Eventbrite alternatives
Short answer: the closest free replacement for Eventbrite is Dawat — 53 card designs, unlimited guests, per-guest personal links and RSVP tracking, free at any guest count. The next closest are Luma, Partiful and Splash.
Eventbrite works out to Free (free event); ~$344 for 100 paid $25 tickets for 100 guests and Free (free event); ~$860 for 250 paid $25 tickets for 250. Below, 9 alternatives with their published prices and what each one gives up.
This page is published by Dawat, which is one of the products listed. Every price is linked to the vendor's own page and dated, so you can check the ones that matter rather than take our word for it. Eventbrite pricing was checked on 2026-09-16.
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Why people look for a Eventbrite alternative
18 of the 33 platforms tracked here can send an invitation without payment. Eventbrite is one of them, and Dawat is another.
The usual trigger is the bill. Free events cost nothing; paid tickets carry a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order. Eventbrite Premium is $69/month or $708/year in the US.
The limitations people run into:
- Every paid ticket carries a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee
- Service fee scales with ticket price, so expensive tickets cost more
- Private events are gated by link or password, not per-guest invitations
- Advanced marketing sits behind the $69/month US Premium subscription
- Pages and emails carry Eventbrite branding and marketplace promotion
All alternatives, priced
| Alternative | Type | 100 guests | 250 guests | Charges per guest | RSVP tracking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dawat | Online invitation makers | Free | Free | No | Yes |
| Luma | Event and ticketing platforms | Free (RSVP event); $125 platform fee on 100 paid $25 tickets | Free (RSVP event); $312.50 platform fee on 250 paid $25 tickets | No | Yes |
| Partiful | Online invitation makers | Free | Free | No | Yes |
| Splash | Event and ticketing platforms | Unknown | Unknown | No | Yes |
| Greenvelope | Online invitation makers | $99 (single mailing, up to 100 guests) | $249 (single mailing, up to 250 guests) | Partial | Yes |
| Joy | Wedding platforms | Free | Free | Partial | Yes |
| Eventzilla | Event and ticketing platforms | Free (free event); $150 for 100 paid registrations on Basic | Free (free event); $375 for 250 paid registrations on Basic | Partial | Yes |
| Posh | Event and ticketing platforms | Free (free event); ~$349 in buyer-paid fees on 100 $25 tickets | Free (free event); ~$872.50 in buyer-paid fees on 250 $25 tickets | Partial | Yes |
| Paperless Post | Online invitation makers | $105 (Premium feature set) | $263 (Premium feature set) | Yes | Yes |
Dawat — the free option
Cinematic digital invitations with per-guest personal links and built-in RSVP, free at any guest count. Everything in the core product is free: all 53 card designs, every party-page theme, unlimited guests, unlimited sends, RSVP tracking with up to five custom questions, and a per-guest funnel showing who was sent the invitation, who opened it and who answered. No card is required to create or send.
Better than Eventbrite at: free at every guest count, with no per-recipient charge and no card required, every guest gets a personally addressed link with their rsvp prefilled and open tracking shows who has actually seen the invitation, not just who replied.
Worse at: digital only: dawat does not print or mail paper stationery and no ticket sales, payments from guests or door scanning.
The paid part: Dawat Signature, a long-scroll cinematic invitation, is $89 once for that event. Nothing else costs anything, and Signature is labelled as paid before you publish.
Dawat vs Eventbrite, side by side →
Create your invitation — free →Sign in only when you publish.
The alternatives in detail
1. Luma
Event pages and calendars with RSVP, invites, ticketing, and check-in, popular with tech meetups and community organizers.
Price: Free forever plan with unlimited events and guests and a 5% platform fee on paid events; Luma Plus is $59/month billed annually and drops the platform fee to 0%.
Better than Eventbrite at: free plan covers unlimited events and unlimited guests per event, guests do not need a luma account or sign-in to register and invites go out by email plus sms, whatsapp, and push.
Worse at: free plan takes a 5% platform fee on paid events and free plan capped at 500 invites or newsletters per week.
Pick it if: Community, meetup, and startup organizers who want a fast, free event page with invites and light ticketing.
Eventbrite vs Luma, side by side →
2. Partiful
Free, mobile-first event page and invitation tool built around phone-number RSVPs, text blasts and shared photo albums.
Price: Partiful states its platform is "100% free, no paywalls" with no per-event or per-guest charge; only paid ticketing carries a fee, and free tickets have no fees.
Better than Eventbrite at: genuinely free with no paid tier, per-event fee or per-recipient charge, text blasts let hosts message confirmed guests without a group chat and custom questionnaire collects arbitrary information at rsvp time.
Worse at: guests must verify a phone number by sms code to rsvp and ticketing fees apply to paid tickets and are not published as a rate.
Pick it if: Social hosts running casual gatherings for a phone-native guest list who want zero cost and fast, mobile RSVP collection.
Eventbrite vs Partiful, side by side →
3. Splash
Event marketing platform for branded event pages, registration, email reminders, on-site check-in, and badge management.
Price: Splash publishes two tiers, Pro and Enterprise, and no prices for either; both are sold through sales with a demo. Its pricing page promises unlimited events and unlimited registrations with no hidden fees.
Better than Eventbrite at: unlimited events and unlimited registrations on every plan, with no per-attendee fee, deep crm and marketing-automation integrations keep event data in the business systems and event roi and email performance dashboards built for reporting to a marketing team.
Worse at: publishes no price at any tier; pro and enterprise are both quote-only and built for event marketing programmes, not for a single private celebration.
Pick it if: Corporate field-marketing and demand-generation teams running recurring, on-brand event programmes at scale.
Eventbrite vs Splash, side by side →
4. Greenvelope
Digital-only invitation service with animated envelope opening, email and text delivery, and RSVP tracking, priced per mailing.
Price: Flat one-time fee per mailing set by guest-list size: $19 up to 20 guests, $59 up to 60, $99 up to 100, $249 up to 250. Annual memberships from $125.
Better than Eventbrite at: flat per-mailing price, not per-recipient credits, so cost is known up front, custom rsvp questions, meal preferences and dietary notes included at every paid tier and email, sms and whatsapp delivery, with open and delivery tracking.
Worse at: price is tiered by guest count, so larger lists cost more per mailing and digital only; greenvelope does not print or mail paper invitations.
Pick it if: Hosts of a single sizeable event who want polished digital invitations and detailed RSVP data for one predictable flat fee.
Eventbrite vs Greenvelope, side by side →
5. Joy
Free wedding website, app, registry and RSVP platform with optional paid domains, SMS messaging and premium digital or printed cards.
Price: Joy states the core product is $0/month with unlimited guests; paid extras are a custom domain (about $19.99/year), Messaging Plus SMS, premium digital cards (50-card minimum) and paper from $1.39 each.
Better than Eventbrite at: genuinely free core: website, registry, rsvp, mobile app and unlimited guests, hundreds of free digital invitation and save the date designs sent by email and guests do not need an account; signup is offered only after rsvp.
Worse at: premium digital cards carry a 50-card minimum order and are sold in fixed bundles and sms delivery of premium cards is a paid add-on, us and canada numbers only.
Pick it if: Couples who want a free, well-designed website, app and RSVP system with unlimited guests and optional paid stationery.
Eventbrite vs Joy, side by side →
6. Eventzilla
Event registration and ticketing platform with forms, agendas, seating, check-in, and email invitations for conferences and classes.
Price: Free events are free. Paid registrations cost $1.50 each on Basic, 1.9% + $1.50 on Pro, and 2.9% + $1.50 on Plus; an annual plan is $1,999/year including 500 registrations.
Better than Eventbrite at: free events are explicitly free, with no setup or monthly fee, flat $1.50 per registration on basic does not scale with price and email invitations to imported contact lists with personalised placeholders.
Worse at: basic plan allows only one paid ticket type and payment processing fees are charged separately on top of platform fees.
Pick it if: Conference, workshop, and training organisers who want low flat per-registration pricing and detailed registration forms.
Eventbrite vs Eventzilla, side by side →
7. Posh
Social event platform for nightlife and IRL experiences, with ticket sales, promoter kickbacks, SMS, and instant payouts.
Price: Free events carry a $0 fee. Paid tickets carry a 10% + $0.99 platform fee, charged to the buyer and shown all-in; a $30 ticket carries a $3.99 fee.
Better than Eventbrite at: free events cost the organiser nothing, fee is charged to the buyer and displayed all-in, so organisers keep face value and same-night payouts from the first ticket sale.
Worse at: paid tickets carry a 10% + $0.99 fee, high relative to flat-fee competitors and buyers are prompted to log in and need a posh account.
Pick it if: Nightlife, party, and club promoters who want fast payouts, SMS reach, and a promoter-driven ticket flow.
Eventbrite vs Posh, side by side →
8. Paperless Post
Design-led online invitation and card service that charges virtual Coins per recipient for premium designs and features.
Price: Paperless Post publishes per-guest rates of $0.00 (Free), $0.50 (Basic), $1.05 (Premium) and $1.44 (All Access), charged in Coins. Paperless Pro subscriptions start at $250/year for 250 annual guests.
Better than Eventbrite at: large free design library sendable to the first 50 recipients at no cost, unlimited free distribution of free-feature-set designs via shareable link and custom rsvp questions: open-ended, multiple-choice, checkbox and mailing-address formats.
Worse at: charges coins per recipient, so cost scales directly with guest count and envelopes, liners, backgrounds, stamps and logos convert a free design to a paid send.
Pick it if: Hosts of formal or design-sensitive events with modest guest lists who will pay per recipient for a polished, ad-free invitation.
Eventbrite vs Paperless Post, side by side →
What to check before you switch
- Price at your actual guest count, not the headline. Multiply the per-recipient rate by the real number of people on your list.
- Whether guests need an account. Every sign-up screen between the link and the reply costs you responses, mostly from the relatives you most want there.
- Whether you can ask your own questions. Meal choice, plus-ones, which nights they are coming — if the product cannot ask, you will be asking by text.
- Whether you can see who opened it. Chasing the people who never opened it is a different job from chasing the people who did and have not decided.
- What happens to replies you already have. Export from Eventbrite before you move, and invite only the people who have not answered.
Questions
What is the best free alternative to Eventbrite?
Dawat. It is free at every guest count — all 53 card designs, unlimited guests, unlimited sends, RSVP tracking with your own questions, and a personally addressed link per guest — with no per-recipient charge and no card required. Luma, Partiful and Joy are also free to use, with the trade-offs listed above. This page is published by Dawat, so weigh that and check the sources at the bottom.
Why do people switch away from Eventbrite?
Most often because of a specific limitation rather than price. The recurring complaints are: every paid ticket carries a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee, service fee scales with ticket price, so expensive tickets cost more, private events are gated by link or password, not per-guest invitations, advanced marketing sits behind the $69/month us premium subscription and pages and emails carry eventbrite branding and marketplace promotion.
Is Eventbrite still worth using?
For the right event, yes — and it is worth saying so on a page like this. Organizers selling paid tickets to a public or semi-public audience who want discovery, checkout, and check-in in one place. Free events are genuinely free to publish at any size. The alternatives above matter when your situation is different, not because Eventbrite is bad.
How much does Eventbrite cost for 100 guests?
Eventbrite works out to Free (free event); ~$344 for 100 paid $25 tickets for 100 guests and Free (free event); ~$860 for 250 paid $25 tickets for 250. Applied Eventbrite's published 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket and 2.9% processing to a $25 ticket price. Checked against Eventbrite's own published pricing on 2026-09-16.
Is Eventbrite free to use?
Yes for free events. Eventbrite states you can publish unlimited free events at no cost, and there are no fees for free tickets. Paid tickets are charged a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order.
How much does Eventbrite charge per ticket?
In the US, Eventbrite's published rate is a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per paid ticket, plus a 2.9% payment processing fee per order. On a $25 ticket that is about $3.44 all in. Organizers can pass these fees to attendees or absorb them.
More comparisons
Dawat vs Eventbrite
The full head-to-head, including where Eventbrite wins.
Event and ticketing platforms
Everything in Eventbrite's category, compared.
Head-to-heads with Eventbrite:
Other alternatives guides:
How these figures were checked
Every figure above was read from Eventbrite's own published pricing or help pages on 16 September 2026, and each source is linked below. Coins, credits and per-card rates are converted into dollars at a real guest count, because that is the number you are deciding with. Full methodology and the open dataset →
Reading this through an AI assistant? Dawat runs an MCP server, so ChatGPT or Claude can choose the design, write the wording, add your guest list, publish the invitation and send it without you leaving the conversation. Eventbrite does not publish one.
Sources
- Eventbrite organizer pricing — checked 2026-09-16
- Eventbrite pricing and plans (Help Center) — checked 2026-09-16
- Checkout on Eventbrite (Help Center) — checked 2026-09-16
- Manage your event privacy settings — checked 2026-09-16
- Create custom questions for attendees — checked 2026-09-16
- Luma pricing — checked 2026-09-16
- Luma Plus overview — checked 2026-09-16
- Event registration process — checked 2026-09-16
- Setting your event visibility — checked 2026-09-16
- Inviting and adding guests to your event — checked 2026-09-16
- Partiful homepage — checked 2026-09-16
- What fees does Partiful charge? — checked 2026-09-16
- How do I RSVP to an event on Partiful? — checked 2026-09-16
- Where can I add a link in my event? — checked 2026-09-16
- Partiful (Wikipedia) — checked 2026-09-16
- Splash pricing — checked 2026-09-17
- Cvent acquires Splash — checked 2026-09-17
- Greenvelope pricing — checked 2026-09-16
- Greenvelope: How much does Greenvelope cost — checked 2026-09-16
- Greenvelope homepage (features) — checked 2026-09-16
- Greenvelope vs Paperless Post (vendor comparison) — checked 2026-09-16
- Joy pricing — checked 2026-09-16
- Joy FAQ — checked 2026-09-16
- Joy help: Designing and sending Premium Digital Cards — checked 2026-09-16
- Joy help: Send text messages with Messaging Plus — checked 2026-09-16
- Joy help: General FAQs, custom domains — checked 2026-09-16
- Eventzilla pricing — checked 2026-09-16
- How does the ticket fee work? (Eventzilla Support) — checked 2026-09-16
- How to send customized invitation emails (Eventzilla Support) — checked 2026-09-16
- Posh University: what first-time organizers need to know — checked 2026-09-16
- Posh University: Posh vs Shotgun comparison — checked 2026-09-16
- Posh Knowledge Base: how to purchase tickets with Posh — checked 2026-09-16
- Posh Knowledge Base: getting started, create an account and log in — checked 2026-09-16
- Posh Knowledge Base: Kickback program — checked 2026-09-16
- Paperless Post pricing — checked 2026-09-16
- Paperless Post features — checked 2026-09-16
- Is Paperless Post free? Can I send for free? — checked 2026-09-16
- Card and Flyer Pricing — checked 2026-09-16
- How to Add Questions for Guests and Recipients — checked 2026-09-16