# Kartra > Marketing suite with funnels, email, courses and membership sites Kartra is an all-in-one marketing suite for online businesses. Pages and websites, funnels, checkouts, email and SMS campaigns, forms, calendars and a help desk sit beside hosted courses and membership sites. Plans are set by contact count, and only the cheapest one takes a fee on sales. - **Category:** Courses & Communities - **Made by:** Kartra Inc. - **Website:** https://kartra.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Kartra is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $52 per month for up to 500 contacts, billed annually ($59 monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of any plan, shown as a limited-time offer; 30-day money-back guarantee. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Essentials | $52 per month for up to 500 contacts, billed annually ($59 monthly) | 10,000 emails and texts a month, 5 pages, 1 product, 1 membership or course, 30 Kartra AI uses, 1 domain. Kartra takes 5% of each sale. | | Starter | $99 per month for up to 2,500 contacts, billed annually ($119 monthly) | Unlimited email and SMS, pages, products, memberships and courses, video hosting, calendars, webinars, 5 team members. No transaction fee. | | Growth | $189 per month for up to 12,500 contacts, billed annually ($229 monthly) | The tier for 10,000 contacts. Adds automations, affiliates, surveys and quizzes, a help desk, funnel simulation, 10 team members, 3 domains. | | Professional | $429 per month for up to 25,000 contacts, billed annually ($549 monthly) | Everything in Growth, plus real-time funnel analytics, help desk live chat, API access and 5 custom domains. | Read from https://kartra.com/plans-and-pricing/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Kartra before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save up to 22% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Kartra's pricing page lists yearly billing at up to 22% off: Essentials $52 a month instead of $59, Starter $99 instead of $119, Growth $189 instead of $229. Source: https://kartra.com/plans-and-pricing/ ## Key features - **Pages, funnels and checkouts:** A drag-and-drop page and website builder, a funnel mapper, pre-built campaigns, and checkouts that take card and PayPal payments. - **Courses and membership sites:** Host courses and membership sites with Kartra's own video hosting. Essentials allows 1, Starter and above are unlimited. - **Email and SMS:** Broadcasts and automated sequences by email and text, unlimited from Starter. Automations that tag leads by behavior start on Growth. - **Forms, surveys and calendars:** A form builder on every plan, appointment calendars that sync with Google Calendar, Zoom and Google Meet, and surveys and quizzes on Growth. - **Affiliates and help desk:** Growth adds an affiliate program for partners and a customer support portal; Professional adds live chat to the help desk. - **Kartra AI:** Writes copy for pages, emails and texts: 30 uses on Essentials, 100 on Starter and 200 on Growth. ## Good for - Marketers who want funnels, email and course hosting in one account - Course sellers who also need a help desk and an affiliate program - Businesses that sell several products through funnels ## Worth knowing - Essentials takes 5% of every sale and allows only 1 product, 1 course and 5 pages; higher plans take no fee. - Passing a plan's contact limit moves the account up a tier automatically, with a mid-cycle charge. - Automations, affiliates and the help desk start on Growth; API access is only on Professional. - There are no add-ons for extra domains, languages or team members; more of any means a bigger plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Kartra is a marketing suite that also hosts courses: pages, funnels, checkouts, email and texts, calendars, a help desk and membership sites. Starter at $99 a month billed yearly takes no cut and unlocks unlimited courses. There's no community space in the listing, though, and automations wait for Growth at $189. - **Value for money: C.** Essentials is $52 a month billed yearly, but it takes 5% of sales, $100 on $2,000, and allows 1 product. Starter at $99 takes no fee, so $99 a month is the real figure: above this category's dearer quarter ($59), short of its dearest tenth ($143). - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan. A 14-day trial of any plan is shown as a limited-time offer, and the listing doesn't say it needs a card; after that there's a 30-day money-back guarantee. - **Features: C.** Pages, funnels, checkouts, courses and membership sites with video hosting, email and SMS, forms, calendars and AI copy. The gap is community: there's no discussion space for students anywhere in the listing. - **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. It's a big suite with funnels and sequences to set up, and passing your contact limit moves you up a plan mid-cycle. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, Braintree, Zapier, Twilio, Zoom and Google Calendar. API access is only on Professional at $429 a month, and no apps are listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Kartra's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among course and community platforms - Kartra's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 4 of the 18 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 0 of 18) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $52 a month, against a middle price of $41 for the category: 12 of the 17 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Kartra you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 11 of the 18 other course and community platforms grade higher. It costs $624 a year. - You could make: Online courses, forms, surveys and help desk: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Stripe, PayPal and Authorize.net among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, Braintree, Zapier, Twilio, Zoom, Google Calendar **Tags:** Online courses, Email campaigns, Marketing automation, Forms, Surveys, Help desk, AI features ## Alternatives - [systeme.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/systeme-io): All-in-one marketing suite with funnels, email, courses and community. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kartra-vs-systeme-io) - [Kajabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kajabi): All-in-one platform for selling courses, coaching and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kajabi-vs-kartra) - [Kit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kit): Email marketing and paid newsletters for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kartra-vs-kit) - [Simplero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/simplero): All-in-one platform for courses, community, email and coaching. 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