Cvent vs Luma
Cvent and Luma are both event ticketing software. Cvent is a commercial product from Cvent. Luma is a commercial product from Luma.
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 Luma when
- A community or startup runs meetups and wants attractive event pages and a following.
Side by side
Enterprise event management for registration, venue sourcing, attendee apps, virtual events and event marketing.
Event pages with registration, approvals, ticketing, calendars and community email, popular for tech meetups.
Expensive, complex and overkill for occasional events.
It is a young company and enterprise event features are limited.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Cvent
Closed source, sold by Luma
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
No Wikipedia article of its own
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.