7 Best European Eventbrite Alternatives in 2026
The best European alternative to Eventbrite in 2026 is Swapcard, based in France. All 7 options below are European-owned, GDPR-native and ranked by feature parity and relevance.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
Our top pick this year is Swapcard, but every option on this list is European-owned, GDPR-native, and production-ready. Worth a closer look: pretix, Agorify, Fienta, Timodo.
Eventbrite alternatives are mainly Other. Browse any of those categories for a wider shortlist beyond this list.
Top European Eventbrite alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Country | Open source | Free tier | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swapcard | France | No | No | vs Eventbrite → |
| 2 | pretix | Germany | Yes | No | vs Eventbrite → |
| 3 | Agorify | Sweden | No | No | vs Eventbrite → |
| 4 | Fienta | Estonia | No | No | — |
| 5 | Timodo | Netherlands | No | No | — |
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French intelligent event platform with Sherlock AI matchmaking — 4,000+ events across 92+ countries, SOC 2 + ISO 27001 + GDPR compliant, 70–80% mobile app adoption.
Swapcard is a French intelligent event management platform used for trade shows, conferences, associations, and media events. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in France with a global team, Swapcard positions itself as a "revenue-first" platform, unifying registration, attendee engagement, and exhibitor tools with AI-powered matchmaking at the centre.
The platform supports 4,000+ events across 92+ countries, with 7M+ attendees and 120,000+ exhibitors annually. Its flagship Sherlock AI engine drives 70 to 80% mobile app adoption (vs. an industry average of 30 to 40%) by personalising recommendations for every attendee.
Key features:
- Registration & ticketing with dynamic pricing, promo codes, and conditional logic
- AI-powered mobile/web app delivering a personalised attendee experience
- Sherlock AI recommends contacts, exhibitors, and sessions based on behaviour
- Content management covering session scheduling, speaker coordination, and streaming
- Exhibitor tools for lead capture, AI matchmaking, and hosted buyer programmes
- Monetisation through a self-serve exhibitor marketplace, sponsorship packages, and premium add-ons
- Analytics on registration, engagement, and exhibitor performance
- 30+ integrations including Salesforce, HubSpot, AMS, and marketing automation tools
- Compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and PCI DSS
Customers include HLTH Europe, IAAPA, and major trade shows globally. 95%+ customer satisfaction and G2 top-rated ease-of-use scores make it a leading European alternative to Cvent, Bizzabo, and Hopin.
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Open-source event ticketing platform with customisable shops, seating plans, waitlists, invoicing and mobile access control, hosted in Germany or self-hosted under AGPLv3.
pretix is an open-source event ticketing platform letting organisers sell, scan and manage tickets for conferences, concerts, workshops and sports events. Founded in Heidelberg, Germany in 2014, it is the ticketing system behind PyCon, EuroPython, FOSDEM, OpenSUSE Conference and thousands of independent organisers across Europe.
The platform offers both a hosted service (pretix.eu) and a self-hostable open-source core (AGPLv3), with the same feature set on both paths. Organisers get customisable ticket shops, seating plans, waitlists, invoicing, bulk discounts, add-ons, access-control via mobile scanners and granular GDPR-aligned data handling, all without transaction fees on the self-hosted edition.
Key benefits:
- Open-source core (AGPLv3) with the option to self-host on any infrastructure
- Customisable ticket shops with branding, multiple languages and tax handling
- Seating plans and reserved seating for theatres, concerts and conferences
- Waitlists, bulk discounts, vouchers and add-ons for complex ticketing flows
- Invoice generation compliant with German and EU VAT rules
- pretixSCAN mobile app for offline-capable access control at venue entrances
- REST API and plugin system for custom integrations and extensions
pretix is developed and hosted by pretix GmbH in Heidelberg, Germany, with the hosted service running on German data centres under GDPR and the BDSG. A full DPA, SCCs and strict data-minimisation defaults are applied by default, and all attendee data remains under EU jurisdiction.
Trusted by PyCon, FOSDEM, Chaos Communication Congress and thousands of European organisers, pretix is the reference choice for event teams that want full control over ticketing data, optional self-hosting and strong GDPR defaults.
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Swedish event technology covering registration, ticketing and onsite check-in for conferences and trade shows.
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Dutch tool for team planning and project organisation, a European pick for the project management category.
