Fee calculator
What will the platform take from your event?
Enter how many tickets you expect to sell and at what price. Percentage fees grow with every ticket. Penguest charges one flat fee per event.
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Ticket revenue: $10,000
Platform fees for this event
You keep at least $461 more with Penguest Starter.
Eventbrite
$728
Luma, free plan
$500
Penguest
$39
Platform fees only, rounded to the dollar. Card processing is extra on every platform. Assumes one attendee per ticket.
How we calculate it
Competitor pricing as published on their pricing pages, checked October 2026. US pricing, before taxes.
- Eventbrite
- 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per paid ticket, plus 2.9% payment processing per order (not included here). Buyers pay the service fee by default, which raises your ticket price.
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- Luma, free plan
- 5% platform fee on paid tickets. Luma Plus removes it for $59 per month, billed annually.
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- Penguest
- One flat fee per event by attendee count: Free $0 up to 20, Starter $39 up to 250, Growth $79 up to 750, Pro $149 up to 2,000. No commission on tickets.
- See Penguest pricing
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