Kajabi vs Lms
Kajabi and Lms are both learning management software. Kajabi is a commercial product from Kajabi. Lms is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 3.4k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Kajabi when
- An established creator wants courses, website, email and checkout in one tool and will pay for that convenience.
- Pick Lms when
- You run ERPNext or Frappe and want staff or customer training in the same system.
Side by side
All-in-one platform for experts selling courses, coaching, memberships and podcasts, with website, email marketing and payments.
A learning management system on the Frappe framework for creating courses, batches, quizzes, assignments and certificates.
It is expensive compared with assembling separate tools.
Requires the Frappe stack and has fewer integrations than Moodle.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
Python, Frappe, Vue and TypeScript
Closed source, sold by Kajabi
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
191 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
3.4k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v2.68.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.