Podia and Mighty Networks both have tools for building profitable online businesses, but the type of business you can build with each is different.

Podia has your courses, digital products, webinars, coaching, bundles, email marketing, affiliates, website, and blog all connected in one place. There’s also a community tool and easy integrations to community platforms if you’d like to include community with your products.

Mighty Networks focuses only on community, which could be limiting as you grow. There are more expensive plans that let you sell courses and one-time events, but the core functionality is community building.

To help you make the right choice for you, let’s take a look at how Mighty Networks and Podia compare on features and price.

What can I build with Podia and Mighty Networks?

As I mentioned above, Mighty Networks is a tool for building your community. You can create multiple tiers and payment plans, add gamification features, host live events, and sell courses on higher-tiered plans. You also have some customization options so you can add your own logos, colors, graphics, and custom domains.

Mighty Networks does not include email marketing, affiliates, digital products, or your website and landing pages, so you’ll need to find (and pay for) additional tools to get these features.

With Podia, all the tools you need to build your online business are connected in one place. You get an online course platform, website builder, landing page builder, blogging platform, email marketing platform, and customer management system all under one roof.

You can sell virtually any type of digital product with Podia.

Here’s a look at what you can make:

• Self-paced, drip, live, and cohort online courses

• Digital downloads like ebooks, audio files, videos, and printables

• Memberships and subscriptions to products

• 1:1 coaching sessions

• Live webinars and replays

• Product bundles

Everything you make on Podia can be free or paid, and you can set up payment plans, add upsells at checkout, choose a custom start date, limit seats, and create product waitlists before your products are ready. You can also sell online courses and products that are integrated with Discord for online community functionality.

For your payment processor, you can connect Stripe, PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay, iDeal, SEPA Debit, and Stripe Link.

And because your products are already connected to your website, Podia automatically generates a beautiful sales page for each offer that you can fully customize. No need for integrations with extra landing page tools.

In addition to your products and website, Podia has your email marketing tools ready to go.

You can:

• Choose from a library of email templates to create beautiful newsletters,

• build sales funnels and automated campaigns,

• segment and tag your audience to contact specific members, and

• send unlimited emails on all plans.

All email features are free for your first 100 subscribers so you can get started whether you’re an email beginner or seasoned pro.

Bottom line: Mighty Networks has tools for building a community. Podia has all the key features required to run a thriving online business that makes you money long into the future. But what do these tools cost?

Podia vs. Mighty Networks plans and pricing

Mighty Networks has four paid plans with different features. There’s a 14-day free trial so you can test things out before signing up.

All plans come with unlimited members, spaces, and admins, as well as the ability to choose one-time payments or recurring memberships, set up subscriptions, and create payment plans for users. You can gate your whole community behind a payment wall, just specific spaces, or both. All plans have a transaction fee.

• The Community plan: $49/month ($41/month billed annually) with 3% transaction fee. This plan has online community functionality, 5 hours of streaming per month, and 250 GB of total community storage.

• The Courses plan: $119/month ($99/month billed annually) with 2% transaction fee. This plan includes online courses, member tags, basic automations, 20 hours of live streaming per month, and 1TB of total storage.

• The Business plan: $219/month ($179/month billed annually) with 2% transaction fee. This plan includes everything on the first two plans plus white labeling, SSO, more automations, 30 hours of live streaming per month, and 2TB of total storage.

• The Path-to-Pro plan: $360/month (annual billing only) and 1% transaction fee. This plan includes more automations, member video uploading, 3TB of total storage, 40 hours of live streaming per month, and access to an exclusive online community.

Podia has a 30-day free trial with all features so you can test everything out before you pay anything. After the trial, you can choose from two pricing plans:

• Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): Mover includes your website, blog, and sales pages as well as unlimited digital products, online course creation, and third-party code. You can integrate your courses and products with Discord for free and enable customer chat messaging. You also get access to Podia’s friendly customer support.

• Shaker: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($75/month when paid annually): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus your own affiliate program.

All Podia plans include all email marketing features (like automations, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, tagging, and campaigns) for up to 100 subscribers. If you like, you can upgrade your Podia Email plan to add more subscribers as your list grows.

If you sign up for a monthly or annual Mover or Shaker plan, Podia includes a free migration service. This means our team will move your products and customers over from another platform (like Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, etc.) for free so you can get started fast.

Here’s how this could work for your business. Let’s say you wanted to sell online courses combined with online community features.

• With Podia, you could do this for $39/month on the Mover plan and sell unlimited courses with Discord community access. You’d also get your full website, blog, and unlimited landing pages to promote your offers.

• With Mighty Networks, this same functionality would cost $119/month on the Courses plan, and you’d still need to connect another tool for your website and landing pages.

Podia saves you $80/month for the same features. And because Podia is an all-in-one platform, your course builder is in the same place as your fully customizable website, email campaigns, newsletter, affiliates, customers, and everything else.

If you’re looking for an all-in-one tool that makes building an online business fun and easy, we hope you’ll check out Podia. You can try all of Podia’s user-friendly features free for 30 days, so click the link below to start exploring! We can’t wait to see what you make.