for the video part. uncompressed.io has no course builder, no quizzes, no email marketing, no funnels and no community. It hosts and sells video: memberships, rentals, purchases, bundles and series, from a shop under your name.
Can I use Kajabi and uncompressed.io together?
Yes. Some creators keep Kajabi for courses and email, and sell their films or premium video library from a separate shop. A buyer can follow a link from a Kajabi email to the film shop.
What is cheaper than Kajabi for a video membership?
A video platform with flat plans. On uncompressed.io paid plans run Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month, with memberships, rentals and sales included and no percentage of revenue.
Sell your video without a business suite.
Memberships, rentals, purchases and a branded shop come with every paid plan (Lite USD 9, Pro USD 39, Max USD 99, Studio USD 219 a month), with no commission. Buyers pay into your own payment account.
Sources
- 1.Kajabi pricing (read 12 October 2026)