Chobble Tickets vs Humanitix

Open source & cheaper Humanitix alternative

Chobble Tickets is a white label ticketing platform made in the UK. Its source code is published under the AGPL-3.0-only licence, so anyone can read it, fork it, or run their own copy. Humanitix does not publish its source code.

Humanitix charges 4.67% + £0.46 per paid ticket at the standard rate, or 3.33% + £0.25 for registered charities and schools, and donates its profits to education charities. Chobble Tickets charges £50/year or £5/month and is a community interest company, so profit cannot be paid out to shareholders.

Pricing comparison

Humanitix charges a percentage plus a fixed fee per paid ticket. There is no annual subscription. All plans include all features, and the platform donates 100% of its profits to charity.

The Standard rate is 4.67% + £0.46 per paid ticket (excl. VAT), which includes payment processing through Humanitix Payments or Stripe. Registered charities and schools pay a reduced rate of 3.33% + £0.25 per paid ticket. Free events cost nothing.

Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year or £5/month, with no per-ticket platform fee. Community groups, charities, and schools pay £25/year. Payment processing goes through the organiser's own Stripe, Square, or SumUp account at the provider's normal rate.

Because Humanitix's fee is a percentage of the ticket price, it scales with both volume and price. On a £15 ticket at the Standard rate, the platform fee is around £1.16 per ticket. Sell 500 of those and the platform fee is around £580 for the year. Chobble Tickets costs £50 for the same volume.

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Charity structure

Both Chobble and Humanitix direct profits away from shareholders.

Humanitix is a registered charity. Its website states that 100% of profits go to education, healthcare and similar projects, and it had donated over £10.8 million as of July 2026. The donation is funded by the booking fees organisers pay.

Chobble Tickets is a Community Interest Company, a UK legal structure that locks the company's assets for community benefit. Profit cannot be extracted by shareholders. The difference is that Chobble's income comes from a flat annual hosting fee, not from a percentage of each ticket sold.

Feature comparison

Both platforms share some features

• Online ticket sales with payment processing
• Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout
• QR code scanning for check-in at the door
• Email confirmations to attendees after booking
• Event capacity limits
• Free event support with no payment setup required
• Refund processing from the admin panel
• Embeddable ticket widgets for your own website
• Custom questions on the registration form
• Discount and promotional codes
• Sell merchandise or add-ons alongside tickets
• Multiple ticket types per event
• Email campaigns to attendees
• Rich reporting and analytics
• Team permissions and shared access
• Gift cards
• Invoicing for corporate clients
• A profit-for-purpose ownership structure

Humanitix has features Chobble Tickets doesn't

• Event discovery marketplace - over a million ticket buyers browsing Humanitix for events, which can drive organic sales
• Reserved seating - build seat maps for tables, auditoriums and stall allocations, and let attendees pick their seats
• Waitlists - automated waitlist that releases tickets and notifies guests when places become available
• Scheduled payouts - advance payments on customised schedules before the event occurs, if ticket sales are needed to pay suppliers
• Affiliate codes - track referrals and turn promoters into evangelists with shareable codes
• Canva integration - design event branding inside the event builder using Canva's design tools
• Mailchimp, Salesforce and Facebook integrations - built-in connectors for marketing and CRM
• Tixel resale - attendees can resell tickets through Tixel integration
• Accessibility tools - built-in accessibility features for attendees with special needs
• Impact promotional hub - share the charity donation generated by an event to social media or announce it on the night
• Human support team - phone and chat support based in Sydney
• Tour pages - dedicated pages for multi-date tours

Chobble Tickets has features Humanitix doesn't

• Password-derived encryption - attendee data is encrypted with a key derived from your admin password using hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM. A database dump and the server's environment encryption key together are still not enough to decrypt attendee data, since an attacker would also need your password. If you forget it, the data is permanently unrecoverable
• Open source - the complete product source is published under AGPL-3.0-only with no proprietary feature tier. Humanitix is proprietary software
• Self-hosting option - run the platform on selected infrastructure without a Chobble software licence fee
• Flat pricing - £50/year or £5/month with no per-ticket platform fees, no matter how many you sell or what you charge
• Parent/child listings - require buyers to choose child listings (add-ons, options) when booking a parent event
• Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes
  • attendees can add tickets to their phone wallet
• Subscribable ICS calendar feeds
  • a single feed listing all events, so subscribers get automatic updates when new ones are added
• RSS feeds - syndicate events to feed readers
• Pay-what-you-want pricing - let attendees enter their own price above a minimum, with all of the extra going to the organiser
• Custom email providers - use Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, or Mailgun so emails come from your domain, not the platform's
• Liquid email templates - full control over confirmation emails with Liquid template syntax
• Admin API - authenticated API with API keys for full event CRUD and reading private data
• Public API - read-only public API for listing events and tickets
• Webhooks - outbound POST on every registration for custom integrations
• Promo codes, discounts, and add-ons create promo codes, discount codes, surcharges, and opt-in add-ons with stock limits and a live running total
• Custom questions with price-linked answers link answers to price changes for tiered pricing
• Daily and recurring events - per-date capacity with a calendar picker
• Custom domain included - pointing your own domain is part of the base price, with TLS handled for you
• Public-facing website and CMS a homepage, content pages, news posts, and a contact form with spam protection, all edited from the admin panel with Markdown. Write your own custom CSS for colours, fonts and spacing. Humanitix supplies customisable event pages and widgets that can sell tickets on an existing website

Data ownership

Humanitix stores attendee data on its servers. Like most hosted platforms, attendee details are readable by the platform. Humanitix also runs a discovery marketplace and makes personalised recommendations. Its privacy notice says direct marketing is sent only when an attendee explicitly opts in.

With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted at rest and stays under your control. The organiser holds the only private key that can decrypt it. Chobble Tickets does not run a discovery marketplace and does not market other events to your attendees.

When Humanitix might be the better choice

• You want a discovery platform to help attendees find your events
• You need reserved seating with a visual seat picker
• You want waitlists for sold-out events
• You need scheduled advance payouts before the event
• You want built-in affiliate code tracking for promoters
• You want Canva design tools inside the event builder
• You want direct integrations with Mailchimp, Salesforce or Facebook without setting up webhooks
• You want attendees to be able to resell tickets through Tixel
• You have very low ticket volume and prefer paying per ticket over a flat fee
• You want a phone-based support team

When Chobble Tickets is the better choice

• You already have your own audience and don't need a discovery platform
• You want predictable, flat-rate pricing with no per-ticket platform fees, so costs stay the same as volume grows
• Privacy and encryption matter to you, and you want attendee data that the platform itself cannot read
• You're a community group, charity, or school (£25/year)
• You want Apple and Google Wallet passes, calendar feeds, or a public API included
• You want custom email providers so confirmation emails come from your own domain
• You value open source and the ability to read the source code, fork it, or run your own copy

Who owns Humanitix?

Humanitix was founded by Adam McCurdie and Josh Ross in Australia. It is a registered charity, not a for-profit company. Its website states that 100% of profits go to education, healthcare and community projects, and that over £10.8 million had been donated as of July 2026. The platform operates in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Fiji.

Chobble Tickets is run by one person as a Community Interest Company (CIC), a UK legal structure that locks the company's assets for community benefit. All of Chobble's code is public under AGPL-3.0-only with no enterprise tier or feature gates, and the platform can be self-hosted by anyone without depending on Chobble as a company.

Pricing sources

The pricing information on this page was verified in July 2026. Fees may change. Check the links below for the latest figures.

• Humanitix pricing (UK) - Standard 4.67% + £0.46, Charities & Schools 3.33% + £0.25 per paid ticket (excl. VAT), free events free
• Humanitix features - full feature list including seating, waitlists, scanning app, integrations
• Humanitix about us - registered charity, founders, impact
• Humanitix privacy and cookie policy - recommendations and marketing choices
• Chobble Tickets features