Cvent vs Eventbrite
Cvent and Eventbrite are both event ticketing software. Cvent is a commercial product from Cvent. Eventbrite is a commercial product from Eventbrite, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Cvent when
- A corporate events team runs many conferences and meetings a year and needs sourcing, registration and reporting together.
- Pick Eventbrite when
- You run public events and want ticketing plus exposure to people browsing Eventbrite for things to do.
Side by side
Enterprise event management for registration, venue sourcing, attendee apps, virtual events and event marketing.
Event ticketing and registration with event pages, payments, check-in app and an event discovery marketplace.
Expensive, complex and overkill for occasional events.
Per-ticket fees are relatively high and organiser-side fees have risen.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Cvent
Closed source, sold by Eventbrite, Inc.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
551 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
2.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
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.