9 Best European Eventbrite Alternatives in 2026

Revel is a free, open-source event platform for communities, clubs and independent venues. It handles ticketing, RSVPs and memberships in one place, with no ads and no data mining, and free events cost nothing on the hosted version.

Organisers sell free or paid tickets with tiers and reserved seating, then check guests in by QR code at the door. Venues get a seat map designer with zone pricing, clubs get recurring memberships and class passes delivered as wallet cards, and communities can vet attendees through door-policy questionnaires and keep guest lists private. The whole stack is MIT-licensed on GitHub and can run on Revel's servers or yours.

Key benefits:

• Free events at no cost, with paid tickets at 3% plus EUR 0.50
• Reserved seating with a seat map designer and zone pricing
• Memberships and class passes on monthly or annual plans
• Attendee questionnaires to vet guests and keep events safe
• QR check-in and wallet passes for smooth entry
• Potluck boards so guests can coordinate who brings what
• Self-hostable under the MIT licence, with a published self-hosting guide

Revel is operated by Biagio Distefano, a sole trader in Vienna, Austria, and its terms are governed by Austrian law. Data is stored in Germany on Hetzner servers, transactional email goes through Brevo in France, and payments are processed by Stripe. Requests pass through Cloudflare, a US company, and adding a pass to Google Wallet sends data to Google in the United States. There are no tracking cookies or analytics.

Ideal for grassroots communities, queer and kink collectives, clubs and small venues that want control over their guest data without paying marketplace fees.

Tiqqo is a ticketing system for every kind of event, from parties and concerts to festivals, trade shows and sports matches. It brings ticket sales, entry management and audience building into one platform, with no monthly platform fee: paid tickets carry a flat EUR 0.79 each and free events cost nothing.

Organisers build a branded ticket shop per event with tiers, capacity limits, timed releases and promo codes, and can run it on their own domain on the paid plan. Tickets arrive as QR codes, door staff scan them from a phone, and offline scanning keeps festival gates moving. Every buyer lands in a built-in CRM that feeds segmented email campaigns.

Key benefits:

• Flat per-ticket fee of EUR 0.79 with no percentage surcharge
• Free events stay free, with unlimited free events at no cost
• Branded ticket shops with tiers, capacity, timed releases and promo codes
• QR scanning from a phone, including offline scanning for festivals
• Event CRM with buyer profiles, segments and custom checkout questions
• Email marketing with behaviour-based segments and A/B testing
• Flexible payouts through Pay.nl whenever you request them

Tiqqo is a trade name of E-asy Concepts B.V., a Dutch private limited company whose terms are governed by Dutch law. The platform advertises EU hosting and GDPR-clean data handling, and payouts run through Pay.nl, a Dutch payment provider. Organisers can export their buyer data as CSV or through the API, so the audience stays theirs.

Ideal for promoters, venues and event organisers who want to keep their buyer list and their margins instead of paying percentage fees to a marketplace.

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.

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.