Scriptus vs Kajabi
If you already sell courses on Kajabi, Expert Agents are the incumbent answer: a Teaching Assistant for members and a Sales Agent for landing pages, trained on content you already published. That is a real feature. It is not a Scriptus book bot. Kajabi’s own help docs say agents render only on Kajabi-hosted pages, are text-only at launch, and do not process payments inside chat. Scriptus embeds on your site — including a site that is not Kajabi — and reader checkout stays on the rail you choose.
Last researched: 4 September 2026. Kajabi agent facts and prices below are from help.kajabi.com (Expert Agents overview) and kajabi.com/product/expert-agents. Scriptus prices are from getscriptus.com. Kajabi’s course-platform subscription is a separate bill — we are comparing the agent add-on to Scriptus, not pretending Scriptus replaces Kajabi.
You want a cited knowledge product on your own domain, possibly with readers who never buy a Kajabi course. You want entitlements and checkout on Woo, Stripe, Whop, or Kajabi-the-rail — without the bot being trapped on Kajabi-hosted pages.
You already run Kajabi. You want a Teaching Assistant inside a product and a Sales Agent on offer pages, trained on lessons and offers you already have, with conversations in Universal Inbox. You do not need the bot on a non-Kajabi site.
| Decision | Scriptus | Kajabi |
|---|---|---|
| Job | Done-for-you book / methodology bot, usually on your site | In-platform Teaching Assistant and Sales Agent for Kajabi pages |
| Who operates it | Scriptus builds and maintains; you own the offer | You add agents in Kajabi; they train on published Kajabi content |
| What you pay | $5,000 setup + $500/month. No per-agent pack. No revenue share. | Expert Agents: $49/agent/month early-adopter rate through 30 September 2026 (12-month lock), then $79/agent/month. 1,000 messages and 250 AI credits per agent. Multi-agent 30% off only in the early window. This is on top of your Kajabi plan. |
| Where it can live | Your site. Not locked to one course host. | Kajabi-hosted pages only. Kajabi: “Can an Expert Agent be embedded on a non-Kajabi website? No.” |
| Citations / grounding | Cited answers from your pages, or it says it does not know | Grounded in published lessons, transcripts, community posts, or offer details. Teaching Assistant speaks in the third person about you — a Kajabi design choice. |
| Commerce in the chat | Trial or paywall; checkout on your rail | Kajabi’s May 2026 product post: V1 agents do not process payments inside chat, do not capture leads or tag contacts, and do not initiate conversations. Verify current V1 limits if you are reading later. |
| Voice | Optional in-chat voice via ElevenLabs | Text-only at launch, per Kajabi help |
| Proof | Ask Marcus Aurelius, Ask Nietzsche, Imbalance of Like (free) | Kajabi documents the feature for course operators already on the platform. |
Zero new stack if you already pay for Kajabi. Agents read the course you already built. Access control follows product membership. Universal Inbox. Timestamped pointers back into lessons. If the only job is “unstick students inside Kajabi,” buy the agent. Scriptus is the wrong add-on.
The bot is not trapped on Kajabi. Readers who never enroll can still talk to the book. Identity and entitlements are ours to own. Checkout can stay on Kajabi or leave it. Citations and refusal are the offer, not a theme-editor block. We will demo a question it will not answer.
At $49 or $79 per agent, Kajabi wins on sticker — and you still pay Kajabi for the platform. Scriptus is $5,000 + $500 and does not replace your course host.
The honest comparison is “do I need a book bot that can live outside Kajabi?” If no, stay. If yes, the per-agent add-on cannot do that job, on Kajabi’s own FAQ.
Last verified: 4 September 2026 · Sources: getscriptus.com, help.kajabi.com Expert Agents overview, kajabi.com/blog/what-is-kajabi-expert-agents
You do not have to leave Kajabi to buy Scriptus. Many operators keep Kajabi for courses and add a Scriptus embed on the public site or a WordPress page. There is no import of an Expert Agent. We train on your source material.
Choose Kajabi Expert Agents if you already live on Kajabi and the bot only needs to work there. Choose Scriptus if the knowledge product must live on the open web. Choose Circle if the home is a community, not a course site. If you only need anonymous Q&A over a PDF, use NotebookLM.
No — not for courses, email, or checkout. Yes — for a reader-facing book bot that Kajabi agents cannot host off-platform.
Yes. Kajabi can remain the course and checkout rail. Scriptus is the embed. Tenant members never pay on getscriptus.com.
No. Subscriber revenue is yours.
Kajabi’s marketing pages and help docs do not agree in every snippet we saw. The help overview on 4 September 2026 prices agents per agent per month. Trust the help article, then confirm in your Kajabi billing.