Pick the funnel builder you’ll actually keep.
Kept Picks compares all-in-one marketing platforms — Systeme.io, ClickFunnels, Kajabi and their rivals. Systeme.io is the one we set up an account on and tested hands-on, with dated screenshots. For the rest we read the pricing pages and the documentation closely — and every page tells you which of the two it is.
Systeme.io — the best-value all-in-one we’ve tested for solo operators
The free plan runs a real business: 2,000 contacts, unlimited emails, 0% transaction fees, and unlimited sub-accounts. The top paid plan — unlimited everything at $97/mo — costs what competitors charge for their capped entry tier. The one catch worth knowing up front: you need your own domain before you can send a single email.
- Free plan is permanent, not a trial
- $97 unlimited tier undercuts rivals’ entry pricing
- Funnel setup auto-generates the page structure
- Email requires a verified custom domain first
- Free plan caps automation at 1 rule
Three questions we hear most
Each answer below is a full article with real screenshots and a verdict we stand behind.
“ClickFunnels is too expensive for what I need.”
You might be right. Systeme.io’s $97 unlimited plan costs the same as ClickFunnels’ capped entry tier — we lay out the full price gap, feature by feature, so you can see exactly what the extra money buys.
See the price gap Review“I want to start without paying anything.”
Systeme.io’s free plan is permanent, not a trial: 2,000 contacts, unlimited emails, 0% transaction fees. We built a real funnel on it — including the one catch nobody mentions until you hit it.
Read the free-plan test Guide“I just want the best ClickFunnels alternative.”
The right answer depends on why you’re leaving — price, complexity, or the course features. We match each reason to the alternative that actually fixes it, with current pricing for every option.
Find your alternativeWritten from inside the product, not from the sales page
Our Systeme.io pages start with an account we set up ourselves. The screenshots below are ours, they’re dated, and we publish the walls we hit — not just the wins. Where a page is based on documentation rather than an account, it says so at the top.
How we choose what to recommend
Label what we tested
Systeme.io: an account we set up and used. Everything else: published pricing and documentation, checked and dated. We never present the second as the first.
Compare on criteria that age well
Pricing traps, migration pain, lock-in — the things that hurt in year two, not the demo gloss.
Keep only the winners
The site is called Kept Picks for a reason. Tools that stop earning their place get cut from our recommendations.
One builder. Ten years of sites. Zero sponsored rankings.
I’m Shinya Hatano. I’ve been building and maintaining websites for about ten years — the first one is still online, and I still fix it when something breaks. I co-owned the online store behind it; that business has since closed. This site is the same story: I picked the host, the theme, and wrote the plugins behind it. The tools I test are paid for out of my own pocket, and no vendor can buy a ranking here. If a recommendation is ever out of date, tell me and I’ll fix it.
Not sure where to start?
Start with the Systeme.io review — it’s the tool our other two guides keep coming back to, and testing it costs nothing.
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