The best Kajabi alternative for coaches and creators on Instagram

Yes, by a wide margin. Hypello includes comment-to-DM on its free plan, and paid plans with unlimited DMs start at $4.90 a month billed yearly, or $8 billed monthly. Kajabi includes Comment-to-DM only on Growth ($199 a month billed yearly, $249 monthly) and Pro. Kajabi's price also covers courses, email, a website, and checkout, so it is only a fair comparison if you need DM automation alone.

Kajabi has three plans. Basic costs $143 a month billed yearly or $179 monthly, Growth costs $199 or $249, and Pro costs $399 or $499. Each plan has a contact limit, from 2,500 on Basic to 100,000 on Pro, and extra contacts cost $125 a month per block of 25,000. Kajabi takes no revenue share. Kajabi Payments charges card processing fees, and if you use a third-party payment provider instead, Kajabi adds a fee of 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth, or 0.5% on Pro.

No. Kajabi's pricing page and help center list Comment-to-DM on the Growth and Pro plans only, and it is not available on legacy plans. Basic does include Universal Inbox, so you can answer Instagram DMs and Messenger chats by hand. To automate DMs on Basic, you would move to Growth for $56 more a month on yearly billing, or add a separate tool such as Hypello.

Yes. You can keep Kajabi for your courses, website, and checkout, and use Hypello for Instagram and Facebook DMs, with link buttons that point to your Kajabi sales pages or lead magnets. Kajabi's help center advises against running other messaging tools alongside its own Comment-to-DM Automations, so keep comment automations in one tool. Hypello has no direct Kajabi integration, but paid plans can send the emails you collect to Mailchimp or Klaviyo.

Kajabi has no free plan. It offers a free trial, 14 days as standard, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Hypello's free plan has no time limit and includes 1,000 DMs a month, unlimited automations and contacts, Ask to Follow, and an AI agent, with no Hypello branding in your messages. Hypello does not host courses, so you would still need a course platform for that part of your business.

There is no direct import, but each automation takes a few minutes to rebuild. In Kajabi, set each trigger to No comments, which pauses it without deleting it, so nobody gets two DMs. Then connect Instagram to Hypello, choose the DM from Comments template, and add your keywords, public replies, and DM with the same Kajabi links.

Yes. Hypello runs automations on Story replies, Story mentions, Instagram Live comments, keyword DMs, posts shared to your DMs, and comments on boosted posts and ads. Kajabi's help center lists comment triggers for Instagram and Facebook posts, and does not list Story, Live, or DM keyword triggers.

Hypello is a Meta Tech Provider and uses Meta's official API, so it never asks for your Instagram password. Kajabi also connects through an Instagram or Facebook login window. No automation tool can promise account safety, so Hypello paces sending with a DM Safety Queue, Slow-Down Mode, and reply delays on paid plans to stay within Instagram's limits.