Alf.io vs Ticket Tailor
Alf.io and Ticket Tailor are both event ticketing software. Alf.io is open source under GPL-3.0, with 1.6k GitHub stars. Ticket Tailor is a commercial product from Ticket Tailor.
Which to pick
- Pick Alf.io when
- You run paid events and want to avoid Eventbrite fees and keep attendee data yourself.
- Pick Ticket Tailor when
- An event organiser wants lower fees than Eventbrite and to be paid out directly.
Side by side
A ticket reservation system for conferences, meetups and workshops with payments, attendee data, check-in and invoices.
Ticketing with flat low per-ticket fees, payments through your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account, and seating, check-in and widgets.
The 2.0 line is still published as milestones, and it needs Java and PostgreSQL hosting.
There is no discovery marketplace, so you bring your own audience.
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 Ticket Tailor
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.