No percentage on your members' payments
Memberships, tickets and products sold with the eCommerce module go through your own Stripe account. Mighty Networks keeps 0.5% to 2%.
Mighty Networks sells a polished platform for creators who run paid communities and courses, with a percentage on every sale. HumHub hosted by CUZY suits organizations that want a member network with single sign-on, their own payment account and software they can take with them.
Mighty Networks is a proprietary, hosted community platform with spaces, events, courses, live streams, paid memberships and branded apps, priced by tier with a transaction fee on payments. Its privacy policy states that the service is provided from the United States; there is no self-hosted version.
Facts about Mighty Networks come from the vendor's own pages, checked in September 2026: Mighty Networks pricing, Mighty Networks help: member data export, Mighty Networks privacy policy. Prices are those published by the vendor (US dollars); they may have changed since. Tell us about an error on the contact page and we correct it.
An open-source social network and intranet platform (spaces, streams, wiki, files, calendar, tasks, polls, messaging, member directory, mobile app), extended by the HumHub marketplace and by every CUZY module, hosted by CUZY on dedicated servers in the region you choose, with a flat price and unlimited members.
The questions a buyer, an IT reviewer or a data-protection officer asks both vendors.
| Criterion | Mighty Networks | HumHub hosted by CUZY |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Launch $79/month billed yearly ($950/year) or $95 billed monthly, Scale $179 or $215, Growth $354 or $425, Mighty Pro on quote | Team €90/month or €900/year, Business €450/month or €4,500/year, unlimited members, 14-day free trial |
| Fees on payments | Transaction fee on payments: 2% (Launch), 1% (Scale), 0.5% (Growth and Mighty Pro) | None. Payments made with the eCommerce module go through your own Stripe account; CUZY takes no commission |
| Single sign-on | Optional SSO on Growth and Mighty Pro only | On every plan, trial included, through OpenID Connect and OAuth modules (Keycloak, Microsoft Entra, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub) and SAML-capable identity providers |
| API | Admin API from Scale (5,000 requests a month), 50,000 on Growth | HumHub REST API module on every plan |
| Open source | Proprietary. The software cannot be installed elsewhere | Yes. HumHub under the AGPL, every CUZY module with public source code. 100% of the code can be taken away |
| Data ownership and exit | Member lists as Excel files; no content export documented | Complete export of the database and files from the dashboard, once a day, on every paid plan; recreate the same platform self-hosted or on HumHub's own hosting |
| Hosting region and isolation | Amazon Web Services, provided from the United States; SOC 2 Type II; a signed DPA listed for Mighty Pro only | Dedicated servers in the region you choose, Germany (EU), the USA or Singapore (APAC); one isolated stack per community; encrypted backups with a second provider in the same region |
| Extensibility | The vendor's feature set, integrations and API; no third-party module marketplace | The whole HumHub marketplace plus every CUZY module on every plan; custom modules and themes on Business after review |
| AI and your content | AI features built into the platform, run on the vendor's infrastructure | No AI reads your members' content. CUZY uses AI only for its own operations (anonymized technical logs, support ticket text), as stated in the privacy policy |
Memberships, tickets and products sold with the eCommerce module go through your own Stripe account. Mighty Networks keeps 0.5% to 2%.
Google, Keycloak and OpenID Connect sign-in on the trial and on Team. On Mighty Networks, SSO starts with Growth at $354 a month.
Germany (EU), the USA or Singapore (APAC), with a DPA on every plan. Mighty Networks lists a signed DPA for Mighty Pro only.
Database and files downloadable once a day, runnable on any server. Mighty Networks exports member lists.
Spaces with wiki, files, tasks and calendar, a directory and permissions for staff, volunteers and members, not only a course audience.
Mighty Networks is the better fit for a creator or coach whose business is selling courses, live events and paid memberships to the public, who wants branded apps and a creator-oriented experience ready on day one, and accepts a percentage on sales.
Start a free trial, import members and content with our help, connect your identity provider, and run both platforms side by side until you are ready. Subscribers can export everything from CUZY once a day, so the move is never a one-way door. Tell us about your current setup and we assess what can be carried over.
Yes, for organizations running a member network: spaces, events, courses with the LMS module, paid memberships with eCommerce and a mobile app, with single sign-on on every plan, no commission and hosting in Germany (EU), the USA or Singapore (APAC).
No. Payments go through your own Stripe account; only Stripe's fees apply.
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Two weeks with every module and single sign-on, no card asked. Keep everything when you subscribe, export everything if you leave.