Kajabi vs Openedx-platform
Kajabi and Openedx-platform are both learning management software. Kajabi is a commercial product from Kajabi. Openedx-platform is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 8.2k 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 Openedx-platform when
- You run MOOCs or large-scale online learning and have engineers to operate it.
Side by side
All-in-one platform for experts selling courses, coaching, memberships and podcasts, with website, email marketing and payments.
The Open edX LMS and Studio authoring tool for running large online course sites, as used by edX and many universities.
It is expensive compared with assembling separate tools.
Complex to deploy and operate; most organisations use the Tutor installer or a hosting provider.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
Python, Django, React, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis
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
8.2k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release named-release/birch.
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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.