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Eventbrite vs Luma

Eventbrite and Luma are both event ticketing software. Eventbrite is a commercial product from Eventbrite, Inc. Luma is a commercial product from Luma.

Which to pick

Pick Eventbrite when
You run public events and want ticketing plus exposure to people browsing Eventbrite for things to do.
Pick Luma when
A community or startup runs meetups and wants attractive event pages and a following.

Side by side

What it does

Event ticketing and registration with event pages, payments, check-in app and an event discovery marketplace.

Event pages with registration, approvals, ticketing, calendars and community email, popular for tech meetups.

Watch out

Per-ticket fees are relatively high and organiser-side fees have risen.

It is a young company and enterprise event features are limited.

Ready for

Production-ready

Usable

Runs as

Cloud service and mobile app (both)

Built with

Not published (both)

Source code

Closed source, sold by Eventbrite, Inc.

Closed source, sold by Luma

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)

How widely known

2.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones

No Wikipedia article of its own

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.