Alf.io vs Luma
Alf.io and Luma are both event ticketing software. Alf.io is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.6k GitHub stars. Luma is a commercial product from Luma.
Which to pick
- Pick Alf.io when
- You run paid events and want to avoid Eventbrite fees and keep attendee data yourself.
- Pick Luma when
- A community or startup runs meetups and wants attractive event pages and a following.
Side by side
A ticket reservation system for conferences, meetups and workshops with payments, attendee data, check-in and invoices.
Event pages with registration, approvals, ticketing, calendars and community email, popular for tech meetups.
The 2.0 line is still published as milestones, and it needs Java and PostgreSQL hosting.
It is a young company and enterprise event features are limited.
Production-ready
Usable
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 Luma
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
No Wikipedia article of its own
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.