# Best Eventbrite Alternatives in 2026 for Event Organizers

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**Description:** Looking for the best Eventbrite alternatives? Compare top event management platforms ranked by real fee math, features, pricing, and support.
**Published:** 2026-09-11
**Updated:** 2026-10-11

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**Last Updated: October 2026**

Most organizers do not go looking for [alternatives to Eventbrite](https://www.raklet.com/alternatives/) because of one bad experience. They go looking after a payout lands and the number is smaller than the one in the spreadsheet. Eventbrite charges three things on every paid ticket: a 3.7% service fee, a $1.79 fixed fee per ticket, and 2.9% payment processing. Each looks reasonable on its own. Stacked, on a $30 ticket, they take $3.77, and the fixed $1.79 is the part that quietly wrecks the math on cheap tickets. This page does the arithmetic that most alternative roundups skip, then ranks the platforms worth moving to.

## Key Takeaways

- Eventbrite’s real cost is a three-part stack, not the headline 3.7%. On a $30 ticket it is $3.77 all in, an effective 12.6%.
- The effective rate swings from **24.5% on a $10 ticket to 8.4% on a $100 ticket**, because the fixed $1.79 does not scale. Cheap tickets are punished hardest.
- Lowest per-ticket cost among platforms open to everyone: **Ticket Tailor** at $0.85 flat (as low as $0.30 on prepaid credits) and **TicketSpice** at $0.99. Which one is cheaper depends on ticket price: TicketSpice halves to $0.49 on tickets under $5, so it undercuts Ticket Tailor below that mark.
- Free for nonprofits: **Zeffy** charges $0 and covers card fees, funded by optional donor tips. Nonprofits only.
- Events plus year-round membership in one record: **Raklet** and **Glue Up**. Raklet also charges a platform fee, so compare rates rather than assuming a saving.
- Run your own ticket price and volume through the numbers in the annual cost table below before you switch.

## Why Organizations Look for Eventbrite Alternatives

Eventbrite is a genuinely capable platform with real advantages, and it is worth being honest about them before the criticism. Its marketplace puts events in front of a large built-in audience, free events cost nothing, and most attendees already have an account. Organizers leave anyway, and these are the reasons that come up most often.

### 1. The fees stack, and they keep climbing

This is the most cited complaint on both [G2](https://www.g2.com/products/eventbrite/reviews) (4.4 out of 5 across 903 reviews) and [Capterra](https://www.capterra.com/p/114949/Eventbrite/reviews/) (4.6 out of 5 across 5,761 reviews). Per Eventbrite’s own [published fee schedule](https://www.eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing/), a paid ticket carries a 3.7% service fee plus $1.79 per ticket, plus 2.9% payment processing on the order.

Work it through on a realistic basket. Sell 200 tickets at $30 and the service fee alone is $580. Add $174 in processing and the true cost is **$754 on $6,000 of gross sales**, an effective 12.6%. The reason the rate feels unpredictable is the fixed $1.79. It is a small share of a $100 ticket and a huge share of a $10 one:

- $10 ticket: $2.45 in fees, an effective **24.5%**
- $30 ticket: $3.77 in fees, an effective **12.6%**
- $100 ticket: $8.39 in fees, an effective **8.4%**

There is also no ceiling. Eventbrite removed its per-ticket fee cap in 2018, which is felt most acutely on high-priced gala and fundraising-dinner tickets.

The structure is different outside the US, and UK organisers in particular should not budget from the dollar figures above. [Eventbrite’s UK pricing](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/organizer/pricing/) is a single bundled rate of 6.95% plus 59p per paid ticket with payment processing included, so there is no separate 2.9% to add. That works out to about £1.63 on a £15 ticket and £1.98 on a £20 one. UK organisers on Raklet calls tend to remember it as roughly a pound or two per booking, which is about right for a typical community ticket, and it is the number they compare against flat-fee tools when they decide to leave.

### 2. Every event stands alone, with no membership layer underneath

Eventbrite is transactional by design. It sells tickets. It does not run recurring dues, hold member profiles, or maintain a directory, so attendee data is event-scoped rather than relationship-scoped. Organizations that run both a membership program and a ticketed calendar end up operating two or three disconnected systems and reconciling them by hand.

The director of an arts organization that runs several festivals a year described the resulting sprawl on a 2025 call with us. They were running a donor-funded membership program, selling event tickets through Eventbrite, opening free general events for sign-ups, and looking for a CRM to hold the people behind all three. Four distinct needs, and nothing joining them up.

Another operator running a membership directory business put the split more plainly: they use Eventbrite to sell event tickets, then collect member card details separately, because the two systems have no shared record.

The same split shows up from the other direction. A UK membership body that had already left Eventbrite for a low-cost ticketing tool told us in September 2026 that the ticketing side was solved for in-person events and cost a few hundred pounds a year, yet they were still shopping for a separate membership platform, with tiered membership levels and member-only content at the top of the list. Cheap ticketing fixes the fee problem. It does not give you the member record, and that is the gap the last two platforms on this list exist to close.

### 3. Support is hard to reach when it matters most

The most emotionally charged complaint category in review data is the inability to reach a person during a live event, which is exactly when problems are most expensive. Organizers describe locked accounts on event day, duplicate fraudulent listings diverting sales, and refund disputes that need account-level access, all routed through automated replies and slow email chains.

### 4. Payouts arrive after the event, not before it

Eventbrite releases funds several days after an event ends. Venue deposits, catering, and speaker fees are due before it starts, so organizers fund those costs from their own reserves and wait. For a small organization running a large annual gala, that gap is a genuine cash flow problem rather than an inconvenience.

### 5. Ownership changed hands in March 2026

Bending Spoons acquired Eventbrite for roughly $500 million, closing on 10 March 2026 at $4.50 per share, about 71% below its 2018 IPO valuation. Co-founder and CEO Julia Hartz departed on 13 March 2026 after roughly two decades leading the company, and further layoffs followed in April 2026 across engineering, support, product, and international operations. Headcount had already fallen from 866 at the end of 2023 to 636 at the end of 2025.

None of that makes Eventbrite a bad product today, and the April 2026 release actually shipped a solid set of improvements including Apple Wallet and Google Wallet tickets. It is a continuity question rather than a quality one: Bending Spoons has followed acquisitions of Evernote, WeTransfer, Vimeo, and Meetup with cost reduction and, in most cases, price increases. If you are committing to a multi-year event programme, that pattern belongs in your decision.

## What to Look for in an Eventbrite Alternative

Each criterion below answers a specific pain named above. Work through them in order, because the first one eliminates most of the field on its own.

1. **Your effective fee rate at your actual ticket price.** Answers the fee stack. Never compare headline percentages. Take your real average ticket price, add the platform fee, the fixed per-ticket fee, and the processing fee, then divide by the ticket price. Flat-fee platforms win decisively on expensive tickets, percentage platforms are gentler on cheap ones.
2. **Whether free events are genuinely free.** Answers the organizer whose calendar is mostly free events. Most platforms here charge nothing for free tickets, but several cap the annual volume before charging.
3. **A year-round member record, not just an attendee row.** Answers the missing membership layer. If you run dues, a directory, or member-only pricing, the ticketing tool needs to write into the same contact record, or you are back to reconciling systems.
4. **Payout timing, and who holds the money.** Answers the cash flow gap. Ask specifically whether funds release before the event, weekly, or only after it closes.
5. **Ownership stability and product continuity.** Answers the March 2026 acquisition. Check who owns the platform, whether that changed recently, and what happened to pricing at the acquirer’s other properties.
6. **The discovery value you would be giving up.** Answers the honest counterweight. Eventbrite’s marketplace genuinely sells tickets for you. One membership lead told us in 2025 that they expected to carry on listing events on Eventbrite purely for the exposure, even while moving their core operations elsewhere. Running a cheaper platform for your own audience and keeping a listing for reach is a legitimate strategy.

## The Best Eventbrite Alternatives in 2026

## How we evaluated these alternatives

We assessed each platform on four dimensions: pricing transparency, ownership stability, product cadence, and event and membership feature depth. Sources were each vendor’s own published pricing page (fetched and recorded on 10 September 2026), G2 and Capterra review data, and paraphrased notes from our own calls with organizers. Every fee figure below comes from the vendor’s public pricing page; where a vendor does not publish a rate we say so rather than estimating, and any third-party estimate is labelled as an estimate. Raklet is one of the alternatives listed here and we put ourselves first because this is our page. We have tried to earn that by naming the cases where a competitor is the better answer, including on price, where several platforms on this list beat us.

### 1. Raklet

Founded 2013 · Privately held · 10+ employees

Raklet is a membership and community platform with event ticketing built into it, rather than a ticketing tool that later added contacts. The practical difference is the data model: a ticket buyer becomes a contact in the same CRM that holds your members, dues history, and email engagement, so a first-time attendee who joins six months later is one record rather than two. Ticket types can be gated by membership tier, so member-only pricing and public tickets live on the same event, and check-in runs through QR codes in the free iOS and Android apps.

It suits organizations whose events are one part of a year-round relationship: associations, graduate and former-member groups, chambers, clubs, and nonprofits that run dues alongside a calendar. It is a poor fit if you only sell tickets, because you would be paying for a membership platform you do not use.

**Pricing:** A permanent free plan covers 100 contacts with no credit card required. Paid tiers scale by both contacts and features: Essentials $49/mo, Professional $99/mo, and Premium $399/mo at annual billing, with add-on contact packs at $29/mo per 1,000 so you are not forced up a tier just for hitting a contact ceiling. Raklet also charges a platform transaction fee that varies by plan, from 4% + $0.60 on Free down to 1% + $0.60 on Premium, and that sits on top of your Stripe fees. See [Raklet pricing](https://www.raklet.com/pricing/) for current rates. We are not the cheapest way to sell a ticket and we do not claim to be.

**Best for:** Organizations that need events and year-round membership in a single contact record.
**Not ideal for:** Pure ticket sellers with no membership programme, who will find flat-fee ticketing cheaper.

For a direct feature-by-feature breakdown, see our [Eventbrite vs Raklet](https://www.raklet.com/alternatives/eventbrite-vs-raklet/) comparison.

### 2. Ticket Tailor

Founded 2010 · Independent, bootstrapped · UK-based

Ticket Tailor is the clearest answer to the fee-stacking complaint, because it refuses to price as a percentage at all. You pay a flat fee per ticket sold regardless of ticket price, which means the platform cost of a $200 VIP ticket is identical to a $12 general admission one. For organizers selling anything expensive, this single design decision is worth more than any feature on this list.

It is a focused ticketing tool rather than an event marketing suite, so there is no marketplace pushing your event to a built-in audience. You bring your own traffic. For organizations with an existing mailing list that is a fair trade, and for those relying on Eventbrite for discovery it is a real loss.

Focused also means plain. Ticket Tailor holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating across nearly 600 reviews on [GetApp](https://www.getapp.com/customer-management-software/a/ticket-tailor/) and Capterra, and the recurring criticisms in the lower-rated ones are about depth rather than reliability: limited page customization, basic reporting across multiple events, and a weak third-party integration score. Organizers who have used it for years describe it the same way, as simple and slightly rough around the edges but dependable for in-person events, and cheap enough that they stay. If you need polish and deep analytics, look elsewhere. If you need tickets sold and scanned at one of the lowest costs among platforms open to any organizer, that is exactly what it does.

**Pricing:** $0.85 per ticket on pay-as-you-sell, dropping to as low as $0.30 per ticket on prepaid credits at volume ($0.60 each at 500 credits). Free events are free up to 5,000 free tickets a year, the first five tickets are free, and registered charities get 50% off permanently. Payment processing is separate at 2.9% + $0.30 via Stripe, PayPal, or Square. See [Ticket Tailor pricing](https://www.tickettailor.com/en-us/pricing/). UK organisers pay 60p plus VAT per ticket on pay-as-you-sell, or from 22p plus VAT on prepaid credits, so an organisation selling 500 tickets a year is looking at a few hundred pounds in platform fees against about £990 on Eventbrite’s UK rate at a £20 ticket.

**Best for:** Organizers selling mid to high-priced tickets who want predictable, flat per-ticket costs.
**Not ideal for:** Organizers who depend on marketplace discovery to fill events.

### 3. Zeffy

Private · Nonprofit-only model · Founded 2019

Zeffy is the only genuinely zero-cost option here, and the model is unusual enough to explain properly. It charges nonprofits nothing: no platform fee, no per-ticket fee, and it absorbs the card processing fees too, so 100% of a $30 ticket reaches the organization. Revenue comes from an optional tip that the platform asks the ticket buyer for at checkout, and by Zeffy’s own account roughly two in three contributors leave one.

The trade-off is that the tip prompt appears in your checkout flow, which some organizations find awkward with their donors, and eligibility is strictly nonprofits. If you qualify and can live with the prompt, no other platform on this list can beat $0.

**Pricing:** $0. Platform and processing fees are both covered by Zeffy, funded by voluntary donor tips. See [Zeffy pricing](https://www.zeffy.com/pricing).

**Best for:** Registered nonprofits that want every dollar of ticket revenue to arrive intact.
**Not ideal for:** For-profit organizers, who are not eligible, and teams uncomfortable with a tip prompt at checkout.

### 4. Humanitix

Nonprofit social enterprise · Australian, operating in the US

Humanitix is a registered nonprofit that runs a commercial-grade ticketing platform and donates 100% of its profits to education programmes, more than $13.8 million to date per its own reporting. For mission-driven organizers, the fee stops being a pure cost and becomes a redirected contribution, which is a materially easier conversation to have with a board than “we pay Eventbrite 12%.”

The platform itself is not a charity-grade compromise. It handles complex ticket types, seating, and check-in comparably to commercial competitors, and charities and schools pay a reduced rate.

**Pricing:** 2.1% + $0.99 per paid ticket for standard organizers, reduced to 1% + $0.99 for registered charities and schools, plus 2.9% + $0.30 processing. Free events cost nothing, and there are no subscriptions or contracts. See [Humanitix pricing](https://www.humanitix.com/us/pricing).

**Best for:** Mission-driven organizers who want ticket fees redirected to a social cause.
**Not ideal for:** Organizers selling low-priced tickets, where the $0.99 fixed component still bites.

### 5. Eventzilla

Founded 2010 · Privately held

Eventzilla is the most direct like-for-like replacement for Eventbrite’s core registration workflow, and its useful trick is letting you choose your fee structure rather than imposing one. The entry tier is purely flat at $1.50 per registration with no percentage at all, which behaves like Ticket Tailor, while higher tiers add a percentage in exchange for more capability. High-volume organizers can move to an annual contract and pay nothing per registration.

It covers conference-shaped needs well, including sessions, multi-track agendas, and approval workflows, which is where simpler ticket-box tools run out of room.

**Pricing:** Basic at $1.50 per registration, Pro at 1.9% + $1.50, Plus at 2.9% + $1.50, and a Custom annual plan from $1,999 a year with zero per-registration fees and 500 registrations included. Payment processing is not included and depends on your provider. See [Eventzilla pricing](https://www.eventzilla.net/pricing).

**Best for:** Conference and multi-session organizers who want to pick a flat or percentage fee model.
**Not ideal for:** Organizers who want processing bundled into one predictable number.

### 6. TicketSpice

Privately held · Part of Webconnex

TicketSpice pairs a low flat fee with the one thing organizers on this list complain about most after fees: it pays weekly rather than holding funds until after the event. For an organization that has to settle a venue deposit before the doors open, getting paid during the on-sale period rather than days after the event solves a real cash flow problem that a slightly lower fee would not.

It also handles low-priced tickets better than almost anything else here, halving its fee below the $5 mark, which matters for community events and youth programming where a percentage-plus-fixed model is brutal.

**Pricing:** 99 cents per ticket plus 2.9% + 30 cents processing. Tickets under $5 drop to 49 cents, as does box office app usage. Free events are free for organizers who also run paid events. No setup, platform, or support fees and no contracts. Optional add-ons run $9 to $19 a month, with a white-label domain at $150 a year. See [TicketSpice pricing](https://www.ticketspice.com/pricing).

**Best for:** High-volume and low-ticket-price events that need weekly payouts rather than post-event settlement.
**Not ideal for:** Organizations wanting membership or CRM features alongside ticketing.

### 7. RSVPify

Privately held · US-based

RSVPify comes at events from the invitation side rather than the ticket-sales side, and it is the strongest option here for guest-list-driven occasions: galas, benefit dinners, weddings, and private functions. Where other platforms optimize for selling to strangers, RSVPify optimizes for managing known invitees, with seating charts, meal and dietary selections, plus-one handling, and conditional questions that adapt to each guest.

Its commercial model is unusual and worth knowing: if your event sells tickets, RSVPify unlocks its Professional tier at no monthly cost and earns from per-ticket fees instead.

**Pricing:** A free plan for small events, then Starter at $39/mo ($24/mo billed yearly), Plus at $125/mo ($89/mo billed yearly), and Professional at $409/mo ($299/mo billed yearly), with custom Enterprise and special nonprofit pricing. Ticketed events get Professional at $0 a month plus per-ticket fees, though RSVPify does not publish that per-ticket rate, so confirm it before committing. See [RSVPify pricing](https://rsvpify.com/pricing/).

**Best for:** Invitation-led and seated events where guest management matters more than public ticket sales.
**Not ideal for:** Open public events, and anyone who needs a published per-ticket fee to budget against.

### 8. Glue Up

Founded 2013 · Privately held · Global, strong in Asia-Pacific

Glue Up is the other platform here that treats events as part of a membership relationship rather than a standalone transaction, combining an association management system with event tools, dues, and a member community. For chambers of commerce and professional associations, particularly those operating across multiple languages or countries, it is a credible all-in-one.

It is priced and sold as association software, not as a ticket box. There is no free plan, no self-serve signup, and contracts are annual, so it is a procurement decision rather than a same-afternoon switch.

**Pricing:** Public since June 2026. The Professional tier runs roughly $3,000 to $6,500 a year, Advanced roughly $8,000 to $18,500, and Enterprise is custom. All billed annually, sold demo-to-buy, with event allowances scaling by tier. See [Glue Up pricing](https://www.glueup.com/pricing).

**Best for:** Associations and chambers needing events, dues, and membership in one system, especially multilingual ones.
**Not ideal for:** Small organizations and anyone needing to launch this week, given annual contracts and no free tier.

## Eventbrite Alternatives Compared

*Prices as of September 2026 based on published pricing pages. Quote-based figures are ranges from verified customer reports.*

| Tool | Ownership | Best for | Starting price | Support | Contract | Mobile app | Public API | AI features |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Raklet** | Independent, privately held | Events plus year-round membership | Free plan; paid from $49/mo | Email + chat; phone/video add-on | Monthly or annual | Free iOS and Android; branded app add-on | Yes (Premium) | On the roadmap |
| **Eventbrite** | Bending Spoons (acquired March 2026) | Marketplace discovery | Free events free; 3.7% + $1.79 + 2.9% | Help centre; limited human access reported | Pay per transaction; Pro subscription | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| **Ticket Tailor** | Independent, bootstrapped | Flat per-ticket economics | $0.85/ticket, or $0.30 prepaid | Email + live chat | No contract | Check-in app | Yes | Not public |
| **Zeffy** | Private, nonprofit-only model | Nonprofits wanting zero cost | $0 | Email + chat | No contract | Yes | Not public | Not public |
| **Humanitix** | Nonprofit social enterprise | Fees redirected to charity | 2.1% + $0.99/ticket | Email + phone | No contract | Yes | Yes | Not public |
| **Eventzilla** | Privately held | Conferences and multi-session events | $1.50/registration | Email + chat | Monthly or annual | Yes | Yes | Not public |
| **TicketSpice** | Privately held (Webconnex) | Weekly payouts, low-priced tickets | $0.99/ticket | Email + phone | No contract | Box office app | Yes | Not public |
| **RSVPify** | Privately held | Invitation-led and seated events | Free plan; paid from $24/mo yearly | Email + chat | Monthly or annual | Guest list app | Yes | Not public |
| **Glue Up** | Privately held | Associations needing events plus dues | From about $3,000/yr | Dedicated account manager | Annual | Yes | Yes | Yes |

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| Tool | Ownership | Best for | Starting price | Support | Contract | Mobile app | Public API | AI features |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Raklet** | Independent, privately held | Events plus year-round membership | Free plan; paid from $49/mo | Email + chat; phone/video add-on | Monthly or annual | Free iOS and Android; branded app add-on | Yes (Premium) | On the roadmap |
| **Eventbrite** | Bending Spoons (acquired March 2026) | Marketplace discovery | Free events free; 3.7% + $1.79 + 2.9% | Help centre; limited human access reported | Pay per transaction; Pro subscription | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| **Ticket Tailor** | Independent, bootstrapped | Flat per-ticket economics | $0.85/ticket, or $0.30 prepaid | Email + live chat | No contract | Check-in app | Yes | Not public |
| **Zeffy** | Private, nonprofit-only model | Nonprofits wanting zero cost | $0 | Email + chat | No contract | Yes | Not public | Not public |
| **Humanitix** | Nonprofit social enterprise | Fees redirected to charity | 2.1% + $0.99/ticket | Email + phone | No contract | Yes | Yes | Not public |
| **Eventzilla** | Privately held | Conferences and multi-session events | $1.50/registration | Email + chat | Monthly or annual | Yes | Yes | Not public |
| **TicketSpice** | Privately held (Webconnex) | Weekly payouts, low-priced tickets | $0.99/ticket | Email + phone | No contract | Box office app | Yes | Not public |
| **RSVPify** | Privately held | Invitation-led and seated events | Free plan; paid from $24/mo yearly | Email + chat | Monthly or annual | Guest list app | Yes | Not public |
| **Glue Up** | Privately held | Associations needing events plus dues | From about $3,000/yr | Dedicated account manager | Annual | Yes | Yes | Yes |

## What does each platform cost at your ticket volume?

*Prices as of September 2026 based on published pricing pages. Quote-based figures are ranges from verified customer reports.*

Ticketing platforms price per ticket rather than per member, so this table uses annual paid-ticket volume. All figures assume a **$30 average paid ticket** and include payment processing at 2.9% + $0.30 where the platform does not bundle it. Change the ticket price and the ranking changes, which is exactly the point.

| Platform | 500 tickets/yr | 1,000 tickets/yr | 2,000 tickets/yr | 5,000 tickets/yr |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Eventbrite** | $1,885 | $3,770 | $7,540 | $18,850 |
| **Raklet** | $2,373 | $3,558 | $6,218 | $14,198 |
| **Ticket Tailor** | $1,010 | $2,020 | $4,040 | $10,100 |
| **Zeffy** (nonprofits) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| **Humanitix** | $1,395 | $2,790 | $5,580 | $13,950 |
| **Eventzilla** (Basic) | $1,335 | $2,670 | $5,340 | $13,350 |
| **TicketSpice** | $1,080 | $2,160 | $4,320 | $10,800 |
| **RSVPify** | $0 plan cost on ticketed events; per-ticket fee not published. Confirm before budgeting. | | | |
| **Glue Up** | About $3,000 to $6,500/yr flat, independent of ticket volume. | | | |

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Two things are worth reading off this table. Eventbrite is never the cheapest option at any volume, and the gap widens as you grow: at 5,000 tickets it costs $8,750 more a year than Ticket Tailor. And Raklet is more expensive than pure ticketing tools at low volume because you are also paying for a membership platform, only overtaking Eventbrite past roughly 800 tickets a year. If ticketing is all you need, buy a ticketing tool.

*Raklet figures include the Professional plan at $99/mo plus its 2% + $0.60 platform fee, and add contact packs at the annual-billing rate of $290/yr per 1,000 where volume exceeds the 1,000-contact allowance, assuming every ticket is a distinct contact. Repeat attendees lower this. Ticket Tailor uses the $0.85 pay-as-you-sell rate; prepaid credits reduce it further.*

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| Platform | 500 tickets/yr | 1,000 tickets/yr | 2,000 tickets/yr | 5,000 tickets/yr |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Eventbrite** | $1,885 | $3,770 | $7,540 | $18,850 |
| **Raklet** | $2,373 | $3,558 | $6,218 | $14,198 |
| **Ticket Tailor** | $1,010 | $2,020 | $4,040 | $10,100 |
| **Zeffy** (nonprofits) | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| **Humanitix** | $1,395 | $2,790 | $5,580 | $13,950 |
| **Eventzilla** (Basic) | $1,335 | $2,670 | $5,340 | $13,350 |
| **TicketSpice** | $1,080 | $2,160 | $4,320 | $10,800 |
| **RSVPify** | $0 plan cost on ticketed events; per-ticket fee not published. Confirm before budgeting. | | | |
| **Glue Up** | About $3,000 to $6,500/yr flat, independent of ticket volume. | | | |

## Which Eventbrite Alternative Is Right for You?

If your goal is simply to stop paying Eventbrite’s fee stack, the decision is short. **Ticket Tailor** is the strongest general answer because a flat per-ticket fee removes the variable that made Eventbrite unpredictable, and **TicketSpice** takes it if weekly payouts or sub-$5 tickets matter to you. Registered nonprofits should look at **Zeffy** first, because $0 genuinely means $0, and at **Humanitix** if a checkout tip prompt is not something your donors will tolerate.

If events are one part of a year-round membership relationship, the calculation is different. The question is not the per-ticket fee but whether a first-time attendee becomes a member record you can actually work with, or a row in an export you reconcile by hand. **Raklet** and **Glue Up** both solve that: Raklet with a free plan and self-serve signup for small and mid-sized organizations, Glue Up as an annual-contract association platform for larger chambers and multilingual operations. **Eventzilla** and **RSVPify** serve narrower shapes well, conferences with sessions and invitation-led seated events respectively.

One honest closing note on cost. Raklet charges a platform fee on top of your processor, just as Eventbrite does, and several platforms on this page are cheaper per ticket than we are. What you buy by paying more is that your ticket buyers and your members live in one database. If you do not run a membership programme, that is not worth paying for, and you should take one of the flat-fee tools above. If you do, [see Raklet pricing](https://www.raklet.com/pricing/) or [start on the free plan](https://login.raklet.com/quickregister) with 100 contacts and no credit card.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is the best Eventbrite alternative?

It depends on what you are replacing. For pure ticketing at lower cost, Ticket Tailor is the strongest all-round choice thanks to its flat $0.85 per-ticket fee that does not scale with ticket price. For nonprofits, Zeffy is hard to beat at $0. For organizations running membership alongside events, Raklet or Glue Up keep attendees and members in a single record instead of two systems.

### What is the cheapest Eventbrite alternative?

Zeffy at $0, though only registered nonprofits are eligible and it relies on optional donor tips. Zeffy also absorbs the card-processing fees, so nothing is charged separately. Among platforms open to everyone, Ticket Tailor and TicketSpice are the two lowest-cost options, and which of them is cheaper depends on your ticket price. Ticket Tailor is $0.85 per ticket, falling to about $0.30 on prepaid credits at volume. TicketSpice is 99 cents, dropping to 49 cents on tickets under $5, so it undercuts Ticket Tailor below that mark. Both Ticket Tailor and TicketSpice charge payment processing separately.

### Is there a free Eventbrite alternative?

Yes, several. Zeffy charges registered nonprofits nothing and covers the card fees itself. Raklet has a permanent free plan covering 100 contacts with no credit card required, not a time-limited trial. RSVPify offers a free tier for small events. Most platforms here, including Eventbrite itself, also charge nothing for free events, though some cap annual free-ticket volume.

### How much does Eventbrite actually charge per ticket?

Three fees stack: a 3.7% service fee, $1.79 per ticket, and 2.9% payment processing. On a $30 ticket that totals $3.77, an effective 12.6%. Because the $1.79 is fixed, the effective rate varies sharply by price: about 24.5% on a $10 ticket and 8.4% on a $100 one. There has been no per-ticket fee cap since 2018.

### How much does Eventbrite charge in the UK?

UK organisers pay a single bundled fee of 6.95% plus 59p per paid ticket, with payment processing included, rather than the three-part US stack. On a £15 ticket that is about £1.63, and on a £20 ticket about £1.98. Free events are free. Ticket Tailor’s UK rate for comparison is 60p plus VAT per ticket on pay-as-you-sell, or from 22p plus VAT on prepaid credits, regardless of ticket price.

### Can I move my past attendee data off Eventbrite?

You can export attendee lists, but organizers switching platforms consistently report that full purchase history, ticket types, and check-in records do not come across cleanly, and Eventbrite offers no native migration assistance. Export your data before you cancel, and expect to do some manual mapping. Event templates and recurring event setups are not portable at all.

### Which Eventbrite alternative is best for a membership organization?

Raklet or Glue Up, because both connect events to a member record rather than treating each event as a standalone transaction. Raklet suits small and mid-sized organizations with a free plan and self-serve signup. Glue Up targets larger associations and chambers on annual contracts, with strong multilingual support. Both handle member-only ticket pricing, which pure ticketing tools generally cannot.

## The Bottom Line on Eventbrite Alternatives

Eventbrite’s cost problem is not the headline percentage, it is that three fees stack and the fixed $1.79 makes the total unpredictable until the payout lands. Once you can see the real number, the choice gets easier: Ticket Tailor and TicketSpice remove the variable entirely with flat per-ticket pricing, Zeffy takes the cost to zero for nonprofits, and Raklet or Glue Up are the answer only if your events sit inside a year-round membership relationship worth paying more to keep intact. The March 2026 Bending Spoons acquisition is the other half of the decision, and worth weighing if you are committing to a multi-year programme.

## Compare to Other Event Platform Alternatives

### [Best CourtReserve Alternatives](https://www.raklet.com/alternatives/best-courtreserve-alternatives/)

Read this instead if your events are recurring facility or court bookings rather than one-off ticketed events.

### [Best Glue Up Alternatives](https://www.raklet.com/alternatives/best-glue-up-alternatives/)

Read this if you are an association weighing platforms that combine events with membership dues in one system.

### [Best Wild Apricot Alternatives](https://www.raklet.com/alternatives/best-wild-apricot-alternatives/)

Read this if membership management is the real problem to solve and ticketing is secondary to it.

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