Mighty Networks Pricing 2026: What You Pay for the App

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Mighty Networks’ annual-billing headline for Launch is $79.00 a month, while monthly billing is $95.00. It is also the platform whose most differentiated app offering sits in a higher tier.

Mighty’s differentiator is mobile. It ships native iOS and Android apps rather than web wrappers, and presents fully branded apps as a higher-tier offering. The standard plans put your community inside the shared Mighty Networks app.

That gap between the headline price and the headline feature is the thing to understand before you commit.

Published pricing

Plan Monthly billing Annual billing Platform fee Effective modeled rate
Launch $95.00/mo $79.00/mo 2.0% 4.9%–5.6% + $0.30
Scale $215.00/mo $179.00/mo 1.0% 3.9%–4.6% + $0.30

Mighty Pro is excluded from the numeric comparison because no plan price is included in the published figures reviewed. Source: Mighty Networks pricing; the verification date is shown with this article.

The pricing page opens on the annual tab. The annual figures above are the rates shown first; monthly billing is higher. Comparisons that quote the annual figures as if they were monthly prices are mixing billing bases.

The platform fee stacks on top of Stripe. Mighty publishes the platform-fee component shown above, while Stripe publishes the standard card-processing rate of 2.9% + $0.30. In the model, Launch therefore has an effective rate of 4.9%–5.6% + $0.30, and Scale has 3.9%–4.6% + $0.30. The range marks the inferred subscription surcharge; its applicability is not published by Mighty.

What it costs to run

Members are modeled at the standard member price, using Mighty’s annual rates:

Monthly platform cost at each revenue level. Each amount is the total you pay per month. Bold values are the lowest cost in each column when that result is guaranteed. Ranges show where a platform has not published whether Stripe's subscription surcharge applies: the surcharge component is inferred and not published. The low figure excludes it; the high figure includes Stripe's published rate. A single figure means this calculation does not use an inferred surcharge for that plan; it does not mean every input has been independently verified. See the linked source list for each source's direct verification status.
Platform plan$500 revenue$1,000 revenue$2,000 revenue$3,000 revenue$5,000 revenue$10,000 revenue
Mighty Networks Launchfrom $107 to $110 per monthLowest costfrom $134 to $141 per monthLowest costfrom $189 to $203 per monthLowest costfrom $244 to $265 per monthLowest costfrom $354 to $389 per monthLowest costfrom $629 to $699 per monthLowest cost
Mighty Networks Scalefrom $202 to $205 per monthfrom $224 to $231 per monthfrom $269 to $283 per monthfrom $314 to $335 per monthfrom $404 to $439 per monthfrom $629 to $699 per monthLowest cost
Pricing last verified 2026-08-21. Members billed $50/month. Every figure includes the subscription, the platform's transaction fee, and card processing, on annual billing throughout.

Sources checked through 2026-08-21; individual source dates and verification status: Mighty Networks pricing — plan price and platform fee (checked 2026-08-20) (directly verified); Mighty Networks Stripe connection — who holds the Stripe account (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Stripe US pricing — card processing rate (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Stripe Billing pricing — pay-as-you-go tier rate / charged on Billing volume / one-off invoices excluded (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Circle paywall transaction fees — vendor-side verbatim itemization of Stripe Payments and Stripe Billing rates in a paywall subscription fee example (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified)

Launch and Scale converge at $10,000/month and cross shortly after. Below that point, Launch is cheaper at every level tested.

The reason is simple: Scale has the higher subscription and the lower platform fee. The break-even above is a single same-vendor comparison because the inferred surcharge state is correlated across Mighty plans.

Do not upgrade to Scale for the fee saving. Upgrade for the features — automations, deeper analytics, higher limits — or do not upgrade.

The branded app question

This is the decision that actually matters on Mighty.

The standard plans put your community inside the shared Mighty Networks app. Members download Mighty, then find you. It is still a native app, but it is not your app.

Mighty presents a branded app as a higher-tier offering. No Mighty Pro plan price is included in the published figures reviewed, so no numeric premium is attached to that option.

Ask yourself one question: would your members refuse to download an app with somebody else’s name on it? For most paid communities the answer is no, and Launch is sufficient. For a membership sold to a corporate audience, or a brand where the app is the product, the higher-tier app is the reason you are looking at this platform at all.

How Mighty positions itself

Mighty calls its customers “hosts” rather than creators and describes a member-to-member community model. It sells a strategy framework it calls Community Design and bundles an AI assistant called AI Cohost.

Those are the company’s own positioning terms, not independently verified product outcomes. The underlying philosophy is visible throughout the product: Mighty is built for communities where members talk to each other, not for a broadcast channel with a comments section.

Where it lands against the alternatives

At the tested revenue level, using annual billing throughout:

Monthly platform cost at each revenue level. Each amount is the total you pay per month. Bold values are the lowest cost in each column when that result is guaranteed. Ranges show where a platform has not published whether Stripe's subscription surcharge applies: the surcharge component is inferred and not published. The low figure excludes it; the high figure includes Stripe's published rate. A single figure means this calculation does not use an inferred surcharge for that plan; it does not mean every input has been independently verified. See the linked source list for each source's direct verification status.
Platform plan$5,000 revenue
Skool Pro$258Lowest cost
Mighty Networks Launchfrom $354 to $389 per month
Circle Professional$399
Mighty Networks Scalefrom $404 to $439 per month
Circle Business$459
Pricing last verified 2026-08-26. Members billed $50/month. Every figure includes the subscription, the platform's transaction fee, and card processing, on annual billing throughout.

Sources checked through 2026-08-26; individual source dates and verification status: Skool pricing — plan price (checked 2026-08-20) (directly verified); Skool Payments FAQs — transaction fee rates and tiers (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Skool analytics definitions — fee includes payment processing (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Mighty Networks pricing — plan price and platform fee (checked 2026-08-20) (directly verified); Mighty Networks Stripe connection — who holds the Stripe account (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Stripe US pricing — card processing rate (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Stripe Billing pricing — pay-as-you-go tier rate / charged on Billing volume / one-off invoices excluded (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Circle paywall transaction fees — vendor-side verbatim itemization of Stripe Payments and Stripe Billing rates in a paywall subscription fee example (checked 2026-08-21) (directly verified); Circle pricing monthly billing availability — three checks of the Professional, Circle Plus, and Business tabs found no billing-period toggle (checked 2026-08-26) (directly verified; operator manual verification)

In this modeled comparison, Mighty Launch is cheaper than Circle Professional and more expensive than Skool Pro. Mighty Scale is more expensive than Launch in this scenario, while the inferred surcharge keeps its absolute cost as a range.

At the highest tested revenue level, Circle Professional costs $10–$45 more than Mighty Launch, while Mighty Launch costs $97–$132 more than Skool Pro. Both are cross-vendor ranges; the same-vendor Launch–Scale break-even above remains a single value.

Which plan should you pick

If you are… Plan
Anywhere under $10,000/mo revenue Launch. Scale’s fee saving does not pay for itself
Needing automations or deeper analytics Scale. Buy it for features, not fees
Needing your own name in the App Store Mighty Pro. Request a quote; it is outside this model
Choosing on cost alone Compare against Skool first

Methodology

Pricing changes without notice. We re-verify quarterly.