Straight answer first: what percentage does Eventbrite take? In the US in 2026, Eventbrite takes a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per paid ticket, plus a 2.9% payment processing fee per order. On typical ticket prices that works out to between 8% and 14% of your ticket revenue, falling to about 7% for premium tickets and climbing to roughly 25% for very cheap ones. Free tickets: 0%. That's the whole answer, and the rest of this article is the part Eventbrite's pricing page doesn't spell out: why the percentage moves, who actually pays it, and what the same maths looks like elsewhere.
The percentage at a glance
| Ticket price | Total Eventbrite fees | Percentage taken |
|---|---|---|
| $10 | $2.45 | 24.5% |
| $25 | $3.45 | 13.8% |
| $50 | $5.09 | 10.2% |
| $100 | $8.39 | 8.4% |
| $200 | $14.99 | 7.5% |
| $400 | $28.19 | 7.0% |
Want the per-ticket workings behind these numbers, or totals for a whole event? We've done the sums at every price point in our Eventbrite fee calculator tables.
What percentage does Eventbrite take, exactly?
The cut is two charges wearing a trench coat:
- Service fee: 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket. The percentage part applies to the ticket price; the $1.79 applies to every paid ticket regardless of price.
- Payment processing: 2.9% per order. Charged on the order total, which matters: if fees are passed to the buyer, the processing percentage is calculated on the ticket plus the service fee. Yes, that's a fee on a fee. No, we're not making that up.
So the honest formula is roughly 6.6% of the ticket price + $1.79 per ticket, with small variations depending on who pays. There's no volume discount tier and no price cap published for US organisers, and the optional Pro subscription (from $15/month) is for email marketing, not for lowering the percentage. For the full anatomy of each charge, see our Eventbrite fees deep-dive.
Why the percentage changes with your ticket price
The $1.79 flat fee is the culprit. On a $400 conference pass it's a rounding error (0.4%). On a $10 comedy night ticket it's 17.9% before the percentages have even introduced themselves. That's why the table above slides from 24.5% down to 7%: the percentage parts stay fixed while the flat fee shrinks in relative terms as prices rise.
The practical takeaway: cheap tickets are where Eventbrite's percentage hurts most. If you're selling $10-$25 tickets, you're handing over a share of revenue that would make a music label blush. If you're selling $300+ passes, the percentage is more polite but the absolute dollars are bigger: $28.19 per ticket, times every ticket you sell.
Who pays the percentage: you or your buyers?
By default, Eventbrite adds the fees at checkout, so your attendees pay them: a $50 ticket rings up at about $55. In that setup the percentage isn't "taken" from you directly; it's taken from your buyers' willingness to pay, which is the same wallet wearing a different hat. Price research has a name for what inflated checkout totals do to conversion, and it isn't a compliment.
Absorb the fees instead and the percentages in our table come straight off your margin. Either way, the percentage exists. The only question is whether it's visible on the ticket page or in your post-event accounting.
How Eventbrite's percentage compares
Percentages on a $50 ticket, using each platform's published US pricing:
| Platform | Published fee (US) | Cut on a $50 ticket | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eventbrite | 3.7% + $1.79 + 2.9% processing | $5.09 | 10.2% |
| Humanitix | 2.1% + $0.99 per ticket | $2.04 + processing | ~4.1% + processing |
| Ticket Tailor | $0.85 per ticket (or $0.30 prepaid) | $0.85 + processing | ~1.7% + processing |
| eventcloud | $125/user/month flat, no per-ticket fees | $0 | 0% (+ your own Stripe processing) |
Two honest footnotes. First, card processing (about 2.9% + 30 cents with standard Stripe) exists on every platform; nobody escapes the card networks, so compare platform fees, not totals. Second, the cheaper rows come with trade-offs: Humanitix routes booking-fee profits to charity but is light on conference tooling, Ticket Tailor is brilliantly cheap but doesn't do badges or session ticketing, and eventcloud's $125/month floor means genuinely small events are better off per-ticket. We keep saying this because it keeps being true.
How to make the percentage zero
You can't negotiate Eventbrite's percentage away, but you can change the model. Flat-fee platforms charge for the software, not a share of your sales: eventcloud is $125 per user per month with unlimited events and tickets, zero per-ticket fees, and revenue paid into your own Stripe account on Stripe's schedule rather than a platform's.
A percentage means your ticketing bill is decided by your success. A flat fee means it's decided by you.
The honest break-even: at typical ticket prices you need roughly 270-550 paid tickets a year before flat beats per-ticket. Under that, stick with a per-ticket platform and enjoy the low bill. Over it, every ticket you sell on a percentage model is a small donation to someone else's growth story.
So: Eventbrite takes 3.7% + $1.79 + 2.9%, which lands between 7% and 25% of the ticket price depending on what you charge. Whether that's a fair trade or a slow leak depends entirely on your volume. Run your numbers against flat pricing and see which side of the line your event lives on. The maths doesn't lie, and unlike the fees, it's free.
