Chobble Tickets vs Eventbrite
Eventbrite is the biggest name in event ticketing, so here's how a small, open source alternative compares.
Pricing
Eventbrite charges a percentage plus a fixed fee per ticket, and their pricing has changed multiple times over the years (generally trending upward), so for a £15 ticket you might lose £1-2 per sale to the platform.
Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year regardless of how many tickets you sell, so the maths is simple: if you sell more than a few dozen tickets a year, Chobble Tickets is cheaper.
Data Ownership
Eventbrite owns a lot of data about your attendees and uses it for their own marketing, and your event page exists within Eventbrite's ecosystem where attendees are encouraged to follow other events on the platform.
With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted and stays under your control. There's no platform trying to cross-promote other events to your audience.
Scale and Features
Let's be honest - Eventbrite has features Chobble Tickets doesn't, including a massive discovery platform, a well-known mobile app, and deep integrations with hundreds of tools. If you need attendees to discover your event through a platform, Eventbrite is hard to beat.
Chobble Tickets is better for organisers who already have an audience and want to keep costs down, own their data, and avoid platform lock-in. It includes ICS calendar and RSS feeds, a public API, embeddable widgets, and pay-what-you-want pricing - all included in the flat annual fee.