Eventbrite vs Rallly
Eventbrite and Rallly are both booking and scheduling software. Eventbrite is a commercial product from Eventbrite, Inc. Rallly is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 5.3k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Eventbrite when
- You run public events and want ticketing plus exposure to people browsing Eventbrite for things to do.
- Pick Rallly when
- You often coordinate meetings or events with people outside your organisation and want an ad-free Doodle replacement.
Side by side
Event ticketing and registration with event pages, payments, check-in app and an event discovery marketplace.
A meeting poll tool, like Doodle, where people vote on proposed dates and times without creating accounts.
Per-ticket fees are relatively high and organiser-side fees have risen.
Some features are reserved for the paid hosted plan, and the app is AGPL licensed.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
TypeScript, Next.js, Prisma and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Eventbrite, Inc.
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
2.1k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
5.3k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release untagged-6490d7892bf741592dba.
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.