Airmeet vs Tito

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.

Tito is an event ticketing platform from Dublin, Ireland, created by the organizers of tech conferences and widely used by developer conferences, meetups, workshops and community events. Its reputation rests on a clean, fast checkout for attendees and a fair, transparent fee model for organizers.

Organizers create releases, which are flexible ticket types with their own prices, quantities, dates and visibility, and add discount codes, waitlists, custom questions, invoicing and refunds. Attendees can manage and transfer their own tickets. The Tito check-in app scans tickets at the door, and an embeddable widget sells tickets directly on the event's own website. Payments go to the organizer's own Stripe or PayPal account, so money arrives directly instead of being held until after the event. Free events are free to run, while paid tickets carry a percentage fee plus the payment processor's charges. Webhooks and an API make it popular with technical organizers.

Tito fits conference organizers and communities that already have an audience and want tasteful, low-fee ticketing. It has no discovery marketplace to bring new attendees, marketing and reporting tools are basic, and it is a small company. Eventbrite provides discovery and marketing reach, Luma is popular for community events and meetups, and Pretix is an open-source option. Organizers in Turkey should note that Stripe does not onboard Turkish businesses and PayPal does not operate there, which limits paid ticketing through Tito.

For tech events, Tito remains a respected choice because it stays out of the way.