The Kahunas alternative with community and courses at any size
Kahunas runs your training, and its 2.0 release added communities and courses. The catch is where they start: those features unlock at 100 clients, and the price per seat and what you get both change as your roster grows. Perform puts the feed, the classroom and membership tiers in from day one, at one flat price.
$99/mo, flat. 30-day free trial, card required; cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.
What is Perform?
Perform is a coaching platform for fitness and movement coaches: program building and client logging, nutrition, check-ins, habits and health metrics, plus a community feed, courses and membership tiers, in one app on web, iOS and Android. One plan, $99 a month, unlimited members and coaches.
Community and courses are a 100-client feature on Kahunas
Kahunas 2.0 added Communities (rooms with posts, replies and moderation) and Education (courses with modules, video lessons, drip and per-client progress). It prices by seat, where a seat is every active client and every team member. Features unlock as the seat count rises: recipes and automations at 25, AI assistants at 50, communities, courses and challenges at 100, and a branded app at 200. If you have 30 clients, you are on the plan without a community or a classroom.
Same tools at 10 clients or 300
Perform has no size gates. The feed, courses, tiers and training are on from your first client.
One price, no seat math
Perform is flat. Adding a client, a co-coach or an assistant doesn't change your bill or your feature set.
Tiers that run across the app
One membership tier gates courses (and the programs attached to them), feed categories, group chats, and live calls together, so free and paid members see different things in one place.
A room is not a membership
Kahunas communities are rooms you attach to programs and packages, which suits cohort coaching well. On Perform, courses, feed categories, group chats and live calls all sit behind the same tiers, so you can run a free level that draws people in and a paid level that opens the classroom and the training that comes with it.
Courses that carry programs
Attach a program to a course, and clients start the program attached to a course as they work through the lessons. Your education and your programming stop being two separate products.
One setting per level
A tier decides which courses, feed categories, chats and live calls a member sees. "Free community member" vs "paying client" is one switch, not a rule you rebuild in each place.
Two pricing shapes
Kahunas charges per seat, and a seat is each active client and each team member. The rate per seat drops as you grow, and features unlock at set sizes. That can be good value on a big roster and awkward on a small one that wants the community or courses. Perform is one flat price with unlimited members and coaches. Work out your own roster on both before you decide.
What Perform is: training and community, from your first client
Both halves of a coaching business in one place, on web and native iOS and Android apps, with nothing held back until your roster reaches a certain size.
The training half
- Drag-and-drop program builder with an exercise library and demo videos
- Client-side logging of sets, reps, and load, with video on any set for your review
- Nutrition: barcode scanning across 1M+ foods, recipes, food diary
- Custom check-ins with progress photos, recurring or one-off
- Health metrics and habits (tick, reach an amount, or stay under)
- Strava, Apple Health and Health Connect (so Garmin, Oura, Whoop and most watches sync through them)
The community half, at any size
- Community feed with categories, @mentions, and threaded replies
- Classroom with courses, modules, lessons, and native video
- Calendar with sessions and live calls (Zoom / Meet auto-links)
- Group chat and direct messages
- Broadcasts and drip sequences
- Membership tiers that gate courses, feed categories, chats, and calls
Log with client
Coaching in person? Log a session alongside your client using their own history, so the numbers land in their log, not yours.
BYO AI
Bring your own AI: connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI assistant to your coaching data. It can draft and assign a program or nutrition template from your instructions, and you review it before clients see it.
Same $99 whether you coach 8 clients or 800
$99/mo, flat. Card required for the trial. Cancel anytime.
Kahunas vs Perform, for a coaching business
An honest read, including the rows Kahunas wins. The short version: both have a feed and courses, training is at parity, Perform has them at any size with tiers across the app, and payments, built-in AI and a branded app are Kahunas's today.
| Capability | Kahunas | Perform |
|---|---|---|
| Community feed & posts | Yesrooms, moderation (from 100 clients) | Yesany size; categories, @mentions, threaded replies |
| Courses & lessons | Yesmodules, drip, sell in a package (from 100 clients) | Yesmodules, lesson comments, drop-off analytics |
| Tier-gating across courses + community | Partialaccess by package | Yesone tier gates courses, feed categories, chats, and live calls |
| Course-attached training programs | Nonot found on their pages | Yesclients start the program attached to a course |
| Same features at any roster size | Noper seat; features unlock by size | Yes$99 flat, unlimited members and coaches |
| Workout programming & client logging | Yes1,700+ exercise library | Yesdrag-and-drop builder, video on any set |
| Nutrition tracking | Yes1.5M+ foods, barcode | Yes1M+ foods, barcode, recipes, food diary |
| Check-ins with progress photos | Yesside-by-side with last check-in | Yesrecurring or one-off, anchored to the program |
| Habits | Yes | Yestick, reach an amount, or stay under |
| Group chat | Yes | Yesplus broadcasts and drip sequences |
| Wearables | YesOura, Whoop, Strava, Ultrahuman | YesStrava, Apple Health, Health Connect |
| AI workout builder | YesInsights; Crew drafts plans (from 50 clients) | PartialBYO AI: your Claude/ChatGPT drafts, you approve |
| In-app client payments | YesStripe, PayPal, 0% commission | Nokeep charging clients how you already do |
| Challenges | Yesfrom 100 clients | Nonot yet |
| Branded white-label app | Yesbranded web app, from 200 clients | Nocustom URL included, not an app-store listing |
| Maturity & track record | Yes15,000+ coaches (their figure) | Partialearly-stage, with direct founder access |
Compared in November 2026 using each product's public pages. Platforms change, so verify anything decision-critical on their own sites. All trademarks property of their respective owners.
Where Kahunas still wins
No tool wins everything, and pretending otherwise would make the rest of this page worthless. If these are what matter most to you, pick Kahunas:
Payments with no commission
Kahunas sells packages through Stripe or PayPal in the app, with no commission. Perform doesn't handle client payments; you keep charging clients however you already do, and Perform's price doesn't change with your revenue.
Built-in AI
Kahunas flags who needs you each morning and drafts programs and meal plans from your library. Perform has BYO AI: connect Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant to your coaching data and it drafts programs you review, but you need an AI assistant of your own.
A branded app at 200+ clients
From 200 clients your logo and colour go on a client app installed from a link. Perform gives you a custom URL rather than your own app. On cost, Kahunas charges for every client and team member, so the bill grows with your roster; Perform stays one flat price, so the bigger you get, the more you save.
Pricing, plainly
Perform is $99/month, flat: unlimited members, unlimited coaches, custom URL. Everything on this page is included, from the feed and courses to the tiers and training, with no seat count and no features waiting for a bigger roster. Your clients don't pay Perform anything.
A note from the founder
I build Perform, and I answer messages myself. Perform is early-stage, so when a coach asks for something, the reply comes from the person who writes the code.
This page tries to be fair to Kahunas. If you need in-app payments with no commission, built-in AI, or a branded app, pick Kahunas. If you want the feed, the classroom and membership tiers from your first client, at a price that never moves, that is what Perform is for. Message me and I'll give you a straight answer either way.
— Tom, founder of Perform
Moving from Kahunas
Here's what actually happens:
No one-click importer
Moving means re-creating your programs, content and courses in Perform. We do that with you personally: early-stage means your migration gets founder attention, not a ticket queue.
What doesn't move
Training and check-ins your clients logged in Kahunas stay in Kahunas, so export what you want to keep first. Anything you build in Perform stays yours, and if you ever leave, we'll help you take your data with you.
What your clients experience
They tap an invite link, create a free account, and download the app. Their program, the community and your courses are waiting on the other side.
Comparing Kahunas and Trainerize? Read this first.
Both are mature training-first platforms with programming, nutrition, check-ins, habits and messaging. Trainerize is the larger name, with a wide ecosystem, integrations, Groups, challenges and an AI workout builder, and its price scales by client count with some features as add-ons (we compare it directly on our Trainerize alternative page). Kahunas has a more all-in-one feel after 2.0: communities, courses, payments with no commission and AI, with features unlocking as your seat count rises.
If you're deciding between those two, pick on integrations and scale (Trainerize) or on payments and AI (Kahunas). If the thing you keep coming back to is a community and a classroom your whole roster has from day one, that's the gap Perform is built for.
FAQ
Kahunas vs Perform
Does Kahunas have a community feature?
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Comparing Kahunas and Trainerize? Read this first.
Community and courses shouldn't wait for client number 100
Programming, logging, nutrition and check-ins, plus the feed, classroom and membership tiers, from your first client, at a price that doesn't move.
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