Eventbrite fees calculator
Enter a ticket price and how many you expect to sell, and see Eventbrite's fees beside what the same sales cost through your own WordPress checkout.
$272.00 service fee + $80.00 payment processing on 100 tickets.
$3.52 on each $25.00 ticket, so a buyer pays $28.52 at checkout unless you absorb the fees.
Card processing at 2.9% + $0.30 a payment. Event Tickets Pro costs $79 once and takes nothing per ticket.
That is on this event, after the $79. Each event like it after that: $249.00. At $25.00 a ticket the plugin has paid for itself by ticket 32.
Service fee: 3.7% × $25.00 + $1.79 = $2.72 a ticket. Processing: 2.9% × $27.72 = $0.80. Card fee on your checkout: 2.9% × $25.00 + $0.30 = $1.03.
How the numbers are worked out
Eventbrite's US service fee is 3.7% of the ticket price plus $1.79, on every paid ticket. Its payment processing fee is 2.9% of the order total, and that total includes the service fee. Eventbrite's help article says so in as many words: service fees are calculated on the ticket price, processing fees on the total order including service fees and tax.
By default Eventbrite adds both fees to what the buyer pays. You can tick “Absorb fees” on a ticket type to fold them into your price instead, and then they come out of your payout. Either way the money leaves the sale. For an event you have already set up, Eventbrite shows its own breakdown under Tickets, then “How fees work”; if it disagrees with this page, believe Eventbrite and tell us.
Selling from your own site, you still pay a card processor. Stripe's standard US rate is 2.9% + 30¢ per successful payment with a US card. The calculator counts one payment per ticket, which is the most the 30¢ can cost you; when people buy two tickets at a time it halves. Figures are rounded to the cent.
- Eventbrite, Pricing, read October 14, 2026
- Eventbrite Help Center, Eventbrite's Ticketing Fees, read October 14, 2026
- Stripe, Pricing, read October 14, 2026
Eventbrite's US fees at common ticket prices
The flat $1.79 is why cheap tickets fare worst. On a $10 ticket the fees come to a quarter of the price; on a $100 ticket, under a tenth.
| Ticket | Service | Processing | Fees | % of price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10 | $2.16 | $0.35 | $2.51 | 25.1% |
| $15 | $2.35 | $0.50 | $2.85 | 19.0% |
| $20 | $2.53 | $0.65 | $3.18 | 15.9% |
| $25 | $2.72 | $0.80 | $3.52 | 14.1% |
| $35 | $3.09 | $1.10 | $4.19 | 12.0% |
| $50 | $3.64 | $1.56 | $5.20 | 10.4% |
| $75 | $4.57 | $2.31 | $6.88 | 9.2% |
| $100 | $5.49 | $3.06 | $8.55 | 8.6% |
One ticket per order, no tax. With the fees passed on, which is Eventbrite's default, the buyer pays the ticket price plus the Fees column.
What this leaves out
- Other countries and plans. Eventbrite charges by payout country, and in countries still on its older Essentials and Professional packages the rate depends on the package. In the UK, for example, it is 6.95% + £0.59 a ticket with no separate processing fee. Eventbrite's help article has the full list.
- Big organizers. Eventbrite's sales team offers custom packages for large or complex events, so a large promoter's rate may differ.
- Donations and the door. US donation tickets carry only the 2.9% processing fee. Tickets sold at the door through Eventbrite's Organizer app cost $1 each, plus 2.9% when paid by card.
- What the fee buys. Eventbrite lists your event on a marketplace where people browse for something to do. If strangers find you there, part of the fee pays for them, and no calculator can price that. If your buyers already know you from your mailing list, your members or last year's event, they are paying for an introduction that has already happened. When moving off Eventbrite makes sense, and when it doesn't.
An Eventbrite alternative for WordPress
Event Tickets Pro is our plugin for selling tickets from a WordPress site through WooCommerce, the store plugin a lot of WordPress sites already run. You give an event a price, or several ticket types with their own prices and seat limits. Buyers pay at your checkout with whatever payment gateway you have connected, and when the order is paid the buyer gets a QR ticket for each seat by email. At the door, someone logged in to your site as an editor or administrator scans it with a phone camera to check them in.
It costs $79 once. We take nothing per ticket. Your card processor's fee still applies, the same as on anything else your site sells.
It does less than Eventbrite. Nobody browsing a marketplace will find your event through it, and it has no seat maps, recurring events or season passes. You need WooCommerce with a payment gateway set up.