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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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
Key takeaways
- Eventbrite, Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in San Francisco, and its terms name it as the party responsible for personal data of users in the EEA and Switzerland.
- Its US pricing page lists 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order.
- pretix caps its fee at EUR 15 per ticket and offers hosting in Germany or self-hosting, and Tito caps its 3% fee at EUR 25.
- Billetto is the only tool on this page that combines a ticket shop with a consumer marketplace; the others expect organisers to bring their own audience.
- Seven of the twelve European tools on this page did not state a data location on the pages reviewed, so ask before you sign.
Why people leave Eventbrite
Eventbrite, Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in San Francisco, and it is the name most organisers think of first when they need to sell tickets online. The product combines a ticket shop, payment handling and check-in for the organiser with a public listing that can put an event in front of people who have never heard of you. For a first event with no mailing list, that reach is a real part of what the fee pays for.
The doubts tend to start at the moment the first payout arrives. The US pricing page lists a service fee of 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket, with 2.9% payment processing charged per order on top. On a ticket of $10 the fixed part alone is a sizeable share, and the percentage parts stack. Organisers of small, cheap or high-volume events do that arithmetic once and start comparing flat-fee and capped-fee tools.
The second doubt is legal. Every sale produces a record of who attended which event, and the terms state that for users in the EEA and Switzerland, Eventbrite is the party responsible for personal data. That party is a US company. Some organisers, such as public bodies, associations and event companies with strict procurement rules, would rather contract with a European entity for the attendee list.
- The fee has three parts, and two of them are fixed or stacked The US pricing page shows 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket as the service fee, plus 2.9% for payment processing per order. On a $15 ticket the fixed $1.79 alone is about 12% before any percentage is added. Several tools on this page charge a flat amount (Ticket Tailor), a percentage with a ceiling (pretix, Tito) or nothing for free events, which makes a budget easy to forecast before ticket one is sold.
- The contracting party for attendee data is a US corporation According to its terms, Eventbrite is the party responsible for personal data of users in the EEA and Switzerland, and the company behind it is incorporated in Delaware with its base in San Francisco. For an organiser whose attendee list reveals political, religious or health-related interests, the question is not whether this is allowed but whether it is the contract you want. Alternatives here are run from the EU, the UK and Switzerland.
- You pay for reach you may not use Part of the appeal of Eventbrite is its public listing. If your audience already comes from your own newsletter, club membership or conference community, that reach is not what converts. An embedded shop, such as the ones from Tito, Weeztix or pretix, keeps the customer relationship on your own site, and the fee then pays for the checkout rather than for discovery.
- Specialised events need specialised features A generic ticket shop covers a concert hall evening. It is less obviously the right base for a festival with cashless wristbands, a museum with time slots, a theatre with subscriptions, or a football club with its own white-label storefront. The European field is split along exactly those lines, and each specialist is built around one type of event.
What you have to replace, not just match
Moving off Eventbrite means replacing more than a checkout page. The ticket shop is the visible part. Behind it sit the event listings that bring in walk-up buyers, the confirmation and reminder emails, the check-in app your door staff use, the payout schedule and the attendee export.
Not every European tool covers all of these: pretix, Ticket Tailor, Tito and Weeztix offer a scan or check-in app, while Billetto and Eventfrog replace the listing side with their own marketplace or agenda. Decide which of the old functions you actually used before you compare feature lists.
Payments are the second item. Fees at Eventbrite include payment processing, whereas some alternatives let you choose the processor. pretix leaves the choice of payment provider to you, Tito runs on Stripe or PayPal with the gateway fee on top, and Weezevent quotes bank fees as included. Local methods matter too: Eventfrog supports TWINT, Ticketcounter supports iDEAL and Bancontact. A tool that lacks your buyers' usual method will cost conversions that the lower fee does not repay.
The third item is the audience. If part of your sales came from people browsing Eventbrite, no tool with only a shop will replace them. Billetto runs a consumer marketplace with pay-per-sale advertising, and Eventfrog is built around a Swiss event agenda. Everything else assumes you bring the buyers, so budget time for your own mailing list, social posts and embedded widgets before the first sale opens.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | pretix | Heidelberg, Germany | Hosted: 2.5% of the ticket price excl. taxes, never more than EUR 15 per ticket; free tickets EUR 0.50 each after the first 500 per year; no monthly fee | EU (Germany) |
| #2 | Ticket Tailor | London, United Kingdom | europe | |
| #3 | Weezevent | Dijon, France | eu-eea | |
| #4 | Billetto | Copenhagen, Denmark | eu-eea | |
| #5 | Tito | Dublin, Ireland | 3% per ticket (capped at EUR 25 per ticket), 2.5% for charity and community events, free events free; payment gateway fees extra | EU (Ireland) |
| #6 | Eventfrog | Olten, Switzerland | Free model CHF 0; Plus CHF 0.49 + 2.4% of the ticket price; Pro CHF 0.49 + 3.6% of the ticket price | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #7 | Ticketino | Root, Switzerland | eu-eea | |
| #8 | ticketmatic | Leuven, Belgium | One-time setup fee plus a yearly fee based on prepaid ticket volume; see website | EU (Belgium) |
| #9 | vivenu | Düsseldorf, Germany | eu-eea | |
| #10 | doo | Munich, Germany | eu-eea | |
| #11 | Weeztix | Eindhoven, Netherlands | eu-eea | |
| #12 | Ticketcounter | Ede, Netherlands | Not published; see website | EU (Netherlands) |
How each alternative compares to Eventbrite
Best for: Conferences, festivals and museums that bring their own audience and want control of the shop and the data.
pretix GmbH in Heidelberg offers the same core job as Eventbrite, a ticket shop with check-in, but changes who holds the data. The hosted service runs on servers in Germany, and the Community Edition can be installed on your own machine. The fee is 2.5% of the ticket price, never more than EUR 15 per ticket, with no monthly fee.
The trade is audience. pretix is software for organisers and has no consumer marketplace, so nobody finds your event by browsing the platform. Its hosted service is also sold only to businesses and similar entities, not to private individuals. Self-hosting asks for technical skills and some features sit outside the Community Edition.
What pretix does better than Eventbrite
- Fee ceiling of EUR 15 per ticket instead of a fixed amount plus two percentages
- Self-hosting option under an open-source licence
- Free choice of payment provider
- Reserved seating plans, a plugin marketplace and a REST API
Where pretix is a step down from Eventbrite
- No consumer marketplace to bring new buyers
- Hosted service not sold to private individuals
- Self-hosting needs technical skills
Standout against Eventbrite. It is the only tool here you can run on your own server.
Best for: Independent organisers, theatres and charities who want a simple box office with predictable costs.
Ticket Tailor is run by Zimma Ltd in London and hosts its servers in Ireland. Against Eventbrite, the difference is in the price shape: GBP 0.60 per ticket on pay as you go, or prepaid credits from GBP 0.22 per ticket, plus VAT, and up to 5,000 free tickets a year at no fee. A flat fee does not grow with the ticket price.
It is a British company, so an EU organiser contracts with a UK entity even though the data sits in Ireland, and payment processors include US-owned services such as Square and PayPal. Prices show in pounds by default and there is no marketplace to bring buyers in.
What Ticket Tailor does better than Eventbrite
- Flat per-ticket fee that does not grow with the ticket price
- Free check-in app and reserved seating
- Up to 5,000 free tickets a year without a fee
- Servers in Ireland
Where Ticket Tailor is a step down from Eventbrite
- No consumer marketplace for discovery
- UK contracting entity and US-owned payment processors
- Prices default to pounds
Standout against Eventbrite. It is the simplest flat-fee model on the page.
Best for: Festivals, clubs and sports organisers who want tickets, entry control and on-site payment from one vendor.
WEEZEVENT SAS in Dijon, founded in 2008, goes wider than Eventbrite on the day of the event itself. Besides online ticketing with allocated seating, it sells an access control app, cashless wristbands and cards, and staff and accreditation management. The ticket fee is 2.5% plus a fixed amount (GBP 0.99 on the UK page), with bank fees included and no subscription.
The public part of the pricing stops at ticketing: cashless, staff and CRM modules are quoted on request. Data is hosted on Amazon Web Services in Ireland, so the infrastructure provider is US-owned even though the data stays in the EU. Weezevent also belongs to a group that includes Weeztix.
What Weezevent does better than Eventbrite
- Cashless payment and wristbands on site
- Access control app and staff management
- Bank fees included in the ticket fee
- Data hosted in Ireland
Where Weezevent is a step down from Eventbrite
- Add-on modules priced on request
- Hosting on a US-owned cloud provider
- Less suited to a quick, one-off small event
Standout against Eventbrite. It is the only tool here that sells cashless wristbands alongside the tickets.
Best for: Organisers of concerts, parties and workshops who want marketplace reach and pay-per-sale advertising.
Billetto ApS in Copenhagen, founded in 2009, is the nearest match to Eventbrite in business model. It combines a ticket shop with a consumer marketplace, pay-per-sale advertising, email and SMS campaigns, memberships and an API. The Essential plan, up to 1,000 tickets a year, has no monthly fee or setup cost.
On the UK page the ticket buyer pays 3.99% + GBP 0.90 per ticket by default, which can hurt conversion on cheap tickets. Support hours there are weekday daytimes only, and the pages reviewed do not state where data is hosted.
What Billetto does better than Eventbrite
- Consumer marketplace that can bring new buyers
- Pay-per-sale advertising instead of upfront ad spend
- Email and SMS campaigns built in
- No monthly fee on the Essential plan
Where Billetto is a step down from Eventbrite
- Fee falls on the buyer by default
- Data location not stated on the pages reviewed
- Support limited to weekday daytimes on the UK page
Standout against Eventbrite. It is the only alternative here that also runs a marketplace.
Best for: Technology and B2B conference organisers who want the ticket flow inside their own website.
Team Tito Limited in Dublin builds for conferences rather than for everything under the sun. Next to Eventbrite, the visible differences are the embeddable widget, JavaScript events, Google Tag Manager and Facebook plugins, an API and support for 139 currencies via Stripe or PayPal. The fee is 3% per ticket, capped at EUR 25, with 2.5% for charity and community events.
Payment gateway fees are extra, and the privacy policy lists Amazon Web Services and Intercom as service providers, although the data sits on EEA servers. There is no consumer marketplace and it is not designed for festivals or nightlife.
What Tito does better than Eventbrite
- Cap of EUR 25 per ticket on the fee
- Widget that keeps buyers on your own site
- Lower rate for charity and community events
- EEA servers
Where Tito is a step down from Eventbrite
- Gateway fees come on top
- Not meant for festivals or nightlife
- No marketplace
Standout against Eventbrite. It is the one built around the embedded conference ticket flow.
Best for: Organisers in Switzerland, Germany and Austria who want agenda exposure with ticketing and no fixed cost.
Eventfrog AG in Olten offers something Eventbrite does in other markets: a public event agenda attached to the ticket shop. Its fee models run from the Free model at CHF 0 to Plus at CHF 0.49 + 2.4% and Pro at CHF 0.49 + 3.6%. Payments cover TWINT, cards, Google Pay and Apple Pay, plus vouchers, iFrame embedding and cashless.
It is centred on the Swiss, German and Austrian markets and prices are in Swiss francs. For the Free and Plus models, payout comes after the event, so ticket revenue cannot pre-finance the event. The pages reviewed do not state where data is hosted.
What Eventfrog does better than Eventbrite
- Free model with no platform fee
- TWINT and wallet payments for Swiss buyers
- Local agenda reach in the DACH region
- Vouchers and iFrame embedding
Where Eventfrog is a step down from Eventbrite
- Payout only after the event on Free and Plus
- Mostly DACH reach and Swiss francs
- Data location not stated
Standout against Eventbrite. It is the only Swiss agenda on the page with a CHF 0 model.
Best for: Concert, theatre, festival and park organisers in the DACH region who want one fee and scanning hardware.
TICKETINO AG, with offices in Root and Zurich, replaces the stacked fee at Eventbrite with one all-inclusive presale fee that the organiser or the ticket buyer can bear. Free events carry no fee. The organiser side adds ScanApp and ticket scanners, day box-office systems, a time slot module, white-label shops and an open REST API.
The rates appear only in an interactive calculator, so this page quotes no figure, and larger volumes get custom quotes. The pages reviewed do not say where data is hosted, and the company is oriented to Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
What Ticketino does better than Eventbrite
- One all-inclusive fee instead of several
- Scanner hardware and box-office systems
- White-label shops and an open REST API
- Fee can be passed to the buyer or absorbed
Where Ticketino is a step down from Eventbrite
- Rates visible only in a calculator
- Data location not stated
- DACH focus
Standout against Eventbrite. It sells physical scanners and box-office systems with the tickets.
Best for: Theatres, concert halls and arts centres with subscriptions and recurring audiences.
ticketmatic BV in Leuven is aimed at the kind of organiser Eventbrite treats as one more customer: cultural venues with an ongoing programme. It adds subscriptions and bundles, membership management, seating plans, an audience CRM and dashboards, and the web shop, box office and scanning share one customer record.
That depth comes with a one-time setup fee and a yearly fee based on prepaid ticket volume, with no published price list, so it is not a self-serve tool for a single event. The pages reviewed do not state where data is hosted.
What ticketmatic does better than Eventbrite
- Subscriptions, bundles and membership in one system
- Audience CRM and dashboards
- Box office and web shop on one customer record
Where ticketmatic is a step down from Eventbrite
- Setup fee and no published prices
- Overkill for a single event
- Data location not stated
Standout against Eventbrite. It treats the audience, not the single sale, as the unit.
Best for: Large organisers, sports clubs and ticketing resellers who need a configurable platform.
vivenu GmbH in Düsseldorf is the opposite of a quick start. Where Eventbrite gives an organiser a hosted shop in minutes, vivenu offers a shop builder with own-domain checkout, a headless integration, dynamic pricing and packaging, a private label platform and gate hardware.
No public price list or self-serve entry plan appears on the pages reviewed, onboarding is sales-led, and the pages do not say where data is hosted. A terms page was not found, so the entity is taken from the imprint only.
What vivenu does better than Eventbrite
- Own-domain checkout and headless integration
- Private label option for resellers
- Dynamic pricing and packaging
Where vivenu is a step down from Eventbrite
- No public pricing or self-serve plan
- Sales-led onboarding
- Data location not stated
Standout against Eventbrite. It is the only one aimed at resellers who want their own branded ticketing platform.
Best for: Corporate event teams, agencies and associations needing invitations, registration and guest lists.
doo GmbH in Munich sits on the registration side of the market more than the public ticketing side that Eventbrite is known for. Its flow runs from invitation through registration and QR tickets to check-in, with landing pages in corporate design, vouchers, integrations and APIs.
Data can be hosted in Germany or Europe on request, which is a clearer answer than many entries here. Prices are not published and the pricing page address returned a not-found page, so sales are demo-led. There is no consumer marketplace.
What doo does better than Eventbrite
- Invitation to registration to check-in in one flow
- European hosting available on request
- Landing pages in your own corporate design
Where doo is a step down from Eventbrite
- No published prices, demo-led sales
- Not built for self-serve public ticketing
Standout against Eventbrite. It starts with the invitation list rather than the ticket shop.
Best for: Dutch and Belgian organisers who want an embedded ticket shop and a scan app.
Weeztix B.V. in Eindhoven, formerly Eventix, is part of the Weezevent Group. For free events the first 5,000 tickets cost nothing, then EUR 0.20 per ticket, a tier aimed at free events. The shop can be embedded or hosted, and a scan app is included.
Paid-event pricing is by quote, so there is no public rate to compare, and support is limited to business hours. The pages reviewed do not state where data is hosted, and group ownership affects independence.
What Weeztix does better than Eventbrite
- 5,000 free tickets included
- Embedded or hosted shop with a scan app
- Dutch company with a local focus
Where Weeztix is a step down from Eventbrite
- Paid pricing on quote
- Part of a larger group
- Support only in business hours
Standout against Eventbrite. It gives away the first 5,000 tickets for free events.
Best for: Parks, zoos, museums and time-slot events in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Ticketcounter B.V. in Ede is built for attractions, where Eventbrite is built for events. It joins an online shop, a point of sale, access control, subscriptions, B2B sales, accounting links and an API for BI tools, with capacity and time-slot management and local methods such as iDEAL and Bancontact.
Events are a secondary segment, prices are not published and the site is Dutch first. The pages reviewed do not state where data is hosted. Festival features such as cashless are better covered elsewhere on this page.
What Ticketcounter does better than Eventbrite
- Point of sale and scanning in the same system
- Time slots and capacity management
- iDEAL and Bancontact payments
Where Ticketcounter is a step down from Eventbrite
- Not mainly an events tool
- No published pricing and Dutch-first site
Standout against Eventbrite. It is the one designed around attraction entrances.
What actually breaks when you switch
The first thing that breaks is the buyer history. Past attendee lists live at Eventbrite, and a new tool starts with no purchase record, so exports and consent matter.
Check whether you may contact earlier attendees under the data terms that applied when they bought, and do not assume a CSV can simply be uploaded to an email tool at the new vendor. Existing event pages, links in old emails and QR codes on printed material will also keep pointing at the old shop until you redirect or replace them.
Contracts and money flows break next. Open events keep their payout schedule at the old vendor, so run old and new in parallel and move only events that have not started selling.
Door staff need to be retrained on a different scan app, and a tool such as Eventfrog or Billetto that pays out after the event or charges the buyer will change cash flow and conversion. Finally, ask each vendor for a data processing agreement and the list of sub-processors in writing, because seven tools here did not state a data location publicly.
Will I lose my audience if I leave Eventbrite?
Only the part that found you through the Eventbrite listing. Buyers who come from your own site, newsletter or social accounts follow the link wherever it points, and an embedded shop from Tito, Weeztix or pretix can sit inside your existing page so the purchase path looks the same to them.
If discovery was a large share of your sales, pick a tool that has its own audience. Billetto has a consumer marketplace and Eventfrog has a Swiss agenda with wide reach in the DACH market. Run the new tool in parallel for one event first and compare where the buyers came from.
Is it cheaper to leave Eventbrite for a European tool?
Often, but not always. Set your average ticket price against each fee model. On cheap tickets, a flat fee like Ticket Tailor's GBP 0.60 per ticket is hard to beat. On expensive tickets, a percentage with a ceiling such as pretix at EUR 15 or Tito at EUR 25 becomes the cheaper structure. Billetto's Essential plan puts its fee on the ticket buyer by default, which moves the cost but not the buyer's total.
Tools without public prices, such as ticketmatic, vivenu, doo and Ticketcounter, need a quote, and a large contract can come out cheaper or dearer than any list price. Ask for a worked example on your own last event.
Which one to pick
Pick on how your buyers find you. If they arrive from your own channels and you care about the data location, pretix is the strongest default, with Ticket Tailor as the easier flat-fee start and Tito for conferences that embed the checkout. If you need discovery, Billetto and Eventfrog are the two with their own listing, and Eventfrog is the better fit in Switzerland and the DACH region.
For events with more than a ticket shop, split by type. Weezevent suits festivals with cashless and gate control, ticketmatic suits venues with subscriptions, Ticketcounter suits attractions with time slots, vivenu suits large organisers who want a branded platform, and doo suits corporate guest lists. Stay with Eventbrite when the public listing is what sells your tickets and no European marketplace covers your region, and accept that the fee and the US contracting party come with it.
Frequently Asked Questions
For organisers who bring their own audience, pretix (Germany) fits best: open source, hosted in Germany or on your own server, and capped at EUR 15 per ticket. Ticket Tailor (UK) is the simplest flat-fee option with servers in Ireland. Billetto (Denmark) is the closest in model because it also runs a consumer marketplace. Weezevent (France) is the choice when the event needs cashless payment and gate control.
The pages we could read do not say. What the terms state is that Eventbrite, a US corporation, is the party responsible for personal data of users in the EEA and Switzerland. Where the servers sit is a separate question, which you should put to the vendor in writing, along with the list of payment processors and sub-processors that touch attendee data.
Yes, with pretix. Its Community Edition is published under the GNU AGPL v3 with additional terms, so you can host it yourself, while the hosted service runs on servers in Germany. Self-hosting needs technical skills and some features are only in the Enterprise edition. All other tools on this page are managed services with no self-hosted version.
Weezevent combines online ticketing, an access control app, cashless wristbands and cards, and staff and accreditation management, so one vendor covers entry and on-site payment. Eventfrog also lists a cashless option next to its Swiss agenda and ticketing. Cashless, staff and CRM modules at Weezevent are priced on request, so expect to get a quote rather than a rate card.
Tito, from Dublin, is built for technology and B2B conferences: an embeddable widget, JavaScript events, an API and a 3% fee capped at EUR 25 per ticket, 2.5% for charity and community events. pretix is the alternative if you want to self-host or need reserved seating, and doo suits corporate events with invitation and guest list management.
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