59¢ a ticket.
Less as you grow.
from 59¢ down to 33¢ · nothing to prepay Your first 1,000 tickets a year. Any ticket price.
Square or Stripe reader through our door app.
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Total fees on a $25 ticket, card processing included
Every platform charges card processing; nobody gets it free. Eventbrite, Ticket Fairy, Humanitix and Posh are their own payment processor, so it's built into their fee at their rate, with no choice and no negotiating. Ticket Tailor runs it through your own account at your rate. On cutthroat it's your own Square or Stripe account at your rate (2.9% + 30¢ standard, often lower). So compare totals, not headline fees.
cutthroat: $0.59 fee + $1.07 card processing = $1.66 total. Competitors: real checkout totals, measured 2026-10-12 (sources below).
Calculator
What your fan pays. What you keep.
Per ticket
- Ticket price
- $25.00
- cutthroat fee (paid by fan)
- $0.59
- Card processing, 2.9% + 30¢ (paid by fan)
- $1.07
- Total fees (our fee + processing)
- $1.66 · 6.7%
- Fan pays
- $26.66
- You receive
- $25.00
For the night
- You receive in total
- $7,500
- Fees saved vs the next-cheapest platform
- $80
| Platform | Total fees | % of ticket | Fan pays | Card processing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cutthroat | $1.66 | 6.7% | $26.66 | Your Square/Stripe, your rate |
| Ticket Tailor | $1.93 | 7.7% | $26.93 | Your Stripe/Square/PayPal |
| Ticket Fairy | $2.50 | 10% | $27.50 | Theirs, built in |
| Humanitix | $2.54 | 10.2% | $27.54 | Theirs, built in |
| Eventbrite | $3.52 | 14.1% | $28.52 | Theirs, +2.9% you can't avoid |
| Posh | $4.74 | 19% | $29.74 | Theirs, built in |
Before you pick any platform
Questions to ask. Our answers.
Why do you compare total fees?
Because that's what your fans pay. Platforms that process cards themselves fold processing into one fee you can't avoid or negotiate (Eventbrite adds 2.9% on top of its 3.7% + $1.79). We show our fee and your processor's charge as separate lines, and the total next to everyone else's.
Where does my money sit until I'm paid?
In your own Square or Stripe account, from the moment of sale. We never hold it.
Do my fans need your app or an account?
No. Apple Pay or Google Pay, a wallet pass and a web ticket. Name and email, that's it.
Do you refund your fee if I cancel?
Yes, when the event is cancelled. On ordinary refunds we keep it, like everyone else.
Can I leave with my data?
Any time. Export events, orders and your opted-in buyer list as CSV or through the API.
Do you show my fans other people's events?
Not on your site. Your pages show your nights only.
Is the price shown up front?
Always all-in, as California's SB 478 and the FTC fee rule require. The fee breakdown is one tap away.
Sources · real checkout totals, measured 2026-10-12
- Every competitor number is the total a fan actually pays (service fee plus card processing), read from real event checkouts on 2026-10-12, not from advertised rates. Platforms that are also the payment processor fold processing into one fee; we show the whole thing.
- Ticket Fairy: 10% total including processing ($25 → $27.50, $30 → $33, $40 → $44 on a San Diego event). Published tiers: $2 under $20, 9% from $100, 8% from $250.
- Humanitix: 5% + $1.29 total including processing ($50 → $3.79, $75 → $5.04 on a Los Angeles event).
- Eventbrite: 3.7% + $1.79 service plus 2.9% processing on the whole order ($25 → $3.52, $250 → $18.61 on a Palm Springs event). Organisers can absorb part of it, so some listings show less.
- Posh: about 15% + $0.99 in total ($10 → $2.49, $15 → $3.24 at checkout); the advertised 10% + $0.99 leaves out processing.
- Ticket Tailor: £0.60 per ticket pay-as-you-go (about $0.85 in the US per third-party listings), prepaid credits from £0.22; card processing extra on your own account. Shown with the fee passed to fans.
- Card processing is your own rate on your own Square, Stripe or PayPal account; we don't set or mark it up. Defaults are the advertised US online rates: Square 2.9% + 30¢ for payments through its API, which is how cutthroat charges, on every plan (Square's 3.3% Free-plan rate covers its own checkout links and invoices, not API payments; squareup.com/us/en/payments/our-fees, checked 2026-10-12); Stripe 2.9% + 30¢; PayPal Checkout 3.49% + 49¢. If you have a lower negotiated rate, enter it.
- Calculator assumes one ticket per order, before sales tax. The comparison table shows every platform with fees passed to fans; cutthroat's row uses your card rate.