Alternatives

8 Eventbrite alternatives, compared on 2026 fees

Jesse Alvarado
Jesse Alvarado
Founder, Crewcade · Published August 18, 2026 ·Updated September 3, 2026

In short

The main Eventbrite alternatives in 2026 are Meetup, Luma, Peatix, Partiful, Ticket Tailor, Zeffy and Wild Apricot. Eventbrite charges 3.7% plus $1.79 per paid ticket. Payment processing adds 2.9%. That lands near 15.6% on a $20 ticket. Luma charges 5% on its free plan. Ticket Tailor charges a flat $0.85. Peatix charges 4.9% with processing included. Zeffy charges registered nonprofits nothing. Eventbrite, Meetup, Luma and Peatix run a marketplace, and the rest reach the people you bring. Crewcade sells tickets too, and it is built to sit alongside these rather than replace them: point an event at Eventbrite and Crewcade sends people to that listing while the roster stays with you.

Two questions decide the answer. What does it cost, and what does it remember? Crewcade is on this list, and it has no marketplace of its own. Nothing here asks you to leave Eventbrite.

The field at a glance

A marketplace brings you strangers. Everything else serves the people you already have. Read that column first, because it changes the answer most.

Platform Best for Paid ticket cost Marketplace Holds a member?
Eventbrite Paid events you want strangers to find. 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per ticket. Payment processing adds 2.9% per order. No cap. Yes Attendees are recorded per event.
Meetup Reaching newcomers who have never heard of you. The organizer pays a subscription, from $29.99/month. Attendees pay a service fee on top of the ticket price. That is about $1.62 on a $10 ticket. Yes A group member list, tied to Meetup accounts.
Luma Events you want live in ten minutes, in a tech or creative scene. 5% platform fee on the free plan, 0% on Luma Plus at $59/month billed annually. Stripe processing applies on top. Yes A guest list per event.
Peatix Paid events in Japan and Southeast Asia. 4.9% plus a small flat amount per ticket in local currency. That is ¥99 in Japan and S$0.99 in Singapore. Payment processing is included. Yes Attendees are recorded per event.
Partiful Casual events among people who already know each other. Not published. It scales with event size and ticket price, and the host sees the exact figure while setting the event up. No A guest list per event.
Ticket Tailor Higher-priced tickets, where a percentage hurts most. $0.85 per ticket pay-as-you-sell, or as low as $0.30 on prepaid credits. You bring your own Stripe or PayPal account, so processing is yours. No Buyers are recorded per event.
Zeffy Registered nonprofits, full stop. Zero. Zeffy states it covers the processing fee itself and funds the platform through an optional tip the buyer can set to nothing. No Donors, ticket buyers and memberships in one place.
Wild Apricot Established associations with a board and a renewal cycle. No per-ticket fee. You bring your own payment provider and pay its processing. The cost is the subscription. That is $66/month at 100 contacts, or $59.40/month prepaid annually. It rises with your contact count. No A full membership record: roster, renewal dates, dues history.
Crewcade Groups that meet again. Clubs, schools, member organizations. A platform fee on the plan you pick. It starts at 5% on the Starter Plan, which is free. Stripe processing applies on top, and the money lands in your own Stripe account. No A full membership record: roster, renewal dates, dues, roles, check-in.

Figures read from each platform's own pricing page on 3 September 2026. The sources list at the foot names the three exceptions.

What a $20 and a $50 ticket cost

One platform adds a flat fee. Another folds processing in. So a percentage on its own hides the real cost. Here are two tickets run through each schedule.

Platform On a $20 ticket On a $50 ticket
Eventbrite 3.7% + $1.79, plus 2.9% processing $3.11 (15.6%) $5.09 (10.2%)
Luma Free plan, 5% + Stripe $1.88 (9.4%) $4.25 (8.5%)
Crewcade Starter Plan, 5% + Stripe $1.88 (9.4%) $4.25 (8.5%)
Ticket Tailor $0.85 flat + Stripe $1.73 (8.7%) $2.60 (5.2%)
Wild Apricot Stripe only, plus $66/month $0.88 (4.4%) $1.75 (3.5%)

Rows marked "plus Stripe" use Stripe's standard US online rate of 2.9% + $0.30. Your rate may differ. Eventbrite and Peatix charge their own processing.

Four platforms sit out of that table. None of them publishes a rate that lands on a dollar figure. Meetup bills the organizer a subscription and the attendee a service fee. Peatix prints its flat part in local currency. Partiful prints no rate. Zeffy charges registered nonprofits nothing.

Ticket Tailor wins this table. A flat $0.85 is the cheapest way to sell a $50 ticket here. Crewcade does not win it. The Starter Plan rate matches Luma's free plan. Wild Apricot takes less per ticket because you pay it a subscription instead. If you are shopping for the cheapest checkout, the answer is above and it is not us.

A per-ticket rate is half the cost. The other half is what you pay before anyone buys anything. Wild Apricot charges $66 a month at 100 contacts, and that bill climbs with your list rather than your sales. Ticket Tailor charges nothing monthly and holds no roster, so the membership job lands somewhere else.

The two shapes cross over. Against $66 a month, a 5% platform fee costs less until you sell about $1,320 of tickets in a month. That is 66 tickets at $20, or 26 at $50. Stripe sits on both sides, so it cancels out. A quiet club pays less on a per-sale fee. A busy one pays less on a subscription.

Two Eventbrite terms shape your price. Service fees stay with the platform on a refund. A first-time paid organizer gets the payout after the event ends. Both are published up front.

The eight alternatives, one by one

What each one does well, and where it stops. Every limit here is a job the tool was never built for.

Meetup

A group platform where people browse for things to join near them.

Meetup is the strongest discovery engine on this page. It is a household name in most cities, its members open the app looking for something to join, and it is built around the group instead of the event. Post an event and newcomers arrive with no work from you.

Where it stops. Your group sits in a Meetup account, beside every other group in your city. Members who skip the Meetup+ subscription see other members' names, photos and interests blurred or locked, so your own roster reads as a paywall prompt to the people in it. There is no renewal date and no dues record, and the subscription bills in a quiet month too.

Free events: Covered by the subscription.

Luma

Modern event pages, with a public discovery calendar attached.

Nothing here gets an event page live faster, and the pages look good with no work. Luma also runs a public discovery calendar, browsable by city and by category, so an event can reach people beyond your own list.

Where it stops. Guests belong to an event, not to you. There is no roster across events and no dues. The discovery calendar also runs deepest in tech, startup and crypto scenes, so a sports club or a PTA reaches fewer people through it than a hackathon does.

Free events: Free.

Peatix

A Japan-born event platform, now in 27 countries.

Peatix launched in Japan in 2011 and calls itself one of Japan's largest event platforms, with 8.4 million users across 27 countries. Processing sits inside the 4.9%, so the all-in rate beats Eventbrite. Buyers pay no booking fee.

Where it stops. The audience sits mostly in Japan. Outside it, treat Peatix as a way to sell tickets rather than a way to be found. The record is the same shape as Eventbrite: a ticket, an event, an export.

Free events: Free.

Partiful

A social invite app that added paid ticketing in June 2026.

The invite feels like a text message instead of a form. People reply. For friends and small groups, nothing here gets a better response rate.

Where it stops. You cannot price the fee before you build the event. The app is built for invited guests, not for an open door.

Free events: Free.

Ticket Tailor

Ticketing that charges a flat fee per ticket instead of a percentage.

On a $50 ticket this is the cheapest option here. A $100 ticket costs the same to sell as a $10 one. The money lands in your own processor account.

Where it stops. No marketplace, so every buyer is one you brought. It holds an order, not a member.

Free events: Free for up to 5,000 free tickets a year.

Zeffy

Fundraising and ticketing for registered nonprofits, at no charge.

For a registered nonprofit, no fee here beats zero. It handles memberships and donations too, not tickets alone.

Where it stops. Eligibility is the catch. A run club, a bootcamp or an unregistered social club cannot use it. Your buyers also see the tip prompt, and some boards decline that trade.

Free events: Free.

Wild Apricot

Membership software for associations, with events attached.

It has held membership records for two decades. It answers what the ticketing tools skip: who is a member, and when do they renew.

Where it stops. The price is per contact, not per sale. It starts at $66 a month before your first ticket sells. It climbs as your list grows. No free tier, no marketplace.

Free events: Covered by the subscription.

Crewcade

Membership and event management. The roster under the tickets, whoever sells them.

It holds the same person across every event, so a season leaves one roster instead of eleven exports. Dues and renewals sit beside the events, and your team gets their own logins. It also points events at Eventbrite, Meetup, Luma or Peatix, so their marketplaces still bring you newcomers while the roster stays with you.

Where it stops. No marketplace of its own. Crewcade reaches the people who are already yours, and it borrows discovery by pointing events at the platforms that have it. If a marketplace listing is the whole job you need, list there directly.

Free events: Free.

What Eventbrite is good at

It sells tickets, and it sells them well. The marketplace puts your event in front of people who never heard of you. Checkout is solid. Free events cost nothing.

A marketplace is a real asset, and 4 of the nine platforms here have one. If nobody knows your event exists, a cheaper checkout leaves that problem alone.

Run them together

Most groups already use two of these. A Meetup group for newcomers, an Eventbrite listing for the paid one, a spreadsheet holding the rest. That is a reasonable setup, and the weak point is the spreadsheet.

Crewcade sells tickets, so it can stand in as an alternative. It is built to sit alongside instead. Point an event at Eventbrite, Meetup, Luma or Peatix, and Crewcade sends people straight to that listing. The listing, the checkout and the fees stay as they are. You keep the marketplace reach. The event page, the announcements and the reminders run from Crewcade, and everyone who joins lands in one roster that outlives the event.

Sell through Crewcade instead and the money lands in your own Stripe account. Both ways run at once, and you can change your mind. Export your roster, your dues history and your event records on any plan.

Pick the platform that does the job in front of you. The point is that the record underneath stays yours either way.

How to choose

Match the platform to the job.

If your job is Start here
Strangers need to find my event Meetup for newcomers to a recurring group. Eventbrite for a paid one-off. Peatix in Japan. Luma in a tech or creative scene.
A good event page, live in ten minutes Luma. Partiful if the guests already know each other.
Keep the most of a high-priced ticket Ticket Tailor, at a flat $0.85 per ticket.
We are a registered nonprofit Zeffy, at no charge.
Hold members, dues and renewals Wild Apricot or Crewcade.
Keep the marketplace reach, and own the roster Crewcade, pointed at the platform you already use.

One more thing to measure, and it is not price. A per-ticket fee and a membership price answer different questions. The cheapest tool still leaves the records undone. So ask what stays in your spreadsheet once the checkout works. That answer picks the tool.

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