Alf.io vs Cvent
Alf.io and Cvent are both event ticketing software. Alf.io is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.6k GitHub stars. Cvent is a commercial product from Cvent.
Which to pick
- Pick Alf.io when
- You run paid events and want to avoid Eventbrite fees and keep attendee data yourself.
- Pick Cvent when
- A corporate events team runs many conferences and meetings a year and needs sourcing, registration and reporting together.
Side by side
A ticket reservation system for conferences, meetups and workshops with payments, attendee data, check-in and invoices.
Enterprise event management for registration, venue sourcing, attendee apps, virtual events and event marketing.
The 2.0 line is still published as milestones, and it needs Java and PostgreSQL hosting.
Expensive, complex and overkill for occasional events.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service and mobile app
Java, Spring, TypeScript, Angular and PostgreSQL
Not published
Open source, GPL-3.0 (strong copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Cvent
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
1.6k GitHub stars
551 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release 2.0-M5-2609.
Not known
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.