Eventbrite alternatives are sought by organisers who sell tickets at volume and find the per-ticket fee, which Eventbrite publishes as 3.7% plus $1.79 and then 2.9% for payment processing, adds up. Others run conferences that need agendas, badges and exhibitor tools rather than a ticket page. They move to a cheaper ticketing service, a tool they can host themselves, or a full conference platform.
AuthorHannah ReiterSenior Analyst, Business Applications
Short answer: The closest replacements for Eventbrite in our event management ranking are Ticket Tailor, Tito and pretix. Choose Ticket Tailor if you sell many low-priced tickets and want a flat fee per ticket instead of a percentage. All 11 alternatives below are ranked products from Best Event Management Software in 2026, and each says where it differs from Eventbrite.
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Pricing: Per-ticket service fee plus processing, published; no fee on free events
Established in: United States
Built for: Organisers who want public discovery and self-serve ticket sales
Not for: Conferences needing speaker, agenda and exhibitor management
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Why buyers look past Eventbrite
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The fee stacks per ticket and again per order
Eventbrite's pricing page lists a service fee of 3.7% plus $1.79 per ticket and a payment processing fee of 2.9% per order, with no fee on free events. On a $20 ticket that is roughly $3.11 on our arithmetic, or about 15.6% of the price. Organisers can pass the fees to attendees, but the total does not shrink.
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The reach is the product, and not every organiser needs it
Eventbrite describes itself as giving organisers access to the largest events marketplace in the world. That helps a first-time organiser find strangers. A club, a school or a company with its own audience brings its own buyers and pays the marketplace price for a ticket form.
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Plans are published for six countries only
The pricing page states that its plans are available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Organisers elsewhere, or those wanting agendas, exhibitor tools and badge printing as a conference needs them, tend to compare dedicated ticketing or conference tools.
Quoted per organisation; Professional and Enterprise tiers
Large event suite owned by Blackstone, with quoted pricing
you run an enterprise events programme across many formats and will negotiate a contract
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What each one does differently
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Ticket Tailor
United Kingdom · Per-ticket fee or prepaid credits, published; no fee on up to 5,000 free tickets a year
Ticket Tailor charges a per-ticket fee of 60 pence on pay as you go, or from 22 pence when credits are prepaid, with no fee on up to 5,000 free tickets a year. Payment processing is billed separately by Stripe, PayPal or Square. It is a ticketing tool rather than a conference suite.
Switch from Eventbrite if you sell many low-priced tickets and want a flat fee per ticket instead of a percentage.
Ireland · Percentage fee per ticket sold, published; no fee on free events
Tito charges 3% per ticket sold with no monthly fee, caps its own fee at 25 euros, and charges nothing on free events. Gateway fees from Stripe or PayPal come on top. The company is based in Dublin. It covers ticketing and registration, not exhibitor or onsite conference tooling.
Switch from Eventbrite if you run expensive conference tickets, where a fee cap matters, and want no subscription.
Germany · Free up to 500 free tickets a year; per-ticket fee after that, published
pretix charges 2.5% of the ticket price excluding taxes, never more than 15 euros per ticket, with no monthly fee and unlimited users. The first 500 free tickets a year cost nothing. It is a German product, available hosted or self-hosted, and is sold to businesses and similar entities, not to consumers.
Switch from Eventbrite if you want a capped fee, German hosting or the option to run the software yourself.
United States · Per-registration fee by plan, published; flat monthly Scale plan
Eventzilla prices by plan: Basic at $1.50 per registration, Pro at 1.9% plus $1.50, Plus at 2.9% plus $1.50, and Scale from $200 a month billed annually with 500 registrations included. Free events stay free. Payment processing is extra. The plan ladder is clearer than Eventbrite's but less flexible.
Switch from Eventbrite if you want to choose between a flat per-registration fee and a monthly plan.
United States · Free plan with a platform fee on paid events; Plus plan per month, published
Luma's free plan allows unlimited events and guests with a 5% platform fee on paid events. Luma Plus costs $59 a month billed annually and removes that fee. The free plan caps invites at 500 a week. It suits community and meetup events rather than conferences with exhibitors.
Switch from Eventbrite if you host community events, mostly free, and want invitations and guest lists built in.
United States · Per-registration fee plus card processing, published; Professional plan billed annually
RegFox charges $0.99 plus 1% per paid registration on Standard (capped at $4.99), $1.99 plus 1% on Premium (capped at $5.99), or $499 a month billed annually for Professional. Card processing is 2.9% plus 30 cents. Premium adds badge printing and an attendee app.
Switch from Eventbrite if you run registrations with forms, badges and an attendee app, and want the fee capped per registration.
India · Free plan; per-month plans by participant cap, published
Zoho Backstage has a free plan for 100 participants per event with three sessions, and paid plans whose limits are 200, 1,000 and 5,000 participants. Its page states 0% commission on event tickets. It is built around sessions, speakers and sponsors, so a plain ticket page is more tool than needed.
Switch from Eventbrite if your event has sessions and speakers and you would rather pay by participant cap than per ticket.
United States · Annual package plus per-registration fee, published
Stova sells annual packages: Core at $1,995 a year with registrations from $3.00 each, Pro at $5,995 with registrations from $4.50, and Enterprise at $12,995 with registrations from $5.60. That model suits a corporate events team, not an organiser selling a few hundred tickets.
Switch from Eventbrite if a corporate events team runs many registrations a year and wants a published annual package.
United States · Packages from a published starting price; White Label quoted
Accelevents publishes packages, not fees per ticket: Professional at $7,500 for one event and Business at $13,500 for unlimited events, with Enterprise and White Label quoted. Support is advertised as 24/7. Priced for organisations with large events, it is the wrong scale for small ticket sales.
Switch from Eventbrite if you run large events and want a flat package price instead of a fee on every ticket.
United States · Quoted per event; trial after a demo
Whova publishes no price list. It quotes per event from a request form that asks about format (in person, hybrid or virtual), duration, attendance and how many events a year you run. A demo is the route to a trial. Expect a sales conversation before you see a number.
Switch from Eventbrite if you run conferences with an agenda app and will accept a quote instead of a published fee.
United States · Quoted per organisation; Professional and Enterprise tiers
Cvent covers registration, mobile event apps, a virtual event platform, webinars and check-in with badging, and does not publish prices; pricing is available by request. Its address is in Tysons Corner, Virginia. The breadth suits enterprise programmes, and it is far more than a ticketing page requires.
Switch from Eventbrite if you run an enterprise events programme across many formats and will negotiate a contract.
Eventbrite stays the right choice for an organiser who needs strangers to find the event. The marketplace is what the fee pays for, and a first event with no audience of its own gets reach that a private ticket page cannot offer. If most buyers already come from your own list or website, compare the fee line by line first. If they do not, the fee is a marketing cost rather than a software cost.
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What moving off Eventbrite involves
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Check which fees move to the attendee
Eventbrite lets organisers pass fees to attendees or absorb them. Alternatives apply the same choice differently: some charge a fixed fee per ticket, some a percentage with a cap. Model one real event, with its ticket mix, under each pricing rule before you decide, because a fixed fee favours expensive tickets and a percentage favours cheap ones.
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Plan for the audience you lose
Moving off the marketplace means buyers will no longer stumble on the event there. Repoint your own site, newsletter and social links to the new ticket page before the old events close, and keep a reminder on live Eventbrite listings for future dates until sales on them have ended.
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Questions about replacing Eventbrite
6 answers
How much does Eventbrite charge per ticket?
Its pricing page lists a 3.7% plus $1.79 service fee per ticket and a 2.9% payment processing fee per order. Free events carry no fee. Organisers can pass the fees to attendees or absorb them when setting up ticket types.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Eventbrite?
Several publish lower per-ticket pricing. Tito charges 3% with a cap of 25 euros, pretix charges 2.5% capped at 15 euros per ticket, and Ticket Tailor charges 60 pence per ticket or less with prepaid credits.
Payment gateway fees apply with all of them, so compare the full total.
Which Eventbrite alternative is best for free events?
Eventbrite itself charges nothing on free events. Ticket Tailor offers up to 5,000 free tickets a year without fees, pretix gives the first 500 free tickets a year, and Luma's free plan allows unlimited events and guests. Check the caps against your volume.
Which alternative suits a conference with sessions and exhibitors?
Zoho Backstage, Stova, Accelevents, Whova and Cvent are built around agendas, speakers and attendee apps. pretix also offers an exhibitor lead scanning module at 25 euros per exhibitor. These cost more or are quoted, so they only pay off when the event needs those tools.
Can I host an Eventbrite alternative myself?
pretix is the one in this list that offers self-hosting alongside its hosted service. You then take on installation, updates and backups. The hosted service is priced per ticket and has no monthly fee.
Does Eventbrite sell to organisers in every country?
Its pricing page says its plans are available in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Check the pricing page for your own market before assuming the same terms.
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Sources
Checked 8 October 2026
Eventbrite pricing: 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per ticket, 2.9% processing per order, no fees on free events, plans available in US, Canada, Australia, NZ, UK, Ireland, Pro email marketing from $15 a month.
Ticket Tailor pricing: Pay as you go 60p per ticket, prepaid credits from 22p, up to 5,000 free tickets a year, Stripe, PayPal or Square processing separate, Zimma Ltd UK.
Tito pricing: 3% per ticket, fee capped at 25 euros, no fee on free events, Dublin.
pretix pricing: 2.5% never more than 15 euros per ticket, 500 free tickets a year, lead scanning 25 euros per exhibitor, businesses only.
