MijnEvent vs Luma
Luma is a US platform for events, community nights and conferences, with a strong free plan: unlimited events and unlimited guests. As soon as you sell paid tickets, Luma keeps 5% of the ticket price on the free plan. With Luma Plus ($59 per month, billed annually) that platform fee disappears, but you keep paying the subscription in months when you sell nothing. Payments run through Stripe, which adds its own transaction costs of roughly 2.9% + $0.30.
Short answer
Luma is strong for community events and meetups, but takes 5% of the ticket price on the free plan — on a €25 ticket that is €1.25 against €0.50 at MijnEvent. To lose that fee you pay $59 a month, including months without an event.
Summary
Pricing
MijnEvent
Luma
Luma pricing last verified: July 28, 2026. Subject to change.
Facts about Luma
- The free plan charges a 5% platform fee on paid events; free events cost nothing.
- Luma Plus costs $59 per month (billed annually) and sets the platform fee to 0%.
- Payments run through Stripe, which adds roughly 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.
- Amounts are in dollars and there is no Dutch-language support.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Luma | MijnEvent |
|---|---|---|
| Costs & payouts | ||
| Transparent pricing | Yes | Yes |
| Flat fee — regardless of ticket price | No | Yes |
| Early bird without a separate ticket type | Not published | Yes |
| Mollie payments | No | Yes |
| Custom service fees | Not published | Yes |
| VAT invoices for visitors | No | Yes |
| Sales & extras | ||
| Ticket resale | No | Yes |
| Sell gift cards | Not published | Yes |
| Waitlist when sold out | Yes | Yes |
| Time slots (timed entry) | Not published | Yes |
| Ticket widget on your own site | Yes | Yes |
| Box office at the door (card & cash) | Not published | Yes |
| Apple & Google Wallet tickets | Not published | Yes |
| QR check-in | Yes | Yes |
| Offline scanning | Not published | Yes |
| Statistics dashboard | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in cookie- and tracking-free analytics | No | Yes |
| Newsletter integration at checkout | Yes | Yes |
| More than tickets | ||
| Rentals & reservations | Not published | Yes |
| Reserved seating & floor plans | Not published | Yes |
| Event feedback: anonymous post-event survey | Not published | Yes |
| Merchandise & webshop | Not published | Yes |
| Local vouchers & city cards valid at multiple businesses | Not published | Yes |
| Own gift card with printed cards and a till app | Not published | Yes |
| QR ordering for food & drinks | Not published | Yes |
| Safety & permit: gate monitoring with alerts | Not published | Yes |
| Parking & camping pitches | Not published | Yes |
| Memberships & season passes | Yes | Yes |
| Mail attendees from the platform | Yes | Yes |
| Courses & workshops | Not published | Yes |
| Attendee details per ticket, after checkout | Not published | Yes |
| Donations & fundraising (0% fee) | Not published | Yes |
| Your own website, custom-built | No | Yes |
| Run your dashboard from your own AI assistant (MCP) | Not published | Yes |
| Partners send their own guest tickets | Not published | Yes |
| Platform & convenience | ||
| Own subdomain | Not published | Yes |
| Instant self-service start | Yes | Yes |
| Management app (iOS, Android & iPad) | Yes | Yes |
| Magic link login | Yes | Yes |
| Visitors pick their own language | Yes | Yes |
| Your own texts translated automatically | Yes | Yes |
| AI event wizard | Not published | Yes |
| FAQ knowledge base with AI — powers Minty | Not published | Yes |
| API & integrations | Yes | Yes |
| Accessibility & support | ||
| WCAG AA accessible | Not published | Yes |
| Dutch support | No | Yes |
Luma sells tickets. MijnEvent runs your entire organisation.
Luma sells tickets. MijnEvent sells tickets and rents out your boats, halls and equipment, seats your visitors on a floor plan, sells your merchandise, takes orders at the bar and the food trucks, manages your memberships and season passes, handles your parking and camping pitches, enrols your course participants, collects your donations, gathers anonymous feedback afterwards and builds your entire website if you want one — all on the same account, with the same Mollie connection, for a flat fee per transaction.
What Luma does
International community and RSVP platform, big in tech meetups and conferences; strong on calendar, invitation and networking features.
15 of these 18 capabilities are missing from Luma.
What MijnEvent also does
You switch every module on or off yourself. Click through for what it does and what it costs. Dimmed = Luma offers this as well.
- One account Everything under the same subdomain and the same back office. No second vendor, no second login, no export files dragged back and forth.
- One Mollie connection You connect Mollie once. Every module settles through it, straight into your own account — tickets, rentals, merchandise and the rest.
- A flat fee per transaction Flat amounts per paid transaction, never a percentage of your revenue. Free tickets, free bookings and donations are fee-free.
Strengths & Points of attention
Luma — Strengths
Luma — Points of attention
Privacy by design — only what is needed
MijnEvent only asks visitors for what a ticket really requires: name and email address — city is optional. No phone number, date of birth or full address: tickets do not need them, and elsewhere they are mostly collected for marketing. Less data means less risk for you and your visitors (GDPR).
- Name + email address
- City optional
- No phone number
- No date of birth
- No full address
Why switch to MijnEvent?
A flat amount per ticket instead of a percentage, settlement in euros through your own Mollie account, iDEAL | Wero in the checkout, Dutch support, your own subdomain and WCAG AA
Luma is best for
International community events and meetups where the network is already on Luma
MijnEvent is best for
Dutch organizers who want transparent pricing, accessibility built to WCAG AA, their own subdomain, privacy by design (GDPR), built-in resale, gift cards, waitlists, and self-service VAT invoices for visitors.
When is Luma the better choice?
Choose Luma if you run international community events or meetups where the calendar, invitation and networking features matter more than the cost per ticket, and your audience is already on Luma.
What carries over from Luma?
An honest overview of what you take with you, what you set up again, and what stays behind at Luma.
This comes with you
- Your visitor list — the addresses are yours. With a valid opt-in you load them into your own newsletter service and connect that to the checkout.
- Your Mollie account. You connect it again and payouts keep landing straight in your own account.
- Your branding: logo, colours and your own subdomain, so visitors see your name and not the platform's.
- Your own website and existing links — point the "Tickets" button at your subdomain or place the ticket widget on your own page.
This you set up again
- Your events, ticket types and prices are created again in your dashboard.
- Your service fees are set again per ticket type.
- Your stewards receive an invitation and set their own PIN for the scanning app.
- Modules you use — rentals, parking, memberships — are switched on one by one.
What does not come with you: tickets already sold through Luma. Those stay valid there and their QR codes are not recognised by us — we do not import orders from another system. Most organisers therefore switch between two events, or let a running event finish at their current provider while the next one is already set up at MijnEvent.
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Disclaimer
This comparison is based on our own observation of public sources (such as the pricing and feature pages of Luma). We do our best to keep everything accurate and up to date, but we may have overlooked something or information may have changed since.
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Report an inaccuracyLast updated on October 28, 2026. The above is based on information gathered around that time.