Switch From Mighty Networks to Teachable (+ Best Platforms)

AdvLaunch is the AI agency for coaches and consultants. In our paid community program, we run paid Meta acquisition into paid communities on Skool, Kajabi, Circle, Mighty Networks and other platforms, so we see where each one strains once ad traffic arrives. We sell ad management, not software or migrations, so weigh the rankings below with that stake in mind.

Switching From Mighty Networks to Teachable: What Moves and What Does Not

Switching from Mighty Networks to Teachable moves your member list and, with manual rebuilding, your course content, but it does not move your community, your paid subscriptions or your engagement history. We checked each row below against Mighty Networks' documentation and pricing page and Teachable's help center and pricing page on 8 October 2026, and we found no vendor-published migration tool between the two.

What Importing Members Into Teachable Costs

Importing Mighty Networks members into Teachable can add a monthly per-student fee, because Teachable's usage policy bills students who are added outside its own checkout. The policy was last updated on 28 September 2026 and applies to schools created on or after 3 September 2026. Each school gets 100 such students free, then pays $0.50 a month per student above 100, on every plan.

A student counts when you import them, add them through the API, enrol them manually, enrol them at US$0, or give them access after a sale on another platform. A student who buys through Teachable checkout for more than $0 never counts. A 100% coupon checkout is a US$0 checkout, so it does not avoid the fee.

Worked example, not a benchmark: you move 400 paying Mighty members. Route A is to bulk-import them, which needs Growth for the CSV importer: $139 + (400 - 100) x $0.50 = $139 + $150 = $289 a month. Route B is to ask them to check out again on Builder: $69 a month and $0 in student fees. Route B is cheaper by $220 a month, but the real cost is the members who do not come across, so measure that before you cancel anything. Adding members by hand on Builder is a third route, but manual enrolment counts toward the same 100 free students, so it only delays the fee.

Schools created before 3 September 2026 stay on a legacy schedule until their first renewal on or after 30 April 2027. Under it, students added outside Teachable checkout cost $1.50, $1.00 or $0.75 a month on Starter, Builder and Growth once a school exceeds its included limits.

Where Should a Mighty Networks Community Go Instead?

A Mighty Networks community should move to Teachable only if the courses were the draw, because Teachable cannot host the community. Teachable's help center says Community is in maintenance mode and is no longer available to new schools, and that it is not adding features or fixing bugs. If members came for each other, the move needs a different destination.

Circle is built for that move. Its pricing page lists a free payment migration service that transfers active subscriptions and payment information from a legacy platform, if you are eligible, and a course migration service on annual Business plans and above. Circle Professional is $89 a month billed annually with a 2% transaction fee, and Circle says paywalls run on Stripe, to which you can connect your existing account.

Staying on Mighty Networks? The harder part is filling it. See how we run paid-member acquisition on Mighty Networks →

A One-Week Switching Checklist

A one-week switch works when you do the reversible steps first and cancel Mighty Networks last. This order protects members from paying twice or losing access:

1. Day 1: download your Mighty member list (Admin, Members, Member List, Download) and each paid plan's list (Admin, Plans & Access, Plan List, three-dot menu, Download Member List). Mighty emails you a link to the Excel file.
2. Day 1: choose the student route. Importing needs Teachable Growth and triggers the usage fee above 100 students. Checkout on Builder does not.
3. Days 2 to 4: rebuild courses on Teachable from your own source files while Mighty stays live.
4. Day 4: decide where the community will live before you announce anything, because Teachable will not host it.
5. Day 5: tell members what is changing, why, and the date. A week is the build time, not the notice period, so give members more than a week before access ends.
6. Days 6 and 7: open Teachable checkout and confirm purchases reach Meta using the Test Events tool in Events Manager.
7. After members are active on Teachable: end Mighty plans from inside Mighty only. Mighty's docs warn that changing plans in Stripe can lose subscribed members, and its API reference says archiving a plan cancels all its subscriptions and revokes access.
8. Last: cancel Mighty's own billing. Cancelling downgrades the network to the Free Plan when the billing cycle ends.

Best Course Platforms in 2026, Ranked by Use Case

The best course platform in 2026 depends on whether you sell content, a community or both, and these six platforms cover the main cases. The table gives the pick for each use case and the catch that matters most, using each vendor's own pricing and help pages.

For the two-platform decision most creators face first, our head-to-head covers plans, fees and a worked monthly cost.

Torn between Kajabi and Teachable? See the head-to-head with a worked monthly cost →

Meta Ads Tracking on Each Platform

Most platforms in this ranking can report purchases to Meta, but the setup and the plan you need differ, and the details decide whether your ad account sees what happened:

• Kajabi supports the Meta Pixel and the Conversions API for lead and purchase events, using a Pixel ID and an access token.
• Teachable offers a Meta Pixel app on every plan (Starter allows one installed app) and Code Snippets on Builder and above, and its July 2026 help article describes server-side Conversions API support.
• Skool has a Meta pixel plugin that tracks page views, membership requests and purchases. Skool says not to reuse one pixel across domains or connect it to external CRMs, and its help article does not say which plan includes the plugin, so check before you rely on it.
• Circle accepts a pixel through its Code snippets feature, which works in the browser only, and has a tracking-code field on each paywall's thank-you page for custom JavaScript.
• Mighty Networks' pricing page lists marketing pixel tracking from Scale upward, while its help article says a Meta Pixel can be added from Launch. Confirm in your plan settings.
• We did not verify Thinkific's Meta setup for this update. Check its Meta Pixel help article before you rely on it.

Our Take: When Switching Platforms Is the Wrong Fix

Switching platforms rarely fixes a members problem, so decide whether yours is software or growth before you move hundreds of people. If the cost, the app or the course tools are what hurt, a switch can help, and Teachable Builder at $69 a month with a 0% platform fee is a fair deal for selling courses. If the problem is that too few new people are joining, a new logo on the login page changes nothing.

AdvLaunch is the right call when your problem is members, growth or revenue, on a platform you are happy with. It is probably not the right call yet if your community revenue is under about $20K a year, because the Scale Program would be premature. Ad spend is separate and paid from your own Meta Business Manager, and the budget is set with you on a call. We also do not migrate platforms, build courses or manage communities.

Comparing Teachable with Thinkific for the course side? See Teachable vs Thinkific →

How AdvLaunch Fills a Course or Community Platform: The Community Flywheel™

Whichever platform you land on, the harder part is getting new people in. We call our system The Community Flywheel™. We run it for communities on Skool, Whop, Circle, Kajabi, Mighty Networks and Discord; if you land on Teachable or Thinkific, ask us whether the funnel fits first:

1. Hook: a Meta ad points to a paid challenge, webinar or masterclass we control, not to your Teachable checkout, Skool signup page or Mighty join link.
2. Result delivered: over seven days or one live event, your method produces a real outcome, so people experience your teaching before anyone pays.
3. Community upsell: graduates are offered the paid community, or the course plus community, at a founder rate, checked out in your own account.
4. Retention compounds: members arrive already bought in, and retention and lifetime value are measured against the campaign cohort, not assumed from a generic benchmark.