Switch to Cohost
Stop renting from Eventbrite.
Own your events.
Your domain. Your audience. Your Stripe account. Cohost is the ticketing platform organizers actually control — lower fees, real branding, a real API, and no exclusivity in sight.
Eventbrite has raised fees 11 times — five of them in the last four years. The curve is accelerating; hike #12 is already overdue.
See what Eventbrite is costing you.
See how Cohost works alongside Eventbrite — keep your live events, move new ones over.
Comparing Eventbrite Professional (6.99% + $1.79/ticket) against Cohost Growth (1.80% + $0.70/ticket + $50/mo) — picked automatically as the cheapest Cohost plan for your volume. Card processing (2.9% + $0.30 via Stripe) is pass-through on both sides and excluded.
Feature by feature
What each platform actually does.
Fees are one axis. Capabilities are the other. Here's what's in Cohost, what's in Eventbrite, and where the real gaps are. Updated as we ship.
Eventbrite capabilities reflect the public Help Center and pricing pages as of 2026-Q1. If something has shipped since and we've miscategorized it, tell us — this list is editable in one file.
Fees go up. They don't come back down.
Eleven price hikes — five of them in the last four years. Service percentages, per-ticket flats, processing markups, and most recently surcharges added to listings without organizer opt-in. The curve is steepening, not slowing.
Your customers belong to Eventbrite, not you.
Tickets sell on eventbrite.com. Receipts come from Eventbrite's domain. The customer email list — the audience you spent years building — sits inside their CRM, not yours. That's why every hike is sticky: the cost of leaving is the cost of rebuilding the audience from scratch.
Cohost flips both.
White-label ticketing on your own domain, with your own branding, your customer relationship, and your email list. Run primary on Cohost; keep listing on Eventbrite as a discovery channel if you want — both managed from one dashboard. Our fees are on this page.
The pattern
Eleven fee hikes — five in the last four years.
The pace is accelerating, not slowing. Each row below is a documented public change to Eventbrite's pricing.
- 2007Eventbrite launches2.5% + $0.99
- 2010Per-ticket flat fee raised2.5% + $1.49
- 2014Service fee restructured upward
- 2017Processing fee added on top of service fee+ 3% processing
- 2018Tiered plans introduced (Essentials / Professional / Premium)
- 2019Per-ticket service fee raised+ $1.59
- 2020Free organizer plan removed; minimum fees enforced
- 2021Card processing raised to industry rate2.9% + $0.30
- 2022Service percentage raised3.5% + $1.59
- 2023Service raised again; Flex plan eliminated3.7% + $1.79
- 2024Marketing-fee surcharges added without organizer opt-in
Sources: Eventbrite blog, Eventbrite Help Center pricing pages, TicketSpice fee tracker, and IQ Magazine industry coverage. All public record.
Why this isn't just cheaper
Cohost is a platform, not a price cut.
The fee math is the reason to look. The platform is the reason to switch.
White-label
Your domain, your branding, your customer relationship. Tickets sell from your URL — not a marketplace.
Integrations
Stripe, Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Twilio, HubSpot, Google Analytics, Sanity, and more. Your stack stays your stack.
Apps ecosystem
Add scanners, kiosks, refund flows, custom checkout, and partner-built apps without rebuilding the platform.
AI
Auto-generated event copy, smart pricing rules, refund triage, and an AI ops agent that watches your shows for issues.
API
A real REST API plus webhooks. Build custom dashboards, sync to your warehouse, or wire ticketing into your own product.
Connectivity
Sync inventory and orders across channels. Sell on Cohost as primary, list on Eventbrite or Dice for discovery — one source of truth.
Pay less. Own your audience. Build on the platform.
15 minutes with the Cohost founder. No demo, no deck. Just whether the math and the platform fit your shows.
Book a 15-minute call