vs Bizzabo · Unlimited events, and much of it à la carte
Bizzabo runs a polished event.
We run the year around it.
Bizzabo runs a polished event and charges by the seat rather than by the head. Eleven of our eighteen modules come back partial there, and those are mostly one of two things: an add-on you buy separately, or a feature that stops when the event does. The two it doesn’t have at all are the two that turn an audience into a membership.
- They handle
- Badging, the app, matchmaking
- We’re better because
- One account underneath it all
- And past T+30
- No groups, no membership
What they cover
What Bizzabo does well.
Three of them. Two are about the day itself.
- 01
Seats, not registrations
Their pricing page charges by organizer seat and includes unlimited events and registrations. Most of this market charges per head. We don’t either.
- 02
Tap-to-connect badging
Klik SmartBadge does badge-tap networking, scanner-free lead capture, and live foot-traffic heatmaps.
- 03
The attendee app
Matchmaking drawn from registration data and content engagement, with booked meetings merged into a personal agenda.
Connected does all three, at 80 seats and at 12,000, on one shared set of accounts, passes, and permissions — with no separate line for networking, the sponsor portal, or the app, and a membership waiting on the other side of the event.
One event, start to long after
Both platforms get you through the wrap-up.
One keeps going.
This is the same lifecycle track as our home page — one event, from the first planning meeting to the year after next. Bizzabo covers it through the post-event wrap: attribution, CRM sync, sponsor ROI, on-demand views. The last two beats are the argument.
Their evergreen content hub nudges a little past T+30, but an archive isn’t an audience. At T+90 there’s no feed, no groups, no channels — so Day 400 doesn’t open warm, it opens with a contact list and a re-registration.
Module by module
Eighteen modules, marked honestly.
- 5
- modules Bizzabo has an answer for
- 11
- where the answer is partial
- 2
- with no Bizzabo equivalent
- has an equivalent
- partial
- nothing equivalent
Event Management
Events — has an equivalent
On-Site — has an equivalent
Advanced Onsite is a paid add-on, hardware rented
Meetings — partial
Virtual and networking are both add-ons
Bookings — partial
Hotel room blocks, through a partner
Community Engagement
Activities — partial
In-session polls and reactions, no year-round feed
Channels — partial
A per-event on-demand hub, not member channels
Groups — nothing equivalent
Interests — partial
Captured at registration, used for matchmaking
Threads — partial
Event-app chat and session channels; ends with the event
Monetization & Finance
Benefits — nothing equivalent
Ticket types gate sessions; not membership tiers
Advertisements — partial
Sponsor placements, no ad inventory
Sponsors — has an equivalent
The sponsor portal is a paid add-on
Invoices — partial
Invoicing as a payment option; tax is yours to handle
Platform & Communication
Accounts — partial
Org-level contacts; the attendee’s profile is per event
Announcements — has an equivalent
Storage — partial
Event assets and on-demand video
Support — partial
An in-app AI guide, not ticketing
Surveys — has an equivalent
Only two come back empty, which flatters the middle column. The eleven partials are mostly one of two things: an add-on you buy separately, or a feature that stops when the event does. A platform can have a version of almost everything and still leave an audience nowhere to live.
Marked against Bizzabo’s own published product pages, July 2026 (Bizzabo product pages) (their pricing page). Product lines move. If we have one of these wrong, tell us and we’ll change it — we’d rather be corrected than quoted.
Service-first software
Support isn’t a tier here.
Service-first isn’t a tagline, it’s the order this company was built in: support is the engine and the software is what assists it. It’s also the one thing in this comparison you can’t read off a table of marks — and the thing you’ll care most about at 6am on the day of.
What support usually means
- An add-on tier you upgrade into
- A chatbot with a friendly name
- A queue position and an ETA
- A macro pasted from a knowledge base
What it means here
- The core engine, not an upgrade tier
- A person you can reach, by name
- Someone who can change the product
- Reached before you have to ask
That’s a commitment rather than a plan tier, so it’s written down and it applies to every customer on the platform, at 80 seats and at 12,000. Read the promise in full.
One qualificationBizzabo sells a service layer too — professional services, a studio, hardware rental. The difference is structural: theirs arrives as a statement of work, ours is the thing the software was built around.
Leaving Bizzabo
What moving actually involves.
Migrations are where comparison pages go quiet. Here’s the honest version, including the part that is genuinely work.
- 1
Bring the contacts, and give them a login
Your contact records import as accounts, deduplicated on email, with event history attached — and with the thing a contact row doesn’t have: a profile the person signs into between events.
- 2
Run one event in parallel
Keep Bizzabo for the conference already built. Stand the next one up here instead, and compare the two on the same portfolio.
- 3
Rebuild the registration logic once
Your conditional flow doesn’t transfer automatically — no platform’s does, in either direction. We rebuild it with you in a session, and you clone it forever after.
- 4
Turn the year on
Channels, groups, threads, and interests go live the week the event ends, on the audience that just attended it, with the permissions they already have.
And the part that is work
What doesn’t come across: your Bizzabo event sites, their integration configuration, and anything sitting in a third-party tool you wired to them. Klik SmartBadges are their hardware, so we’d walk through exactly what our on-site kit does and doesn’t replace before you sign, not after.
Bring the conference you’re proudest of.
Bring your passes and your questions and we’ll build it here with you — not hand you a trial and a help center — so you can judge it where it counts: the week after the doors close.
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