Current status of the Ning Platform is always available on the Ning Status Blog.

Update:  This has been rolled back.  We will not be proceeding with the price increases to Ning Plus and Pro or discontinuing grandfathered Ning Mini subscriptions at this time.  More information on this can be found here.

As a continuation of the adjustments to our offered plans we began at the start of this year, we’re making the following changes to the plans offered for Ning 2.0, effective October 1, 2016:

  1. Retiring the Ning Mini plan.  We discontinued new Mini subscriptions in October 2012.  After keeping your Mini subscription and rates the same for nearly 4 years, we are now discontinuing all existing Ning Mini subscriptions.  Mini Network Creators will have the choice of upgrading to the Ning Plus or Ning Pro plans or canceling their network. Mini networks we don’t receive a response from prior to October 1st will be canceled and locked at the end of their current bill cycle.
  2. Increasing Ning Plus and Pro prices.  After five years, we are now raising our rates for both the Ning Plus and Pro plans, which have remained the same since July 2011.  Plus Network Creators will be able opt into the new Plus rates or cancel.  Pro Network Creators will be able to downgrade to Plus, opt into the new Pro rates, or cancel.  Plus and Pro networks we don’t receive a response from prior to October 1st will renew at the new rates, beginning their first bill cycle after October 1st, and will continue to renew until we receive a formal request for cancellation via phone or email.

Current Ning 2.0 Rates

(in effect since July 2011)

New Ning 2.0 Rates*

(effective October 1st)

 Monthly

 Annual

 Monthly

 Annual

Plus

$24.95

$239.90

to

$59

$588

Pro

$59.95

$599.90

to

$119

$1,188

*Existing feature sets, storage limits, and support levels remain the same on both plans

In addition to the notification emails that went out today, we’ll be reaching out again shortly in subsequent email reminders with customized links that will allow you to accept this price increase or cancel your current plan.  In the meantime, please take a look at the FAQs below.  They should answer any questions you have about this, but we’ll do our best to clarify if they don’t.

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How do I find out when my subscription renews?

You can find out what your bill cycle date is and when your subscription renews by logging into your Ning.com account, clicking the "See Billing & Invoice History" link, and viewing your invoices.

I’m on Ning 3.0, will my subscription fee go up, too?

No, we do not have plans to raise Ning 3.0 prices at this time. 

My Ning Plus/Pro – Annual subscription just renewed in July.  When will I see the new rates?

Your current subscription and its rates are valid through the end of your current bill cycle, through July 2017.  You will only see the new rates once your subscription renews next summer. 

My Ning Plus/Pro – Monthly subscription is set to renew September 20th.  When will I see the new rates?

Your subscription and its rates will be valid through the end of that bill cycle, through October 20th.  You will see the new rates once your October invoice posts.

What about add-on pricing?

There is not any change to add-on pricing or plans to change add-on pricing or subscriptions at this time.

I don’t want to continue my network.  How do I get my content?

You can archive your network's content with the Ning Network Archiver.  Head to My Network > Content > Archive on your network to install Adobe Air and the Ning Network Archiver on your computer.  More information about archiving your content can be found here.

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  • so upset have so many members all going to go 

  • Why not communicated the bad news before the payment? We sent a few days ago the annual fee. We think this is a scam.

    • THEY DON'T CARE THEY WANT US TO LEAVE

  • NC for Hire
    And so it comes to pass: Ning finally trying to manage customers out of the platform. Such a sorry way for a once great company to behave.

    For those who are having trouble with json files from the archiver try using an online json validator to tidy the data up.

    If the archiver isn't working, which to my mind legally it has to (or Ning should provide the data by other means) then you could try import.io or Kimono's desktop based web scrapers. Steep learning curve but good options for getting structured content data that you could potentially marry up to your member export csv files (which seem more reliable than the archiver).

    I'm no longer doing much Ning work as I'm back in full time employment with another SaaS provider, so can't really offer much more help than that at present.

    I wish everyone well whatever they decide to do.

    SP
  • Same here - insane 245% price increase for a product that hasn't changed in years... goodbye Ning. 

  • This is sad news and probably will see the end of my network.
    I've been with Ning since 2008 (when it was free) and have steadily grown my network as part of a classic car club.
    We could barely justify the existing fees - but to double them means it's just not economically viable to continue.
    The increase is so aggressive it must be aimed at wiping out the remaining Ning 2.0 networks.
    No company in their right mind is going to sit around a Board table and think customers are going to accept that level of increase.

    Fortunately I've just renewed, so have a few months to sort out a migration strategy.
    Will the last person to leave please turn the lights off ...

    • +1

  • Quite taken back by this, a seemingly impossible new low for Ning. My heart goes out to all you poor people being held hostage. Come on Ning at least fix the archiver so people can retain their years of hard work.

    • Do you actually thing the archived json files will help you rebuild a website? I only ask cos I really don't know how I would do that.

      • Ning json files are flawed.  Jamroom has been able to untangle them for some sites (not all) to migrate there but trust me, once you pay for everything you want (and that's a hefty price), you're going to have high hurdles in design.......unless you like plain and 'blah' every day.  Just my .02. 

        I was able to import blogs and their comments, as well as groups and members into Wordpress but that's it.  The forums, those comments, events, group discussions and comments, photos, videos and pages would not come through.  Further analysis came to determine it was the flawed json files stopping it.   You end up leaving 75% of your site behind.

        Lawsuit?  That sounds better and better to me now..........

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