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"Free for you" is a 6% tax on your customers.

FareHarbor advertises zero monthly cost — and then bolts a 6% booking fee onto every customer's checkout. That 6% isn't free. It's a conversion tax with Booking.com's branding attached.

Cohost charges a flat platform fee, paid by you, on your domain, with your Stripe account. Your customers see your price. Your audience belongs to you.

What FareHarbor's 6% really costs.

Drag two sliders. We'll do the math, pick the cheapest Cohost plan for your volume, and compare it to FareHarbor's published 6% booking fee — whether you absorb it or pass it to the customer, that 6% is still leaving the booking.
Average ticket price
Tickets sold per month
Avg all-in cost per ticket(service fee + monthly plan fee ÷ tickets)
FareHarbor Standard$1.50
Cohost Growth$1.40
You can save:
$240
/ year
FareHarbor Standard
$300
/ mo
Cohost Growth
$280
/ mo
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See how Cohost works alongside Eventbrite — keep your live events, move new ones over.

Comparing FareHarbor Standard (6.00% + $0.00/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 FareHarbor, and where the real gaps are. Updated as we ship.

Feature
Cohost
FareHarbor
Branding & ownership
White-label checkout
Yes
No
Custom domain
Yes
No
Branded transactional email
Yes
PartialSender name customizable; emails still come from FareHarbor.
Sell on your own website
Embed checkout into your own site — no platform branding in the buying flow.
Yes
PartialLightframe widget embeds on your site; checkout still completes on FareHarbor pages.
Payments & payouts
Stripe Connect payouts
Money flows through your own Stripe account — Cohost never holds organizer funds.
YesPayout schedule and method are between you and Stripe; Cohost is not in the money path.
No
Bring-your-own processor
Yes* Requires custom integration; contact us if interested.
No
Transparent flat fee
Yes
No
Audience
Customer email list ownership
Yes
PartialCustomer export available; marketing tooling lives inside FareHarbor.
CRM / segments built in
Yes
PartialBasic customer history; no real segmentation engine.
Pixel & ad-platform tracking
Drop your own GA4, Meta, TikTok, GTM tags on checkout.
Yes
PartialGA + Meta pixels on the embedded widget; limited reach into the hosted checkout.
Integrations
Hundreds of in-house integrations
First-party connectors for email, SMS, CRM, CMS, analytics, and payments — built and maintained by us.
Yes
PartialIntegrations exist (Google, Yelp, OTAs) but most data flows through FareHarbor.
On-demand integrations
Need something we don't ship yet? We'll build it for you — no marketplace wait, no third-party tax.
Yes
No
Zapier
Yes
No
n8n
Yes
No
MCP server
AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, your own) can read and write Cohost data through the Model Context Protocol — no glue code.
Yes
No
Developer platform
Public REST API
Yes
PartialRead-leaning API; documentation gated behind partner agreement.
Webhooks
Yes
No
SDK
Yes
No
AI & automation
AI ops agent
Watches your shows for fraud, refund spikes, sell-out risk.
Yes
No
Smart pricing rules
Yes
PartialManual rate scheduling and seasonal calendars; no rule engine.
Operations
Multi-channel inventory sync
One source of truth across Cohost, Eventbrite, Dice, etc.
Yes
No
Refund automation
Yes
PartialManual refund workflow; cancellation policies are template-only.
Scan tickets sold on other platforms
Validate Eventbrite + third-party tickets in the same scanner via sync or CSV upload.
Yes
No
Support & terms
Direct line to founder / team
Yes
No
No exclusivity clause
Yes
PartialDistribution Network agreements steer your inventory through Booking.com partners.

FareHarbor capabilities reflect the public marketing site, Help Center, and Distribution Network docs as of 2026-Q1. If something has shipped since and we've miscategorized it, tell us — this list is editable in one file.

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.

Stop hiding fees in your customer's checkout.

15 minutes with the Cohost founder. We'll work the math against your real volume and show you the switch path.

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