The right platform for your online business needs depends on how well the platform aligns with your workflow, audience, and long-term goals. We have tested Systeme.io and Membervault extensively and in this article, we will discuss their strengths and weaknesses; from launching online courses to managing email funnels and sales automations.
If you are deciding between these two platforms in 2025, here is a detailed, experience-based comparison that breaks everything down for you.
Quick Summary
If you are in a hurry:
- Choose Systeme.io if you want an all-in-one platform that does email marketing, funnels, courses, automation, affiliate management, and even blogging, especially if you're on a budget.
- Choose Membervault if you value relationship-driven course selling, want more learner engagement, and don’t mind integrating with external tools for email and payments.
Let’s dive into the full details so you can make an informed decision.
Brief Overview
Systeme.io
Systeme.io is an all-in-one marketing platform that includes sales funnels, email marketing, online course hosting, webinars, affiliate program management, website builder, automation tools, blog hosting and more.
It is similar to platforms like Kajabi and ClickFunnels and works best for coaches, course creators and other digital entrepreneurs.
Membervault
Membervault is mainly focused on creating engaging membership sites and course platforms with a unique twist; gamification and detailed engagement tracking. The platform wins at helping creators understand exactly how their audience interacts with content and uses this data to drive more sales through what they call a "binge & buy marketplace."
Unlike Systeme.io, it is not an all-in-one solution but it provides integrations with tools like ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, Stripe, and Zapier to handle the things it doesn’t do. But its strength shows in learner engagement, gamification, and content organization.
Pricing Comparison
Systeme.io Pricing
Systeme's pricing is quite attractive in 2025. Here are the pricing plans:
Free Plan: The free plan provides very useful features that includes email marketing, sales funnels, membership site, course creation and zero transaction fees.
Startup Plan: $17/month or $170/year
Webinar Plan: $47/month or $470/year
Unlimited Plan: $97/month or $970/year
MemberVault Pricing
MemberVault's pricing is more expensive but more streamlined:
5 Product Plan: $29/month or $290/year
15 Product Plan: $49/month or $490/year
Unlimited Plan: $109/month or $1090/year
Lifetime Plan: MemberVault also offers a lifetime plan that costs $2,750 for users who do not want recurring payments.
Both platforms offer zero transaction fees on all plans and 2 months off yearly plans.
Winner: Systeme.io
Systeme.io wins in terms of affordability but their offerings differ significantly and you cannot compare them solely on price.
User Experience
Systeme.io
Systeme.io’s dashboard is clean and simple. It’s designed for non-techies, and getting your first funnel or course launched can be done in under an hour. It has drag-and-drop builders for pages, emails, and automation flows.
However, because it has so many features, sometimes you’ll need to click around to find specific settings. The page builder works but does not have a lot of design flexibility.
Membervault
Membervault is very easy to use if you are building a product hub or an online course portal. The focus is entirely on your content and how users engage with it. You can customize the user journey with “teasers,” “points,” “hot leads,” and “binge-worthy” features.
However, since it doesn’t have built-in email or funnels, you’ll need to connect it with tools like ConvertKit or MailerLite, which makes it more complex.
Winner: Tie
Membervault is easier to use for content delivery and learner engagement. Systeme.io is easier if you want one tool for everything.
Course Creation
Systeme.io
Creating courses inside Systeme.io is very straightforward. You can create modules, upload videos, add text, PDFs, quizzes, and set drip schedules. It works well if you want to lock content behind payments or stages.
The course player works fine but is not very appealing visually or customizable. It is clean and simple but does not have gamification or learner badges.
Membervault
Membervault shines here, It was built with learner engagement in mind. You can give users points for watching lessons, see “Hot Leads” based on user activity, create a binge-worthy course layout, offer free sneak peeks to upsell paid content and more.
The user interface is more playful and inviting, and feels more community-oriented, even though it is not a complete community platform like Circle.
Winner: Membervault
Membervault wins with its learner engagement and creative delivery features. But for simplicity and integration with sales funnels, Systeme.io does better.
Email Marketing & Automation
Systeme.io
Systeme.io has email marketing built in, even on the free plan. You can build automations with triggers, create newsletters and drip campaigns, use custom tags and filters, track email opens, clicks, unsubscribes and more.
It is not as advanced as standalone email marketing and automation tools, but for average use cases, it works beautifully.
Membervault
Membervault does not have email built-in. To send emails to your members, you must integrate with an email marketing platform like ConvertKit, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, etc. Membervault supports custom fields and tagging based on user actions, which is fantastic for segmentation, but only if the email tool you integrate supports it.
Winner: Systeme.io
Systeme.io wins easily here if you want email marketing without paying for an external tool.
Integrations
Systeme.io
Systeme.io is an all-in-one platform that has most of the features users need built in so integrations are not prioritized in it. If you want to use it with other tools (like Zapier or Google Sheets), you will need to upgrade to a higher plan and use custom API or webhooks.
Membervault
Membervault allows a lot of integrations since it does not have most tools built-in. You can use it with Zapier to connect your email marketing, payment systems, CRMs, and more. Unlike Systeme, it does not try to do everything, it integrates well instead.
Winner: Membervault
Membervault is better if you are already using other tools and need easy integration.
Sales Funnels
Systeme.io
Systeme.io provides solid sales funnels that you can use to create opt-in pages, sales pages, order bumps, upsells, downsells and it also supports A/B testing. Systeme is built to convert leads into sales efficiently.
Membervault
Membervault does not have a sales funnel builder so you don’t get customizable sales pages like Systeme. If you want sales funnels, you will need to integrate with an external tool like Leadpages or ThriveCart.
Winner: Systeme.io
Systeme.io wins here, it provides easy to use, high converting sales funnels.
Community & Support
Both platforms have active communities and provide good customer support.
Systeme.io provides support via their Facebook group, help documentation, and email. Response times are fairly quick (within 24 hours for most queries).
Membervault has a super friendly Facebook group where the founders themselves reply to comments sometimes. It also offers support via email.
Winner: Tie
Both platforms provide okay support to customers.
Which One Should You Choose in 2025?
Choose Systeme.io if:
- You want an affordable all-in-one platform
- You’re just starting out
- You need marketing and sales features in one tool
- You want to start selling digital products fast
- You prefer simplicity over advanced features
Choose Membervault if:
- You care deeply about learner engagement
- You're focused mainly on courses and memberships
- You already have a preferred email marketing/sales funnel tool
- You like the “content-first, community-driven” approach
- You're willing to pay more for specialized features
Conclusion
The right platform for you between Systeme and Membervault ultimately depends on your business needs and future goals. If I had to launch a new course or coaching offer from scratch, I would start with Systeme.io for its simplicity and built-in tools. It gets you up and running with zero integrations, and the value is hard to beat.
But if I was building a learner community with multiple offers, freebies, and engagement strategies, I would go with Membervault. It makes your content feel alive, and your users stay longer and consume more, especially when you use its hot leads and gamification features.
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