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Hosting on hackevents is free, forever — no fees, no paid plan: event pages, RSVPs, invites, waitlists, co-hosts, check-in and reminders. The others charge: Luma's free plan takes a platform fee on paid tickets, Meetup charges organizers a subscription for recurring, online or larger events, and Eventbrite charges a service fee on every paid ticket. And your event lands in a prompt-built agenda that aggregates public Luma, Meetup & iCal calendars in Austria.
| Feature | ▸hackevents | ◆Luma | mMeetup | eEventbrite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Every host tool free — none behind a plan | Yes | Maybe | No | Maybe |
| Attendees pay the platform nothing | Yes | Yes | Maybe | Maybe |
| Free to host, unlimited events & guests | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Event pages & RSVPs — invite-only, waitlist | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid tickets & checkout | Soon | Yes | Maybe | Yes |
| Aggregates public Luma, Meetup & iCal calendars | Yes | No | No | No |
| Prompt-built, personalized agenda | Yes | No | No | No |
| One unified live calendar (.ics) | Yes | Maybe | Maybe | Maybe |
On Luma, fees apply when you sell tickets — the free plan takes a platform fee on every sale, on top of Stripe's card fee, and removing it takes Luma Plus, billed in US dollars.
hackevents vs Luma →On Meetup, fees apply when your group runs recurring or online events, holds more than two in-person events a month or draws more than 10 attendees an event — each takes a paid organizer subscription. Attendees can also be charged a service fee on ticketed events.
hackevents vs Meetup →On Eventbrite, fees apply when you sell tickets — a service fee is charged on every paid ticket, added to your buyers' price by default unless you absorb it.
hackevents vs Eventbrite →Already hosting on Luma, Meetup or Eventbrite? Paste a Luma or Eventbrite event link into the host form and hackevents pre-fills your page — then run RSVPs, invites, waitlists, co-hosts, check-in and reminders here, with no fees and no paid plan. Paid ticketing is coming soon. Events on the public Luma, Meetup & iCal calendars we follow show up in the agenda too — we ingest them twice a day.