Key takeaways
- Mighty Networks moves your community onto its own web and mobile apps. Milvao keeps members on WhatsApp and needs no app or account.
- Mighty's People Explorer suggests connections from activity inside the platform. Milvao starts from a request and asks one suitable member at a time.
- Mighty Networks runs courses, events, livestreams and paid memberships. Milvao does none of these.
- Mighty starts at $79 a month plus a transaction fee. Milvao's Starter is ₹2,999 a month for up to 300 members, with Meta's message charges on top.
What each does
Milvao
Milvao works inside the WhatsApp habits a community already has. Members tap a join link in their group, set up a short profile, and send requests one to one to the community's WhatsApp Business number. Milvao turns each request into a brief the member confirms, asks a member who fits, and shares contact details only after both people say yes. Operators watch it all from a dashboard.
Mighty Networks
- Mighty Networks calls itself "The community platform that delivers", offering community, courses and events, with payments and marketing tools. Its customers are called hosts. source
- Members use it in native iOS and Android apps, which the home page says are "Not web wrappers", and on the web. source
- Its community page presents it as "The front door for communities leaving Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp". source
Side by side
| Compared | Milvao | Mighty Networks |
|---|---|---|
| Where members are | On WhatsApp, talking to the community's business number. No app or account | On Mighty's own platform, available on iOS, Android and the web on every plan source |
| Finding the right member | A member describes a need; Milvao ranks members by service, city, willingness, reply speed, history and fairness | The People Explorer surfaces connections based on who a member follows and who they have reacted to or commented alongside source |
| Introductions | Contact details shared only after the person asking and the helper both agree to that request | Hovering a suggested profile offers View Profile or Chat; no request-based or consent-based introduction flow is described source |
| Member profiles | City, up to 10 skills, cities served, plus your own questions with who-can-see settings | Hosts add custom profile fields that are public or private; privacy can't be changed later, and phone number fields are private by default source |
| Directory and search | Operators filter by group, city, skill and profile status. Members search an opt-in directory by name, skill, city or profile answer, if the owner turns it on | Members can search for others who chose the same dropdown answers, and hosts can filter the member list by profile field answers source |
| Courses, events, payments | None | Courses, events with RSVPs and reminders, livestreams and chat are part of the platform source |
| Runs on the official WhatsApp Business Platform, on the community's own number | The pricing page does not mention WhatsApp source | |
| Languages | Bot replies in English; members can write requests in English or Hinglish | System text in English, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian and Dutch; member content is not translated source |
| Price to start | ₹4,999 pilot for 30 days, or ₹2,999 a month on Starter | Launch plan at $79 a month, with a 2% transaction fee source |
Pricing
Pilot: ₹4,999 for 30 days, one payment that doesn't renew, set up with you. Starter: ₹2,999 a month for one community, one business number, up to 300 onboarded members and 2 operator seats. Growth: ₹6,999 a month for up to 1,000 onboarded members and 5 operator seats. Yearly billing gives two months free on both. Larger networks: priced with you. INR prices include GST. Meta bills its WhatsApp message charges to your own WhatsApp Business Account, separately. Members never pay. Details on the pricing page.
- Mighty Networks: Launch $79 a month, Scale $179 a month, Growth $354 a month, and Mighty Pro on custom pricing. source
- Mighty Networks: Transaction fees of 2% on Launch, 1% on Scale and 0.5% on Growth and Mighty Pro. source
- Mighty Networks: A 14-day free trial with no credit card, run on Growth plan features. source
Moving members off WhatsApp, or staying
The first decision is where your members will be, not which features you want. A hosted platform asks members to install an app or visit a site and make a habit of it. That pays off when the community sells courses or events and wants a space of its own.
Milvao assumes members will not move. It adds one private conversation with the community's business number, and the groups stay exactly as they are. If your members already open WhatsApp every day and ignore new apps, that difference matters more than any feature list.
Suggested connections or answered requests
Discovery features show members who they might like to know. Milvao works from the other end: a member says what they need, Milvao finds someone who offers it in the right city, and asks that person first. The helper sees a short brief, never the requester's name or number, and decides. See how requests work.
Where Milvao is weaker
- Milvao has no courses, events, livestreams, paid memberships, discussion feeds or member chat.
- Milvao has no app of its own. Members reach it only through WhatsApp, so a community that wants a branded home won't get one.
- Members can browse only an opt-in directory of people who chose to be listed, and can't message each other in Milvao; contact goes through introductions.
- Milvao's bot replies only in English, and accepts text messages only.
- Milvao is early stage and focused on India, with prices in rupees. Starter covers 300 members, and Meta's message charges are extra.
Which to choose
Choose Mighty Networks
You want a branded space with courses, events and payments, and your members are willing to move to a new app.
Choose Milvao
Your members live in WhatsApp groups, won't install another app, and the job you need done is getting the right two people talking privately.
Sources
- www.mightynetworks.com/pricing (checked 5 November 2026)
- docs.mightynetworks.com/for-hosts/marketing-features/what-is-the-people-explorer (checked 5 November 2026)
- docs.mightynetworks.com/for-hosts/gamification/how-do-i-add-custom-fields (checked 5 November 2026)
- www.mightynetworks.com/community (checked 5 November 2026)
- docs.mightynetworks.com/for-hosts/analytics-and-integrations/does-mighty-networks-have-language-localization (checked 5 November 2026)
- www.mightynetworks.com/ (checked 5 November 2026)
This comparison is based on information Mighty Networks publishes, read on the dates shown. It is not a scored hands-on benchmark. Mighty Networks is a trademark of its owner. Milvao makes a competing product. Corrections are welcome through our contact page.