Mighty Courses vs Circle Courses - who comes out on top? (2024)

If you're an online course creator or community builder, then this video will help you understand the main differences between Circle and Mighty Networks. Both offer community platforms with courses, but they take different paths when it comes to both flexibility and scalability. We'll break down the main distinctions to help you decide which platform fits you best, so let's jump in. Both Circle and Mighty Networks allow you to create and sell course content within specific areas that they both call spaces. Courses in Circle offer native videos and quizzes, media embeds, images, and the ability to live stream to your members. Mighty offers all of these options, plus a much more visually appealing course look and feel. Mighty also offers the Instant Course Outline feature, which quickly uses AI assistants to generate lessons and sections, making course creation a breeze. There's actually a whole suite of AI features on Mighty that Circle doesn't offer. Tools that ignite member connections, like a way to show similarities between two people, a helpful prompt to get conversations started, and help with filling out profiles. Setting up new spaces is easy on either platform. Circle, however, limits you to one feature per space, so a course space can only have course material in it. Mighty Networks, on the other hand, allows you to start this way, but then easily adds multiple features inside the spaces as you grow without cluttering the main navigation with a long list of spaces. Do you want a course chat and calendar in the same space? Easy. If you want to offer courses, you'll need to choose at least Mighty Network's courses plan or Circle's professional plan. Mighty Network's courses plan is $99 a month. This includes unlimited courses, admins and up to 200 live stream attendees. It also offers unlimited storage within courses, native video uploads, and support for media embeds. Circle's professional plan is also $99 a month. This includes courses, but the plan limits you to 20 spaces, 3 admins and only 100 live stream attendees. As your business grows and you need more admins or want to create more courses, there will be extra monthly fees. Circle's Professional Plan is competitive with Mighty Networks Courses Plan, and they even cost the same amount. With Mighty Networks, though, you get unlimited limited spaces and courses admins and moderators, as well as an AI outline generator that will help quickly turn your course idea into reality. Mighty's AI suite can also generate branding and marketing materials for your community to give you a head start. The member experience overall is also more tailored on Mighty, with the ability to decide exactly where a new member lands, a customizable member welcome checklist, and powerful people magic features that empower your members to discover, connect, and engage with each other when you're ready to scale. Both platforms offer custom apps, with Circle plus and Mighty Pro Both offer similar services, including community strategy and help with app launch and branding. Circle plus is a new entry into the market, having launched in 2023, while Mighty Pro is much more established, having launched in 2017, and with a roster that includes hundreds of networks. In summary, while Mighty Networks and Circle share the same price point, Mighty Networks offers much more flexibility when it comes to core spaces, growth without restrictions, and a powerful AI suite to help you set things up and get your members connected.