One builds the page that catches the lead. The other runs everything that happens after it — the reply, the booking, the chase, the close.
Updated July 2026 · written by the Nova OS team
we tell you where ClickFunnels wins too
Five differences. If you only read one part of this page, read this part — everything after it is evidence.
ClickFunnels sells you the workshop. Nova hands you the finished machine.
You describe what you sell. Nova generates the pipeline, the follow-up sequences, the booking flow and the templates around it, and it checks every fact it used back against your own words before you ever log in.
The editor is superb, but the funnel is yours to design — every step, every page, every workflow. A blank canvas with a great template library is still a canvas.
Describe your offer today; the system is answering and booking leads the same day. Nothing to configure first, nothing to learn before it earns.
A single page can go up fast. The whole thing — funnel steps, checkout, workflows, domains, follow-up — takes as many weeks as you can give it, and those weeks come before the first booked call.
“Text my no-shows at 9am.” “Add a stage for renewals.” “Write me a month of content.” Nova edits the automation itself. There is no builder to learn and no settings maze to find.
Changes mean opening the page editor or the workflow builder and moving the parts yourself. There is a real craft to it — and it stays your craft to keep up.
The software, the AI, the build, the migration, the support and your message volume are one price. No wallet to top up, no per-contact tier, no setup invoice.
Plans start from $97/mo and step up by contacts, emails, seats and workspaces. Whoever designs and builds the funnels sits outside that number — and usually dwarfs it.
New leads get a real reply in under a minute, in your voice. No-shows get chased. Quiet leads get revived. Every one of those is a close you were losing quietly.
Email workflows are built in and they are good. Text follow-up from your own business number, booked-call reminders and no-show chase are not the funnel's job — they come from tools you add.
Honest note: a dedicated texting number is $20/mo on top, with 2,000 texts a month included.
We are not going to pretend ClickFunnels is bad software — it is one of the best page-and-checkout builders there is. It is built to sell on a page. If your money is made on a call, the maths changes.
Not a feature-count contest. Four short tables, one per part of the job.
| Built for you |
ClickFunnels |
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| Who builds itpipelines, automations, templates | ✓Nova builds it, before you log in | ✕you, page by page — or a funnel builder you hire |
| Time to a working systemsignup to a live system that captures and follows up leads | About 5 minutes | a page in a day; the whole system in weeks |
| Day-one state of the account | ✓your offer, your stages, your copy | ✕an empty workspace and a template library |
| What you learn before it earns | Nothing. You answer questions about your offer | page editor, funnel steps, workflows, checkout & domain setup |
| Built for you |
ClickFunnels |
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|---|---|---|
| Change anything in plain Englishtell it what you want; it edits the automation itself | ✓“text my no-shows at 9” → done | ✕open the editor and move it yourself |
| AI at the corerunning the system, not a chat widget on top of it | ✓runs the whole system | ~AI writing allowances for copy and pages; the running of it stays yours |
| Adding a lead by talking | ✓type or speak it, Nova files it | ✕opt-in forms, checkouts and CSV imports |
| Reports the moment you log inrevenue, calls, show rate, pipeline | ✓prebuilt around your offer | ~strong funnel and page analytics; call and pipeline reporting is lighter |
| When something needs fixing | ✓we go into your account and fix it | ~support and a large community; the build itself stays yours |
| Built for you |
ClickFunnels |
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|---|---|---|
| Text follow-upfrom your own carrier-registered business number | ✓volume included in the flat pricethe number itself is $20/mo, 2,000 texts included | ~email marketing is built in; texting typically comes from a tool you connect |
| Speed to leadhow fast a new lead gets a real reply | ✓under a minute, 24/7, in your voice | ~an instant email is easy; a real conversation isn't the funnel's job |
| Booking with lead screeningcontact captured before the time-picker | ✓phone number first, built in | ~the page captures them; scheduling usually comes from a connected calendar tool |
| Dead-lead revivalquiet leads re-warmed automatically | ✓automatic, hot ones routed to you | ✕write and schedule the broadcast yourself |
| Content engineplans, drafts and ships in your voice | ✓a month planned in minutes | ~blogs and AI copy for your pages; the social plan is yours |
| Proposals, e-sign & client portal | ✓sign, pay and onboard in one branded place | ~excellent checkout, order bumps and a customer centre; lighter on proposals and e-sign |
| Team trackers & KPI rollupsone link per person, live scoreboard | ✓built in, no setup | ~team seats by plan; funnel analytics rather than a people scoreboard |
| Built for you |
ClickFunnels |
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|---|---|---|
| Usage chargestexts, calls, email, AI actions | ✓included, no wallet to top up | ~no per-message wallet — credit where it's due; email, contact and AI allowances come with the plan |
| Per-contact or per-seat pricing | ✓flat — every seat, every contact | ✕plans step up by contacts, emails, seats and workspaces |
| Setup fee | ✓$0 — the build is the product | ~$0 from the platform; designers and funnel builders charge separately |
| Leave any month, take your data | ✓export everything, port your number | ✓same — and credit where it's due |
| The damageper month, one business | $99 flat · build, AI and message volume included | from $97 higher tiers cost more · limits by contacts, emails and seats · plus whoever builds it |
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Every row here is a claim we will walk you through on a live screen before you pay a cent.
Prices and features change on both sides — check their pricing page and ours before you decide.
An illustration, not a quote: what a single coaching or service business tends to pay each month once the thing is actually running.
The left-hand card is an illustration of the shape of the bill, not a quote — ClickFunnels' own monthly plans start from $97/mo as published in July 2026, and build and tooling costs depend entirely on how you run it. Check their pricing page before you decide, and hold us to ours.
If a comparison page never says a good word about the other side, it is an advert. Three places ClickFunnels is the right call — and we will tell you so on the phone.
A first-class page editor, a deep template library, split testing, and a checkout with order bumps, one-click upsells and downsells. Nova does not build landing pages. If your money is made on a page, ClickFunnels wins outright and we will say so.
Courses, memberships, a store, blogs and an affiliate programme in the same login as your funnels. Nova is deliberately narrower — the parts that get, book and keep clients. If you sell digital products at scale, ClickFunnels covers more ground.
Years of training, an enormous community, shareable funnels, and no shortage of contractors who build in it for a living. Nova is younger. Our answer is that we do the building for you instead of pointing you at a course — but the ecosystem gap is real.
Most people who move keep the pages that convert and hand Nova everything after the opt-in. Nothing gets deleted on their side until you say so — run both for a week if you want.
Export contacts and orders from ClickFunnels as CSV and send them over. We import them with tags, stages, owners and notes preserved. Your existing opt-in and checkout pages keep running — they just start feeding Nova.
Tell us what your workflows currently do, or screenshot them. Nova rebuilds the equivalent around your offer — sequences, booking, reminders, no-show chase, revival — and adds the text follow-up the funnel never had.
Once your calendar is booking out of Nova, look at what your ClickFunnels plan is still doing for you. Plenty of people keep it for the pages. Plenty of people don't need the tier they're on. Either answer is fine by us.
Migration is included — there is no onboarding invoice at the end of it.
Tell us what you sell. We'll show you, on your own numbers, what a system that follows up for you is worth every month.
$99/mo flat · leave any month · your data is always yours
This comparison reflects publicly available information about ClickFunnels as of July 2026 and our own product. ClickFunnels is a trademark of Etison LLC, which is not affiliated with and does not endorse Nova OS. Plans and pricing change — check both before you buy.
