Dawat vs Splash
Short answer: 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. Dawat's core product is free at every guest count. Splash is the better pick if you need unlimited events and unlimited registrations on every plan, with no per-attendee fee.
Dawat is free at every guest count: 53 card designs, unlimited guests, unlimited sends, RSVP tracking with your own questions, and a personally addressed link for each guest. The only paid item is a Dawat Signature cinematic experience at $89 once per event.
Event marketing platform for branded event pages, registration, email reminders, on-site check-in, and badge management. This page compares it with Dawat on fees, on whether the product can handle a private guest list rather than a public listing, and on what your guests have to do before they can reply.
Splash pricing checked 2026-09-17 against its own published pages. Sources · Method
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Side by side
| Dawat | Splash | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Subscription |
| What the free tier gives you | Everything except Signature: all card designs, party pages, unlimited guests, sends, RSVP tracking and analytics. | None published. Every tier is quote-only, and paid support is a separate add-on. |
| Cost for 100 guests | Free | Unknown |
| Cost for 250 guests | Free | Unknown |
| Charges per recipient | No | No |
| Guests need an account | No | Not published |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
Where Dawat is different
- What it costs to send. 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. Dawat's core product is free, and no card is required to create or send.
- Free to send. Dawat includes sending invitations without paying. Splash does not.
- Per-guest personal links. Dawat includes a personally addressed link per guest. Splash does not publish whether it supports this.
- Open tracking. Dawat includes seeing who opened the invitation. Splash does not publish whether it supports this.
- Animated envelope. Dawat includes an animated envelope opening. Splash does not.
- Guest account required. Dawat never does this. Splash does not publish whether it does.
- Ads shown to guests. Dawat never does this. Splash does not publish whether it does.
- Registry links. Dawat includes linking a gift registry. Splash does not publish whether it supports this.
Create your invitation — free →No card required. Unlimited guests. 53 designs.
When Splash is the better choice
Dawat does not sell tickets or take money from guests. If your event needs either, this is not a close comparison: Corporate field-marketing and demand-generation teams running recurring, on-brand event programmes at scale.
- 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
- Event ROI and email performance dashboards built for reporting to a marketing team
- Ticketed events supported through a Stripe partnership
- Governance features for large teams: custom roles, approvals, event visibility groups
Where Dawat does not compete with it:
- No ticket sales, payments from guests or door scanning
And where Splash will cost you something:
- Publishes no price at any tier; Pro and Enterprise are both quote-only
- Built for event marketing programmes, not for a single private celebration
- Phone support is a paid add-on on top of the plan
- API access requires a consulting engagement
- No free tier is published, so there is no way to try it at a real guest count
What Splash costs, in dollars
As of September 2026: 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.
2 of the 33 platforms tracked here do not publish a price you can check before committing. Splash is one of them.
| Dawat | Splash | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free | Subscription |
| 100 guests | Free | Unknown |
| 250 guests | Free | Unknown |
| How that is worked out | Dawat has no per-guest or per-send charge, so the guest count does not change the price. | Splash publishes no dollar figure at any tier, so a per-guest cost cannot be derived; the page directs you to a demo instead. |
Dawat is free to send. Splash has no equivalent free path at a real guest count.
The guest experience compared
Ticketing platforms are built around a stranger buying entry. A guest you already know is a different person with a different tolerance, and an account-creation screen is where that difference shows up.
| Feature | Dawat | Splash |
|---|---|---|
| Guest account required | No | Not published |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
| Animated envelope | Yes | No |
| Per-guest personal links | Yes | Not published |
| Open tracking | Yes | Not published |
| Calendar file | Yes | Not published |
| Multilingual & right-to-left | Yes | Not published |
On Dawat, the link is addressed to the person holding it. The envelope opens with their name on it, their RSVP is already prefilled, and answering is one tap. Splash does not publish whether it addresses each guest individually.
What happens as the list grows
Guest count is not the axis here — Splash does not bill per recipient. The thing that changes as the list grows is administration: chasing replies, keeping a headcount honest, and knowing who never opened the thing. Dawat gives every guest their own link, so the dashboard shows sent, opened and answered per person instead of a pile of replies you have to reconcile.
Switching, or running both
If part of your event is ticketed and part is invited, running both is the right answer: Splash for the public tickets, Dawat for the guest list you already have.
If you are moving across, the fastest route is Dawat's import: paste the link to your existing invitation and Dawat reads the wording, date, venue and colour mood off the page and rebuilds it as a prefilled draft you can edit. Guest lists come in from your phone's contacts, a .vcf file, or pasted text.
What does not come across: Splash's designs, and any replies already collected there. Export your RSVPs before you switch, and send the Dawat invitation only to the people who have not answered.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Dawat | Splash |
|---|---|---|
| Free to send | Yes | No |
| Per-guest fees | No | No |
| Unlimited guests | Yes | Yes |
| RSVP tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Custom RSVP questions | Yes | Yes |
| Email delivery | Yes | Yes |
| SMS or WhatsApp | Partial | Not published |
| Per-guest personal links | Yes | Not published |
| Open tracking | Yes | Not published |
| Animated envelope | Yes | No |
| Printed cards | No | No |
| Guest account required | No | Not published |
| Ads shown to guests | No | Not published |
| Event website | Partial | Yes |
| Registry links | Yes | Not published |
| Meal choice or seating | Partial | Not published |
| Calendar file | Yes | Not published |
| AI wording help | Yes | Not published |
| Works inside ChatGPT / Claude | Yes | Not published |
| Multilingual & right-to-left | Yes | Not published |
"Not published" means no vendor documentation could be found either way, not that the feature is missing. How this grid is built →
Questions
How much does Splash (splashthat.com) cost?
Splash does not publish list prices. Software directories list both its Pro and Enterprise tiers as 'Contact Vendor for Pricing', and procurement data shows annual contracts negotiated individually rather than a published rate card.
Does Splash have a free plan?
Unknown from Splash's own site, which publishes no plan details. Third-party listings such as Capterra report that a free version and a free trial exist, but that is not confirmed by a Splash page.
Who owns Splash?
Cvent. Cvent announced on 4 September 2024 that it had acquired Splash to expand its field marketing product suite; financial terms were not disclosed. Splash's original legal entity was One Clipboard, Inc.
What does Splash do?
Splash is an event marketing platform for building and hosting in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. Documented capabilities include event registration, branded landing pages, attendee tracking, email scheduling and reminders, on-site check-in with badge management, and reporting.
Is Dawat free?
Yes. All 53 card designs and every party-page theme, unlimited guests, unlimited sends, RSVP tracking, custom questions and the per-guest analytics cost nothing, and no card is required. The only paid item is a Dawat Signature cinematic experience at $89 once for that event, and it is labelled as paid before you publish.
Does Dawat have designs as good as Splash?
Dawat's 53 designs are animated card experiences with an envelope opening, plus 8 long-scroll Signature experiences. Whether that beats Splash depends on whether you want a designed occasion or a quick notice.
Can I send printed invitations from Dawat?
No. Dawat is digital only. Splash does not print either.
Create your invitation — free →Takes about ten minutes. Sign in only when you publish.
Other comparisons
Splash alternatives
Eight products that do what Splash does, ranked and priced.
Event and ticketing platforms
Every product in Splash's category, side by side.
Splash against the rest:
Dawat against the rest:
How these figures were checked
Every figure above was read from Splash's own published pricing or help pages on 17 September 2026, and each source is linked below. Neither publishes a price you can check without contacting sales, so this page says so rather than estimating one. 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. Splash does not publish one.
Sources
- Splash pricing — checked 2026-09-17
- Cvent acquires Splash — checked 2026-09-17