Startup unless the business can name the Webinar job.
Systeme.io's official pricing page currently lists Startup at $17 per month and Webinar at $47, a $30 monthly difference. Annual billing is shown at $170 and $470, a $300 annual difference.
Startup already expands Free to 5,000 contacts, 10 funnels, 5 workflows, 10 automation rules, and 3 custom domains. Webinar doubles the contact ceiling to 10,000 and expands the other limits substantially. Its clearest functional difference is evergreen webinars.
If the purchase case cannot identify the webinar sequence or the exact Startup limit being crossed, stay on Startup and measure the current paths first.
The $30 buys capacity and evergreen webinars.
Systeme.io's official pricing FAQ checked October 10, 2026 lists 10 funnels for Startup and 50 for Webinar. Use those limits with the other constraints above, and recheck the live pricing page and checkout before paying.
A webinar feature is not a webinar strategy.
An evergreen webinar needs a specific audience, a registration page, a useful presentation, a follow-up sequence, and a measurable next action. Buying the tier before those pieces exist turns the $30 difference into an indefinite preparation fee.
- A presentation already solves a defined buying question.
- There is a credible source of registrations.
- The next action is a sale, booking, or qualified application.
- Someone will review attendance and conversion data.
- The webinar is still only an idea.
- Existing funnels receive little qualified traffic.
- The business has not completed one reliable follow-up path.
- A live event or recorded video can validate demand first.
Set the recovery threshold before upgrading.
The incremental cost is $30 on monthly billing or $300 on annual billing at the published rates. That is not a large business expense, but it still needs an operating reason. Define what the upgrade must recover: one additional sale, a certain number of qualified bookings, or a measurable amount of labor.
Do not count registrations, page views, or internal test clicks as recovery. Use the business event that pays the bill. If that event never appears, the larger plan has not proven its cost.
If one retained sale produces $75 in gross profit, the upgrade needs one additional retained sale every 2.5 months to cover a $30 monthly difference. That is a threshold, not a forecast or guarantee.
Choose the first tier that clears every real constraint.
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Count what is live. Remove abandoned funnels, rules, and inactive contacts before declaring a limit.
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Name the blocked work. Write the exact webinar, workflow, domain, or contact segment that cannot fit.
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Set a business result. Use sales, qualified bookings, or saved labor—not published pages or raw traffic.
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Verify checkout. Confirm price, currency, billing term, renewal, tax, and limits.
Startup is the stronger default paid plan. Webinar becomes the smaller sufficient plan when a real evergreen webinar or another documented limit requires it.
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Prices and program details change. These official pages were checked on October 10, 2026; verify the checkout price before buying.