Eventbrite Alternatives for Small Events (2026)

Looking for an Eventbrite alternative for a workshop, a tasting or a community meetup? Most of the pages that answer the question are written by ticketing companies, and each one ranks itself first.

This one is written by Paage, and it puts the numbers side by side: what each tool really takes on a $25 workshop. Then it shows what no ticketing tool gives you: your event on the same page as your link in bio, your shop and your email list.

Why small-event hosts look beyond Eventbrite

Two things push small hosts to look around.

• Per-ticket fees weigh more on cheap tickets. A fixed amount per ticket is a small share of a $150 conference pass and a much bigger share of a $25 class.

• The ticketing page lives apart from everything else. If you also sell products, take bookings or grow an email list, your event ends up on one site and the rest of your business on another.

What Eventbrite charges

Eventbrite is free for free events: it lets you "publish unlimited free events at no cost", with no ticketing fees for you or your attendees.

For paid tickets sold online in the US, Eventbrite's help center lists two fees:

• A service fee: 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket sold, calculated on the ticket price.

• A payment processing fee: 2.9% of the total order, including service fees and tax.

Buyers pay these fees by default. You can tick "Absorb fees" to include them in your ticket price instead.

Example: the service fee on one $25 ticket is 3.7% × $25 + $1.79 = $0.925 + $1.79 = $2.715, about $2.72, with processing on top.

What a $25 workshop costs on Eventbrite, Ticket Tailor, Luma and Paage

Eventbrite charges a percentage plus a fixed amount per ticket. Ticket Tailor charges a flat fee per ticket. Luma and Paage charge a percentage.

Example: a $25 workshop with 20 attendees brings in $500 of tickets, sold on Paage's Pro plan. Platform fees only, card processing excluded everywhere, and the Pro subscription isn't counted in the ticket math:

Paage Pro is a paid plan with a monthly subscription (see pricing), which this example leaves out. But that subscription buys much more than ticketing. Pro unlocks Paage's full toolkit:

• Sell: a shop of up to 500 products and services, discount codes, Instagram and TikTok shopping, automatic invoicing and abandoned cart recovery.

• Grow: unlimited contacts, 15,000 marketing emails a month, audience segmentation and workflow automations.

• Build: your link in bio, unlimited pages, your Paage in up to 8 languages, and no Paage logo.

• Team: a second teammate and a dedicated account manager.

If your events are one part of your business, the ticket fee is the smallest thing Pro gives you.

Luma has a paid plan too: on Luma Plus, $69 a month billed monthly, the platform fee drops to 0%. And if you'd rather not pay a subscription at all, you can sell paid tickets on Paage Free, with a 9% fee.

On Eventbrite, buyers pay these fees by default, on top of the ticket price, unless you choose to absorb them.

Eventbrite alternatives worth knowing

• Luma: paid events carry a 5% fee on ticket sales. On Luma Plus, at $69 a month billed monthly, the platform fee is 0%. Stripe payment processing fees apply in both cases.

• Ticket Tailor: pay as you go, $0.85 per ticket sold, a flat fee whatever the ticket price, with card processing on top.

• Paage: free events cost nothing. Paid tickets carry a platform fee of 9% on the Free plan, 3% on Plus and 1% on Pro, with a minimum of $0.50 per ticket on every plan, and Stripe's payment processing fee on top. Paid tickets work on the Free plan.

Features compared: Eventbrite, Ticket Tailor, Luma and Paage

Sources: Eventbrite features, Ticket Tailor features, Luma help center, and the Paage help center.

A cross means the feature isn't built in: Ticket Tailor connects to email tools and CRMs, and Ticket Tailor and Luma connect to Zapier for workflows.

On the ticketing basics, the four tools are level. The difference is everything around the ticket.

When your ticketing page is also your shop and your link in bio

A ticketing tool gives you an event page. Paage puts the event on the same page as your link in bio, your products, your bookings and your email sign-up. One link holds everything you sell, and the event is tied to your audience, your store and your emails instead of sitting in a separate ticketing silo.

That changes what a ticket sale can bring you:

• Add-ons at checkout: sell merch with the ticket, in the same order.

• A guest list you keep: see who registered and export your attendees, so you can email your attendees about the next one.

No ticketing specialist makes this case, because none of them is also your shop.

How to set up an event on Paage

A Paage event is a customizable page with an image, a description, a date and a place, where people register and pay. Here's what you can set up:

• Free and paid side by side: free or RSVP events and paid tickets, with paid tickets available on the Free plan.

• Several ticket types: each with its own price and number of places, like early bird and VIP.

• Capacity limits: sales stop when the event is full.

• Promo codes.

• Add-ons at checkout, such as merch sold with the ticket.

• Online or in person: for an in-person event, the location shows on a map.

• Recurring events and several dates, shown as a list or a calendar.

• Automatic reminders by email and SMS.

• A QR code on every ticket, and QR check-in at the door.

• A guest list and attendee export.

According to the Paage help center, you can also set a minimum and maximum number of attendees (and cancel if the minimum isn't reached), stop bookings a set number of hours before the start, add an age restriction, sync with Google Calendar or Outlook, and show your refund and cancellation policies on the page. For online events, a video call link is created automatically once you connect a calendar, and it's emailed after payment.

Payments go through Stripe and/or PayPal, to your own account.

Which one should you pick?

• You want one link for your events, your shop, your bookings and your email list: Paage. Free tickets cost nothing, and on Pro, paid tickets carry a 1% fee (minimum $0.50).

• Your events are free: Paage costs nothing for free tickets, and neither do Eventbrite and Luma.

• You only sell tickets, and nothing else: compare Luma, Ticket Tailor and Eventbrite at your own ticket price.