Online course platforms
Best open source alternatives to Mighty Networks 3 open-source tools, licences checked on GitHub
- Open-source tools
- 3
- Licences
- 2
- Most GitHub stars
- 2,372
- Self-host stated
- 1
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
We found 3 open-source tools that share a category with Mighty Networks. Each licence is GitHub's own value for the repository, and each tool's website says the product is open source.
Licences: AGPL-3.0 (2) and GPL-2.0 (1). GPL-family licences require you to publish the source of modified versions you distribute (AGPL also when you run them as a network service); permissive licences such as MIT and Apache-2.0 do not.
learnhouse has the most GitHub stars here (2,372, checked Oct 14, 2026). Stars measure attention on GitHub, not quality.
2 of them are ranked on the online course platforms scorecard. Order: tools in Mighty Networks's own market come first, then the rest, ranked tools by rank, then by GitHub stars.
1 tool states a self-hosting option on its own site; for the others we found no statement either way.
Open source Mighty Networks alternatives compared
| # | Tool | Licence | GitHub stars | Repository | Self-host | Paid from, monthly | Free plan | Score | Data checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  sensei | GPL-2.0 | 596 | Automattic/sensei | – | Not offered | Yes | 100/100 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 2 |  classroomio | AGPL-3.0 | 1,717 | classroomio/classroomio | – | $35/mo | Yes, 20 members | 89/100 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 3 |  learnhouse | AGPL-3.0 | 2,372 | learnhouse/learnhouse | Yes | Contact sales | No | Not ranked | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the page it was read from (hover for the check date).
– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.
How each one differs from Mighty Networks
- sensei · GPL-2.0
WordPress plugin for creating and selling online courses with quizzes, certificates, interactive lessons and cohort management.
- Licence: GPL-2.0 (GitHub, checked Oct 14, 2026) source
- GitHub stars: 596 (checked Oct 14, 2026) source
- Vendor says: "portability — export and import content wherever It is all open source, so customize and make it your own Easy course creation with the familiar" source
- Hosted or paid plan: $5 per month billed annually; not compared with Mighty Networks, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Score: 100/100, #1 of 19
- Verified features: Analytics, Team access, Templates, AI assistant
6 of 8 tracked details verified
- classroomio · AGPL-3.0
Open-source learning management system for running customer, employee and partner training academies with AI authoring, certificates and custom domains.
- Licence: AGPL-3.0 (GitHub, checked Oct 14, 2026) source
- GitHub stars: 1,717 (checked Oct 14, 2026) source
- Vendor says: "academy on your domain in a few days. Book a Demo The Open Source LMS for compliance training and certification programs. Product MCP Recipes API" source
- Hosted or paid plan: $35 billed monthly (Early Adopters), $44 less than Mighty Networks's $79 source
- Score: 89/100, #6 of 19
- Verified features: Team access, Templates, AI assistant, Public API
5 of 8 tracked details verified
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- learnhouse · AGPL-3.0
Open-source learning platform for creating and selling courses, with communities, podcasts, analytics, payments and an AI assistant.
- Licence: AGPL-3.0 (GitHub, checked Oct 14, 2026) source
- GitHub stars: 2,372 (checked Oct 14, 2026) source
- Vendor says: "Cookie Policy Company Blog Contact Found a bug or issue? Open Source AGPLv3 licensed, self-hostable GDPR Ready EU data protection compliant G2" source
- Self-host: stated on the vendor's site source
- Hosted or paid plan: contact sales (no published price) source
- Matches Mighty Networks: has all 4 features we verified for Mighty Networks
6 of 8 tracked details verified
How we picked
- Open source only: the licence is GitHub's SPDX value for the tool's repository (NOASSERTION or no licence is left out), and the tool's own website or our grounded summary says the product is open source. A company that merely publishes a repository is not counted.
- Same category or overlapping use: the tool lists at least one category the tool on this page lists; tools in its own market come first.
- Order: tools ranked on the category scorecard by rank (at least 60% of the weight with verified data), then by GitHub stars, then name. Stars are as of the date shown.
- Self-hosting is shown only when the vendor's site states it. A feature counts as missing only when the vendor's page states it; a feature the vendor does not mention is not listed either way.
- This page is built only when at least 3 tools qualify.
Every value is read from the vendor's own pages (or GitHub for licences and stars) and shown with the date we checked it. A value we could not verify is shown as a dash, never estimated, and never read as a “no”. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Methodology
The scorecard behind the ranks
Every one of these online course platforms is scored by the same 7 criteria (scorecard v1). Each criterion gives 0 to 100 from the vendor's published data; the total is the weighted average. A criterion without verified data is left out and the other weights are re-normalised. A tool with under 60% of the weight covered is listed as not ranked, and so is a tool with no verified price and fewer than 2 verified features (“needs a verified price”); each score shows how many criteria it is based on. The core criteria are the same in every category; the category criteria are specific to online course platforms. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.
| Criterion | Weight | Type | What we measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | 25% | Core | Price per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other online course platforms on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).Log scale. Billed monthly: $26.52/month or less = 100, $106 or more = 0. Only billed annually: $15.58/month or less = 100, $399 or more = 0. Only free plans = 100. Usage-priced and one-time plans are not scored. |
| Free plan or trial | 15% | Core | Whether you can use the tool before paying: a free plan, or failing that a free trial, as shown on the vendor's pricing page.Free plan = 100. No free plan but a free trial = 60. The pricing page lists plans but shows neither = 0. No plans read = not scored. |
| Pricing transparency | 10% | Core | How much of the pricing is public: the share of plans with a published price ("contact sales" counts against), and whether there are at least 3 published tiers.80 x (plans with a public price / plans listed) + 20 x (public plans, up to 3) / 3. No plans read = not scored. |
| Verified features | 15% | Core | How many of the 4 features we track for this category the vendor's own pages verifiably show (analytics, team access, templates, ai assistant). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.Linear: verified features / 2 (half the tracked list) x 100, capped at 100. No tracked feature verified = not scored. |
| API, integrations and export | 10% | Core | Whether a public API exists, how many integrations the vendor states, and whether the vendor documents a way to export your data.Average of the parts with data: public API yes = 100, no = 0; integrations on a log scale (100 or more = 100); a documented data export = 100. None verified = not scored. |
| Fee on sales | 15% | Category | The percentage of each sale the platform keeps, as the vendor states it (the cheapest paid plan that states a fee).Linear, lower is better: 0% = 100, 10% or more = 0. No stated fee = not scored. |
| Students per plan | 10% | Category | Students or members included on the cheapest paid plan that states a limit.Log scale: 1,000 or more (or unlimited) = 100. No stated limit = not scored. |
Sources are vendor pricing pages, docs and changelogs, each with the date we checked it. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Full formulas: methodology.
Questions, answered from the data
Is there an open source alternative to Mighty Networks?
Yes: 3 open-source tools share a category with Mighty Networks, led by sensei, classroomio and learnhouse.
Which open source Mighty Networks alternative is most popular on GitHub?
learnhouse, with 2,372 GitHub stars (checked Oct 14, 2026).
Which licences do these alternatives use?
AGPL-3.0: 2 and GPL-2.0: 1, as GitHub reports them for each repository.
Which ones can I self-host?
learnhouse states a self-hosting option on its own site.