If you came looking for Cvent

Considering Cvent? Here's what's different about Eventtia.

Same job — running global event programs from registration to check-in to reporting. Different way of doing it.

Pricing without the spreadsheet. Clear tiers, no surprise modules, no quote-only theater.
One platform, not a legacy stack. Built this decade for the way event teams actually work.
Flexible contracts. No two-to-three-year lock-ins by default.

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At a glance Eventtia Cvent

Transparent, published pricing Eventtia: included Cvent: not included
One platform, no legacy stack Eventtia: included Cvent: not included
Flexible terms, no multi-year lock-in Eventtia: included Cvent: not included
Choose EU or US data residency Eventtia: included Cvent: not included

How Eventtia compares · public pricing & reviews, 2026

The honest read

Five patterns we hear from teams searching for Cvent alternatives.

Convergent signals: real prospect calls between February and April 2026, plus thousands of public reviews on G2, Trustpilot, and forums. Same five themes, every time.

01 · Pricing

The cost no one predicts before the renewal.

Cvent's pricing combines a base subscription with separately-priced modules and per-ticket fees in the range of $3.95 + 1.95% per registration (cited repeatedly across G2 reviews). Contracts are negotiated quote-by-quote. Teams typically find out what they're actually paying in quarter four, not at signing.

"The important thing is costing. Cvent seems to be very, very expensive."
Head of events, global hospitality group · April 2026
02 · Setup complexity

A platform stitched together by acquisition.

Cvent has been acquired and reassembled multiple times since 2016. The product is powerful, but each acquired module carries its own UI, its own learning curve, its own quirks. New event managers spend weeks learning the system before they ship their first event.

"I worked on the backend before. As a user it's quite okay. But to build it takes a lot of time."
Senior events manager, Big Four consulting firm · March 2026
03 · Contract terms

Two-to-three-year lock-ins, with surprises.

Enterprise contracts run long, with annual commitments and auto-renewals. Customers report buying registration capacity they can't fully use, then discovering the negotiation window is narrower than they expected. Public review platforms carry repeated complaints about the contract experience.

"We just had some things with contracts overlapping and being weird with timing. We haven't loved having to hash those details out."
Operations lead, US marketing agency · February 2026
04 · Data residency

Your data lives where Cvent decides.

For US-based teams running US-based events, Cvent's US infrastructure is fine. For everyone else, the same infrastructure becomes a procurement headache. Post-GDPR and post-Schrems II, European enterprise procurement increasingly flags US-hosted SaaS as a friction point. For brand teams running events in Monaco, Zurich, or Paris, this becomes a single procurement-line question with one wrong answer. Cvent's residency menu has one item.

"Cvent's US servers weren't really something we could work with. That's why we contacted Eventtia."
Head of events, European wealth advisory firm · April 2026
05 · Product velocity

A platform that stopped moving like a software company.

Blackstone took Cvent private in 2023 ($4.6B deal). Private equity ownership tends to optimize cash flow and contract value over product velocity. Independent engineer reviews flag "a mountain of technical debt." Customers feel it as slow setup speed; competitors notice it as the absence of an API built for the next phase of event operations.

"Cvent is going to take too long."
Senior events manager, Big Four consulting firm · March 2026

For the record

What Cvent is genuinely good at.

For credibility's sake, the honest wins. If your primary need is any of these, Cvent is still the right call. The rest of this page is for everyone else.

Venue sourcing

302,000+ hotels and venues in the Cvent Supplier Network. The RFP system is the industry standard. Eventtia doesn't operate in this layer.

Mega-conference logistics

Multi-thousand-attendee conferences with juried abstract submissions, voting workflows, and deep session management. Cvent's depth here is real and earned.

Procurement-grade brand

Already on most enterprise approved-vendor lists. If procurement clearance isn't your blocker, this matters less. If it is, it's a real advantage.

What we do instead

Same job. Different way of doing it.

Eventtia runs the same event programs Cvent runs — registration, communications, on-site check-in, mobile app, analytics — designed around the shape of how event teams actually work in 2026.

01 · Pricing

Published. Attendee-based. No per-ticket charge.

Pricing published. Scope priced by attendee credits and event count, not by module. No per-registration fee at any tier. You know what you're paying at signing and at renewal. Nothing hidden behind a sales call.

Essential plan: $3,700 / year for 1,000 attendees. 12-month license, unlimited events.
02 · Platform

One product. One UI. Built this decade.

Registration, communications, on-site check-in, mobile app, analytics — built as a single platform, with one logic and one learning curve. New event managers ship their first event in days, not weeks. URL stubs for QR-codable event pages can be published the same day we get on the call.

Onboarding: 2-3 weeks. First event live: same week.
03 · Contracts

Annual credits. No auto-rollover surprises.

Annual terms by default. Add capacity for the year you're running ten events; scale it back for the year you're running three. No automatic multi-year renewals you have to fight to exit. The contract matches your event program, not the other way around.

Annual term · transparent renewal · you don't fight us to leave.
04 · Data residency

EU or US. Your choice on both.

Eventtia operates legal entities in Europe and the United States, with hosting in both regions. European procurement signs in Europe, hosts in Europe, and ticks the GDPR box without a workaround. US-based teams keep contracting and hosting stateside, no friction added. The differentiator isn't a continent. It's that the customer picks which side of the Atlantic to operate on, across both axes: the entity that signs the order form, and the servers the data lives on.

EU + US entities · EU + US hosting · You pick your region.
05 · Velocity

Built for the next phase: agentic event ops.

The Eventtia API is documented for agentic operation — an MCP server can actually operate the platform, not just exchange data. The product roadmap is forward, not maintenance-mode. Customers feel this as new features shipping per quarter, not gaps your sales rep promises will be filled "next year."

Independent company · API built for AI agents · shipping cadence per quarter.

Pricing, published

The price is on the page. Drag to find yours.

Essential plan, end-to-end. 12-month license, unlimited events within your plan. No per-ticket fees. Most common reaction on a prospect call: "Wait, that's for the whole year?" Yes.

Total attendees across all your events, 12 months

250 attendees

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Currency

$ 1,650 / year

Essential plan. 12-month license, unlimited events. No per-ticket fees. Full matrix →

For reference: G2 reviewers repeatedly cite Cvent per-ticket fees in the range of $3.95 + 1.95% of ticket value, on top of the base subscription. On a 1,000-attendee event with a $200 average ticket, the per-ticket fees alone work out to roughly $7,850, before counting the base subscription. None of those numbers, including the base subscription, are published anywhere on cvent.com.

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