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A Mighty Networks alternative: a members feed on your own site
Mighty Networks is a community platform with feeds, groups, courses, events and live streaming, from 79 USD a month on Launch with a 2% transaction fee, and branded apps on Mighty Pro. OneCraft Sites has an AI agent build a members feed, groups and courses into your own website or phone app, with members and payments kept in the site's own database.
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Nuwan Madhusanka · Co-founder
3 min read · Published
The short verdict
Mighty Networks is the better pick for a community that lives on live video and events: streaming hours, cohorts, challenges, many hosts and moderators, and branded apps on Mighty Pro. OneCraft suits a club, studio or small creator who wants the community as part of their own website or app, with a members feed, groups, courses and paid tiers built into the site's own database at a plan price of $8 to $125 a month.
| Feature | Mighty Networks | OneCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Launch Plan $79 per month, Scale $179, Growth $354; Mighty Pro custom pricing checked 2026-10-20 | Free $0 with 100 credits a month (build and preview, no publishing), Starter $8 with 500, Pro $25 with 1,500, Pro+ $125 with 7,500 |
| Transaction fees | Transaction Fees 2% on Launch, 1% on Scale, 0.5% on Growth and Mighty Pro checked 2026-10-20 | Platform fee Starter 2%, Pro 1%, Pro+ 0.5% on a direct charge to your own Stripe account, Stripe fees on top |
| Feed and groups | Activity Feeds and Private Groups & Cohorts in the Community section checked 2026-10-20 | The community guide: a members feed with posts, public or private groups, likes, follows, comments, reports and moderation |
| Courses | On-Demand Courses, Cohort-Based Courses, and Live Courses & Challenges checked 2026-10-20 | The memberships guide: courses and lessons gated by plan, free previews and progress ticks; no live cohorts |
| Events | Online & In-Person Events checked 2026-10-20 | The events guide: events with RSVPs, paid tickets and check in by typing the ticket code |
| Live streaming | Simultaneous Livestreaming Events: 20 streaming hours a month on Launch, 30 on Scale, 40 on Growth, 50 on Mighty Pro checked 2026-10-20 | None: lessons and episodes embed YouTube or Vimeo, and the feed refreshes every 30 seconds rather than streaming |
| Branded app | Your Own Branded Apps on Mighty Pro only checked 2026-10-20 | An Expo app with a Feed tab; test or store builds 5 credits each on paid plans, submitted from your own store accounts |
| Hosts and moderators | Launch 3 Hosts, 10 Moderators; Scale 5 and 15; Growth 10 and 100; Mighty Pro Unlimited checked 2026-10-20 | A site_admins table and an admin area; group moderators approve requests and hide posts |
| Free trial or plan | 14 Days. No Credit Card Required, on the Growth Plan checked 2026-10-20 | The free plan builds and previews but cannot publish, connect a domain or take payments |
Where Mighty Networks is better
Live streaming and live courses
Mighty Networks includes 20 to 50 streaming hours a month by plan, plus live courses and challenges. OneCraft builds nothing live: no streaming, no live rooms, no real time chat in the feed.
A ready community from the first day
Mighty Networks gives hosts a working community, cohorts and member tools without describing anything. On OneCraft the agent writes the feed and its moderation from a guide, and you check what it built.
Discovery and community design help
Mighty Networks offers an AI Cohost and its Community Design approach to help plan themes, events and questions. OneCraft writes the software for a community; growing and running it is up to you.
Many hosts without setup
Mighty Networks plans include from 3 hosts and 10 moderators upward. OneCraft has site admins and group moderators, but each one is a person you add to the site's own tables.
Where OneCraft is different
The community is part of your website
The feed, groups and profiles sit on the same site as your pages, shop, bookings or classes, at your own address. Members do not leave your brand to join a platform, and the whole project downloads as a zip.
Moderation rules in the database
The community guide puts the rules in the site's database: a person can post 10 times an hour, three open reports hide a post, and blocked people stop seeing each other. The agent checks posts as an anonymous visitor and as a signed in member before the step finishes.
Paid tiers through your own Stripe
Membership tiers are rows in a plans table, billed as subscriptions on your own connected Stripe account, with the Stripe billing portal for members to change cards or cancel. The platform fee is 2%, 1% or 0.5% by plan.
What a members feed on your own site looks like
The community guide builds a /community page with a composer for text and up to four photos, tabs for Following, Groups and Everyone, and post cards with likes, comments and a menu to report, block or delete. Groups can be public or private with join requests. A phone app gets a Feed tab with pull to refresh. New posts show a pill after a 30 second check rather than arriving live, which is fine for a club and slow for a busy chat.
Costs side by side
A community of 300 members paying 10 dollars a month takes in 3,000 dollars. On Mighty Networks Launch that is $79 a month plus a 2% transaction fee, 60 dollars. On OneCraft Pro it is $25 a month plus a 1% platform fee, 30 dollars, with Stripe's card fees on both and OneCraft credits for building and editing. A hosted site database is included on every plan. Check both pricing pages before you decide, since plans change.
When neither is right
If your group mostly talks in real time, a chat app may suit it better than either. If members mainly want a newsletter, a mailing tool is simpler. A members feed on a website works best for a known group, such as a club, a class or a customer community, that posts a few times a day and values a home of its own.
Who should stay with Mighty Networks
Stay with Mighty Networks if live streams, cohort courses or challenges carry your community, or if you want a ready platform with branded apps on Mighty Pro and expert help. Move if your members gather around a business or club that already needs a website, and a feed, groups, events and paid tiers on your own site are enough.
Questions people ask
Can members message each other on a OneCraft site?
The messaging guide builds support conversations, direct messages and groups, kept in the site's database and checked by polling while the page is open. It is not live chat in the instant sense, and there is no push to phones; new messages show in the in site notification bell.
Can I charge for some groups and not others?
Yes. Paid tiers are rows in a plans table billed as Stripe subscriptions on your own account, and courses or content can be gated by tier, with a free tier for people who simply join. Group visibility is public or private with join requests that moderators approve.
Will my community have its own app?
It can, on a paid plan. The agent writes an Expo app with a Feed tab, compose screen, groups and profiles, and test or store builds cost 5 credits each. You submit it from your own Apple and Google accounts, so you pay Apple 99 USD a year and Google 25 USD once.
How are members notified of replies?
Through the in site notification bell, which shows an unread count and checks for new items every 15 seconds while the site is open. There is no push to phones and the site cannot email members freely; a signed in member can only mail their own address or the owner's.
Can I import my Mighty Networks members?
There is no importer. You can export a member list from your current platform, but accounts, passwords and subscriptions cannot move, so members sign up on the new site and paid members subscribe again through Stripe. Plan a short overlap and tell members the date the old community closes.
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