# Eventbrite

> Ticketing and event marketplace, with fees usually paid by buyers

Eventbrite is a ticketing platform and public events marketplace where organizers list free or paid events, sell tickets and promote them to its audience of buyers. Publishing is free; paid tickets carry a service fee and a processing fee that buyers pay by default. Built-in email campaigns, ad tools, reserved seating, timed entry and a check-in app cover the run-up to the event and the door.

- **Category:** Event Ticketing
- **Made by:** Eventbrite, Inc.
- **Website:** https://www.eventbrite.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Eventbrite has a free plan. Paid plans start at $15 per month and up, for Eventbrite Pro email sends.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free to publish unlimited events. Free tickets carry no fees; paid tickets carry a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee and 2.9% processing per order, paid by buyers by default. Up to 250 marketing emails a day.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | No subscription. Each paid ticket carries 3.7% + $1.79 plus 2.9% processing per order, paid by the buyer unless the organizer absorbs it; free events cost nothing. |
| Pro | $15 per month and up | A subscription add-on for marketing email that raises the daily limit from 250 sends to between 2,000 and 10,000. Ticket fees still apply. |
| Sales partnership | Custom | For large or complex events: a strategic advisor, Eventbrite-sponsored marketing, and priority phone and 24/7 chat support. |

Read from https://www.eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Eventbrite before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **50% off Pro for qualifying nonprofits** (Nonprofit): Qualifying nonprofits get half off Eventbrite's Pro plans, and donation tickets carry discounted ticketing fees. Source: https://www.eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing/

## Key features

- **Events marketplace:** Events are listed on Eventbrite's own discovery marketplace, where buyers browse local events, so organizers can reach people beyond their own following.
- **Ticketing and registration:** Custom event pages, several ticket types, add-ons, custom registration forms, waitlists, promo codes, embedded checkout and AI-assisted event creation.
- **Reserved seating and timed entry:** Seat maps that let buyers pick seats, and timed-entry ticketing for attractions and exhibitions that admit people in time slots.
- **Marketing tools:** Email campaigns to segmented lists of past buyers, Facebook and Instagram ad tools, TikTok promotion and paid Eventbrite Ads placements on the marketplace.
- **Organizer app and Tap to Pay:** The iOS and Android Organizer app scans QR-code tickets, tracks live attendance and sales, and takes payment for tickets and merchandise at the door.
- **Payouts before the event:** Eventbrite Payment Processing pays out before the event, with Instant Payouts in minutes or a custom schedule, and sales and fee reports.

## Good for

- Organizers who want buyers to find their events through a marketplace
- Free community events, which pay no fees
- Promoters who want email and ad tools beside ticketing

## Worth knowing

- Paid tickets carry a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee and 2.9% processing per order; buyers pay them by default, or the organizer can absorb them.
- The free account sends up to 250 marketing emails a day; more needs Pro from $15 a month, and ad spend for Eventbrite Ads, Facebook and Instagram is extra.
- Eventbrite says its pricing plans are offered in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland, and Eventbrite Ads only in select markets.
- 24/7 chat support covers paid events; phone support and a strategic advisor come with the sales partnership.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Eventbrite is the one most people have heard of, and that's the point: your event sits on a marketplace where buyers browse, with email and ad tools to push it further. Publishing is free and buyers pay the fees by default. Those fees are the steepest here, though, at 3.7% + $1.79 a ticket plus 2.9% processing.

- **Value for money: C.** Buyers pay by default, so you keep the ticket price, but the fee is the dearest here: 3.7% + $1.79 a ticket is $506 on 200 $20 tickets, with 2.9% processing per order on top that we haven't counted. Absorb it and it's yours. More than 250 emails a day needs Pro from $15 a month.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free to publish as many events as you like, and free events carry no fees at all. The free account sends 250 marketing emails a day, and more needs Pro from $15 a month. A small series could run on it for good.
- **Features: B.** Marketplace listing, ticket types, add-ons, waitlists, reserved seating, timed entry, email campaigns, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok promotion, a check-in app with Tap to Pay, and payouts before the event. It covers the whole job.
- **Ease of use: A.** 4.79 from 32,637 App Store ratings, and that's for the Eventbrite Organizer app, the one you use to run the door. Making an event is guided, with AI help to write it up.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Mailchimp, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and a public API. No desktop app, which an A needs, and its pricing plans are offered only in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Eventbrite's own pages on 18 October 2026, and the App Store rating of its Eventbrite Organizer app. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among event ticketing platforms

- Eventbrite's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 6 of the 11 other event ticketing platforms we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on ease of use (A, above 10 of 11) and worst on value for money (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $15 a month, against a middle price of $59 for the category: 0 of the 2 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/event-ticketing

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Eventbrite you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $180 a year.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- You could not: Selling tickets and checking them at the door.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Mailchimp, Facebook and Instagram among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.8 out of 5 from 32,637 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id368260521

## Works with

Mailchimp, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok

**Tags:** Ticketing, Email campaigns, Reports, AI features, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Ticket Tailor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticket-tailor): Event ticketing for a flat fee per ticket, with prepaid credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-ticket-tailor)
- [Luma](https://toolgpa.com/tools/luma): Event pages and calendars for community events, free or paid. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-luma)
- [Humanitix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/humanitix): Event ticketing run as a charity that gives its profits away. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-humanitix)
- [Universe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/universe): Self-service ticketing from the Live Nation and Ticketmaster group. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-universe)
- [TicketSpice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticketspice): Ticketing for events and attractions at a flat 99¢ per ticket. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-ticketspice)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing/
- https://www.eventbrite.com/organizer/features/email-marketing/
- https://www.eventbrite.com/organizer/features/organizer-check-in-app/
- https://www.eventbrite.com/organizer/features/event-payment/
- https://www.eventbrite.com/platform/api
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eventbrite-organizer/id368260521

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/eventbrite
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