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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  • I just did some research and even their staff has no faith in them. Here's the link to their workplace reviews. High turnover, no concern over Ning project - my opinion is they're just milking us like cows every month.

    I was luckily able to grab my content although with  64k members I'm unable to grab all the images that go with the content but I'm satisfied with just getting the necessities and a large portion of images. I'm a developer and designer and I already have 2 VPS's one is PureSSD the other an HDD 8 core with a lot of ram, 8tb bandwidth and 200g space; so I'm already testing options. After almost 10 years with them, unfortunately I'm done with their BS. If they were offering something or they actually serviced their paying customers then I would have zero issue with the doubling price but instead they've declined horrifically for years, their support is a joke, they've been collecting money off of my gift revenue for years without paying me a dime and it's more than obvious at this point that they're just going to milk it to the end.

    It's time to jump off of this sinking ship, a lot of work ahead of me but change is good sometimes and they see us as nothing more than a cash cow for every other project they helm aside from Ning and I'm over it and their BS.

  • Since we are a unique group of community owners, we should probably start a private Ning FB group to stay in contact.  Who knows if/when Creators will be taken offline.  I am in multiple software groups and they really work nicely.

  • Thanks, short notice email, more than 100% price increase?. Been here from the start. Losing a whole town's community website now because of this. Archiving as I type this, but for what end I don't know, I have 9 years wrapped up in this, thank goodness it's not my day job. Ning you promised so much, then over promised and now cut your own throat. If there is anyway to get the archive simply plugged into a wordpress website anybody? Please share. Honestly Ning, you will lose more than you gain out of this in revenue and users. #FAIL

  • When they went from free sites to paid several years ago many fellow artists jumped ship to Spruz and several other sites, webs.com being one which still has free and low cost sites,however I tried migrating back then and it was so jumbled that it merely transferred members names and email addys and some odd stuff that couldnt find how to load on other sites so I opted to pay for Ning 2.0 and tried converting my paypal buttons on the site and did so but always one at a time so it got so tedious I opened other sites to sell at and used mine to promote and tried to get people to join and pay but that didnt work so culled out inactive members after giving them over a year to either post or reply to anything and then deleted members who just wee never there, keeping about 150 members but they too didnt post often so I have had alot of things on autopilot. I had so many groups for categories where people could advertise free but few used them, A few years ago I began making facebook pages and groups and getting my members to use facebook instead and they did and do and I had hoped others from facebook would also join my Ning but only a few did I think as much as I have wanted to hold onto my Ning 2.0 that its more because I  have owned it like many of you since 2008 or 2009 but frankly Ning is a dinosaur. There are many more newer platforms that include so much more than Ning does which may be why they never updated or finished 3.0 They were sold to Glam last I bothered to check but they didnt seem so interested in the Ning side of things  or social networks and with so many using facebook and twitter, self included, I skip days or weeks coming back to my own ning site.
    I was recently considering closing out the facebook groups as the preapprovals take up alot of time, but keep out the bad stuff some post  yet now I am glad i didnt close out the facebook sites. They also enable direct selling there now as well but I still dont like facebook overall but its become the biggest social network in town and though limited on how to use it without being able to customize is a drawback. i am now looking over the webs.com again as it does have pages groups members along with a built in checkout that if Ning is to be charging $59 a mo its a bargain to get the webs $25 a month that includes most of the ning features plus an unlimited checkout if you also sell through your site. Wix.com also has decent site set ups and free as well as paid and their prices are cheaper than ning but give more.
    Biggest bother is being 7 yrs older and not sure I want to go through the process again of building another site but to give into Ning doing this doesnt seem right either. Its not like its really costing them anymore to have all of us on their auto pilot and bandwidth. It sounds more like greed and a dont care attitude on their corporate part. Jacking the prices up that much seems more to get people to quit it than to want to keep people as happy customers. its their way or the highway. I am too tired of web building. For a checkout I bought a lifetime $49.99 membership to Ebid.net though its an auction site, most join to get the free 5 stores what connect to paypal and have unlimited usage. On the down side they dont have most of the ning features but do have a social blog as its more for selling,still I do list sales there and do get some. Webs.com has alot but was trickier when I tried setting mine up 6-7 yrs ago and though  it was free and i still have it , havent done much with it since the beginning, yet it shows  in google and gets some traffic however now most of my links there dont work as I changed my url from artrave to artrevu so need to go and update the links but have put it off. The groups on facebook can be set to closed or open so they can help some of you as people can still upload pictures and if your network is mostly social commenting, you can do it there. They also have features to add pages or stores as well.
    $59 a month ot more just doesnt seem to be giving any bang for the buck. 
    WeN2K.com is a free permanent listing site where if you convert your ning pages one by one to their html counterpart, you can upload them there and they remain forever, even paypal buttons, or until you delete the page. That might be a quicker alternative for some of you if the archiving isnt working on ning and you cant export your data fast enough. You can also screenshot your pages and save them on IE or google or on WeN2k.com Thats a free way to save some for those like me who are less techy.
    Good luck everyone - looks like this time  the ship is sinking.
    :)

    Ave

    • I can understand, Ave. But imagine about creators from other countries like me. The ever increasing dollar exchange rates is making me pay double the amount (I started with Rs. 8000 and now I am paying about Rs. 17000. Now with increased price I will have to pay Rs. 42,000 - that is like $ 42,000 for us!) . I requested Ning to charge us in Indian rupees- several other companies are doing that, in the beginning they said they would consider it, but they never did.

      If it were only 600, I would have paid happily. But 42,000 is too much for us.

  • NC for Hire

    So you double the monthly plan for Ning 2.0, while refusing to migrate a 2.0 community to a 3.0 which is priced more affordably and abandon the 3.0 roadmap.  Am I missing something?

    • You're not missing anything. That's EXACTLY it which is another reason this is so frustrating.I called ning and that's what they said they would do. Extremely disappointing. They shaid I could migrate my content over myself.

      I've been building my network since 2008, I cannot migrate 1700 people's content to ning 3.0, it would appear as if I was posting myself instead of them. That defeats the purpose of a SOCIAL membership network.

      I've been with ning almost since the beginning, through all the price hikes, systems downs and so on. I never caused them any trouble, they messed up. This sucks so badly I can't even put it into words.

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