ClickFunnels vs Systeme.io: What Each Plan Includes

systeme.io includes more at every price it charges; ClickFunnels includes more at the top of its range. At $97 a month, systeme.io's Unlimited plan lists contacts, funnels and courses as unlimited, while ClickFunnels Launch stops at 10,000 email contacts and 50,000 monthly sends. ClickFunnels answers higher up with 400,000 contacts, 20 workspaces and 20 team members, a tier systeme.io has no equivalent for. This comparison sets out every limit the two vendors publish, taken from their own pricing pages as read on October 10, 2026, and names the rows neither page prints.

At $97 a month the two platforms sell opposite things

ClickFunnels Launch is listed at $97 a month and caps email contacts at 10,000. systeme.io Unlimited is also $97 a month and shows contacts, funnels, courses and automation rules as unlimited. Both figures are from the vendors' pricing pages, checked October 10, 2026.

That does not make the two plans equivalent. Launch includes 5 custom domains, 2 team members, 3 courses and 1 store. systeme.io's page publishes a domain count only for its Free tier, and does not publish an assistant or seat count on any tier.

The row that decides the choice is whichever cap your business breaks first. The method for finding it is set out in how to read a funnel builder pricing page, and in practice the contact row breaks first more often than any other.

ClickFunnels prices four tiers and publishes a number on almost every row

The four tiers are Launch at $97 monthly or $81 billed annually, Scale at $197 or $164, Optimize at $297 or $248, and Dominate at $5,997 a year only. The page states the annual savings as $194, $394 and $594.

• Email contacts: 10,000 on Launch, 75,000 on Scale, 150,000 on Optimize, 400,000 on Dominate.
• Emails per month: 50,000, 300,000, 750,000 and 1.2 million.
• Workspaces and team members: 1 workspace and 2 members on Launch, rising to 20 and 20 on Dominate.
• Courses: 3, 6, 10 and 20. Stores: 1, 5, 10 and 20.
• Custom domains: 5 on Launch, unlimited on every tier above it.
• AI tool words: 1 million on Launch, up to 10 million on Dominate.

Funnels and visitors are marked unlimited on all four tiers, so page volume is never the constraint. The page also lists a 14-day trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. It does not publish a transaction fee figure at all.

systeme.io prices four tiers and gives its free plan a working funnel

The Free plan costs nothing and, in the vendor's words, "never expires" and requires "no credit card." It carries 2,000 contacts, 3 sales funnels, 1 course, 1 blog, 1 custom domain, 1 affiliate program, 500 students, 1 automation rule and 1 email campaign.

Startup is $17 a month with 5,000 contacts, 10 funnels and 5 courses. Webinar is $47 with 10,000 contacts, 50 funnels, 20 courses and evergreen webinars. Unlimited is $97 with every one of those rows marked unlimited.

Annual billing is advertised as "2 months free" rather than a printed annual total, so the yearly figure is not stated on the page. All four tiers list unlimited email sends, unlimited file storage, unlimited students and 0% transaction fees.

The automation allowance is the catch on Free. One rule does not cover a welcome sequence, a purchase tag and a cart reminder at the same time, which is why the build order in how to build a welcome email sequence matters on that tier.

Email sending is the widest single gap between them

ClickFunnels meters sends on every tier: 50,000 a month on Launch against 10,000 contacts, which is five sends per contact per month. systeme.io states unlimited emailing on all plans, including the free one, with no multiple published.

Send multiples are how most email platforms price, and they are easy to misread. The pattern, and the way 10x and 12x language works across vendors, is unpacked in how to read an email automation pricing page.

Neither vendor publishes deliverability data, and no pricing page ever will. The only way to see where mail lands is to send the sequence to real inboxes inside a trial, which is step three in the funnel builder free trial checklist.

Transaction fees separate them, and both pages stay quiet on processor costs

systeme.io prints "0% transaction fees" on all four tiers and names Stripe and PayPal as the processors. The ClickFunnels pricing page publishes no transaction fee figure, which is not the same as publishing a zero.

For context on how much this row can cost, Kartra charges 5% on its entry tier and Kajabi Payments charges 2.9% plus $0.30 on Basic, per their pricing pages checked October 10, 2026. Those two are compared in Kajabi vs Kartra for selling a course.

Processor fees from Stripe or PayPal apply on both platforms and appear on neither pricing page. They land in the processor dashboard, not the funnel builder invoice, so the real cost per sale is only visible after a live test purchase.

Choose one or the other

• Choose ClickFunnels if you need separate workspaces for clients or brands, named team seats, or a contact list above 100,000, since systeme.io publishes no seat count and no tier above Unlimited.
• Choose ClickFunnels if courses and stores need hard ownership boundaries, because its course and store counts are published per tier while systeme.io stops publishing above Webinar.
• Choose systeme.io if the list is the cost driver, since $97 removes the contact cap that $97 on ClickFunnels sets at 10,000.
• Choose systeme.io if you want to launch before paying anything, because the Free plan carries 3 funnels, 2,000 contacts and a custom domain with no card on file.
• Choose systeme.io if a percentage of sales matters more than polish, given the published 0% against a figure ClickFunnels does not print.

Frequently asked questions

Is systeme.io cheaper than ClickFunnels?

At every published tier, yes. systeme.io runs $0, $17, $47 and $97 a month; ClickFunnels runs $97, $197, $297 and $5,997 a year. The gap narrows only in features ClickFunnels publishes and systeme.io does not, such as workspaces and team seats.

How many contacts does ClickFunnels Launch allow?

10,000 email contacts and 50,000 emails a month, per the pricing page checked October 10, 2026. Visitors and funnels are unlimited on the same tier, so traffic volume is not what forces an upgrade. The contact row is.

Does systeme.io really have unlimited emails on the free plan?

The pricing page lists unlimited email sends on all plans including Free, checked October 10, 2026. The Free tier's binding limits are elsewhere: 2,000 contacts, 1 automation rule and 1 email campaign.

Does ClickFunnels charge a percentage of sales?

The pricing page does not publish a transaction fee figure either way, as of October 10, 2026. Payment processor fees apply separately on both platforms and appear on neither vendor's page.

Can either platform run a course business?

Both include courses. ClickFunnels allows 3 on Launch and 20 on Dominate; systeme.io allows 1 on Free, 5 on Startup, 20 on Webinar and unlimited on Unlimited. Dedicated course platforms publish different trade-offs.

Which is better for a one-person business?

systeme.io, on published numbers. ClickFunnels Launch includes 2 team members and 10,000 contacts for $97, while systeme.io Startup covers 5,000 contacts and 10 funnels for $17 and the Free plan covers a first launch at no cost.

Bottom line

These are not competitors at the same price. systeme.io sells a cheap, generous, lightly documented stack; ClickFunnels sells a published, tiered, multi-seat one. At $97 the practical question is whether you need workspaces and seats more than you need an uncapped list.

Price the tier that clears your real contact count, not the tier the comparison table makes look good. Every figure above comes from the two vendors' pricing pages on October 10, 2026, and both change them without notice.

Related reading: what a contact limit actually counts, order bump versus upsell versus downsell and what a landing page builder's entry tier includes.