European Alternatives to Cvent
Looking for a European alternative to Cvent? Cvent, Inc. is a US company (its own site gives an address in Tysons Corner, Virginia), it publishes no prices and routes buyers to a quote form, and its Professional and Enterprise licences bundle registration, event app, venue sourcing and other modules that many organisers never use.
The European platforms below cover registration, an attendee app, live streaming and networking, and several of them publish prices or sell by event, so a conference team can pay for the formats it actually runs.
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11 European Alternatives to Cvent
Eventee
Mobile and web event app sold per event, in-person or hybrid
Wisembly
Webinar, on-site and hybrid sessions with stage projection
talque
Event app and ticketing for hybrid, online and on-site events
Lyyti
Registration, communication and streaming for live, hybrid and virtual events
Converia
Conference software joining submissions, programme and invoicing
evenito
Zurich-built guest management with streaming and ticketing
Swapcard
Networking, exhibitor lead tools and registration for large B2B shows
MEETYOO
Berlin webcast and virtual venue provider with managed service
Evenium
Invitation, check-in and ConnexMe event app from a Paris vendor
Grip
AI matchmaking and pre-scheduled meetings for trade shows
Eventtia
Registration platform with per-year attendee licences
Key takeaways
- Cvent publishes no prices and routes buyers to a quote form, while Wisembly shows Webinaire from EUR 79 per month excluding VAT.
- Cvent, Inc. gives a Tysons Corner, Virginia address, whereas Lyyti Oy in Turku states that data is processed only within EU territory.
- Converia GmbH in Weimar prices from EUR 49 per month plus a share of ticket revenue capped at EUR 15 per ticket.
- Swapcard Corporation SAS in Paris lists ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II audits, but publishes no plan amounts and names no hosting region.
- Eventtia charges no per-registration fee, yet its terms state US commercial law, so an EU organiser should read the order form first.
Why people leave Cvent
Cvent is an event management suite from the United States. Its own website gives an address in Tysons Corner, Virginia, and the product reaches from venue sourcing and registration to the attendee app, so a large organiser can run a whole events department inside one login.
That reach is the reason it shows up on every long list, and the reason some organisers start looking elsewhere once the list of modules in the contract is longer than the list of modules in use.
The first friction is the price page, or rather its absence. Cvent publishes no amounts and sends a buyer to a quote form, which means a conference team cannot see what a single congress costs before a sales conversation. The licence tiers that the site describes, Professional and Enterprise, bundle registration, the event app, venue sourcing and further modules into one subscription, so the invoice follows the bundle, not the event format you actually run.
A second group leaves for jurisdiction. A US vendor signs contracts under its own law and its own data terms, and an association that collects member data across the EU often prefers a counterparty it can sue in its home courts.
We could not read Cvent's privacy and terms pages, which render only in a browser script, so this page says nothing about what they contain. What can be checked are the European vendors below, and several of them state their legal entity, governing law and hosting openly.
- No published price, only a quote form Cvent sends buyers to a quote request instead of printing amounts. For a one-off congress or a small annual summit that makes budgeting slow, because you cannot compare a licence against a per-event fee before talking to sales. Against that, Wisembly, talque, Converia and Evenium print euro prices on their pages, and Eventee lists plan sizes for 200, 500 or 1,000 attendees, so a first budget takes minutes.
- Bundled modules you may never switch on The Professional and Enterprise licences, as Cvent describes them, combine registration, the event app, venue sourcing and other modules. An organiser who needs ticketing and a streaming room pays for the whole bundle. The European tools split the work: Converia covers submissions and invoicing, Evenium sells registration at EUR 1 per ticket sold and the ConnexMe app as a separate line, and Grip concentrates on meetings and lead retrieval.
- US company, US governing terms to review Cvent, Inc. is a US company with its address in Virginia. We have not read its data-processing terms, so we claim nothing about them. The choice is simpler on the other side: Lyyti states EU-only processing hosted with UpCloud, talque states EU servers, Wisembly names three datacentres in Ile-de-France, and Swapcard applies French law and Paris courts for organisers in the European Economic Area.
- Enterprise scale is more than a single event needs A tool built to run hundreds of programmes across a company carries onboarding, roles and reporting that a team with one annual conference never opens. Eventee, with its per-event plans, and Eventtia, with an annual attendee licence without per-ticket fees, are sized the other way round. Where the programme is large and the team is not, a narrower platform is cheaper to learn.
What you have to replace, not just match
Replacing Cvent starts with listing which of its modules your team actually uses. Registration and check-in are the common core and every tool on this page covers them, though with different weight: evenito and Lyyti put guest lists first, Evenium adds onsite check-in, Swapcard adds badge printing. If you also used the attendee app, compare the apps themselves, since Eventee and talque build the whole product around one branded app per event.
Two Cvent areas need a decision, not a like-for-like swap. Venue sourcing is not part of any published product list on this page: Wisembly states plainly that venue sourcing and hotel room blocks are outside its product, and none of the other vendors describe such a marketplace. Abstract and speaker management is the opposite case, where Converia is more specific than a general suite, with reviewer workflows, programme planning and invoices with VAT handling.
Appointments and lead capture are the third area. Where exhibitors scan visitors and book meetings, Grip and Swapcard are the direct counterparts, and Swapcard lists a lead centre and hosted buyer matching. Streaming is the last piece: Lyyti, meetyoo, Eventtia and Wisembly describe it in different depths, and meetyoo adds a managed service and a remote virtual studio. Test the stream before committing, since several vendors describe it only at marketing level.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Eventee | Brno, Czech Republic | Pay-per-event plans for 200, 500 or 1,000 attendees; amounts shown on the pricing page, free trial available | EU (Czech Republic) |
| #2 | Wisembly | Paris, France | Webinaire from EUR 79/month excl. VAT, Presentiel from EUR 129, Business from EUR 199, One Shot and custom on request | EU (France) |
| #3 | talque | Berlin, Germany | Essential from EUR 3,000/year, Pro from EUR 7,000/year, Enterprise on request; ticketing fees extra | EU (Germany) |
| #4 | Lyyti | Turku, Finland | Four plans (Starter, Basic, Professional, Enterprise); amounts not published | EU (Finland) |
| #5 | Converia | Weimar, Germany | Pro from EUR 49/month (Starter), EUR 149 (Plus), EUR 349 (Advanced) plus a share of ticket revenue; Flex from EUR 129/month | EU (Germany) |
| #6 | evenito | Zurich, Switzerland | Pricing on request (demo) | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #7 | Swapcard | Paris, France | Licence plus per-user rates and add-ons; no amounts published | EU (France) |
| #8 | meetyoo | Berlin, Germany | Pricing on request (see website) | EU (Germany) |
| #9 | Evenium | Paris, France | Registration EUR 1 per ticket sold; ConnexMe single event EUR 1,499 or EUR 3,000; annual EUR 7,200 or EUR 14,400 | EU (France) |
| #10 | Grip | London, United Kingdom | Pricing on request | United Kingdom (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #11 | Eventtia | Tallinn, Estonia | Essential USD 1,650/year for 250 attendees, Premium USD 2,500, Networking USD 3,500, Enterprise on request | EU (Estonia) |
How each alternative compares to Cvent
Best for: Organisers with one or two conferences a year who want an app under their own name
Eventee sells a plan for each event: Essential for 200 attendees, Signature for 500 and Professional for 1,000, with every plan covering in-person and hybrid. Against Cvent, where the price sits behind a quote form, that makes a single congress easy to budget. The attendee side is the focus: live questions, polls, a social wall, gamification and networking.
The limits show up as soon as the programme grows. Plans stop at 1,000 attendees, white label, custom domain and badge printing are add-ons, and an organiser with twenty small sessions pays the per-event fee twenty times. Eventee is a Czech company in Brno under Czech law, but the pages reviewed do not state a data location.
What Eventee does better than Cvent
- Plan sizes and structure are visible before a sales call
- Per-event pricing for organisers with few events
- Apps in a dozen languages
- A free trial before purchase
Where Eventee is a step down from Cvent
- No venue sourcing or large-scale programme management
- Capped at 1,000 attendees per event
- Data location not stated
Standout against Cvent. Eventee is the only tool here that sells a separate plan for every single event.
Best for: Associations and training providers mixing a room audience with remote guests
Wisembly puts the stage first: questions, polls and quizzes appear on the venue screen while remote participants join by video. Prices are printed per month excluding VAT, from EUR 79 for Webinaire to EUR 199 for Business, with a bespoke tier to 10,000 participants. Compared with Cvent's quote form, a team can read the entry cost on the page.
What it does not cover is the sourcing and logistics side. Its own pages leave out venue sourcing and hotel room blocks, and capture and streaming are plan-dependent options. Mediactive Events Solutions in Paris operates it, with three datacentres in Ile-de-France and no advertising cookies, so the sovereignty question has a stated answer.
What Wisembly does better than Cvent
- Published euro prices from EUR 79 per month
- Hosting named: three French datacentres
- Room-and-remote interaction on the venue screen
- No advertising or tracking cookies
Where Wisembly is a step down from Cvent
- No venue sourcing or hotel blocks
- French-first documentation
- Standard plans end at 1,000 participants
Standout against Cvent. Wisembly is the one platform here that projects audience questions and quizzes onto the venue screen.
Best for: Organisers in German-speaking markets running several events a year under one app
talque licenses by year, not by event: Essential from EUR 3,000 and Pro from EUR 7,000, both with unlimited events. For an organiser who ran Cvent for a recurring calendar, that structure is familiar, while the amounts are printed on the page. Ticketing is charged separately, starting from 2 percent of the net ticket price for paid events.
The company is Real Life Interaction GmbH in Berlin, and the product page says all servers are in the EU. The gaps are specific: the page describes no built-in streaming product, badges and check-in are an extra EUR 499 one-off configuration, and the website is German first. The fixed contact person during events is a service Cvent's tiers do not mention on the pages we saw.
What talque does better than Cvent
- Euro licence prices on the page
- EU server location stated
- A named contact person during live operation
- Unlimited events per licence
Where talque is a step down from Cvent
- No streaming product described
- Annual commitment even for one event
- German-first site
Standout against Cvent. talque names a fixed contact person who plans the run of show with the organiser.
Best for: Event teams in the Nordics and continental Europe sending large volumes of invitations
Lyyti centres the product on the guest record. Invitations, registration, reminders and surveys share one profile, and email and SMS automation sits in the same account. Against Cvent, the difference is that processing is stated as EU-only, with UpCloud as the host, and the plan ladder from Starter to Enterprise is described feature by feature, although amounts are not published.
Starter allows 10 events and 500 participants a year, so a large organiser moves to a higher plan quickly. Ticketing, the REST API and SSO start at Professional. Streaming is described briefly, so run a rehearsal before the first hybrid event. The Turku company lists offices in Helsinki, Paris and Stockholm, and registration in 22 languages.
What Lyyti does better than Cvent
- Processing stated as EU only, host named
- 22 registration languages
- Email and SMS automation on one guest record
- Plan limits spelled out per tier
Where Lyyti is a step down from Cvent
- No prices published, as with Cvent
- Streaming covered only at marketing level
- No venue sourcing
Standout against Cvent. Lyyti is the only platform here that names both its EU-only processing and its hosting provider on the security page.
Best for: Societies, university chairs and congress organisers with reviewed programmes
Converia handles the paperwork a general event suite treats as an extra: abstract submission, reviewer assignment, programme planning, certificates and invoices with reverse charge and VAT rates. Packages are printed: Starter from EUR 49 per month for up to 150 participants, plus a share of ticket revenue capped at EUR 15 per ticket. Flex, from EUR 129 per month, covers three or more events.
It is a back office, not an engagement app. Attendee networking and exhibitor tools are thin, hybrid is a secondary use through live streams and video on demand, and contracts run for a year. Converia GmbH sits in Weimar and states EU servers. For a medical society that needs CME credits and reviewer workflows, the specialisation matters more than the missing app.
What Converia does better than Cvent
- Reviewer workflows and abstract management in one tool
- Euro prices per month on the page
- Invoicing with VAT handling
- One contract with quotas across several events
Where Converia is a step down from Cvent
- Little attendee networking
- Ticket revenue share on top of the fee
- Hybrid is not the core product
Standout against Cvent. Converia connects submissions, reviewers, programme and invoices in one system.
Best for: Companies running in-person, virtual and hybrid events from one guest record
evenito AG in Zurich combines guest lists, invitations, registration, ticketing and an on-site check-in app with a streaming and conferencing module. Against Cvent it is a smaller suite with the same spine, one record serving both the room and the online audience. The site names Swiss employers and insurers among its customers.
Treat the jurisdiction with care: Switzerland sits outside the EEA, under an EU adequacy decision. Prices, hosting region and the depth of the streaming module are not published on the pages we read, and the site leans toward the Swiss and German market. A demo is the only way to see the product and its cost.
What evenito does better than Cvent
- Swiss company with UID, a clear counterparty
- Registration, ticketing and check-in in one system
- Hybrid and virtual formats under the same event record
Where evenito is a step down from Cvent
- No prices or hosting region published
- Outside the EEA
- Streaming depth undocumented
Standout against Cvent. evenito carries the same guest record from invitation through check-in to the stream.
Best for: Trade show and association organisers with many exhibitors and sponsors
Swapcard Corporation SAS in Paris builds around the exhibitor: a lead centre, lead scanning, hosted buyer matching and sponsor visibility sit in the core product, next to registration, ticketing, the app and badge printing. Against Cvent, this is the nearest functional counterpart on the page, with the vendor listing ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS v4.0.
Prices are not published and the target is mid-market and enterprise, so a small workshop will find it oversized. The privacy policy lists affiliates in the United States and other countries, hosting is AWS multi-zone without a region, and the organiser terms do not name the contracting entity per region. French law and Paris courts apply for organisers in the EEA, which is a concrete advantage over a US-law contract.
What Swapcard does better than Cvent
- French law and Paris courts for EEA organisers
- Exhibitor lead and buyer-meeting tools inside the app
- Certifications listed on the company page
- AI recommendations for sessions and contacts
Where Swapcard is a step down from Cvent
- No public pricing, same as Cvent
- US affiliate in the group
- Hosting region not stated
Standout against Cvent. Swapcard pairs sellers and hosted buyers by stated preference inside the event app.
Best for: Enterprises and associations running a few large webcasts or virtual events a year
meetyoo conferencing GmbH in Berlin sells webcasts, a branded theatre and a virtual event solution with venues, booths and a sponsorship area. Where Cvent is a suite for planning events, meetyoo is a production platform for the online side, with a managed service and a remote virtual studio that let you hand over the broadcast.
Prices are not published, and the company lists offices in New York and California next to Berlin, so ask which entity signs and which sub-processors apply. It is heavier than a weekly small-team webinar needs. The German imprint names a register entry in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and the site compares itself directly against ON24, which tells you its target segment.
What meetyoo does better than Cvent
- Vendor-managed production and virtual studio
- Berlin GmbH with a commercial register entry
- Virtual booths, matchmaking and sponsorship area
Where meetyoo is a step down from Cvent
- No pricing published
- US offices listed beside Berlin
- No registration-first workflow
Standout against Cvent. meetyoo offers to produce the broadcast for you through a managed service.
Best for: Corporate and pharmaceutical event teams that want a price list before a call
Evenium S.A. in Paris splits its suite so modules are bought alone: registration and check-in at EUR 1 per ticket sold, the ConnexMe app for a single event at EUR 1,499 or EUR 3,000, and annual subscriptions at EUR 7,200 or EUR 14,400. Against Cvent's bundles, the invoice follows the modules you pick.
Dedicated pages cover life sciences event management and sponsored seat allocation, which suit pharma meetings with compliance rules. The caveats are plain: a US entity, Evenium, Inc. in California, is also listed, so confirm who signs; one meeting runs at a time per subscription; and the platform data location is not stated, only the website's AWS hosting in Ireland.
What Evenium does better than Cvent
- Euro prices for each module on the page
- Pharma and life sciences packages
- Modules bought separately
- Over 20 years in the market
Where Evenium is a step down from Cvent
- US entity also listed
- One meeting at a time per subscription
- Platform data location not stated
Standout against Cvent. Evenium prices registration at EUR 1 per ticket sold and sells everything else as separate lines.
Best for: Trade shows and hosted buyer programmes judged by the number of qualified meetings
Grip, run by Intros.at Ltd in London, begins with the meeting. Attendees and exhibitors are matched, meetings are booked before the event, and exhibitors collect and rate leads on the show floor. That maps onto what Cvent Appointments and LeadCapture do, with use-case pages for VIP meetings, startup investor programmes and hosted buyers.
It is lighter on ticketing and streaming, and prices are on request. The company is registered in England and Wales and its terms apply English law, so it is outside the EU. The security page names AWS data centres and lists ISO 27001, PCI DSS and Cyber Essentials, but not a region. Use it where meetings are the product, and pair it with a ticketing tool otherwise.
What Grip does better than Cvent
- Matchmaking and pre-scheduled meetings as the core product
- Lead retrieval for exhibitors
- Cyber Essentials listed
Where Grip is a step down from Cvent
- Outside the EU, under English law
- No public pricing
- Lighter on ticketing and streaming
Standout against Cvent. Grip measures an event by the meetings it schedules, not by the tickets it sells.
Best for: Organisers with a yearly event calendar who prefer a flat licence to ticket fees
Eventtia sells attendee credits over 12 months with unlimited events: Essential at USD 1,650 for 250 attendees, Premium at USD 2,500 with a branded app and a virtual stage, Networking at USD 3,500 with matchmaking. The page states there are no per-registration fees, so costs do not climb with ticket sales, which is the reverse of Converia's revenue share.
For EU users the terms name Eventtia OU in Tallinn, yet clause 15.6 states that United States commercial law governs. For a buyer leaving Cvent for jurisdictional reasons, that clause matters. Prices default to dollars, the hosting region is AWS without a named region, and networking features sit only in the top tier. Every plan includes an MCP server for AI assistants.
What Eventtia does better than Cvent
- No per-registration fees stated
- Plan prices on the page
- Virtual stage included from Premium
- Estonian entity for EU users
Where Eventtia is a step down from Cvent
- US commercial law in the terms
- Default dollar pricing
- Hosting region not stated
Standout against Cvent. Eventtia includes an MCP server with 51 tools so AI assistants can create events and read registrations.
What actually breaks when you switch
The hard part of leaving Cvent is data, not features. Registrations, session records, attendee lists and past surveys live in one account, and we do not know which exports Cvent offers because its help and terms pages did not render for us. Request a full export first, and check each candidate's import: Lyyti, Swapcard and Eventtia list APIs or integrations, while Converia and Evenium describe their own data models around invoicing and registration.
Then there are the contracts and the people. A multi-year Cvent licence may run past your next event, so time the switch to the end of a term.
Staff who know one tool need a rehearsal on the new one, and exhibitors may expect the app they used last year. Plan a parallel run for one smaller event, and keep the stream test, badge printing and payment setup (Stripe and SEPA at talque, Stripe Connect set up by the vendor) on the checklist.
Can a European platform replace Cvent for a 5,000-person conference?
Only some of them are sized for it, and the pages do not show that for every vendor. Wisembly offers a bespoke tier up to 10,000 participants, talque's Pro licence expands to 3,000 attendees, and Swapcard and meetyoo describe enterprise events with exhibitors and large webcasts. Eventee stops at 1,000 per event on its listed plans, and Lyyti's Starter plan is capped at 500 participants a year.
Ask each shortlisted vendor for a reference event of your size and a load test of the stream and the app. Attendee counts on a pricing page are a licence limit, not proof that a platform handled that many people in one session.
Do I lose venue sourcing and hotel blocks if I leave Cvent?
On the pages we read, yes: no European vendor here lists venue sourcing as a product, and Wisembly says explicitly that it does not offer it. The practical answer is to keep that part outside the event platform, in whatever agency, spreadsheet or booking channel you already have, and connect the dates and capacities to the registration tool.
If venue search is the reason you hold a Cvent licence, that is the one case where leaving is hard to justify. If it is a module that came with the bundle, there is little to replace.
Which one to pick
Choose by the shape of your event, not by the longest feature list. Exhibitor-heavy shows belong with Swapcard or Grip, academic programmes with Converia, and a single conference with a branded app with Eventee. Teams that want a euro price list before any call can start with Wisembly, talque or Evenium, and organisers sending thousands of invitations can start with Lyyti.
Check jurisdiction before price. Eventtia's terms state US commercial law, Grip sits in the United Kingdom, evenito in Switzerland, and Evenium also lists a US entity. If your aim is a European counterparty under European law, Wisembly, talque, Lyyti, Converia and Swapcard for EEA organisers give the clearest answers on these pages. Keep Cvent if venue sourcing is the reason you hold the licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on the event. For a registration-led programme with published prices, Wisembly, talque and Evenium are the clearest. For exhibitors and buyer meetings, Swapcard and Grip. For academic programmes with reviewers, Converia. For mixed in-person and online events in Switzerland, evenito. For Nordic organisers with many invitations, Lyyti. For single conferences with a branded app, Eventee.
Not on the pages we reviewed. Cvent routes buyers to a quote form, and its Professional and Enterprise licences bundle registration, the event app and venue sourcing. Among the alternatives, Eventee, Wisembly, talque, Converia, Evenium and Eventtia print amounts or plan sizes, while Lyyti, evenito, Swapcard, meetyoo and Grip also ask for a demo.
Lyyti states EU-only processing with UpCloud as host, talque and Converia state servers in the EU, and Wisembly names three datacentres in Ile-de-France. Swapcard, Grip and Eventtia name AWS without a region, and Eventee, evenito and Evenium state no platform data location on the pages reviewed. Verify the region in the data processing agreement.
Grip is operated by Intros.at Ltd, registered in England and Wales with an office in London, so it sits in the United Kingdom, which has an EU adequacy decision but is outside the EEA. Its terms apply English law. It is on this page for its meeting and lead retrieval tools, which are the closest match to Cvent Appointments and LeadCapture.
We could not read Cvent's help pages or terms, so we do not know which exports it offers. Ask for a full export of registrations, sessions and attendee lists before you sign the new contract, and check what each new vendor accepts on import. Lyyti and Swapcard list integrations and APIs, which helps where a CSV file is not enough.
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