Compare to Eventbrite
Eventbrite Pro: up to $100/mo.
BuzzHive: $0.
Same toolset.
We pulled the receipts. Here's exactly which Eventbrite plans charge what, which features each tier unlocks, and what you'd actually keep per ticket. Every BuzzHive number compared against ours.
Eventbrite pricing · Verified June 2026
At a glance
The four numbers that hit you first.
Per-ticket fees are only half the story. The other half is whether the tools you actually need cost extra per month, and how many tiers stand between you and them.
Eventbrite's tier structure
Seven plans. One real ceiling.
Eventbrite's pricing is structured around how many paid registrations you sell per month. The free plan is real but limited. The "Pro" tiers (100, 250, 1K, 2.5K, 5K, 10K) ladder up the monthly fee in exchange for higher included ticket counts and a few extra tools at the top. BuzzHive collapses this entire ladder into one free tier with everything unlocked.
- Basic event page
- No monthly cost
- Buyers absorb fees by default
- No bulk discounts, no team seats
- Reporting is read-only basics
- Up to 100 paid registrations/mo
- Discount codes
- Embedded checkout
- Marketing tools (basic)
- Reserved seating (extra cost)
- Up to 1,000 paid reg./mo
- Multi-user team accounts
- Email campaigns + tracking
- Custom URLs
- API access (limited)
- Up to 10,000 paid reg./mo
- Full reporting + analytics
- Priority support
- Advanced organizer tools
- Account manager (sometimes)
- Unlimited paid registrations
- Every tool unlocked from day one
- Buyer list always yours (CSV anytime)
- Stripe direct deposit, no transfer fees
- AI copy gen, waitlist, geo, scan windows, live dashboard, splits…
Eventbrite also offers Premium (custom enterprise pricing) and Pro 2.5K / 5K tiers between the ones shown. The pattern is the same: more monthly cost, more paid-ticket headroom, a few extra tools at the top. The per-ticket cut stays roughly the same across all paid tiers.
The fee math
On a $25 ticket: who keeps what.
Stripe processing applied uniformly (2.9% + $0.30). Numbers below are what a single ticket actually nets the promoter after every fee.
Sell 100 tickets a month? On BuzzHive you net ~$2,248. On Eventbrite Pro 100 (~$15/mo) you net ~$2,035. Sell 500? BuzzHive ~$11,240; Eventbrite Pro 1K (~$55/mo) ~$10,195.
Feature by feature
Which tier unlocks what.
Every BuzzHive tool is on every account from day one. On Eventbrite, the same toolset is split across tiers. Yellow flag = the feature exists on Eventbrite but requires a paid tier.
| Feature | BuzzHive Free $0/month | Eventbrite Tier required |
|---|---|---|
| Selling & checkout | ||
| Unlimited paid registrations No monthly ticket-count ceiling. |
✓ | PRO 10KFree plan = uncapped but other tiers cap tickets |
| Unlimited ticket types per event GA, VIP, early bird, comps, etc. |
✓ | PRO 100+ |
| Discount codes Percent or fixed, tier-scoped, expirations. |
✓ | PRO 100+ |
| Custom event-page URL /e/your-event-name, not a long auto-generated slug. |
✓ | PRO 1K+ |
| 10 scene-specific page designs Substation, Berlin, Junglist, DnB, Forest, Playa, Headliner… |
✓ | ×One default template |
| AI event copy generator One-line prompt → title, description, lineup, age restriction. |
✓ | × |
| Soundcloud / Spotify embeds Auto-detected from lineup, sandboxed players on the event page. |
✓ | × |
| Money & payouts | ||
| Stripe direct deposit Money lands in your bank, not the platform's wallet. |
✓ | ×Eventbrite holds funds |
| No platform monthly fee What you owe before selling a single ticket. |
✓ | $15–$100+ |
| No fees to move money out of platform Stripe processing only. |
✓ | × |
| Refunds + partial refunds One click from the order detail page. |
✓ | ✓ |
| Co-promoter splits ledger Track who's owed what per event, gross + payout basis. |
✓ | × |
| Carbon offset at checkout Optional +$1 from buyers, remitted to climate partner. |
✓ | × |
| Buyer data & marketing | ||
| Buyer list / CSV export Name, email, phone for every buyer — exportable anytime. |
✓ | PRO 100+Limited on Free plan |
| Email campaigns to past buyers Compose, send, track opens + clicks. |
✓ | PRO 1K+ |
| Bring-your-own email lists Upload CSVs, paste contacts, send to your own audience. |
✓ | × |
| Click + conversion attribution Track which campaign drove which sale, end to end. |
✓ | PRO 1K+ |
| Artist referral tracking Per-artist share links + public leaderboard. |
✓ | × |
| Webhooks (Discord / Slack / Zapier) Pipe orders into anything you can hit with HTTP. |
✓ | PRO 10K |
| Show night | ||
| Mobile QR door scanner Works in bad-signal venues; install as a phone app. |
✓ | PRO 100+Separate app required |
| Multi-user team accounts Owner / admin / scanner roles for your door crew. |
✓ | PRO 1K+Seat limits apply |
| Per-tier scan windows VIP at 8pm, GA at 9pm — enforced at the door. |
✓ | × |
| Live show-day dashboard Big-number screen for the merch table, auto-refreshes every 30s. |
✓ | × |
| Door cash close / reconciliation End-of-night register variance vs scan count. |
✓ | × |
| Print door QR for walk-up sales One-off QR ticket the door can use without a phone. |
✓ | × |
| After the show | ||
| Sold-out waitlist Auto-notifies next person when inventory releases. |
✓ | × |
| Geographic breakdown Where your buyers come from, by state. |
✓ | PRO 1K+ |
| Page-view funnel Views → checkouts started → tickets sold. |
✓ | PRO 1K+ |
| Sales velocity chart + projection Per-event cumulative line and sellout projection. |
✓ | PRO 10K |
| Buyer-to-buyer ticket transfer Free, mints a fresh QR in the friend's name. |
✓ | PRO 100+Fee + restrictions apply |
| Artist performance contracts Plain-language agreements, emailed to artists. |
✓ | × |
Eventbrite tier & feature claims verified June 2026. Pricing and feature gating change — check eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing for current.
The honest take
When each one actually makes sense.
We're not going to pretend Eventbrite is the villain. They have real strengths. They also have real costs. Here's how we'd think about it.
Eventbrite makes sense if…
You're throwing a multi-thousand-person festival and need their marketplace discovery — Eventbrite's homepage and search engine drive a meaningful chunk of cold traffic if your event genre matches their browse audience.
You want a name buyers already trust at checkout. For an audience that's never heard of you, the Eventbrite logo can lift conversion 1-3 points.
You need reserved seating with seat maps. BuzzHive is GA-only by design (clubs, warehouses, festivals). If you sell rows + sections, Eventbrite handles that and we don't.
BuzzHive makes sense if…
You're an underground promoter, DJ, producer, collective, or venue running events for an audience you already have or want to build on your own terms.
You want the buyer list to be yours, exportable anytime, not held hostage behind a paid tier.
You want the per-ticket math to be fair — $0.99 + 2% is meaningfully less than Eventbrite's 3.7% + $1.79, and that gap compounds across every show you run.
You want the whole product on day one — waitlist, geo analytics, AI copy gen, door scanner, co-promoter splits, artist contracts, all of it — without picking a tier.
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