What is the best Eventbrite alternative?

Stay on Eventbrite when a real share of your buyers are strangers who found you through Eventbrite’s own search and recommendations; leave when nearly everyone comes from your own list, your social accounts or word of mouth. Test it before you decide: ask your last 20 first-time guests how they heard about the event.

If several say Eventbrite, keep listing there and link the listing to wherever you sell, or run both for one cycle and compare. If almost nobody does, you are paying a marketplace fee on buyers you brought yourself.

Switching costs time more than money: past orders, refunds and payouts stay on Eventbrite, and its pages cannot be redirected. The switching guide walks through it.

If most of your guests are strangers who find you on a marketplace, stay on Eventbrite or pick Meetup; if your guests mostly come from your own people, choose on fees, memberships and your list: Luma, Ticket Tailor, Humanitix or SocialLoop. Compare them on the five things below, at your own ticket price and size.

Fees decide most of the money. On a $25 ticket, Eventbrite’s US fees come to $3.44, and the buyer pays them unless you absorb them. Flat per-ticket pricing, like Ticket Tailor’s 85¢, matters most on cheap tickets; percentage fees matter most on expensive ones.

Discovery is the one thing that is hard to replace. Ask your next few first-timers how they found you. If most say Eventbrite or Meetup, plan how you will replace that before leaving.

Memberships matter if people pay you every month or year rather than per event. Luma, Meetup and SocialLoop take recurring member payments; Ticket Tailor’s memberships give discounts, season passes and member-only tickets.

Exports decide whether you own your list. Every tool in the table lets you download guest data in some form; check which fields come out and whether you can email those people.

Switching cost is mostly your time and your guests’ habits, not software. Old orders, refunds and payouts stay where they were sold.

Export everything first, keep the old payment history where it is, build one clean member list, finish the events already on sale, then ask members to join the new place in one clear message. Nobody is lost if each paying member knows what to do and you can check who has not done it yet.

1. Download your records. In Eventbrite’s Reporting, run the Orders and Attendees reports across all your events and save them as CSV or Excel. Download a copy of the Google Sheet. Keep these files untouched as your archive.
2. Leave payment history where it is. Past ticket payments, refunds and payouts stay with Eventbrite and its processor. A new platform does not take over old orders, and card details do not move, so members who pay dues will enter a card again on the new checkout.
3. Build one member list. One row per person, matched by email: name, email, phone, membership level, paid-through date, and whether they agreed to hear from you. Watch for one person with two emails, or a partner buying tickets for both.
4. Finish what is already on sale. Let events with tickets sold run on Eventbrite, and start the next one on the new platform. Moving a half-sold event is covered below.
5. Set up the new home before you announce it. Create the membership levels, the next event and its tickets, and import your list. Importing a contact is not permission to email them: only message people who agreed.
6. Honor what members already paid. Someone paid through March should not pay again in October. Give them a discount code for the time they already paid for, or start their membership later, and say which in the message.
7. Tell everyone once, plainly. Say what is moving, why, the date, what stays the same, and the one thing each person needs to do. Repeat it in person at the next two events.
8. Check, then chase. After two weeks, compare your sheet with the new member list and contact anyone missing, one by one. Close the Eventbrite account only after your last event there and its refund window have passed.

In SocialLoop, you can import a contact spreadsheet (CSV, Excel or Numbers) into your list, set paid membership tiers billed monthly or yearly with discount codes, and export each event’s guest list as CSV. The Free plan holds a community of up to 50 members; larger clubs need a paid plan, from $19.99 a month.

Yes: several platforms let you sell tickets and memberships with no subscription, and you pay through a cut of each sale instead. A paid plan is worth it when it costs less than the fees it removes, or when you hit a limit the free plan sets.

On Luma, the free plan takes 5% of paid tickets and Plus, at $59 a month billed annually, takes 0%. Plus pays for itself once you sell more than $14,160 of tickets a year. Below that, the free plan is cheaper.

On SocialLoop, paid plans do not lower the fee: it is 5% on every plan. You upgrade for room, not price. The Free plan covers 1 event per month, 1 ticket tier per event and a community of up to 50 members; paid plans start at $19.99 a month.

On Meetup, the free Starter plan is for first-time organizers only, with two in-person events a month and ten people per event, and it does not allow event fees or dues. A paid community usually needs the Standard plan, from $29.99 a month.

Eventbrite has no subscription for basic ticketing; you pay per paid ticket.

If your events are free, most of these cost nothing; our guide to free Eventbrite alternatives covers that case.

For most paid events Luma is cheaper: on a $25 ticket, Luma’s free plan takes $2.28 in fees against Eventbrite’s $3.44, and Luma stays cheaper on tickets under $114. Both are free for free events.

Above $114, Eventbrite’s fixed $1.79 matters less than Luma’s 5%, so Eventbrite costs less per ticket. Luma Plus, at $59 a month billed annually, removes the 5% and costs less than Luma’s free plan once you sell more than $14,160 of tickets a year.

Who pays changes what guests see. Eventbrite adds its fees on top by default, so a $25 ticket costs the guest $28.52 and you keep $25. Luma has no such setting: the guest pays $25 and the fees come out of your payout unless you raise the price.

The yearly example above works the same comparison through a monthly event with 40 paying guests.

Open the event in Eventbrite, go to Reporting, then Event reports, choose Attendees and select Excel (.xls) as the file type; the file is then ready to download in the Exports tab.

1. Log in to Eventbrite, go to Events and select your event.
2. Go to Reporting and select Event reports.
3. Choose Attendees.
4. Select the file type, Excel (.xls) or CSV, and choose how to export.
5. Download the file from the Exports tab.

For several events at once, start from Reporting in your account instead of inside one event, choose Attendees, select the events and run the report, then export it the same way. You can filter by order date, organizer profile and currency, and choose whether to include guests. Eventbrite recommends CSV for reports with more than a million records.

Moving to another platform? Export the Orders report as well, then follow the steps for moving a club above. SocialLoop imports a contact spreadsheet in CSV, Excel or Numbers format, and importing a contact never gives you permission to email them.

Yes: in your event dashboard, open Emails to attendees under Manage attendees, create a new email and send it to all attendees, now or at a scheduled time. It reaches everyone registered when the email goes out, not people whose orders were cancelled.

1. Go to your event dashboard.
2. Under Manage attendees, select Emails to attendees.
3. Create the email: your name, a reply-to address, the recipients, a subject and the message.
4. Send yourself a test email.
5. Choose Send or Schedule.

Limits to know first. You can send while the event is live and up to 10 days after it ends. You cannot attach files, so link to them instead. Once an email is sent or queued, you cannot edit or cancel it. On a team account, the account owner has to give you permission to email attendees.

If the people who come to you are a community rather than one event’s buyers, the 10-day window matters: after it closes you need your own list, and permission to email it. On SocialLoop, Make an Announcement on an event sends one message to that event’s guests by email, text or in-app notification, whichever you choose.

Not the number sold: Eventbrite lets the organizer choose whether buyers see the number of tickets remaining, and the count of tickets sold is in the organizer’s own reports. We found no Eventbrite setting that shows buyers a running total of tickets sold.

To show buyers what is left, go to Manage my events, select the event, then Add tickets and Settings, and choose to display the number of remaining tickets. Turn it on when a small number left will help people decide; leave it off when a large number left would make the event look empty.

To see your own sales, open the event and go to Reporting, then Event reports. The Sales by ticket type report breaks sales down by ticket type and can separate paid from complimentary tickets; on a team account it needs permission to view advanced reports.

Every figure is for one paid ticket in one order, bought with a US card, in US dollars, at each company’s published US rates read on its own pricing or help page on October 11, 2026. Each row links to the page we read.

Fees include everything taken from the ticket: the platform’s own fee, card processing and any service charge. Where a platform bills card processing separately through Stripe, we use Stripe’s standard US rate of 2.9% + 30¢. Where processing is bundled into the platform’s fee (Addmi, Posh, TicketLeap’s 3% transaction fee), nothing is added.

“Host keeps” assumes the host absorbs every fee, so the guest pays exactly the ticket price. “Buyer pays” is the checkout total when the fees are passed to the buyer instead; for platforms that bill Stripe separately it adds the platform fee and the processing fee on the ticket price, and the processor may charge a few cents more on the larger total.

Eventbrite’s US fee is 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket plus 2.9% processing calculated on the total order, including the service fee when the buyer pays it. SocialLoop’s figures are the live checkout’s: a 5% platform fee on every plan and 3.4% + 30¢ card processing; when fees are passed on, a 50¢ service charge and a $1 minimum platform fee per order.

Each fee is computed exactly and rounded to the cent once, at the end. Subscriptions, sales tax and currency conversion are not included unless a row says so. Rankings count only platforms any host can use with no subscription: Zeffy (registered nonprofits only), Luma Plus (a subscription) and prepaid Ticket Tailor credits are shown but not ranked.