# GuestSprout vs Eventzilla > Eventzilla is free for free events and charges per registration with monthly minimums. GuestSprout is a free invitation tool. Checked 2026-08-25. Source: https://guestsprout.com/compare/eventzilla Publisher: GuestSprout (https://guestsprout.com) Compared with: Eventzilla (https://www.eventzilla.net) All claims checked: 2026-08-25 --- Eventzilla is a registration platform for organisations: conferences, training days, workshops, association meetings, the kind of event that has an agenda and a badge. It is free to post a free event and charges per registration once money is involved, with monthly minimums on the paid tiers. GuestSprout is not a registration platform at all. It is an invitation with replies attached. This page explains the fee structure clearly and is honest about which events belong on which product. ## Side by side | Feature | GuestSprout | Eventzilla | | --- | --- | --- | | Price for a free event | Free at every guest count | Free. No monthly or ongoing charge to post a free event | | Price for a paid event | Not applicable. GuestSprout does not sell tickets | Basic plan free; Pro at $1.50 per registration with a $29 a month minimum; Growth at $1.99 per registration with a $79 a month minimum | | Payment processing | None | Not included in the platform fee; payable to your payment provider separately | | Monthly minimums | None | Yes, $29 or $79 a month on the paid tiers regardless of volume | | Event is public and discoverable | No. Private links only | Typically a public event page | | Guest needs an account | No | Registration is required | | Registration forms with custom fields | No. Structured adult and child counts instead | Yes, extensive custom registration forms | | Designs | %%DESIGNS%% free invitation designs across 22 categories | An event page rather than an invitation design | | Envelope and opening animation | Yes, 20 effects | No | | Adults and children counted separately | Yes, on every reply | Achievable through ticket types or custom fields | | Headcount cap with automatic cut-off | Yes, per event and per invitation | Yes, through ticket limits | | Check-in and badges | No | Yes, check-in and badge printing | | Sessions and agendas | No | Yes | | Automatic reminders | Yes, by email or text | Yes | | Languages | 99 | Not published | | Right shape for a birthday | Yes | No | ## Where GuestSprout is different - Eventzilla is free to sign up and post an event, and free entirely if your event is free for attendees. For an unpaid gathering the price comparison with GuestSprout is a draw. (source: https://www.eventzilla.net/pricing/, checked 2026-08-25) - Eventzilla's paid tiers are charged per registration with monthly minimums: Pro at $1.50 per registration with a $29 a month minimum, Growth at $1.99 with a $79 minimum. GuestSprout has no per-person charge and no minimum. (source: https://www.eventzilla.net/pricing/, checked 2026-08-25) - Eventzilla's platform fees do not include payment processing, which is payable separately to your chosen provider. The headline per-registration figure is therefore not the full cost. (source: https://community.eventzilla.net/article/406-how-much-is-the-cost-to-sell-tickets-in-eventzilla, checked 2026-08-25) - Eventzilla is built around registration forms, sessions, agendas, badges and check-in. Those are conference features, and GuestSprout has none of them. (source: https://www.eventzilla.net/, checked 2026-08-25) - A monthly minimum means an organisation running two events a year pays for twelve months of platform. GuestSprout has nothing to keep paying for between events. (source: https://www.eventzilla.net/pricing/, checked 2026-08-25) ## What Eventzilla does better - Genuinely free for free events with no monthly charge, which makes it usable for community and nonprofit organisers. - Proper registration forms with custom fields, which is what an event with sessions, dietary requirements and job titles actually needs. - Check-in and badge printing, plus session and agenda management, all of which are conference table stakes and absent from every invitation tool. - Per-registration pricing with a plan structure that is published plainly, rather than quote-only like the enterprise platforms. - Multiple payment providers supported, which gives organisations flexibility that closed ticketing systems do not. ## When Eventzilla is the better choice Choose Eventzilla when the event has a registration form: a conference, a training day, a workshop series, an association AGM, anything with sessions or badges. Its free tier makes it a genuinely good option for community organisations running unpaid events. Choose GuestSprout when the event has a guest list rather than a registration form, when you want an invitation people are pleased to receive rather than a form to complete, and when the number you need is how many adults and children are coming rather than who ticked which session. ## Registration platforms and invitation products Eventzilla is a registration platform. That means the centre of the product is a form: fields you define, ticket types you configure, and a record created when someone submits it. GuestSprout is an invitation product. The centre is a designed invitation and a one-tap reply, and the record it creates is a headcount rather than a registration. Both are legitimate and both are correct for different events. The mistake people make is using a registration platform for a party, which turns a warm invitation into an administrative task, or using an invitation tool for a conference, which leaves you without the badge printing on the morning of the event. The test is whether you need to ask people questions. If yes, you want a form. If all you need to know is whether they are coming and how many, you want an invitation. ## Reading the pricing correctly Eventzilla's free tier is straightforwardly free: no monthly charge, and free entirely if your event is free for attendees. For a community organisation running unpaid meetings that is a good offer. The paid tiers are where care is needed. Pro is $1.50 per registration with a minimum of $29 a month, and Growth is $1.99 per registration with a minimum of $79 a month. The minimum is the part people miss: it is charged whether or not you have an event running. Payment processing is also excluded from those figures and payable separately to your provider, so the true cost of a paid registration is the per-registration fee plus card processing. For an organisation with a continuous calendar, that is fine and predictable. For one that runs a fundraiser in May and a dinner in November, paying twelve monthly minimums for two events is poor value, and it is worth checking whether the free tier covers what you need. ## What GuestSprout gives you instead No fee of any kind, no minimum, no per-registration charge and no payment processing, because no money moves through the product at all. An invitation with a design: %%DESIGNS%% of them across 22 categories, a studio for fonts and text layers, an envelope and 20 opening effects, or your own uploaded artwork. Replies structured for catering rather than for reporting: yes, no or maybe, plus separate counts of adults and children, totalled on the dashboard, with a cap for the event and a cap per invitation. Reminders that go out automatically by email or text, and messages you can send to everyone or only to the people who have not answered. ## Community organisations, which use both The organisations that most often compare these two products are churches, schools, sports clubs and charities, and they usually need both. The ticketed fundraiser with a seating plan and a raffle wants registration: forms, ticket types, check-in. The volunteer thank-you supper wants an invitation: something that looks warm, goes out to a hundred people by text, and comes back as a number. Because both products have a genuinely free path for unpaid events, that split costs nothing to run. The only decision is which shape each event is. ## Guest lists and privacy An Eventzilla event is generally a public page, which is right for something you want people to find. GuestSprout events are private: not listed, not indexed, not suggested anywhere. Each guest gets an unguessable link, and there is a single shareable link if you want to post one into a group chat instead of building a list. For an internal event, a staff party or a members-only dinner, that difference is the reason to choose an invitation product rather than a registration platform, quite apart from the price. ## Common questions ### Is Eventzilla free? Yes for free events. There is no monthly charge to post an event and no fee if attendees pay nothing. Paid events move you onto per-registration pricing. Checked 2026-08-25. ### How much does Eventzilla charge per registration? Pro is $1.50 per registration with a $29 a month minimum, and Growth is $1.99 with a $79 a month minimum. Payment processing is separate. ### What is the monthly minimum and why does it matter? It is a floor charged regardless of volume. An organisation running two events a year on a paid tier still pays twelve months, which often makes the free tier the better choice. ### Can GuestSprout collect registration information? No. Replies are structured as yes, no or maybe plus adult and child counts and an optional note. If you need custom fields, use a registration platform. ### Does GuestSprout do check-in or badges? No. Eventzilla does both, and for a conference that is a decisive advantage. ### Which is better for a members-only dinner? GuestSprout. Private links, a designed invitation, headcounts with adults and children separated, and nothing public or discoverable. ### Can I run both? Yes, and most organisations should. Registration platform for ticketed and formal events, invitation product for the social ones. Both have free paths for unpaid events. ### How current is this comparison? Eventzilla's published plan prices and fee structure were checked on 2026-08-25. Verify on eventzilla.net before committing to a plan. --- Eventzilla is a trademark of its owner. GuestSprout is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Eventzilla.