A paid community where members talk every day is where Mighty Networks earns its price. Launch, the first plan its help docs list courses on, costs $950 a year plus 2% of each sale. One-off downloads are a poor fit, and PayPal is not supported.
The app is well liked, at 4.8 on the App Store. The company shows 3.3 on Trustpilot, where 2026 complaints center on billing and lost access. Stripe’s fee sits on top of Mighty’s cut, and Apple takes 15% of iPhone purchases. This Mighty Networks review draws on all 220 Trustpilot reviews, the help docs, the Host Terms and live prices.
A Trustpilot reviewer moved about 500 members onto Mighty Networks and shut it down 2 months later. Picking the wrong home costs you that kind of work, plus your members’ patience.
The reviews ranking for this search will not help much. 3 of the 6 I read still print prices Mighty Networks has retired, and none of them mentions the 5% on its cheapest plan.
The ratings split too: the same product scores 4.8 in 1 place and 3.3 in another. I sorted every Trustpilot review to find out why.
By the end you will know which plan fits, what it costs, and what to do before you ever cancel.
Key Takeaways
- Best fit: a paid community where members talk daily. Launch costs $950 a year plus 2% of each sale, before Stripe’s fee.
- Which plan: Launch for a paid community or a cohort course, Explore only for a short test, Scale when email tools or Zapier must connect.
- The ratings split: the app scores 4.8 on the App Store, while Trustpilot shows 3.3, below the plain 3.9 average of its 220 reviews.
- How a review arrived moves the score: people who came on their own average 2.67 stars, and review-link reviews average 4.72.
- Complaints moved in 2026: billing and lost access make up 9 of the 15 low reviews this year, ahead of support.
- Leaving takes planning: a cancelled plan gets no refund, and hosts who drop below Launch can lose the member list download.
What Mighty Networks is, and what it costs in 2026
Mighty Networks is a community platform: feeds, chat, events, livestreams, courses and paid memberships on 1 site, with free apps on iOS and Android. It sells 4 self-serve plans from $350 to $4,250 a year, plus a custom Mighty Pro tier, and every plan takes a cut of each sale.
A cut like that is easy to miss when you compare plans. The Online Selling Mistakes Challenge covers the top 5 mistakes solo sellers make, 1 email a day for 5 days, at no cost.
Launch costs $950 a year plus 2% of each sale, while Explore costs $350 a year plus 5%, so the cheapest plan takes the biggest cut.
| Plan | Paid monthly | Paid yearly | Cut of each sale | Hosts, moderators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explore | $35 | $350 | 5% | 1 and 1, or 3 and 3 (its help pages differ) |
| Launch | $95 | $950 | 2% | 3 and 10 |
| Scale | $215 | $2,150 | 1% | 5 and 15 |
| Growth | $425 | $4,250 | 0.5% | 10 and 100 |
| Mighty Pro | Custom | Custom | 0.5% | Unlimited |
Card processing sits on top of every row: Stripe’s published rate is 2.9% plus 30 cents for domestic cards.
The pricing page draws cards for Launch, Scale, Growth and Mighty Pro. Explore has no card and no slot in that page’s calculator, yet its own plan page is live at $350 a year and the fee help doc still lists it at 5%, so it is for sale if you know it exists. The full plan-by-plan math sits in our Mighty Networks pricing breakdown.
The 14-day free trial needs no card and runs on Growth, the $4,250 plan. Mighty’s help doc calls it “100% free”, while its fee doc lists a 5% cut on anything you sell during it.
3 of the 6 reviews I read quote a price list that is gone. LinoDash, updated in August 2026, still lists “Community: costs $49 per month”. Miha Cacic’s April 2026 review starts at $39 a month, and Dreamgrow puts the Community Plan at $33. Mighty’s Legacy Plans page lists every Community plan as no longer available. Ruzuku has the current prices, and it sells a rival course platform, so read its verdict with that in mind.
Mighty Networks is also more platform than some sellers need. If you sell an ebook or a template pack and want no community at all, a plain checkout does that job: CartMango, which I run (free right now, from $10 a year once paid plans start in November, 0% per sale), Gumroad (10% + $0.50 per sale) or Payhip (free plan, 5% per sale).
Mighty Networks reviews: why 220 Trustpilot reviews disagree with the app stores
The Mighty Networks app scores 4.8 from 75,044 ratings on the App Store and 4.7 on Google Play, G2 lists 4.6 from 780 reviews, and Trustpilot sits at 3.3 from 220.
| Site | Score | Ratings | What it judges |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.8 | 75,044 | The iPhone app |
| Google Play | 4.7 | About 20,600 | The Android app |
| G2 | 4.6 | 780 | The software, from business buyers |
| Trustpilot | 3.3 | 220 | The company |
The 2 app stores judge the app on a phone. Trustpilot judges the company, and 53 of its 220 reviews are 1 or 2 stars.
Mighty Networks’ Trustpilot page. The 3.3 is its TrustScore. The 220 reviews themselves average 3.9.
How a review arrived changes the score
Every review is public, so I pulled all 220 and sorted them twice: by how each one reached Trustpilot, then by what the low ones complain about.
People who came to write on their own average 2.67 stars across 81 reviews, while reviews sent through a basic review link average 4.72 across 101.
| How it arrived | Reviews | 1-2 stars | 4-5 stars | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On their own | 81 | 47 | 29 | 2.67 |
| Basic review link | 101 | 2 | 95 | 4.72 |
| Invitation list | 38 | 4 | 30 | 4.16 |
That split lives in each review’s data, and the page will not show it to you. Trustpilot labels basic-link reviews “Unprompted review” and its activity page counts them as organic, while its help pages say a business can use basic links to invite reviews. Nothing here breaks a rule, and Mighty’s profile says it asks customers whether they are happy or not.
45 of the 125 5-star reviews arrived through that link in just 2 months, 24 in December 2023 and 21 in September 2024. So the link brings in 5-star reviews in bursts, while 47 of the 81 people who came on their own left 1 or 2 stars.
What the 53 low reviews complain about
Support leads the 53 low reviews with 14 across the whole record, but in 2026 billing and cancelling lead with 5, and lost access follows with 4.
| Main complaint | All 53 | Before 2026 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support: slow, bots, no phone | 14 | 12 | 2 |
| Billing, cancelling, refunds | 11 | 6 | 5 |
| Bugs and updates | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| Lost access or lost data | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| Hard to use, missing features | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| Other | 5 | 4 | 1 |
Each review went in 1 row by its main complaint, and that call was mine. 15 reviews is a small sample, so read 2026 as a direction rather than a measurement.
2 reviews from May and August 2026 said reply notifications led nowhere, and Mighty’s weekly product updates list notification-link fixes in July, September and October 2026, so test that one yourself during the trial.
Support: 2 different experiences
Mighty Networks support splits its hosts. At least 57 of the 125 5-star reviews praise the team, while a New Zealand host wrote in October 2026 that you “have to get past the bots” and then “the first level of untrained humans”. Mighty’s help doc lists chat from 6am to 6pm Pacific every day, and reviewers say there is no phone line.
On a r/CommunityManager thread, 1 host said support had gone to AI and they could not reach anyone, and another replied: “Everytime I needed their support I just ask to talk to a real person and they answer with an agent in a few hours.”
Chat seems to work for a question and strain in an emergency, above all for hosts in Australia and Singapore, who raise the time zone gap. Trustpilot’s activity page says Mighty replies to every negative review, usually within 24 hours.
If members talking to each other is what people pay for
Mighty Networks is a good buy when members talking is the product, and Launch is the plan. Apps are free on every plan, members are unlimited, and Mighty says more than 65% of engagement happens on mobile, so your members will mostly use that app, and its 4.8 is the score that applies here. A golf community with 8,000-plus members wrote in March 2026, through a review link, that Mighty helped it replace a social media group that was not getting its members’ attention.
What it costs. Mighty’s Launch page shows $14,400 a year in sales from 30 members. On Launch that is $950 plus $288 in Mighty’s cut, so $1,238 before Stripe, or 8.6% of sales.
Where the phone changes the math. A member who buys inside the iPhone app pays through Apple, which takes 15%, and Mighty adds nothing on top. On a $48 membership you keep $40.80, and iOS payments take 8 to 12 weeks to reach you. You can set a higher iOS price to cover it.
What you give up. The app carries Mighty’s name unless you buy Mighty Pro. 1 Trustpilot reviewer put that at $16,000 for the first year with incentives and over $20,000 after, and cancelled.
Mighty also announced Mighty Discovery, a directory where people browse networks and hosts apply to be featured, for October 19. The help page still reads as future tense, so check it is live before you count on it. None of the 6 reviews covers it.
If you are testing an idea before paying for a full plan
Explore works for a short test, and Launch is the better buy once courses or your member list matter. Explore at $350 a year plus 5% stays cheaper than Launch until your sales reach $20,000 a year.
What it costs. Mighty’s Explore page shows $4,800 a year from 10 members. Explore costs $590 of that and Launch costs $1,046, both before Stripe.
What you give up. Mighty’s own pages disagree here, so read them first. Explore’s plan page says to “Add a weekly livestream and a course”, while its help page lists courses as something you get by upgrading. Mighty’s help doc also starts the member list download at Launch, so plan on no export from Explore.
Fee summaries miss this plan too. Google’s AI summary for this search gives the range as 2% down to 0.5%, which skips the 5% on Explore and on the free trial.
Read the Transaction Fees line. Explore and the free trial both sit at 5%.
The trial has its own trap. It runs on Growth, so anything you build with Growth features can drop out of view when you choose a cheaper plan. A host in the UAE built 20-plus Spaces during a trial, moved to a paid plan and wrote that “my entire masterpiece of a network is gone”, then recovered it hours later. Mighty’s pricing FAQ says that content comes back if you upgrade again.
Skool Hobby is the usual cheap rival, at $7.50 a month billed yearly with a 10% cut, and our Skool vs Mighty Networks comparison runs every plan against the other.
If the test is only whether 10 people will pay, you may not need a community yet. A Mini Page and a checkout on CartMango can take those first payments, one-time or monthly, at 0% per sale. You would still need a home for the group, because CartMango has no community yet.
If a busy Facebook group is what you would move
Mighty Networks can take a busy Facebook group, but move it in stages, because this is where the reviews split hardest. A 5-star reviewer moved 7,000 members off Facebook with the team’s help on Mighty Pro.
A 2-star reviewer in Norway moved about 500 highly active members, who posted 150 to 200 times a day, and shut it down after 2 months. That host wrote that support requests grew 800%, mostly members sending direct messages when they meant to reply in a thread, and said the product does not suit “50-year old FB-users”.
Those 2 stories differ on help, since 1 host had a Pro team beside them. The other group posted 150 to 200 times a day, and the 7,000-member reviewer does not say how active theirs was.
What it costs. Pay monthly at $95 for the test. A full year at that rate costs $190 more than $950, and that Norwegian host’s yearly plan was non-refundable. Move 1 small group first and count how many support questions land on you.
What you give up. The Norwegian host said Mighty lacks what Facebook has, an algorithm showing “the most relevant and active post”. You also ask every member to create a new account, because Mighty’s help doc says you cannot create accounts for them.
If a course is the main thing you sell
Mighty Networks can host a course, and it fits a cohort better than a self-paced catalogue. Its pricing grid ticks on-demand courses, cohorts, quizzes, native video, drip and certificates on Launch and up, so Dreamgrow’s “No video hosting” line is out of date.
The doubt is about how a course sits inside the product. It lives in a Space, beside the feed and chat. A 3-star reviewer who taught Spanish in 2023 found that system confusing next to Kajabi, and a 1-star reviewer the same year said buyers had to create a Mighty account before paying, and that some never finished.
What it costs. Launch at $950 a year plus 2%. Course video counts toward storage on current plans, and Launch holds 200 GB.
What you give up. If the course is the product and the community is a bonus, you are paying for the part you use least, so read our Kajabi review and our Teachable review first. If the live group is the point of the course, Mighty’s events and livestreams earn their place, at 20 hours a month and 100 viewers per stream on Launch.
If your email tool, pixels or PayPal have to connect
Budget for Scale if your tools must talk to Mighty Networks, because its pricing grid starts Kit, Zapier, Google Analytics, marketing pixels and affiliate tools at Scale. That is $1,200 a year more than Launch, and the lower 1% cut only pays that back above $120,000 a year in sales. A conflict to clear first: the Launch help page lists Google Analytics and marketing pixels, while the pricing grid marks both as missing on Launch. Ask support in writing before you build on either.
What it costs. Scale is $2,150 a year plus 1%.
What you give up. PayPal, at any price. Mighty’s help doc says “We do not currently support PayPal or other payment processors”, and Stripe covers 46 countries. Taxes are off by default too, so collecting them means setting up Quaderno, a separate tool.
Plan names do not pass through to Stripe either, so your bookkeeping has to match each payment by price and billing interval. What the same membership costs across the main tools is in what community platforms really cost.
What cancelling, downgrading or leaving really does
Mighty Networks lets you leave, and the order you do it in decides what you keep. Its help doc says plans “can be changed or canceled at any time”, but its Host Terms say “we do not offer a refund payment for the unused portion of your Premium Service”, except where law or a separate agreement requires one. So a $950 yearly plan is money you commit the day you pay. 6 of the 53 low reviews describe a charge the person did not expect, including a non-profit billed $1,600 on a renewal it says it was never told about, so put your renewal date in your calendar the day you buy.
Mighty’s help doc ties the member list download to Launch or higher, and its terms say that after your account ends “we have no obligation to export, return, or otherwise make Your Content available to you”. A host with over 1,400 members and $12,000 spent across 4 years wrote in October 2026 that after downgrading, the download was gone and they could not reach their own members.
The cancel doc says cancelling “downgrades your Network to the Free Plan”, while the Legacy Plans page lists Free Plan as no longer available. Mighty’s help page says “Free Plan Networks: UK access is blocked” under the UK’s Online Safety Act, and paid networks with flagged content can lose UK access until members pass age checks. 2 UK reviewers lost access to what they had built.
You cannot disconnect Stripe yourself: the help doc says to message the team, and connecting payments again later needs a new Stripe account. 1 host moving a Stripe account from the UK to the US wrote that following Mighty’s guidance ended every paying membership.
Plan rules have moved in both directions. In a thread from late December 2025, a host on r/CommunityManager complained that “A space can only have a chat OR a feed”. By April 2026 Mighty’s product updates said every plan now includes multi-feature Spaces, while the Explore help page still says single feature.
Who gets the last word? In 2022 a Facebook group admin got called out for using @everyone once a week in a free group, and I chimed in to back her, because I would do the same in her seat. As I told my email list at the time: “It’s our business. We’re the captain.” That holds for how you treat your members. Price and plan rules stay Mighty’s call, so settle who keeps your members before you sign up.
Mighty Networks review verdict: find your row
Mighty Launch fits a paid community, a Facebook move or a cohort course at $79 a month billed yearly plus 2%, and every price below is on yearly billing unless the row says otherwise.
| If this is you | Pick | Cost | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Members talking is the product | Mighty Launch | $79 a month billed yearly, plus 2% | Apple takes 15% in the iPhone app |
| You are testing an idea | Mighty Explore | $29 a month billed yearly, or $35 monthly, plus 5% | Courses and the member list start at Launch |
| You are moving a busy Facebook group | Mighty Launch, paid monthly at first | $79 billed yearly, or $95 monthly, plus 2% | Every member learns a new app |
| A cohort course is the main product | Mighty Launch | $79 a month billed yearly, plus 2% | Self-paced catalogues suit a course platform better |
| Email tools and pixels must connect | Mighty Scale | $179 a month billed yearly, plus 1% | The lower cut alone pays only above $120,000 a year |
| You sell files, not a community | CartMango | Free right now, then from about $0.83 a month billed yearly, 0% per sale | Not yet: no community or course hosting |
CartMango is mine, and it is the 1 row here that is not a Mighty plan.
FAQ
How much does Mighty Networks cost per month?
Mighty Networks costs $35 a month on Explore, $95 on Launch, $215 on Scale and $425 on Growth when paid monthly. Paying yearly drops those to about $29, $79, $179 and $354 a month, and Mighty Pro is quoted individually. Each plan also takes 5%, 2%, 1% or 0.5% of every sale, before Stripe’s fee.
Who uses Mighty Networks?
Mighty says its hosts bring people together around a shared goal or interest, often with a podcast, newsletter or YouTube channel in education or personal development. Brands and non-profits use it too. Its FAQ gives an average of $48 a month with 25 members, and its changelog claims $500M in host earnings in 2025.
What is the best community building platform?
For a paid community where members talk daily, I would price Mighty Launch first, at $79 a month billed yearly plus 2%, against Skool Pro at $82 plus 2.9% and Circle Professional at $89 plus 2%. If you sell files rather than access, none of the 3 fits. The Mighty Networks alternatives post sorts them by why you would leave.
Is Circle better than Mighty Networks?
Circle costs a little more and caps Spaces. Circle Professional is $89 a month billed yearly with a 2% cut and 20 Spaces, while Mighty Launch is $79 billed yearly with 2% and unlimited Spaces. A host on that Reddit thread left because Mighty “had just become too ‘mighty’ for us” and moved courses and community to Circle. Circle’s pricing has the full ladder.
Does Mighty Networks have a free plan?
Mighty Networks has no free plan you can sign up for. It offers a 14-day trial with no card, and sales during it carry a 5% cut. Its help docs still describe a Free Plan that a lapsed trial or a cancelled plan drops onto, while its Legacy Plans page says that plan is no longer available, so budget for a paid plan.
Does Mighty Networks take PayPal?
Mighty Networks does not take PayPal. Web payments run through Stripe and iPhone app purchases run through Apple. Its docs do describe taking payment elsewhere and adding the buyer to a hidden plan with Zapier, and Zapier starts at Scale on the pricing grid.
Can I get a refund from Mighty Networks?
Mighty Networks usually does not refund a plan. The Host Terms say there is no refund for the unused part of a plan, except where law or a separate agreement requires one, and several low reviews describe refund requests being refused. Member refunds are your job as the host, through Stripe for web purchases and through Apple for iPhone purchases.
Where the products beside your community can live
Anything you sell beside the membership, such as an ebook, a template pack or a one-off workshop, pays the same Mighty Networks cut as the membership, on top of Stripe.
CartMango takes no cut of a sale on any plan, so you pay your Stripe or PayPal fees plus the plan price. It handles one-time products and subscriptions, and it hosts the sales page through Mini Pages. It is free right now, and paid plans start in November from $10 a year. CartMango has no community or course hosting yet: neither is live, and both are planned for the $30 a year plan, so today it sits beside a community platform. If this Mighty Networks review left you with products to sell and no need for a community yet, CartMango is a cheap place to start.
About the Author
👋 I’m Welly, founder of CartMango (the site you’re on), a checkout platform for digital product sellers. We’ve previously processed $179M+. I also run BirdSend (email marketing tool, 3.1B+ emails sent). On the side I show other non-techie digital sellers how I use AI workflows to automate 50%+ of my operations. Find me on LinkedIn.
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