A community you must send people to, against one people arrive at.
Structural claims last checked against Mighty Networks in September 2026
Mighty Networks is a capable creator platform with courses, events and paid tiers, and its problem is the same as every hosted community product: the network is private, so it can only ever contain the audience you already had. It converts an audience. It cannot create one.
Every row is something you can check by opening both products yourself.
The differences that actually change what you can do.
Public communities here are indexed, structured and open to answer engines. New members arrive because they searched for the thing your community is about.
A Mighty network is private. Every single member has to be sent there by you, from somewhere else, usually at a cost.
Questions that resolve, polls, and multiple-choice questions with a correct answer, sharing one feed, one tag system and one comment system with long-form posts.
Posts and comments inside spaces. Nothing marks a question as answered, so the same question gets asked repeatedly.
A professional profile and a public, ATS-friendly CV at a plain URL that anyone can open, including a recruiter with no account.
A Mighty profile exists inside that one network. It is not a public professional identity and it does not travel.
Priced packages, a booking that runs from request to delivery, a review at the end, and a 0% platform fee on the amount.
The model is you selling to your members. There is no member-to-member booking flow.
We would rather tell you than have you find out later.
Courses, events, paid tiers and the whole apparatus of selling to your own audience is genuinely better there, and we do not have it.
A branded mobile presence for your own network is something we do not offer.
Stay on Mighty if you are monetizing an audience you already have with courses and tiers.
Come here if you need the community itself to bring you people you did not already know.
Public, indexable, citable, and free to run. Start one in a couple of minutes.
We never quote a competitor's price, fee or user numbers, because we cannot verify them and a wrong figure would discredit the rest. Everything above is structural. See what we actually ship.