Trainera vs Kahunas 2026: Prices, Fees and Who Fits

Is Trainera or Kahunas cheaper for a personal trainer in 2026?

It depends on your client count. Kahunas charges $35 a month for up to 25 clients, $69 for up to 50 and $99 for unlimited clients, and its $99 Ultimate plan includes your own branded iOS and Android app. Trainera charges $19.99 for 10 clients, $49.99 for 30 and $99 for 75 (US prices), with a free plan for 3 clients, so Trainera costs less up to 10 clients, Kahunas costs less between 11 and 25 and again between 31 and 50, and above 75 clients Kahunas is the cheaper flat price.

Checked October 2026 against the pricing block on the Kahunas homepage and against trainera.fit/pricing. Kahunas shows its prices with a "$" sign and does not name the currency; Trainera prices differ by country, and the figures here are the US prices.

Kahunas and Trainera plans side by side

Both tools charge a flat monthly price per plan, not a fee per client. The difference is where the client limits sit.

Kahunas sources: plans, limits and yearly prices from the pricing section on kahunas.io (the separate /pricing address did not load when we checked). Kahunas offers a 14-day free trial, and its founder's guarantee says you can try it for 3 months and get a same-day refund if you are not satisfied. Trainera starts on the Free plan with no card. For a deeper look at the Kahunas plans alone, see Kahunas pricing 2026.

Monthly cost at 10, 30 and 75 clients

The cheapest plan that covers the client count, before payment processing or add-ons:

At exactly 10 and 30 clients Trainera is cheaper on monthly billing. The picture flips at the counts in between. At 20 clients you would pay $35 on Kahunas Essentials and $49.99 on Trainera Pro. At 40 clients it is $69 on Kahunas Growth and $99 on Trainera Business. At 75 both cost $99 a month, and past 75 Kahunas Ultimate stays at $99 with no cap while Trainera moves to a custom Enterprise price. Kahunas yearly billing works out to about 25% off by our arithmetic ($315 is nine months of $35); the page itself does not state a percentage.

Between 10 and 40 clients the two price ladders cross several times, so count your active clients today and where you expect to be in six months before you pick.

Payment fees: where Kahunas has the edge

Kahunas says it does not take any commission on your sales: clients pay you through Stripe or PayPal and you pay only the processor's fee. Trainera works differently. When clients pay you through Trainera's Stripe or PayPal checkout, Trainera keeps a platform fee that depends on your plan: 8% on Free and Starter, 5% on Pro, 3% on Business and 1% on Enterprise. Cash and bank transfer payments that you record in Trainera carry 0%.

A simple example: if clients pay you $2,000 a month by card through the platform on Trainera Pro, the platform fee is $100 on top of processing. On Kahunas the platform fee on the same $2,000 is zero. If most of your clients pay by bank transfer or cash, or you bill them outside the app, the difference disappears.

Trainera's payment models are Request only (the price is agreed outside the app), Monthly subscription (card; the web checkout can show Apple Pay or Google Pay on devices that have it set up), Plan-based (pay per plan) and Cash payments. Kahunas lists custom payment plans with Stripe and PayPal.

Branded app: Kahunas Ultimate vs Trainera Enterprise

This is the clearest Kahunas advantage. Ultimate at $99 a month includes your own branded iOS app, your own branded Android app and your own app store listings. Kahunas says it gets 99% of apps live within 30 days, and you need your own Apple developer account, which Kahunas notes costs $99 a year. Every Kahunas plan can also use the Kahunas-branded app.

On Trainera, the brand steps up by plan: Free and Starter use colour presets, Pro sets your own brand colours, and Business adds your own logo and a website on your own domain. Your own branded iOS and Android app, published by Trainera under its own developer accounts, is on Enterprise only, which is custom priced. If an app under your own name in the stores is the main thing you are buying, Kahunas Ultimate is the cheaper route. Our explainer on own app store listing vs branded shared app covers what each option means for your clients.

Features compared

Programs and exercise library

Both tools give you unlimited workout plans. Kahunas lists more than 1,000 exercise videos on every plan. Trainera's library has more than 1,970 exercises with video, each with a muscle map showing the worked muscles. On the web you build plans by drag and drop and group exercises into supersets; in the mobile app you reorder with Move up and Move down. Clients of a Pro, Business or Enterprise trainer can also download plans and train offline in the mobile app, with workouts syncing when the phone is back online.

Nutrition coaching

Kahunas is stronger on nutrition than older comparisons give it credit for. Every plan, Essentials included, lists unlimited nutrition plans, 1.6 million verified foods, 800,000 barcodes, micronutrients, a TDEE calculator and supplement plans. Trainera's nutrition side covers meal plans with a library of more than 1,500 recipes, food search that pulls from Open Food Facts and the USDA FoodData Central database, and barcode search by number. The difference is AI food photo logging: clients of a Trainera Pro, Business or Enterprise trainer can photograph a plate and get an estimate, up to 20 scans a day. Photo logging was not among the Kahunas features we found on its homepage.

Check-ins, habits and accountability

Kahunas includes custom check-in forms and custom habit tracking on every plan, plus Health Score AI from Growth. Trainera includes check-ins, habits and intake questionnaires on every plan, Free included. Clients also earn XP and badges (166 achievements across 50 levels), keep workout and nutrition streaks, and see a new personal record flagged in an exercise's history. Whether badges help depends on the client: some love chasing a streak, others ignore it.

Automations and messaging

Kahunas puts automations, group messaging, bulk client upload and a Zapier integration on Growth and up. On Trainera, automations start on Starter with one automation, Pro has 3, Business has 10 plus a visual builder, and Enterprise is unlimited. Automations can send in the app, by push, by email, and through WhatsApp (you connect your own number through Meta inside Trainera, or use a manual mode where you tap Send yourself) or Viber with your own business account. If a client replies STOP, automated messages from you stop.

Calendar, wearables and the client app

Kahunas lists a calendar and wearable integration without naming the devices on its homepage. Trainera connects Google Calendar so scheduled 1:1 and group sessions land in your calendar and the client gets an invite; the sync is one-way and Outlook is not supported. For wearables, clients can connect Apple Health on iPhone, Health Connect on Android, Fitbit or Polar. Garmin and WHOOP are not supported, which matters if most of your clients train with them. The main Trainera iPhone app comes with an Apple Watch app where clients log sets with a rest timer and heart rate.

Where Kahunas is the better choice

• Large online rosters. Ultimate covers unlimited clients for $99. Above 75 clients Trainera needs a custom Enterprise quote.
• A branded app without an enterprise contract. Ultimate includes your own iOS and Android apps and store listings. Budget $99 a year for Apple's developer account.
• Card payments with no platform commission. Kahunas takes none; Trainera takes 1-8% on paid plans when clients pay through its checkout.
• 11-25 or 31-50 clients. Essentials and Growth come in under Trainera Pro and Business at those counts.
• Nutrition depth on a small budget. Essentials at $35 already lists 1.6 million foods, barcodes and micronutrients.

Where Trainera fits

Trainera is one platform for personal trainers, online coaches, gyms and their clients: training and nutrition plans, check-ins, habits, chat, payments, a branded trainer website, a free client app for iOS and Android, a trainer marketplace, the TRAI AI assistant, Automations and Community. Prices are in US dollars on trainera.fit/pricing for US visitors and differ by country; every plan is a flat monthly price with a client limit, not a charge per client.

It fits best if you coach fewer than 10 clients (Free and Starter are cheaper than any Kahunas plan), if your clients pay in cash or by bank transfer (0% platform fee on those), if you want AI food photo logging, offline training and an Apple Watch app for your clients, if you coach in a language other than English, or if you also run a gym. Gyms use separate plans: Core at $119, White Label at $219 and Studio at $259 a month, with 3 trainers included. See Trainera pricing for the plan in your country.

Moving from Kahunas to Trainera

If you decide to switch, send Trainera your export and the team moves your clients and plans across for free; there is no one-click importer from Kahunas. You can also import training and nutrition plans yourself from JSON, CSV or Excel. The migration page explains what to send. Keep your Kahunas account running until your clients have logged a week in the new app, so nobody loses a check-in in the gap.

How to decide in two weeks

Both tools let you test before you pay: Kahunas has a 14-day trial and Trainera has a Free plan for up to 3 clients. Put the same two or three real clients on each, build one week of training and one nutrition plan, and run one check-in. Then look at three things: which app your clients actually opened, how long the plan took you to build, and what the monthly bill will be at the client count you expect in six months. If you want to compare a wider field first, our Kahunas alternatives list and the Trainerize vs Kahunas comparison use the same checked prices. When you are ready, create a free Trainera account.

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