How much does an event website cost in 2026?

The range: $300.24 to $54,297.24 over three years

Using only prices vendors publish, an event website costs $300.24 to $54,297.24 over three years before ticket fees, including a domain and one business email inbox. That’s about $8 to $1,508 a month.

• A free event page: Eventbrite for free events, or EventCreate’s Free plan, $300.24 with a domain and email.
• Build it yourself: WordPress on Bluehost Starter, $432.60; Squarespace Basic, $972.96; Wix Core or Squarespace Core, $1,332.96.
• A dedicated event website builder: EventCreate from $480.24 (Personal) to $18,300.24 (Enterprise).
• A conference platform: Bizzabo, $54,297.24. Accelevents starts from $7,500 with no billing period stated.
• Quote only: Whova, Cvent and Splash.

For paid events, ticket fees often cost more than the site. The worked example below shows how much.

What you pay for

• The site or event page. From $0 (Eventbrite for free events, EventCreate Free) to $17,999 a year (Bizzabo’s base price).
• A fee on each paid ticket. A percentage (Wix Events 2.5%, EventCreate 5% down to 0%), a percentage plus a flat amount (Eventbrite 3.7% + $1.79), or a flat fee per ticket (Ticket Tailor, not published in US dollars). See our transaction fees entry.
• Card processing. Charged on top almost everywhere: Eventbrite adds 2.9% of the order, Squarespace 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic and Core, and Ticket Tailor cites Stripe’s US rate of 2.9% + $0.30 as an example. EventCreate says processing is separate without publishing the rate.
• Domain. Your domain name: Namecheap’s .com is $11.28 the first year and $18.48 a year after. Wix, Squarespace yearly plans and Bluehost include a free first year.
• Custom domain on the event tool. Ticket Tailor charges $8 a month to use your own domain. On EventCreate, the Growth card lists one custom domain (each extra one is $100 a year), and the Whitelabel add-on is $360 a year for up to three.
• Email. One Google Workspace Business Starter inbox is $7 a month on Google’s annual plan ($8.40 on the flexible plan).
• Extras. EventCreate lists SMS at $600 a year and a custom attendee app from $5,000. Eventbrite Premium, for marketing and support, is $69 a month or $708 a year.

True 3-year cost, route by route

Notes on each route

• Eventbrite and EventCreate Free. The domain here is for your email and to point at the event page. EventCreate’s Free plan covers one event with up to 50 attendees, and its pricing page mentions custom domains only on the Growth tier and the Whitelabel add-on (EventCreate pricing).
• EventCreate tiers. Each tier caps attendees per event: 50 on Personal, 200 on Pro, 500 on Growth and 5,000 on Enterprise. Yearly prices are 12 times the monthly price, so paying yearly doesn’t save money there.
• WordPress. Bluehost’s $3.99 price needs a 36-month term and renews at $9.99 a month. The Events Calendar and Event Tickets are free plugins; Liquid Web’s bundle, which removes the 2% commission, is $350 for one site, with no billing period stated (Liquid Web). If that’s a one-time price, the total becomes $782.60.
• Ticket Tailor. If you embed its box office on a site you already pay for, you can skip the $8 custom domain and pay only per ticket. There’s no subscription (Ticket Tailor help).
• Wix and Squarespace. Wix needs Core or higher to sell tickets, and Wix shows monthly prices only at checkout. Squarespace Core billed monthly at $39 comes to $1,704.24, because its free first-year domain comes only with yearly plans.
• Bizzabo. $17,999 a year is the base price, or $499 per user per month billed yearly with a 3-user minimum. Renewal terms weren’t available (Bizzabo pricing).

Our website cost calculator handles the plan, domain and email lines.

Ticket fees: a worked example

This is an example, not a quote. Say you run four events a year, each selling 200 tickets at $25, so $5,000 per event. Over three years that’s 12 events and 2,400 tickets. Here’s what each route’s published ticket fees come to.

The Eventbrite row already includes its 2.9% processing. Eventbrite’s help center says processing is calculated on the total order, including service fees and tax, so with buyers paying the fees it applies to $5,000 + $543 in service fees = $5,543 (tax left out). The service fee per ticket is 3.7% x $25 = $0.925, plus $1.79, or $2.715. If you absorb the fees instead, processing falls on the $5,000 alone: $688 per event, $8,256 over 12 events. Every other row adds card processing. At 2.9% + $0.30 with one ticket per order, the rate Squarespace lists and Ticket Tailor cites for Stripe, that’s $145 + $60 = $205 per event, or $2,460 over 12 events. Ticket Tailor’s own per-ticket fee isn’t published in US dollars, so we can’t put it in the table.

Three things the table doesn’t show:

• Who pays. Eventbrite’s buyers pay its fees by default, so the $8,444.96 would come from attendees unless you absorb it. Wix also lets you pass its 2.5% to the buyer.
• The all-in price. Passing fees on doesn’t hide them. For live-event tickets, the FTC fees rule says the price you show must include mandatory fees, and California requires all-in prices on most consumer sales there. This is general information, not legal advice; our event website builder guide covers the rules.
• New buyers. Eventbrite’s marketplace can put you in front of people who don’t know you yet. A site of your own mostly serves people who already do.

The pattern: a percentage fee grows with every ticket, while a plan fee stays the same. At this volume, EventCreate Pro costs less than Growth, because the lower fee saves $300 over three years but the plan costs $1,080 more.

Contracts and the cost of leaving

The bigger cost of leaving is usually the rebuild. Wix scores 3/10 on our exit score, Squarespace 5/10 and self-hosted WordPress 10/10; compare them in our exit scores tool. Whatever you pick, export your attendee list after every event, so a switch never starts from zero.

Hidden costs to ask about

• Attendee caps. EventCreate’s lower tiers cap attendees per event, so a sold-out event can force an upgrade.
• Processing you can’t see. EventCreate’s card processing rate isn’t on its pricing page; ask before you launch.
• Fee changes. Eventbrite’s 2025 annual report says it raised ticketing fees in early 2023 and in September 2024 went back to its original pricing model. Ask any vendor how fees can change.
• Virtual minimums. Accelevents’ terms set a minimum fee of $500 per day of a virtual event.
• Branding add-ons. Ticket Tailor’s white label is $49 a month; EventCreate’s Whitelabel is $360 a year.

How to keep the cost down

1. Start with the site you have. Embedding a ticket tool on an existing site avoids paying for a second one.
2. Do the volume math. Multiply your yearly tickets by each fee, then add the plan, before you compare monthly prices.
3. Use free tickets where you can. Eventbrite, Wix Events and Whova charge no ticket fees on free tickets, and Ticket Tailor allows free tickets up to a yearly cap.
4. Ask for nonprofit pricing. EventCreate gives 15% off annual plans to verified 501(c)(3)s and schools, and Ticket Tailor gives registered charities 50% off fees. Eventbrite has no nonprofit discount on ticket fees. For galas, see our nonprofit website cost guide.
5. Own your domain at your own registrar, so changing ticket tools later doesn’t change your address.

What to do next

• Start at our event website builder guide for the options and the rules.
• See what to build with our best event websites roundup.
• Compare do-it-yourself builders in our best website builders list.
• Read our general website cost guide for prices outside events.

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