Alf.io vs Eventbrite
Alf.io and Eventbrite are both event ticketing software. Alf.io is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.6k GitHub stars. Eventbrite is a commercial product from Eventbrite, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Alf.io when
- You run paid events and want to avoid Eventbrite fees and keep attendee data yourself.
- Pick Eventbrite when
- You run public events and want ticketing plus exposure to people browsing Eventbrite for things to do.
Side by side
A ticket reservation system for conferences, meetups and workshops with payments, attendee data, check-in and invoices.
Event ticketing and registration with event pages, payments, check-in app and an event discovery marketplace.
The 2.0 line is still published as milestones, and it needs Java and PostgreSQL hosting.
Per-ticket fees are relatively high and organiser-side fees have risen.
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 Eventbrite, Inc.
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
2.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release 2.0-M5-2609.
Not known
Other comparisons
More event management and ticketing platforms
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.