Cvent vs Eventmie
Cvent and Eventmie are both event ticketing software. Cvent is a commercial product from Cvent. Eventmie is open source under MIT, with 190 GitHub stars.
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 Eventmie when
- You run events and want ticket sales on your own site without per-ticket platform fees.
Side by side
Enterprise event management for registration, venue sourcing, attendee apps, virtual events and event marketing.
A Laravel event platform for creating events and selling tickets on your own domain, positioned as a self-hosted Eventbrite alternative.
Expensive, complex and overkill for occasional events.
The free Lite edition omits features sold in the paid Pro version.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
PHP, Laravel and Vue
Closed source, sold by Cvent
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
551 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
190 GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v3.0.1.
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.