Circle
$10 a month dearer$129 at 250 members
A community that feels like a product, with courses, events and a branded app around it.
- Also lists an affiliate programme
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The 9 closest of 13, each with its real monthly cost at 500 members and what it does that Mighty Networks does not. See all 19.
LearnWorlds does everything we verified about Mighty Networks for $90 a month less at 500 students against Mighty Networks at 500 members, $29 against $119. It is a price cut rather than an upgrade: on the two features checked against the vendors’ own pricing pages the two are level. The trade: Mighty Networks is built for a community with courses inside it and LearnWorlds is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
We have no recorded weakness for it, so this page is a price and feature comparison rather than a list of complaints.
It runs $119 a month at 500 members with the add-ons it forces on you included. 9 of the 13 alternatives on this site cost less than that.
What I flagged when I reviewed it, March 2025:
Ranked by how much of what we record for Mighty Networks each platform also does. Circle is the nearest, and it is $10 a month dearer at 500 members. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
$10 a month dearer$129 at 250 members
A community that feels like a product, with courses, events and a branded app around it.
Everything this site records for Mighty Networks is also recorded for these, and they cost less at 500 members, each priced on what it charges by. That is not the same as saying they are better: the last column is what Mighty Networks is built for that they are not, and for someone who needs that, the saving is not a saving.
| Platform | At 500 members | You save | What Mighty Networks does that it does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| LearnWorlds | $29 | $90 | a community with courses inside it |
| Thinkific | $54 | $65 | a community with courses inside it |
Prices are the real monthly cost at 500 members, or the equivalent size on whatever each one charges by, with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
$90 a month cheaper$29 at 250 students
Course design that goes deep: interactive video, assessments, learning paths, a branded app, for someone whose course IS the product.
$65 a month cheaper$54 at 250 students
A straight course platform with communities bolted on, where the price does not move with students.
$130 a month dearer$179 at 2,500 contacts
Running the whole business from one place: courses, the email list, the website, the checkout and the community, and paying for that convenience.
$70 a month cheaper$49 at 250 students
Growing from a first challenge to a large student base on one platform, with AI drafting the course and no cut of sales.
$102 a month cheaper$17 at 2,500 contacts
Getting a course, a list and a funnel live for nothing, then paying very little as it grows.
$22 a month cheaper$97 at 2,500 contacts
Courses and communities inside the same platform that runs your funnels, CRM, email and calendar, at one flat price with unlimited contacts.
$20 a month cheaper$99 at 250 students
Courses built around gamification: points, streaks and triggers to get students to actually finish.
$110 a month dearer$119 at 2,500 contacts
Memberships and courses with the email, checkout and affiliate programme around them, priced by contacts.
Community and courses together with a mobile app from day one, for a brand that wants its own network.
On this site it is the pick for a community with courses inside it. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a free plan and running on your own WordPress. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other twelve are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
This page compares everything to Mighty Networks. The shortlist asks 8 questions about what you sell and how many students you have, and gives you four picks priced at your own numbers, which is a better question than “what is like the one I already have”.
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