Overview

Ontraport and Systeme.io are both all-in-one platforms for entrepreneurs, but at drastically different price points. Systeme.io has disrupted the market by offering email, funnels, courses, memberships, and affiliate management at a fraction of Ontraport's cost. For our take on each, see our Ontraport comparison.

The Price Disruption

Systeme.io's Unlimited plan at $97/month gives you everything with no limits. Ontraport Pro at $297/month does the same but costs 3x more. The feature overlap is significant — both have email, funnels, courses, memberships, and affiliates. Systeme.io's free tier (2,000 contacts) makes it even more compelling for bootstrapped founders.

Where Ontraport Justifies Its Premium

Ontraport's CRM is deeper — full contact records, deal pipelines, lead scoring, custom fields. Its visual automation builder supports complex branching and conditional logic that Systeme.io's simpler rules can't match. For businesses that need sophisticated workflows, Ontraport is worth the premium. But most course creators don't need that complexity.

The Sequenzy Alternative

For SaaS founders who don't sell courses, Sequenzy offers transactional + marketing email at $49/month with native Stripe integration. Built for subscription businesses, not info product businesses.