Ummah vs Kajabi
Kajabi is a platform for selling courses, coaching and memberships, with email marketing, automations and its own app, from $179 a month. Ummah is the system a Muslim community runs on: events with tickets and QR check-in, programs and classes, members and dues, donations on Advanced, prayer times, the shared app, and a website we design and build, from $0 a month. Here is the honest split, including the rows where Kajabi is the better buy.
Kajabi is built to sell a course. Ummah is built to run a community.
If the thing you are selling is knowledge, Kajabi is good at it. Courses with a classroom, drip schedules, coaching offers, email marketing and automations, a checkout, and its own mobile app, all on one subscription. A teacher with a tajweed course and a funnel to sell it will find everything in one place, and the community product people get pointed at sits inside that. None of this is a criticism. It is what Kajabi is for.
An Islamic institute or a community is a different kind of thing. It handles other people’s money on trust. It sells tickets to a dinner and needs someone at the door to check people in. It runs a term with a roster, not a self-paced library. It has members, some paying dues, and a board that wants the list. It takes donations and has to be able to say who gave what. It publishes prayer times. On Kajabi, an event is a "Ghost Offer" with no tickets and no check-in, the only donation path is an embedded PayPal button with no tax receipt, and prayer times are not a concept. Ummah is built around exactly those jobs.
Then there is the door price. Kajabi starts at $179 a month, or $143 a month billed annually, and there is no free plan. Ummah starts at $0 a month with unlimited members and events, and Basic is $19 a month, month to month, with a website we design and build included. On a paid ticket the platform fee is added at checkout and paid by the attendee, so you bank the face value. For a teacher with forty students and no budget, that is most of the decision.
Side by side
Kajabi's column was read from kajabi.com/pricing and the help.kajabi.com article on adding a donation button on October 16, 2026. Where something is not published on their site, this table says so rather than guessing. Bold is the side that is ahead on that row. Prices move, so check theirs before you act on it.
| Feature | Ummah | Kajabi |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes. $0/mo, no card and no time limit: the shared app, the community feed, unlimited members and events, paid ticketing with QR check-in, prayer times and a public Community Page | No. Plans start at $179/mo |
| Paid plans | Basic $19/mo, month to month, with a branded website we design and build included. Advanced $75/mo billed annually on a twelve-month term, with donations, staff roles and a 0% platform fee | Basic $179/mo ($143/mo billed annually), Growth $249/mo ($199/mo annually), Pro $499/mo ($399/mo annually) |
| Transaction fees and who pays them | On a paid ticket, the attendee pays the platform fee: it is added on top at checkout, 3% on Free, 1.5% on Basic, 0% on Advanced, so the organization banks the face value. Free events carry no fee. Card processing goes to your own Stripe or PayPal | No revenue share. Kajabi Payments charges 2.9%, 2.8% or 2.7% + 30c by plan; a third-party processor adds 2%, 1% or 0.5% on top of that processor’s own fee. Who carries it is not stated on the pricing page we read, so this table does not say |
| Courses | Not a course player. A programs and services listing on Basic and Advanced, and multi-session schedules on events with registration and attendance, which is a taught term, not a self-paced library with completion tracking | The core product: courses with a classroom, drip schedules and coaching offers, with email and automations around them |
| Community feed | A feed per community with announcements, posts, polls, dua requests, reactions and comments, with posts held for review before they go live if you want that, on every plan | Kajabi Communities, the product most readers of this page were pointed at. We did not re-read its feature page for this comparison, so this row does not score it |
| Events and ticketing | Events, RSVPs and waitlists, paid tickets with discount codes, multi-session schedules, the ticket QR code in the confirmation email, and QR check-in at the door from a phone, on every plan | An event is sold as a "Ghost Offer". No tickets, no check-in |
| Programs and classes | A programs and services listing on Basic and Advanced. Multi-session schedules with registration, attendee lists and attendance on any event, so a weekend term has a roster you can take attendance against | Courses, not terms. A session list with a roster and attendance is not described on the page we read |
| Donations and tax receipts | On Advanced, at 0% platform fee: campaigns with raised totals, donor records and contacts, refunds, fundraising analytics and a donation widget for your own site, through your own Stripe or PayPal. Campaigns need nonprofit approval | Only through an embedded PayPal button, per their own help article. No donation product and no tax receipts |
| Members and dues | Unlimited members on every plan. Approvals and member and household records on Basic and Advanced. Paid membership tiers with a monthly price, which members join, change and cancel themselves, paid by card through Stripe | Not covered on the pricing page we read, so this row is not scored |
| Email and automations | Announcements by push, email and in-app to all members, and announcements per event. Not a marketing email product with sequences | Email marketing and automations are part of the platform |
| Prayer times and the app | Calculated adhan on 2,000+ masjid pages, real iqama on 300+, a prayer times widget on Free, and prayer times in the shared Ummah app | Not part of what kajabi.com/pricing describes |
| Website and domain | A branded website we design and build on your own domain, included on Basic and Advanced, with prayer times and the donation widget pulling live from your Portal. A public Community Page and a Discover Nearby listing on Free | Not covered in what we read for this page, so this row is not scored. Check the plan table on kajabi.com/pricing for what each tier includes |
| Mobile app | The shared Ummah app on iOS and Android, which 30,000+ Muslims already have. No separate app per organization, by design | Kajabi’s own mobile app. Which plans include what in it is not something we read for this page |
Where Kajabi is the better choice
No product wins every row, and a comparison page that pretends otherwise is not worth reading. Here is where we would point you at them instead.
A course is the product
If people pay you for structured content, Kajabi’s classroom, drip schedules and coaching offers are built for it and ours are not. Programs on Ummah model a term with a roster and attendance, which is a different thing from a self-paced course library with completion tracking.
Email marketing and automations
Kajabi has a marketing email product with sequences and automations built in. Ummah sends announcements by push, email and in-app to your members, and announcements per event, which is a different job. If you live by a funnel, that is a real reason to pick them.
Its own app around your content
Kajabi has a mobile app for the products you sell. Ummah’s app is the shared Ummah app, one app for every community on it, by design; there is no app per organization. For a creator whose whole product is content delivered on a phone, their app is built around that. Ours is built around the community, its events and its prayer times.
One subscription for the whole funnel
Checkout, email, courses, community and the app on one bill. If you do not need tickets, check-in, dues, donations or prayer times, Ummah has more organization than you need and Kajabi has what you need.