Podia and Kartra are both all-in-one platforms for creating a business. Both have websites and landing pages, online courses and digital products, and email marketing and affiliates so you can build and scale your work.

But the difference is that Kartra locks many features behind higher-tiered plans, so you need to pay more to get the same tools. Podia focuses on simple, affordable, and powerful features that let you get started fast, even if you’re a beginner.

Let’s take a look at how Kartra vs Podia compare on pricing and functionality so you can make the right choice for your business.

Podia vs. Kartra plans and pricing

Podia has a 30-day free trial with all features so you can test everything out before you pay. After the trial, you can choose from two Podia pricing plans:

• Mover plan: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): This plan includes your website, blog, and sales pages as well as unlimited digital products, online course creation, and third-party code. You also get customer chat messaging and access to Podia’s friendly customer support.

• Shaker plan: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($75/month when paid annually): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus your own affiliate program.

All Podia plans include all email marketing features (like marketing automations, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, tagging, and campaigns) for up to 100 subscribers. If you like, you can upgrade your Podia Email plan to add more subscribers as your email list grows.

If you sign up for an annual Mover or Shaker plan, Podia includes a free migration service. This means our team will move your products and customers over from another platform (like Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, etc.) for free so you can get started fast.

Podia will also migrate your email list, campaigns, and tags from another email marketing platform (like Mailchimp or ConvertKit) with any annual Podia Email plan.

Kartra also has a 30-day free trial so you can explore the platform before signing up. After your trial, there are four Kartra pricing plans (starting at $99/month).

• Starter plan: $119/month ($99/month paid annually): This plan includes your website, online course platform, memberships, email, and 2,500 contacts.

• Growth plan: $229/month ($189/month paid annually): This plan includes everything in Starter plus webinars, affiliate management, advanced automations, and up to 12,500 contacts.

• Professional plan: $549/month ($429/month paid annually): This plan includes everything in Growth plus more webinar attendees, funnel analytics, and up to 25,000 contacts.

• Enterprise plan: $999/month ($750/month paid annually): This plan has 50 team members, 50 custom domains, and up to 250,000 contacts

Here’s how this could work out by the numbers:

You’re selling online courses, and you want to use webinars as your lead magnet to get new subscribers on your email list. You also want to set up your own affiliate program, and you’ve got about 5,000 email subscribers.

With Kartra, you’d need to use the Growth plan for $229/month to unlock webinars, affiliates, and enough email subscribers for your list.

With Podia, you could do all this on the Shaker plan for $89/month. For your email list, you could add on just the subscribers you need (no need to jump to another plan tier) for $42/month, bringing your grand total to $131/month.

That means Podia could save you nearly $100 per month to run the exact same business.

Course creation and digital products with Podia and Kartra

Both Podia and Kartra let you build your products and sell them to your audience with checkout features. Kartra mainly focuses on courses and membership sites, with the option to add on webinars on higher-tiered plans.

Podia lets you sell all kinds of products. Here are some of the things you can make:

• Sell digital products like coaching, webinars, downloads, and online courses

• Webinars can be free or paid, you can have unlimited attendees, and you can even sell the replay after for recurring revenue

• Use the online course builder to make video, image, audio, and text lessons. You can add quizzes, course comments, coaching, embeds, and other interactive elements

• Add a community to your courses or products with Podia’s Discord integration

• Offer lead magnets to grow your email list and add email sign-up forms throughout your website

• Set up sales funnels and automated email marketing campaigns, or simply send great-looking newsletters

• Add upsells, payment plans, access limits, seat limits, and coupons

• Accept payments with Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, iDeal, and Stripe Link

Best of all, you can start selling in minutes. Well, 3.5 minutes to be exact. That’s how long it takes new creators to upload a product and start selling it on Podia.

Build your website and landing pages (Podia also includes your blog)

Podia and Kartra both come with a website builder and unlimited landing pages. Podia has a library of pre-designed sections that you can customize however you like, and there are also universal style settings that give your site, products, and email a cohesive look.

Podia also comes with a blogging feature, and you can customize your blog post layouts and blog landing page in just a few clicks. And Podia has blog post emailing so you can automatically share your blog post with your list after you press publish.

Speaking of email…

Stay in touch with email and customer chat messaging

Podia and Kartra each have email marketing tools built in so you can send newsletters, build sales funnels, and run email sequences in the same place as your products and customers.

However, one unique feature that Podia offers is customer chat messaging. You can enable this on your website and within your courses so visitors and customers can reach out with questions. This is available on all Podia plans so you have even more ways to stay in touch with your audience.

If you’re looking for an all-in-one platform with tons of customization options, unlimited digital products, built-in marketing, and an intuitive interface that’s easy to learn, give Podia a try today. It’s free for your first 30 days. We can’t wait to see what you make.