It depends on the ticket price. Fatsoma (10% (min £1)) is cheaper on lower-priced tickets and Billetto (3.99% + £0.90 + VAT) is cheaper from around £20. On a £30 ticket, with card processing included, Fatsoma costs £3.00 and Billetto costs £2.10.
Fees and features from each platform's public pricing pages, checked September 2026.
Fatsoma is a UK ticketing platform and consumer app that grew out of student and club nights. Organizers sell through its marketplace and app, message their followers for free, and recruit reps who earn commission for selling tickets.
Billetto is a self-service ticketing platform and event marketplace from Denmark, selling in 14 European markets. Organizers list events on Billetto's consumer site and app, can switch on pay-per-sale advertising, and sell through an embeddable widget or a box office. Billetto collects the ticket money and pays it out after the event.
Hi.Events is an open-source ticketing platform with a hosted cloud version. Organizers sell from their own branded event pages, an embedded widget or a box office at the door, and card payments settle straight into their own Stripe account as tickets sell.
The all-in cost of selling 250 tickets at £30 each: platform fee plus card processing. Move the sliders to match your event.
Illustrative, from each platform's published standard rate. Where a platform charges card processing on top, we add its own stated rate or a standard 1.5% + £0.20 per ticket, so every total is like for like. Your actual card rate depends on your processor and the cards your buyers use.
Where the two differ, and where they don't.
| Feature | Fatsoma | Billetto | Hi.Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform fee per paid ticket | 10% (min £1) | 3.99% + £0.90 + VAT | 1.25% + £0.45 |
| Card processing | Included in the fee | Assumed included (not stated) | Charged on top |
| Free events | Free | Free for the organizer; the buyer pays a platform fee | Free |
| When you're paid | After the event; funds clear 48 hours after it ends and you then request a payout | After the event, within five business days; prepayment before the event by separate agreement | As tickets sell, on your own Stripe payout schedule |
| Payment processor | Fatsoma collects the money and pays you out | Billetto collects the money and pays you out | Your own Stripe account |
| Pass fees on to buyers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Your branding at checkout | On the Professional plan, from £1,500 | Widget colors and fonts, with Billetto branding removable | Yes |
| Embed checkout on your site | Widget that hands off to Fatsoma checkout | Yes | Yes |
| Listed in a consumer marketplace | Yes | Yes | No |
| Tickets work without an app or account | Yes | Yes; tickets arrive as a PDF, and buyers get a Billetto account automatically | Yes |
| QR check-in app | Yes, Fatsoma Scan | Yes | Yes, in any phone browser |
| Reserved seating | Not stated | Yes | Yes |
| Box office for door sales | Not stated | Billetto POS, with a €199 Adyen terminal | Yes |
| Recurring events and time slots | Not stated | Yes | Yes |
| Promo codes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Waitlist | Not stated | Yes | Yes |
| Custom checkout questions | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Agenda or lineup on the event page | Not stated | Not stated | Lineup and agenda by room |
| API and webhooks | Not stated | Yes | REST API and webhooks |
| Single sign-on (SSO) for your team | Not stated | Not stated | OIDC, on request (no SAML) |
| Official ticket resale | Not stated | Fan resale through TicketSwap, capped at 20% above face value | No |
| Open source | No | No | Yes |
| Can be self-hosted | No | No | Yes |
A Professional plan with a branded website and apps starts at £1,500 plus the 10% fee. Organizers can pass the fee to buyers or absorb it.
Rates exclude VAT and are rounded up to the nearest 10p or 10c. The euro rate is the same in every euro country Billetto publishes. Billetto's pages do not say whether card processing is inside the fee, so it is treated as included here. Alternative payment methods such as PayPal, Klarna, MobilePay and Swish carry extra organizer fees that cannot be passed to buyers, and tickets sold through Billetto Advertising carry a 33% fee. Organizers selling over 1,000 tickets a year can negotiate a lower rate.
you sell student or club nights through a team of reps and want their commission tracked for you.
Switching from Fatsoma to Hi.Events →you sell in the Nordics or elsewhere in Europe, want Billetto's marketplace and advertising to find buyers, and can wait until after the event for your money.
Switching from Billetto to Hi.Events →you want a low published fee, your own branding at checkout and card payments in your own Stripe account as tickets sell.
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Every figure on this page comes from the platform's own pricing and help pages, checked September 2026. Platforms change their pricing, so confirm with the vendor before you decide. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it. Product names are trademarks of their owners; Hi.Events is not affiliated with Fatsoma or Billetto.
Hi.Events gives you a low published fee, your own branding and your money as tickets sell. Create an event and see how it compares with Fatsoma and Billetto for yourself.
Free events cost nothing. Paid tickets are 1.25% + £0.45, with no monthly fee and no contract — see the full pricing.