Guide

Eventbrite alternatives for UK organisers (2026)

By David Neal · 15 August 2026

Eventbrite is where most UK organisers start, and its standard package now costs 6.95% + £0.59 per ticket, with no cap. On a £30 ticket that’s £2.68; across a 500-ticket event, well over a thousand pounds. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably done that arithmetic — so here are seven platforms worth a look before your next on-sale, including ours, with the trade-offs stated as plainly as we can manage.

One promise before we start: we run one of the platforms below, and we’ve tried to be as fair to the other six as we’d want them to be to us. Every fee is the platform’s published standard UK rate, checked August 2026 — if you spot one that’s gone stale, tell us and we’ll fix it.

What to weigh before you choose

Fee percentages get all the attention, but four other things shape what a platform actually costs you:

• How the fee is structured — and who pays it. A flat pence-per-ticket fee beats a percentage on expensive tickets and loses on cheap ones; a capped percentage protects your group bookings. And most platforms let you pass the booking fee to buyers rather than absorb it — if you do, the number that matters is what your buyer sees at checkout.
• Whether the quoted fee is the whole fee. Some platforms quote excluding VAT (add 20% unless you can reclaim it), some charge card processing separately, and some charge extra for reserved seating. The table below marks each.
• When you get the money. Some platforms settle every sale straight into your own account; others collect the money themselves and pay you on their schedule — sometimes after the event. If ticket sales fund your deposits, this matters more than any percentage.
• Whose audience it is. A marketplace can put your event in front of people who’ve never heard of you — and in exchange, your buyers become its users, marketed someone else’s events. A white-label platform gives you the opposite deal.

Ticket Tailor

The best-known flat-fee platform, and deservedly liked. You pay per ticket sold rather than a percentage: £0.60 + VAT pay as you sell, or from £0.22 + VAT if you buy credit bundles up front. Money settles into your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account as you sell. The things to know: the cheap rate needs credits pre-purchased in bulk, a reserved-seating ticket costs two credits rather than one, removing Ticket Tailor’s branding costs extra, and card processing is billed separately.

Choose Ticket Tailor if your tickets are mid-priced or above, you sell steady volumes, and you’re happy paying up front for the best rate — the flat fee is unbeatable on a £40 ticket.

Humanitix

A ticketing platform run as a charity: 100% of profits fund children’s causes, which is a genuinely lovely thing to be able to print on your event page. The standard UK rate is 4.67% + £0.46 per ticket, and the feature set is strong — seat maps, automatic waitlists, good registration forms. Note that ticket money is held and paid out to you rather than settling into your own account as you sell.

Choose Humanitix if the giving story resonates with your audience and you don’t need sale-by-sale cash flow.

TryBooking

Quietly everywhere in school halls and community centres: 5% + £0.15 per ticket, free events genuinely free, with fundraising pages alongside ticketing. The feature set is simpler than the platforms above, which for a fete or a quiz night is a feature in itself.

Choose TryBooking if you run school or community events and want something a rotating cast of volunteers can operate.

Tito

The conference organiser’s favourite: clean, calm, and priced at 3% capped at €25 per ticket (2.5% for community events) — that cap is aimed squarely at £300 conference passes, where it works out far cheaper than any uncapped percentage. No reserved seating, by choice; it does registration and does it well.

Choose Tito if you run conferences with high ticket prices and value polish over breadth.

pretix

Open source, from Germany, and the most powerful thing on this list in technical hands: event series, per-language content, its own seating engine. Use their hosted version at 2.5% capped at €15, or run it on your own server for free. The honest caveat is that the power comes with a learning curve, and the polish assumes someone technical is nearby.

Choose pretix if you have a technical team — or are one — and want maximum control, possibly at zero licence cost.

Skiddle, Fatsoma & FIXR

The UK nightlife marketplaces are a different deal entirely: your buyers pay a booking fee on top of face value (so the headline cost to you looks like zero), you get access to their audiences and rep networks, and ticket money is typically held until after the event. For club nights and student events, the audience can genuinely be worth it.

Choose one of these if you need their crowd more than you need your cash flow — and go in knowing the buyers are theirs, the data is limited, and the payout comes later.

frequentix (that’s us)

We built frequentix around one idea: everything stays yours. Card payments are charged straight to your own Stripe account — the money is in your balance from the first sale, not after the event. The fee is 2–4% per order by plan, always capped (£4–£6 per order), and you choose whether to absorb it or add it to the buyer’s total as a service fee, the way most of this market already works. Check-in — including offline scanning when the venue Wi-Fi dies — is on every plan including Free, reserved seating has no per-seat surcharge, sold-out events recycle returns through face-value resale, and registered charities pay 2% capped at £4 with donations carrying no fee at all.

And the honest other half: we’re the youngest platform on this list. There’s no marketplace audience — if you need discovery, the platforms above do it and we don’t. Payment is by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna (no PayPal today), and our door-sales app is still on its way, so until it lands the door is check-in only.

Choose frequentix if you bring your own audience — a venue’s regulars, a member list, a returning conference — and want the money, the brand and the buyer relationships to stay yours. You can poke at every number in the fee calculator, or read the full Eventbrite comparison.

The fees, side by side

Published standard UK rates for a paid ticket, checked August 2026. “+ VAT” means the platform quotes excluding VAT; free tickets are free on every platform here.

How to switch without losing sales

• Export your attendees first. Every platform above lets you download your buyer list as a CSV — do it before anything else, because it’s the one asset you can’t rebuild.
• Move between events, not mid-sale. Let the current event finish where it started; put the next one on the new platform. Running one event across two systems is how doors get chaotic.
• Point your own links at your own page. If your site, socials and newsletter link to a page you control — rather than a marketplace listing — the platform underneath becomes swappable. That independence is worth building wherever you land.
• Test the door before doors open. Whatever you pick, run a scan test with a real ticket a week out. Check-in is the part of ticketing you can’t redo the next morning.

Wherever you land: do the arithmetic on your own numbers, not the headline rate. Our calculator does it for frequentix and the platforms above in about ten seconds — and if the answer is one of the other six, you’ll have chosen with your eyes open, which is the point of this page.

Try frequentix free — publish your first event today; you only pay when you sell.