Is Eventzilla actually cheaper than Eventbrite?

On per-ticket cost for paid events, generally yes, and Eventzilla also offers flat plans that remove the per-ticket cut entirely. Whether that makes it cheaper for you depends on volume and ticket price. A flat plan wins when you run several paid events a month; per-ticket pricing wins when you run one a quarter. Both are free for free events, so for a free meetup the question does not arise at all.

What do I lose by leaving Eventbrite?

Mainly marketplace discovery. Eventbrite has a browsable public marketplace and Eventzilla does not have one of comparable size. Check what share of your last event's registrations came from Eventbrite search rather than your own Instagram, WhatsApp or email. If it is small, the fee was not buying much and switching costs you little. If it is large, the fee is paying for itself.

Can I move an event to another platform mid-sale?

Not cleanly. Ticket holders keep the tickets issued by the original platform, so a mid-sale move means two guest lists and two check-in flows on the day, which is where doors go wrong. Finish the current event where it started, then switch for the next one. If you must run two systems, print both lists and brief the door team on which QR belongs to which.

Are there genuinely zero-fee ticketing options in India?

Yes, though they trade fee for reach. Event Flo charges hosts 0% with no subscription; guests pay the host directly by UPI, bank transfer or cash, and the platform never handles the money. Platforms like this generally have smaller discovery surfaces than Eventbrite, so they suit events whose audience comes from the organiser's own channels, and private formats where approval RSVPs and ID-verified guests matter more than marketplace traffic.

Which is better for a free weekly meetup or run club?

On fees, neither has an edge: both are free for free events. On mechanics, neither was built for a rolling weekly list, so you republish each week and start visibility from zero. The bigger problem for free recurring events is no-shows, which a ticket checkout does not solve. An approval RSVP plus a quick door scan is what actually changes turnout, and that is a different category of tool from either of these two.

Eventzilla vs Eventbrite: The Fee Question, Answered

Published on: 8/10/2026

Author: Aryan Singh — Founder & CEO, Event Flo

Nobody arrives at Eventzilla by accident. It shows up on shortlists because an organiser looked at an Eventbrite statement and wondered whether there was a cheaper way to sell the same tickets. That is a fair question. The honest answer is a trade rather than a straight win, and the trade looks different for a Rs.200 comedy night than for a Rs.3,000 workshop.

How the two charge

Both are free for free events. Both charge on paid tickets. The difference is the shape of the charge.

Eventbrite prices per ticket: a percentage plus a fixed amount on every paid ticket, with payment processing on top. The fee is usually passed to the buyer as a visible surcharge, which is why a Rs.500 ticket shows up at checkout as something more than Rs.500. Our breakdown of Eventbrite fees in India goes through the arithmetic in detail.

Eventzilla positions on lower per-ticket cost and also offers plans that replace the per-ticket cut with a flat monthly or annual charge. Under a flat plan the fee stops scaling with your sales, which is the entire appeal once you are selling in volume.

Per-ticket vs flat plan vs free: the India version

Think of three cost shapes and ask which one your events actually have.

A per-ticket fee is cheap when you sell little and expensive when you sell a lot. It also punishes cheap tickets, because the fixed component is a far larger share of Rs.200 than of Rs.2,000. For an occasional event with a handful of pricey seats, per-ticket is fine.

A flat plan is the reverse. You pay it whether you sell 50 tickets or 5,000 this month. For an organiser running several paid events a month it usually wins; for one paid event a quarter it is a fixed cost against very little.

Free with direct payment is the third shape, and it is the one most comparisons skip. Event Flo charges no platform fee and no subscription. Guests pay the host directly, by UPI, bank transfer or cash at the door, and Event Flo never processes the money. 80 seats at Rs.750 works out to Rs.60,000, and all of it goes to the host. The cost is reach: there is no marketplace on Eventbrite's scale. The free ticketing platforms comparison lays the three shapes out side by side.

What the lower fee costs you

Discovery. Eventbrite has a marketplace people actively browse. Eventzilla does not, in any comparable way. If a meaningful share of your sales come from Eventbrite search and category pages rather than your own promotion, a cheaper platform can cost you more in lost sales than it saves in fees.

The test is simple and worth doing before anything else. Pull the registration sources for your last event. If nearly all of them came from your own Instagram, WhatsApp groups or email list, the marketplace is not paying for itself and switching is close to free. If a large share came through platform search, the fee is buying something and you should keep paying it.

Three real events, three different answers

A 30-person house party in Bandra

Rs.400 a head to cover drinks and food, private address, half the list friends-of-friends. Neither platform is built for this. Both would make the party a public listing, both take a per-ticket cut (or a plan fee) on a Rs.400 ticket where the fixed component bites hardest, and neither checks who the 30 people are or lets you approve them first. Hosts in this situation usually end up on WhatsApp plus a UPI QR, or on a platform designed around approval RSVPs and verified guests. The Mumbai house party guide covers the format properly.

A weekly run club in Koramangala

Free, every Saturday, 20 to 60 runners. Free events cost nothing on either platform, so the fee comparison is moot. What matters is the weekly republish grind and the no-show rate. Neither Eventbrite nor Eventzilla gives you an approval step or a quick way to see who actually turned up versus who clicked RSVP on Tuesday. Run clubs in Mumbai on Event Flo use approval RSVPs and a browser QR scan at the start line for exactly that reason.

A 150-person paid workshop

Rs.1,500 a seat, a Saturday in Indiranagar, audience half known and half new. This is where the two platforms actually compete. 150 seats at Rs.1,500 works out to Rs.2,25,000 gross. On Eventbrite the per-ticket fee on that is a real number, and in return the marketplace might fill some of the 75 seats you do not have names for. On an Eventzilla flat plan the fee stops scaling, which wins if you run one of these every month and lose nothing in reach because your audience came from LinkedIn anyway. Run the source test above and the answer falls out.

Feature parity, roughly

Both handle multiple ticket types, promo codes, custom registration fields and attendee lists.
Both offer check-in apps aimed at straightforward door scanning rather than multi-entrance operations.
Neither verifies attendee identity beyond an email address.

When neither fits

If the driver is fees, the honest comparison is not a lower percentage but zero, and the honest question is what zero costs you in return.

Event Flo charges organisers 0% with no subscription. Guests pay the host directly and Event Flo never sits in the payment. Every host and guest passes government ID verification, RSVPs are approval-based so the organiser decides who attends, private addresses are released only to approved guests shortly before start, and check-in is a QR scan in the browser with no app to download. What it does not have is a mass-market marketplace, so the same discovery test applies to it as to Eventzilla. If your room fills from your own channels, the fee saving is pure. If it fills from platform search, it is not. Event Flo vs Eventbrite is the direct comparison, and where to list your event for free covers the free listing options beyond ticketing.

Concrete next step: export your last event's orders, tag each one by where it came from, and count. That one spreadsheet answers the Eventzilla question, and the Event Flo question, better than any feature table. If the answer is "mostly my own audience" and the event is small and private, create the next one on a zero-fee platform and keep the whole Rs.400.