Kyle Ford compares Mighty Networks and Kajabi across community features, courses, events, and pricing. Mighty offers unified tools with unlimited members and spaces, while Kajabi splits functionality across separate products with tiered limits. Mighty emphasizes engagement features like People Magic and leaderboards; Kajabi focuses on product and customer management.
Kajabi and Mighty both allow you to host a community, run events, livestream, offer courses and create memberships. So what are the major differences between the two? As you'll see in this comparison, there's definitely some overlap when it comes to the feature set on both platforms, but the biggest differences all come down to what Mighty calls People Magic. Everything on Mighty is designed to get your members engaging with each other, and that's because their data from hundreds of thousands of communities revealed that the amount of member to member interactions and is the best predictor of success for communities, courses and memberships. So let's start with the basics. Kajabi walks you through a basic setup process and then, depending on your choices, lets you set up separate products for community courses, coaching or podcasts. The available features differ depending on which individual product you select. In their community product, you can add additional places for members to interact. Here on the bottom left they call them circles. Mighty offers the ability to instantly generate branding and marketing materials for your community in seconds to start you off one step ahead. It also sets up your community with a set of simple starter spaces organized into what they call collections. In addition, as you start inviting in members, Mighty's built in People Magic features begin helping people fill out their profiles so they can meet and connect with members similar to them. You can also auto generate polls and questions with their Infinite question engine and their data shows that these polls spark great discussions and create rapid connections between members. Next, let's talk about how flexible these platforms are, especially as you grow. Kajabi's features are spread across the different types of products they offer. Whereas with Mighty, all features are available in one place, so let's compare them side by side. Members Both Kajabi and Mighty offer a browsable member directory, but only Mighty offers the People Explorer feature for visual exploration and smart introductions that help your members see how others are similar to them and quickly break the ice. Feed the feed allows members to share content and add likes and comments in a traditional feed format. Mighty also offers a variety of visually rich polls and questions to help spark engagement and People Magic. Both services let you create chat spaces for real time communication. Similar to Slack or Discord Courses. Both services offer the ability to create and sell course content as well as generate course content outlines using AI. With Mighty, your students can connect over course material in one place, but with Kajabi, courses and Community are completely separate products. Events Both services offer the ability to create, browse and RSVP to events. Additionally, Mighty has a single event feature to showcase or sell access to a one time Pages While both Mighty and Kajabi offer the ability to create landing pages, Mighty also offers a page feature that can be added to any space to which hosts can add images, videos, embeds, or create a full webpage. Leaderboards and Discovery Kajabi offers a standard member leaderboard feature, while Mighty offers a visual discovery feature to spotlight editorially selected content across the community. This feature can also be used as a leaderboard to highlight top members and content. It's easy to set up new spaces on Mighty or Circles on Kajabi, however, with Kajabi, Circles can only contain one feature feed or chat. Mighty allows you to also start simple, but then easily add multiple features inside any space when you're ready to grow with no need to clutter up the main navigation with a long list of spaces. Both services let you customize privacy and access settings as well as charge for access to the entire community or specific areas via one time payments or recurring subscriptions. With Kajabi, you can charge in 130 different currencies, and with Mighty, you can charge in 135 different different currencies. In terms of accessing your community across devices, both services are accessible on desktop and through native iOS and Android apps. However, with Kajabi, members need to install two separate apps to access courses, and communities and admins need to install a third app to manage things on the go. With Mighty, there's just one app for everything. Finally, let's talk about the costs for both services. Kajabi starts with three pricing plans. When billed annually. There's the basic plan at $119 a month, the growth plan at $159 a month, and the pro plan at $319 a month. Since Kajabi's features are spread across separate products, their plans are organized around limits. If you're on the basic plan, you can have three products, 1,000 active customers and and one admin user. If you're on the Growth plan, you can have 15 products, 10,000 active customers, and 10 admin users. Mighty starts with four plans when billed annually. There's the community plan at $41 a month, the courses plan at $99 a month, the business plan at $179 a month, and Path to Pro at $360 a month. On Mighty, the plan tiers are based on unlocking different features, more white labeling, and services and strategy. There aren't limits to members, admins, or spaces on any plan, you're not being charged based on how much you scale or grow or how many members you have like you are with Kajabi, it's just a flat fee tier depending on the features and services that you want. For instance, if you want to offer courses you'll need to be on at least Mighty's courses plan or or Kajabi's basic plan on Mighty. However, you'll be able to have an unlimited number of students, courses instructors, moderators and dedicated course spaces. Mighty also has the ability to launch your own branded mobile app ON Android and iOS and requires you to chat with their sales team to learn more about Mighty Pro. Kajabi is currently beta testing their branded mobile app offering so there's not much information yet available. Mighty Pro has hundreds of customers each with a dedicated community strategist overseeing migrations, launch plans and ongoing strategy optimization. It's people magic on your own branded apps with an expert team behind you. If you want to learn more about getting started on Mighty, check out this next video.
