European Alternatives to Eventbrite
Looking for a European alternative to Eventbrite? Eventbrite, Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in San Francisco, and its terms state that for users in the EEA and Switzerland it is the party responsible for personal data. Its US pricing page lists a service fee of 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order.
These European ticketing platforms are operated by companies in the EU, the UK and Switzerland, and most of them publish a per-ticket fee, with options ranging from self-hosted software to marketplaces.
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European ownership, verified
The company is headquartered and incorporated in the EU, EEA or Switzerland, and processes customer data in Europe. A US parent company disqualifies a tool from this page regardless of where its servers are.
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Category fit and hands-on review
What the tool actually does, who it suits, and where it falls short — checked against the vendor’s own documentation, changelog and pricing page rather than its marketing copy.
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GDPR posture, hosting location and the prices quoted on this page are verified against the vendor’s public pricing before publication, and re-checked when we revisit the category.
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12 European Alternatives to Eventbrite
pretix
Open-source ticketing hosted in Germany, fee capped at EUR 15
Ticket Tailor
Flat per-ticket fee ticketing with servers in Ireland
Weezevent
Ticketing, access control and cashless in one platform
Billetto
Ticketing with a consumer marketplace and pay-per-sale ads
Tito
Embeddable conference ticketing with a 3% fee capped at EUR 25
Eventfrog
Swiss event agenda and ticketing with a Free model
Ticketino
All-inclusive presale fee ticketing with scanners and API
ticketmatic
Ticketing and audience CRM built for cultural venues
vivenu
Enterprise ticketing with white-label storefronts and API
doo
Registration, invitations and guest management for events
Weeztix
Dutch ticket shop and scan app, formerly Eventix
Ticketcounter
Ticketing, POS and access control for attractions and events
Frequently Asked Questions
pretix is widely considered the best European alternative to Eventbrite. Based in Germany, it offers open-source ticketing hosted in Germany, fee capped at EUR 15. Other strong options include Ticket Tailor and Weezevent.
Yes. Every provider on this page is established in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, which means GDPR (or its UK and Swiss equivalents) applies to them directly rather than through standard contractual clauses. In practice that gives you an EU-law data processing agreement, EU data residency and a supervisory authority you can actually complain to.
Eventbrite is headquartered in San Francisco, California, so the data it processes falls under US jurisdiction and can be reached through instruments such as the CLOUD Act regardless of which region you select. A European provider keeps processing under EU law, removes the transfer impact assessment from your compliance workload, and keeps the money inside the European technology economy.
This page compares 12 of them, chosen for European establishment, GDPR compliance and genuine feature parity rather than for being merely available in Europe. See our full event management software category for the wider list.
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