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What running an event costs: ticketing fees, payment processing and the platforms organizers choose between. Every number links to the page it came from.

• Ticketing softwareNovember 3, 2026 · 9 min read

  Eventbrite fees in 2026: what organizers pay, by country, with a worked example

  Eventbrite's service fee and payment processing fee in each country it lists, who pays them, what happens on a refund, and a worked table of the fee on a $10, $25, $50 and $100 ticket.

• Ticketing softwareNovember 3, 2026 · 9 min read

  Free event ticketing platform: what free really costs, and who pays

  Eight ticketing platforms that call themselves free, read from their own pricing pages: where the fee moves (to buyers, to card processing, to a subscription or to your own servers) and what each one takes on a $25 ticket.