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Systeme.io

Course hosting, funnels and email on one free plan

Hosts the course itself as well as the list, with unlimited emails free to 2,000 contacts and no transaction fee on sales.

4.8G2750 reviews4.9Trustpilot8,448 reviews

Is Systeme.io right for you?

Where you sellSysteme.io hosts the course itself, so it is an alternative to Teachable and Kajabi rather than something you connect to them.

Use Systeme.io if

  • You are starting out and want new subscribers to get a welcome email automatically, without paying for it yet.
  • You already have a list of up to 2,000 people and do not want to pay to email them.
  • You want to take the payment for your course in the same place you email people, instead of wiring two tools together.
  • You run, or plan to run, a paid membership as well as a one-off course.

Don't use Systeme.io if

  • The free plan holds one course only, and takes 0% on sales, which is rare.

Start free on Systeme.ioHow we test. Figures checked 9 September 2026.

The details that decide it

The things that bite six months in, read off Systeme.io's own pages. Where we could not read a page reliably, the row is left out rather than guessed at.

Works with where you sellintegrations
It does not connect to Teachable, Kajabi, Podia or Thinkific. It is sold as a replacement for them, and publishes migration guides for moving off Kajabi and Podia. Source
Getting your people inmigration
Free done-for-you migration, but only on the Unlimited or an annual plan. They say it takes 17 days on average and covers contacts, funnels, courses and automations. Source
What else it costs
No transaction fees on sales through Stripe or PayPal, which is unusual. Contacts over your plan limit are archived rather than deleted if you downgrade, but you cannot reach them until you upgrade again. Source
Getting your list back out
You can export contacts to CSV yourself at any time. Cancelling does not take effect immediately: it stops the subscription from renewing, and you keep access until the end of the current billing period, at which point the plan is removed automatically. Their terms and conditions add that subscription plans are non-refundable, and that an account can be banned without notice for a content-policy violation. What happens to stored data after a cancellation takes effect is not stated. Source

What other people scored Systeme.io

Not our scores. These are the public ratings on two review sites that have no connection to us, read on 6 September 2026. Each one links to the page it came from, so you can check it and read the reviews there.

Both sites land within 0.1 of a point of each other, so the two sets of reviewers broadly agree.

We do not average these into one number. A blend would be our figure wearing someone else's authority, and it would hide it when two sets of customers disagree. Scores move, so treat the date above as the age of the reading, not a promise about today.

Systeme.io, answered

Does Systeme.io have a free plan?
Yes. Systeme.io's free plan covers 2,000 subscribers and unlimited emails. We read this off their pricing page on 9 September 2026.
Can Systeme.io send an automated welcome sequence on the free plan?
Yes. The free plan includes 1 automation rule and 1 workflow. Paid plans raise the cap: 10 rules/5 workflows on Startup, 100/20 on Webinar, unlimited on Unlimited.. That matters more than it sounds: most free plans let you broadcast but will not automate, so a new subscriber gets nothing until you sit down and write to them.
What does Systeme.io cost once the free plan runs out?
The entry paid plan is Startup at $17/mo, 5,000 contacts. Prices on every platform here move with list size, so treat that as the floor rather than the bill.
What is the catch with Systeme.io?
The free plan holds one course only, and takes 0% on sales, which is rare.

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