Kahunas offers a well-rounded coaching platform with three plans, strong feature coverage, and branded apps on the Ultimate tier. It handles workout programming, habits, forms, and messaging well. But the AI is limited to a Health Score feature, automations are basic, and the workout builder lacks advanced section types. Here is how Athli compares feature by feature.
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Kahunas' Essentials plan costs $35 per month for up to 25 clients. Athli's free Starter plan lets you coach up to 5 clients with mobile apps, workouts, a training calendar, the exercise library, and messaging. When you move to Pro (from $20/mo), you unlock the AI workout builder, custom exercises, questionnaires, and habit tracking. Optional add-ons for AI ($25/mo) and Automations ($20/mo) give you capabilities Kahunas reserves for higher tiers or does not offer at all.
AI Limited to Health Score on Higher Plans
Kahunas offers a Health Score AI feature on their Growth plan, but there is no general-purpose coaching AI assistant for programme generation, client analysis, or conversational queries. With Athli's AI add-on ($25/mo), you get Lyra, a full coaching assistant that handles all of these and more, giving you a genuine productivity multiplier for every aspect of coaching.
Why this matters: A coaching-specific AI assistant transforms how you spend your time: less admin, more actual coaching.
Only Basic Automations on Premium Plans
Kahunas includes basic automations on their Growth plan, but they lack the depth of a full event-driven automation engine. With Athli's Automations add-on ($20/mo), you can build complex, multi-step sequences triggered by any client event, giving you granular control over your coaching workflows.
Why this matters: Advanced automation flows scale your accountability systems so you can manage more clients without dropping the ball.
No Advanced Workout Builder
Kahunas provides unlimited workout plans with a solid exercise library, but their builder does not support advanced section types like AMRAPs, EMOMs, circuits, or tabatas. On Athli's Pro plan (from $20/mo), the workout builder gives you full control with every section type, custom fields, and a configurable structure that matches how you actually programme.
What Athli's Workout Builder Supports
Why this matters: Your programming should not be limited by your software. Advanced section types let you deliver the training your clients need.
The Verdict
Kahunas is a capable platform with good fundamentals. But coaches who need a full AI assistant and advanced workout programming will find Athli delivers more. The free Starter plan gets you coaching right away, the Pro plan (from $20/mo) adds the advanced workout builder with every section type, and the AI add-on ($25/mo) gives you a comprehensive coaching assistant that goes far beyond a Health Score. The Automations add-on ($20/mo) provides deeper event-driven workflows than Kahunas offers.