You came here for an Eventbrite fee calculator, so let's not make you scroll for it. In the US in 2026, the formula is: 3.7% of the ticket price + $1.79 per paid ticket in service fees, plus 2.9% per order in payment processing. Or as one line of maths: total fee ≈ (ticket price × 6.6%) + $1.79. A $50 ticket costs $5.09 in fees. A $100 ticket costs $8.39. Free tickets cost nothing. Below you'll find the full lookup tables, per ticket, per event and per year, so you can price your next event without opening a spreadsheet or, heaven forbid, a sales call.
The Eventbrite fee formula (2026)
Two charges apply to every paid ticket, per Eventbrite's pricing page:
- Service fee:
3.7% × ticket price + $1.79, per ticket. - Payment processing:
2.9% × order total, the card-handling cut, charged on top.
Combined, that's roughly 6.6% + $1.79 on every paid ticket. The $1.79 is flat, which is why cheap tickets get mugged hardest: it's 18% of a $10 ticket all by itself, before the percentages even clock in. Note these are US rates; fees differ by country (see Eventbrite's help centre for your region).
Eventbrite fee calculator: cost per ticket
Find your ticket price, read across, try not to make a noise:
| Ticket price | Service fee | Processing | Total fee per ticket | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10 | $2.16 | $0.29 | $2.45 | 24.5% |
| $20 | $2.53 | $0.58 | $3.11 | 15.6% |
| $25 | $2.72 | $0.73 | $3.45 | 13.8% |
| $50 | $3.64 | $1.45 | $5.09 | 10.2% |
| $75 | $4.57 | $2.18 | $6.74 | 9.0% |
| $100 | $5.49 | $2.90 | $8.39 | 8.4% |
| $150 | $7.34 | $4.35 | $11.69 | 7.8% |
| $200 | $9.19 | $5.80 | $14.99 | 7.5% |
| $300 | $12.89 | $8.70 | $21.59 | 7.2% |
| $400 | $16.59 | $11.60 | $28.19 | 7.0% |
What percentage does Eventbrite take?
The short answer: between about 7% and 25% of the ticket price, depending on what you charge. The cheaper the ticket, the higher the percentage; the $1.79 flat fee sees to that. Most organisers selling typical $25-$100 tickets land in the 8-14% band. There is no ticket price at which the percentage reaches zero, which is the sort of asymptote that would have made our maths teacher proud and makes event organisers reach for the gin.
Scale it up: what a year of selling tickets actually costs
Per-ticket numbers feel small. Multiply them by an audience and they stop feeling small:
| Scenario | Gross ticket revenue | Total Eventbrite fees |
|---|---|---|
| 200 tickets at $25 (community events) | $5,000 | $690 |
| 500 tickets at $50 (workshop series) | $25,000 | $2,545 |
| 1,000 tickets at $50 | $50,000 | $5,090 |
| 1,000 tickets at $100 (summit) | $100,000 | $8,390 |
| 500 tickets at $400 (conference) | $200,000 | $14,095 |
| 2,000 tickets at $150 (trade show) | $300,000 | $23,380 |
To be scrupulously fair: around 2.9% of that is card processing, which you'd pay on any platform (Stripe's standard US rate is 2.9% + 30¢ if you process payments yourself). The service-fee portion is the part that's negotiable by choosing a different platform: $8,295 of the conference scenario, $11,100 of the trade-show one.
Who actually pays, you or your attendees?
By default Eventbrite adds fees at checkout, so your attendees pay them and your $50 ticket rings up around $55. You can absorb the fees instead, in which case the tables above come straight out of your margin. Either way the fee exists; passing it on just moves the wince from your P&L to your buyer's basket, and inflated checkout totals have a well-documented habit of nudging people to abandon carts. We covered the full pass-on-vs-absorb maths in our Eventbrite fees deep-dive.
When the calculator says "stay put"
Honesty corner. If your events are free, Eventbrite costs nothing: unlimited free events, genuinely. If you sell a couple of hundred low-price tickets a year, your annual fee bill is a few hundred dollars and no subscription on Earth will beat it. And if Eventbrite's discovery marketplace genuinely sells tickets for you, that's real value the fees are buying. The calculator only turns cruel as you grow.
The break-even point: when flat-fee maths wins
A single-seat eventcloud subscription is $1,500 a year ($125/user/month) with zero per-ticket fees, unlimited events and tickets, and payments straight into your own Stripe account. Comparing platform fees only (processing is a wash either way), here's roughly where the lines cross:
| Your average ticket price | Eventbrite service fee per ticket | Break-even vs $1,500/yr flat |
|---|---|---|
| $25 | $2.72 | ~550 tickets/year |
| $50 | $3.64 | ~410 tickets/year |
| $100 | $5.49 | ~270 tickets/year |
| $400 | $16.59 | ~90 tickets/year |
Below the line, per-ticket fees are pocket change. Above it, they're a salary you're paying someone else's platform.
Past those volumes, every additional ticket you sell on a per-ticket platform is margin walking out the door, while a flat fee just sits there, being flat. And because eventcloud includes badges, check-in, registration forms and white-label on every plan, the comparison doesn't claw anything back through add-ons later.
So: punch your numbers into the tables above, find your side of the break-even line, and act accordingly. If you're under it, carry on, sincerely. If you're over it, the flat-fee maths is waiting whenever you're ready, and it never charges you for doing well.
