Most event booking sites do the same basic job: an event page, a checkout and a QR code at the door. What separates them is what they charge on each ticket, when your money arrives, whether they bring you an audience, and whether they fit your kind of event. These are the platforms organizers shortlist most, with each one's published fee and what it is good at.
Fees and features from each platform's own pricing pages, checked September 2026. We make Hi.Events, so it is listed first and labelled. Every figure for the others is sourced on its comparison page.
One low published fee for every organizer, added at checkout and paid by the buyer so it costs you nothing, card payments in your own Stripe account as tickets sell, your own branding on the page, checkout and tickets, an embeddable checkout, recurring events, and reserved seating and a box office on request.
Worth knowing: No consumer marketplace, so it does not bring you an audience, no ticket resale, and Stripe is the only card payment provider.
A large consumer marketplace and app that can bring new buyers, with reserved seating, timed entry, recurring events and a free organizer check-in app.
Worth knowing: Payouts arrive after the event by default.
Good-looking event pages for community meetups and tech events, with a free plan at 5% on paid tickets, money in your own Stripe account, and guest messaging by email, SMS and WhatsApp.
Worth knowing: Fees cannot be passed to the buyer.
A not-for-profit platform whose booking fee profits go to charity, with every feature on every plan and lower rates for charities and schools.
Worth knowing: Payouts arrive after the event on the default gateway.
A UK platform for theatres, schools and venues, with a seating plan designer shared by online and box office sales, and no fees on free events or in-person bookings.
Worth knowing: Payouts arrive after the event unless you connect Stripe.
A registration tool for tech and B2B conferences, with an embeddable widget you can style with your own CSS, a read and write API, and 3% of each ticket capped at €25.
Worth knowing: Fees cannot be passed on to buyers.
A music discovery app with app-held tickets and an official wait list that keep tickets off resale sites, and one all-in price for fans.
Worth knowing: Payouts arrive after the event.
Open-source ticketing from Germany with a free self-hosted edition and a hosted fee of 2.5% capped at €15, plus seating plans, event series and 40+ payment providers.
Worth knowing: Hosted pricing is published in EUR only.
Low Australian and New Zealand fees with card processing included, and seating plans, session times and waitlists for schools, clubs and community groups.
Worth knowing: Australia, New Zealand and the UK only.
Published standard fees, cheapest first on a $30 ticket once card processing is counted.
| Platform | Published fee | Card processing | All-in on $30 | When you're paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TryBooking | 5% + $0.19* | Included in the fee | $1.69 | On request from your TryBooking balance; requests before the event can be held for checks of up to seven days |
| pretix | 2.5% (max $16.30)* | Charged on top | $1.92 | As tickets sell, directly into your own payment provider or bank account |
| TicketSource | 3.5% + $0.99 | Included in the fee | $2.04 | After the event, sent the following Monday; as tickets sell with your own Stripe account |
| Tito | 3% | Charged on top | $2.07 | As tickets sell, into your own Stripe or PayPal account |
| Hi.Events | 1.25% + $0.60 | Charged on top | $2.15 | As tickets sell, on your own Stripe payout schedule |
| Luma | 5% | Charged on top | $2.67 | As tickets sell, on your own Stripe payout schedule |
| Humanitix | 2.1% + $0.99 | Charged on top | $2.79 | After the event, within about five business days; earlier by request or with your own Stripe account |
| Eventbrite | 3.7% + $1.79 | Charged on top | $3.77 | After the event by default, sent three business days after it ends |
| DICE | 13% | Included in the fee | $3.90 | After the event, within five business days |
Standard published rates, excluding negotiated, nonprofit and subscription pricing. Where card processing is charged on top, the all-in figure adds the platform's own stated rate or a standard 2.9% + $0.30. * No published rate in this currency. Converted from the platform's published rate at approximate exchange rates (1 USD ≈ €0.92, £0.78 and A$1.55); the vendor may price differently, or not sell, in this currency.
The features that tend to decide it for this kind of event, platform by platform.
| Platform | Pass fees on to buyers | Embed checkout on your site | Listed in a consumer marketplace | Reserved seating | Recurring events and time slots | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hi.Events | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Eventbrite | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Luma | No | Yes | Yes | Not stated | No | Yes |
| Humanitix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TicketSource | Yes | Yes | What's On listings | Yes | Not stated | Yes |
| Tito | No | Yes | No | No | Not stated | Yes |
| DICE | Always; fees are built into one all-in price | Event list widget | Yes | Not stated | Not stated | Yes |
| pretix | Payment provider fees only | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TryBooking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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