Airmeet vs Eventbrite

Airmeet is a platform for webinars and virtual, hybrid and in-person events, founded in August 2019 and led by CEO Lalit Mangal, with its engineering roots in Bengaluru. It grew during the 2020 shift to online events, raised a $35M Series B after its Series A, and says more than 4,000 organizations have used it. Its core job is running branded events where attendees do more than watch a stage: they network, visit booths and talk at tables.

The event toolkit covers registration pages, ticketing, a backstage for speakers, multi-track sessions, polls and Q&A, plus Social Lounge tables, Speed Networking, Fluid Space and exhibitor booths. Airstudio handles streaming and recording, and AI tools (Airgenie for summaries and content, Airshots for clips) repurpose sessions afterwards. Pricing is attendee-based: Premium Webinars is self-serve, while Events, Managed Events and the Agency plan are quoted.

Airmeet fits marketing teams, associations and agencies that run recurring webinars plus a few larger community events per year. It is less suited to simple one-off meetings, and Premium Webinars streams at 720p with 1080p as a paid add-on. Livestorm is simpler for browser-only webinars, Zoom Events wins where Zoom is already standard, and Hopin's event product now lives inside RingCentral Events.

Buying tip: plans are billed on actual attendees, not registrations. If attendance exceeds your bundle, extra people are still admitted and billed after the event on a pay-as-you-go basis, so model your show-up rate and pre-buy attendee bundles before a big launch.

Eventbrite is one of the largest self-service ticketing and event discovery platforms, founded in San Francisco in 2006. After years as a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it was acquired by the Italian software group Bending Spoons in a deal that closed in March 2026. Organisers build an event page, set ticket types, prices and capacity, collect payments and registration data, and check attendees in with the Organizer app. Every public event also appears in Eventbrite's marketplace, where the platform recommends events to people based on location and interests.

Under Eventbrite's current published pricing, free events carry no fees, and an optional Pro subscription adds marketing tools. Paid tickets also include a per-ticket service fee plus payment processing, which organisers can pass on to buyers; rates differ by country. Paid tools add email campaigns to past attendees, social and on-platform ads, reserved seating, discount codes, ticket tiers, waitlists, embedded checkout and reporting, and an API connects attendee data with CRMs and marketing tools.

Eventbrite works well for workshops, meetups, classes, concerts and conferences that benefit from discovery and want reliable ticketing without building anything. The trade-offs are fees on paid tickets, limited control over branding and buyer data, and discovery that brings an audience for some categories but not all. Luma is popular for community and tech events with a cleaner design, Tito and Ticket Tailor offer lower fees and more control, and Meetup suits recurring groups.