Eventmie vs Luma
Eventmie and Luma are both event ticketing software. Eventmie is open source under MIT, with 189 GitHub stars. Luma is a commercial product from Luma.
Which to pick
- Pick Eventmie when
- You run events and want ticket sales on your own site without per-ticket platform fees.
- Pick Luma when
- A community or startup runs meetups and wants attractive event pages and a following.
Side by side
A Laravel event platform for creating events and selling tickets on your own domain, positioned as a self-hosted Eventbrite alternative.
Event pages with registration, approvals, ticketing, calendars and community email, popular for tech meetups.
The free Lite edition omits features sold in the paid Pro version.
It is a young company and enterprise event features are limited.
Usable (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service and mobile app
PHP, Laravel and Vue
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Luma
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
189 GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v3.0.1.
Not known
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.