Ticketmaster vs Ticxz
Looking for a Ticketmaster alternative? A fair comparison based on what both platforms publish, so you can decide which one fits your event.
Ticketmaster is built for arenas, stadium tours and onsales that move tens of thousands of tickets in minutes. If that is your event, price is not the question you should be asking. For everyone else the practical difference is access: Ticketmaster sells through contracts and account teams, while you can set up on Ticxz and be selling the same afternoon.
What a ticket costs
Both columns show what each platform publishes itself. Where a figure is not public, we say so instead of guessing.
Ticketmaster
On request
- Fee / ticket
- Not public
- Volume rate
- Not public
- iDEAL
- Not public
- Card
- Not public
- Free tickets
- Not public
- Setup fee
- Not public
- Contract
- Not public
- Payouts
- Not public
Ticxz
€0.19
/ticket
- Fee / ticket
- €0.19
- Volume rate
- €0.16 over 5,000/year
- iDEAL
- €0.35
- Card
- €0.25 + 1.5%
- Free tickets
- Free
- Setup fee
- None
- Contract
- None
- Payouts
- Daily / weekly / monthly
About Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster is a primary ticketing platform and marketplace owned by Live Nation Entertainment. It describes itself as the largest ticket marketplace in the world, processing around 600 million tickets a year across more than 35 countries, and has operated in the Netherlands since 1999.
Nothing on its organizer-facing sites states a rate, a setup fee, a contract length or a payout schedule, which is why every row above reads the same. Every route in is a lead form, and Ticketmaster’s own copy frames its FAQ as things to understand "before you get on a sales call". It does say it works with events of every size, so the absence of a rate card is not a size restriction, just a commercial model.
One useful comparison does exist. Universe, Ticketmaster’s self-serve brand, publishes a Netherlands rate card: 2% + €0.45 per ticket on Starter, capped at €9.95, and 2% + €0.95 on Standard, capped at €19.95, both excluding VAT and processing, with no setup or termination fees and free events free.
