Presso vs Eventbrite

Eventbrite alternative for UK organisers: a flat 1%

Competitor pricing last checked 07/08/2026

Eventbrite’s UK fee is 6.95% plus 59p on every paid ticket, and there is no published UK cap. On a £15,000 event that is roughly £1,219.50 before you have paid for anything else.

Presso Events charges a flat 1% of ticket sales. On the same event that is £150. The attendee app is part of the product rather than an add-on, it runs in the browser with no app-store download, and the money goes to your own Stripe account rather than sitting with the platform until it decides to pay out.

The fee is the headline, but it is not usually what makes the difference. What does is that a conference organiser bringing their own audience is paying a marketplace rate for a marketplace they are not using.

Side by side

 EventbritePresso Events
Platform fee6.95% + £0.59 per paid ticket, uncapped in the UKFlat 1% of ticket sales, no minimum
Fee on a £15,000 eventAbout £1,219.50 (300 tickets at £50)£150
Attendee appNot included. A check-in and scanning app onlyIncluded - browser-based, no app-store download
Who holds the moneyEventbrite is merchant of record by defaultYour own Stripe account, paid direct
Your attendee dataExportableYours - export or sync it whenever
ContractNoneNone. Leave whenever
SetupSelf-serveDescribe your event in one message

Every Eventbrite figure above was last checked on 07/08/2026. Check eventbrite.co.uk from a UK connection or a GB-proxied browser. The page is geo-served: fetched from a non-UK IP it returns US pricing in dollars on the .co.uk domain, and the strings 6.95 and 0.59 appear nowhere in the HTML. That is not evidence the UK fee changed, it is the wrong country's page, and an automated fetch from a US-egress agent is not a valid re-verification.

When Eventbrite is the better choice

Eventbrite has something Presso does not: a discovery marketplace with real organic traffic. If public, consumer-facing discovery is your main way of selling tickets, with people finding your event by browsing Eventbrite, that audience can outweigh the higher fee. Presso Events is built for the other case - conferences, summits, association and corporate events where you bring your own audience and would rather not pay 7% to do it.

Questions

What are Eventbrite's UK fees in 2026?
Eventbrite's published UK fee is 6.95% + £0.59 per paid ticket, with no published UK cap (Eventbrite UK pricing, seen 07/08/2026). Free events are free. Presso Events charges a flat 1% of ticket sales with no minimum.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Eventbrite for conferences?
For a £15,000 event (300 tickets at £50) the Presso Events platform fee is £150, against about £1,219.50 on Eventbrite at 6.95% + £0.59 per ticket. Presso Events also includes a no-download attendee app, which Eventbrite does not.
Does Eventbrite include an event app?
No. Eventbrite offers a check-in and scanning app, not an attendee experience app with an agenda and networking. Presso Events includes a browser-based attendee app with no app-store download.
Does Eventbrite let me keep my attendee data?
Attendee names and emails are exportable from Eventbrite. With Presso Events your attendee data is yours to export or sync to any tool at any time, and payments run through your own Stripe account.
How fast does Eventbrite pay out compared with Presso Events?
Eventbrite is merchant of record by default and pays out on its own schedule. Presso Events runs on Stripe Connect, so ticket money lands in your own Stripe account and pays out on Stripe's normal timeline.

Presso Events charges a flat 1% of ticket sales. No minimum, no tiers, no contract.

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