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Kajabi vs Mighty Networks — membership/community vs Kajabi’s 1–3 community cap

Updated August 29, 2026 · Official product and pricing pages fetched this evening. If a number is missing below, we could not cite it.

You already have a method. The fork is not “which all-in-one includes community.” It is course-first vs membership-first: Kajabi is a business OS that attaches one community to a product (three on Pro). Mighty Networks is a branded membership people live in — courses and events inside the network.

Who this page is for

Experts who have one method and are staring at two tabs that both say “courses” and “community.” Kajabi looks like the grown-up course stack. Mighty looks like a branded membership with an app. They are not substitutes. One is a course business with a community bolted to products — cap 1 / 1 / 3. The other is a membership network with courses inside it. This is a live autocomplete comparison. It is not a second community site — the community section already has Mighty Networks vs Circle and Skool vs Circle vs Mighty Networks.

This page does not tell you how to build an audience. If you wanted a school LMS, start at Kajabi vs Teachable vs Thinkific. If the offer is a one-feed room, start at Kajabi vs Skool. If the fork is Circle instead of Mighty, that is Kajabi vs Circle.

The short version

Course OS vs branded membership

Course-first (Kajabi). Official line: the operating system for human expertise. Courses, coaching, digital products, memberships, communities. The member list, emails, and checkout are yours inside Kajabi Payments (or a 3rd-party processor with an extra percentage on new plans). Community is a product you attach — access groups, channels inside a course, Meetups with a built-in live room. Cap 1 / 1 / 3. A Kajabi community is still a course-business feature. You pay $179/mo month-to-month for Basic whether you open the community or not. Existing customers hit new rates on the first billing date on or after January 13, 2026.

Membership-first (Mighty Networks). Official product page: community, courses, and events. Native mobile apps — “not web wrappers.” Comparison grid: subscriptions and one-time payments; charge for access to the network or any space; on-demand, cohort, and live courses. Landing pages 1 / 1 / 10. Your own branded apps are Mighty Pro only. You connect Stripe. Mighty’s cut sits on top of Stripe’s for web purchases. Apple 15% on iOS in-app; Mighty does not add its platform fee there. The product is a membership people return to on the phone. Unlimited members. Unlimited spaces. Hosts and moderators: 3+10 / 5+15 / unlimited.

One-feed room (not these two). Skool: the group is the store. Courses and live calls inside the feed. Merchant of record. Hobby $9/mo, 10% transaction fee. Pro $99/mo, 2.9%. That fork is Kajabi vs Skool.

The honest comparison is not “Mighty is cheaper Kajabi.” Launch’s $79 card is the annual toggle this fetch — yearly total $950 — and you still pay 2% plus Stripe, and you still do not get Kajabi’s unlimited-email grid. Kajabi Basic at $179 includes unlimited marketing emails and no extra platform percentage on Kajabi Payments, with one community. If the method is something people buy once and take, Kajabi is the category. If they stay in a branded membership network with courses and events — and you care about the app on the home screen — Mighty is the category. If they stay in a feed, neither of these — that is Skool.

Cited numbers, August 29, 2026

USD. Monthly is month-to-month where the vendor publishes it. Mighty’s public cards this fetch are the annual-toggle dollars; Launch yearly total is $950. Platform fee is the vendor’s cut, not card processing.

Sources: kajabi.com/pricing, mightynetworks.com/pricing. Full list at the bottom.

What the fees do to the same sale

Card processing sits on both stacks. Mighty’s percentage is on top of Stripe. Mighty’s help: Stripe typically 2.5%–5% for web; Stripe’s own schedule is Stripe’s — not added as a Mighty dollar here. Arithmetic on listed price, no tax.

• $97 one-time. Kajabi Payments, US card, Basic: 2.9%+$0.30 = $3.11. No extra platform percentage. Mighty Launch 2% = $1.94 plus Stripe (omitted). Mighty Scale 1% = $0.97 plus Stripe.
• $97/month membership. Kajabi Payments: $3.11 plus 0.7% ($0.68) = $3.79. Mighty Launch: $1.94 plus Stripe. We did not invent a Stripe Billing add-on for Mighty.
• $497 one-time. Kajabi Payments Basic: $14.71. Mighty Launch 2% = $9.94 plus Stripe. Scale 1% = $4.97 plus Stripe.
• $2,000 one-time. Kajabi Payments Basic: $58.30. Keep Stripe on Kajabi Basic: add 2% = $40.00 on top of Stripe’s own fee (omitted). Mighty Launch 2% = $40.00 plus Stripe. Scale 1% = $20.00 plus Stripe.

Arithmetic only: the monthly gap between Kajabi Basic ($179) and Mighty Launch ($79 on the annual card) is $100 before you price Stripe and before you notice Launch is not month-to-month in the public card this fetch. Yearly: Kajabi Basic annual is $143/mo advertised; Launch is $950/year. That is not “Mighty is cheaper Kajabi.” You are buying a branded membership network, not a marketing OS. You do not buy Scale ($179/mo public card, $2,150/year) to save the 1% on a $97 membership; you buy it for automations, Kit/Zapier/API, or because Launch cannot charge for one-time events. Mighty Pro is the branded-app conversation — no public dollar card.

Who should not pick which

Skip Kajabi if

The offer is a branded membership people stay in, and you will not use landing pages, email, and funnels as the business. You are paying $179/mo for a course OS with one community on Basic. Also skip if you need unlimited separate communities — Pro stops at three. Skip keeping Stripe on a new plan unless you have priced 2/1/0.5%. Skip if you need SCORM.

Skip Mighty Networks if

The offer is a course business: sales page, email sequence, checkout, player. Mighty is a membership network with courses inside it. Also skip if you wanted Skool’s merchant-of-record simplicity and no Stripe account. Skip if you need PayPal in-product (host docs: not supported). Skip if iOS checkout at Apple’s 15% is the path your members will use and you have not priced that. Launch cannot charge for one-time events on the public grid. Do not pick Mighty because the trial is “on Growth” and then stay there without a public Growth dollar in front of you — we could not extract one as a card tonight.

Skip both if

The offer is a feed. That is Skool. Visit button below; official pricing stays the citation. If the offer is a school catalog, start at Kajabi vs Teachable vs Thinkific. If it is Circle’s branded community with a site, that is Mighty Networks vs Circle or Kajabi vs Circle.

Visit the hosts

Mighty Networks affiliate slot — not live

Kajabi’s trial box and visit button use the 30-day trial affiliate, justinwise.net/kajabi. The Kajabi pricing button is a pricing-page affiliate. Official Kajabi pricing remains the source for Kajabi numbers. Mighty Networks’ button is the official pricing URL only. Visit Skool uses the Skool signup affiliate. Official skool.com/pricing remains the source for Skool numbers.

Omitted on purpose

• Kajabi legacy dollar table and Kickstarter as a buyable public price. Not on kajabi.com/pricing as a current card.
• Homepage “Save 50%” / Cofounder promo as a Kajabi plan price. Marketing, not a cited tier.
• JSON-LD $69 lowPrice on Kajabi product pages. That is not a public plan card.
• Mighty Networks Explore and Growth public monthly dollars. Both names appear (calculator dropdown; trial FAQ says the trial is Growth). No monthly card extracted this fetch. Launch monthly-toggle dollars likewise omitted; we cite the Launch yearly total $950 and the $79 annual-toggle card.
• Mighty Pro public dollar card. Custom. Third-party “starts at” quotes are not official cards.
• Mighty ROI / “average $14,400/year” / “$48 membership” calculator and product-page copy. Vendor marketing, not a cited price.
• Exact Stripe card rates on Mighty (host docs: typically 2.5%–5%). Only Mighty’s platform percentage is cited. Stripe’s own schedule is Stripe’s.
• A break-even month presented as advice. The $97 / $497 / $2,000 arithmetic is Mighty’s official percentage against Kajabi Payments.
• Teachable, Thinkific, LearnWorlds, GoHighLevel, Discord, Circle as this two-host fork. Circle is a different community-section page.
• Keyword volumes, vendor “Mighty vs Kajabi” landing pages as pricing sources, and anything that documents your method for you.

Sources

1. Kajabi pricing — public plans, JSON-LD prices ($143/$179 Basic, $199/$249 Growth, $399/$499 Pro), product/contact/community/website/admin limits, unlimited emails/funnels/landing pages, Kajabi Payments US grid, 3rd-party 2%/1%/0.5%, 30-day trial. Fetched August 29, 2026.
2. Upcoming changes to your Kajabi plan — first increase in ~10 years; existing Heroes, first billing date on or after January 13, 2026. Fetched August 29, 2026.
3. Kajabi Payments fees: United States — 2.9%+$0.30 cards, +0.7% subscriptions and payment plans. Fetched August 29, 2026.
4. Kajabi communities — access tied to products; Access Groups; standalone or bundled; Meetups with a built-in live room; channels inside a course; cap 1 / 1 / 3 on the pricing grid. Fetched August 29, 2026.
5. Kajabi online courses — evergreen vs cohort; drip; quizzes; certificates; not SCORM. Cited from the August 29, 2026 Kajabi vendor-page fetch.
6. Kajabi coaching — group room up to 200 + 20 breakout rooms of 10. Cited from the August 29, 2026 Kajabi vendor-page fetch.
7. Mighty Networks pricing — Launch $79/mo and $950/year; Scale $179/mo; Mighty Pro custom; transaction fee row 2%/1%/0.5%; unlimited members; hosts/mods 3+10 / 5+15 / unlimited; spaces unlimited; streaming 20/30/50 hours and 100/200/3,000 viewers; landing pages 1/1/10; storage 200GB/500GB/4TB; charge for one-time events on Scale and Mighty Pro; 14-day trial. Fetched August 29, 2026.
8. Mighty Launch plan page — Launch $950/year; 2 months free when you buy annually; courses and events in your community. Fetched August 29, 2026.
9. Mighty Scale plan page — Scale $2,150/year; automations, admin features, APIs; 2 months free annually. Fetched August 29, 2026.
10. Mighty product — community platform for community, courses, and events; 14-day trial, no credit card; native mobile apps — “not web wrappers”; branded apps on Mighty Pro. Fetched August 29, 2026 (curl 200 after WebFetch timed out).
11. Mighty: does it charge a transaction fee? — Explore 5%; Launch 2%; Scale 1%; Growth .50%; Growth free trial 5%; deducted from Stripe; Stripe typically 2.5%–5% on web; PayPal not supported in-product; Apple 15% on iOS, Mighty adds no platform fee there. Fetched August 29, 2026.
12. Skool pricing — Hobby $9/mo, 10% transaction fee; Pro $99/mo, 2.9%. Cited only as the one-feed room we are not comparing here. Fetched August 29, 2026.