The best free tools for an event website with RSVP in 2026 are Partiful for casual parties, Luma for meetups and community events, RSVPify for invitation-style events with a real guest list, EventCreate for a full event page with a schedule, Evite for classic invitations, and Eventbrite when you want a public listing. Every free plan gives something up: a guest cap, ads or branding, or a cut of every paid ticket. If you want the event on your own domain with the guest list in your own database, build the site yourself. Prices below were checked on each vendor's own page on October 19, 2026.
Collecting RSVPs is easy. The hard part is the week before, when you need to know who's coming, who's bringing a plus-one, and how to reach the twelve people who never answered. Judge each tool by that week, not by how pretty the invite looks.
Planning a wedding? Our wedding website builders comparison covers Zola, Joy and the registry-led tools. This page covers everything else: meetups, product launches, workshops, reunions and parties.
At a glance
| Tool | Free plan | Cheapest paid option (as of October 2026) | Fee on paid tickets | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RSVPify | Up to 100 RSVPs, 1 event at a time | Gold $10/month, or $72/year (300 RSVPs) | 1.95% + $0.90 per ticket, plus card processing | Invite lists, plus-ones, meal choices |
| EventCreate | 1 event, 50 attendees | Personal $60/year (unlimited events, 50 attendees each) | 5% on Free, 2% on Personal, plus card processing | A full event page with a schedule |
| Eventbrite | Unlimited free events at no cost | No subscription; fees apply to paid tickets only | 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket, plus 2.9% processing per order (US) | Public events that want discovery |
| Evite | Free invitations, with ads | Premium from $17.99 per event (up to 12 guests) | Not applicable | Classic invitations |
| Partiful | Free to create; up to 1,000 invites per event through Partiful | No paid plan listed | Not published on the pages we checked | Casual parties |
| Luma | Unlimited events and guests | Luma Plus $59/month, billed annually | 5% platform fee on Free, 0% on Plus, plus Stripe's card fee | Meetups and community events |
| Build with Greta.sh | 5 credits a day to build, no deployment | Starter $5/month welcome offer (normally $20/month) to deploy on your own domain | No per-RSVP or per-ticket cut from Greta.sh | Your own domain and guest data |
What should an event website with RSVP include?
Start with what guests text you when the page is missing it: where is it, when does it start, can I bring someone, is there parking? A good page answers all four before the guest scrolls. The working parts:
- Date and start time, with the time zone stated for anything online.
- Venue name, full address and a map link.
- A schedule, even if it's three lines.
- The RSVP form, with a clear deadline.
- A plus-one rule (allowed, named, or not at all).
- An add-to-calendar link, so the date lands in the guest's own calendar.
- Reminders before the day, and one place to post changes.
- A short FAQ: dress code, accessibility, parking, who to contact.
If the event is public and you want it to show up in Google's event results, Google's Event structured data guide lists the event's name, start date and location as required properties. Hosted RSVP tools rarely let you control that markup.
Which free RSVP tools are best?
1. RSVPify – the closest thing to a guest-list database
RSVPify is built around the list, not the invite. Free covers up to 100 RSVPs per event with one event stored on the account at a time. Gold is $10 a month or $72 a year for up to 300, and Platinum is $15 a month or $108 a year for up to 500 RSVPs, three events at a time and an RSVP form you can embed on your own website. Features include CSV export, guest tags, password protection and an .ics calendar file on confirmation and reminder emails.
For paid events, its ticketing pricing is $0 a month plus 1.95% + $0.90 per ticket, with card processing charged separately, and you can pass the fee to buyers.
Who it's for: hosts with a named guest list and plus-ones to track. Limits: check-in, conditional questions and removing the RSVPify logo from emails are business-plan features.
2. EventCreate – a real event website on a small budget
EventCreate gives you a fuller event site: pages, schedule items, galleries and registration. Free is one event, 50 attendees and one user. Personal is $60 a year for unlimited events at 50 attendees each, and Personal+ is $120 a year for 100. The ticketing fee falls as you move up: 5% per paid ticket on Free, 2% on Personal, with payment processing on top. EventCreate's FAQ says you own your attendee data and can export it as CSV or Excel at any time.
Who it's for: workshops, reunions and small conferences that need a schedule, not just a form. Limits: removing EventCreate branding and adding a custom domain start on the Growth business plan ($600 a year), or a Whitelabel add-on at $360 a year.
3. Eventbrite – free for free events, priced for paid ones
Eventbrite's pricing is simple for free events: publish unlimited free events at no cost. Paid tickets in the US carry a service fee of 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket and 2.9% payment processing per order. Buyers pay by default, or you absorb them. Fees differ by country.
Who it's for: public events that want to be found, since your listing sits in a marketplace Eventbrite says reaches 89 million monthly users. Limits: your page lives on Eventbrite, next to everyone else's events.
4. Evite – invitations first
Evite is still the invitation tool your relatives already know. Free invitations work with a shareable link and read receipts but show ads. Premium removes the ads and adds extras such as a host photo gallery. It's priced per event by guest count: $17.99 for up to 12 guests, $36.99 for 30, $68.99 for 75 and $99.99 for up to 750. Evite Pro is $249.99 a year for unlimited invitations of up to 2,500 guests each.
Who it's for: birthdays, showers and family events. Limits: it's an invitation, not an event website, and Premium packages are single-event.
5. Partiful – the casual default
Partiful pitches itself as free online invitations with RSVP tracking, and guests RSVP from a link with no app needed. Its help centre says you can invite up to 1,000 guests per event through Partiful and an unlimited number by sharing the link yourself.
Who it's for: house parties, dinners and friend-group events. Limits: it's an event page on Partiful, not a site on your own domain, and we couldn't find published ticket fees.
6. Luma – built for meetups and communities
Luma is free with unlimited events and unlimited guests per event. Free includes reminders by email, SMS, push and WhatsApp, 500 invites a week, check-in, approval-only registration and CSV export. Paid events carry a 5% platform fee on top of Stripe's card fee, which Luma puts at typically 2.9% + 30 cents. Luma Plus is $59 a month billed annually and drops the platform fee to 0%, and adds 5,000 sends a week, a custom URL for event pages and API access.
Who it's for: recurring meetups, community calendars and tech events. Limits: the 5% fee on the free plan adds up fast on paid events.
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What do free RSVP tools cap or charge?
Free plans recover their cost in four places. Guest caps are the first: EventCreate's free plan stops at 50 attendees and RSVPify's at 100 RSVPs, while Luma's free plan allows unlimited guests per event. Branding is the second: Evite's free invitations carry ads, and removing EventCreate's branding means a business plan or add-on.
Ticket fees are the third, and they decide the real cost of a paid event. Take 100 tickets at $20 each and look only at the platform's own fee, before card processing:
- Eventbrite (US): 3.7% + $1.79, so $2.53 a ticket and $253 in total, plus 2.9% processing per order.
- RSVPify ticketing: 1.95% + $0.90, so $1.29 a ticket and $129, plus card processing.
- Luma Free: 5%, so $1.00 a ticket and $100, plus Stripe's card fee.
- EventCreate Free: 5%, so $100. On Personal ($60 a year) it's 2%, so $40, plus processing either way.
Fixed per-ticket fees hurt cheap tickets most: on a $5 workshop, Eventbrite's $1.79 alone is more than a third of the price.
Export is the fourth, and the one people forget. RSVPify, EventCreate and Luma all describe CSV export. Whatever you pick, export a test list before you send 200 invites.
How do you build an event website with RSVP from one prompt?
Which AI tool can build and deploy a website from one prompt? Many can produce a page; fewer give you the guest list, an admin view and a deployed site on your domain. Greta.sh is an AI app builder: you describe the site in plain English and it generates the frontend, backend and database, with exportable code. For a wider comparison, see our guide to the free AI website builder options.
A build that handles the hard week looks like this.
- Describe the whole event, not just the page. For example: "Build an event website for a 120-person product launch. Pages: home with date, venue and map link, schedule, speakers and FAQ. RSVP form with name, email, company, plus-one yes or no, and dietary needs. Close RSVPs seven days before the event, cap at 120 and put later sign-ups on a waitlist. Add an add-to-calendar button. Give me an admin page behind a login where I can filter guests by status and export a CSV."
- Check the data model. You want a guests table with a status (yes, no, waitlist), a plus-one field and a timestamp, plus settings for the cap and the deadline.
- Break it on purpose. RSVP twice with the same email, submit after the deadline, and fill the 121st seat. Each should fail politely.
- Deploy and connect your domain. On Greta.sh pricing, the Free plan's 5 credits a day cover building but not deployment. Starter is $5 a month on the welcome offer (normally $20 a month) and adds deployment and custom domain setup. Storing the guest list uses the Database feature, which the pricing page lists on Pro: $20 a month on the welcome offer (normally $50 a month). Our custom domains guide walks through the DNS side.
- Plan reminders. Greta.sh's pricing page doesn't list a built-in email sender, so send reminders from your own email tool or connect a transactional email service, as covered in our guide to transactional email in AI-built apps.
Often this is overkill. For a one-off party, Partiful or Luma is live before you've finished the prompt, and free. Building wins when you run events every month and want one guest database across them, when you need rules the tools don't offer (seat caps per session, approval by company email domain, a live audience vote like our real-time voting app), or when the event belongs on your brand's domain. If your "event" is really bookable time slots, the booking and scheduling app guide is the better starting point.
Event website design: 5 examples worth copying
Five page patterns, described by structure, that work in any tool above or in your own build.
1. The meetup page
One screen. Date and time with the time zone, venue with a map link, the host's name and photo, a count of who's going, and the RSVP button above the fold. The link arrives in a group chat, so design for a phone. Copy this: the RSVP button in the first screen, nowhere else competing with it.
2. The product launch
A one-line pitch, then agenda, speakers and an RSVP form that asks for company and role. Afterwards the page becomes a recap with the replay. Copy this: plan the after-state, so the URL keeps working once the launch is over.
3. The workshop or class
Show capacity honestly ("18 of 25 seats left"), then what to bring, who it's for and the cancellation policy. Copy this: remaining seats, updated from the real RSVP count, not a fake urgency banner.
4. The one-day conference
With several tracks, the schedule becomes the navigation, and each session gets its own seat count. Copy this: session-level RSVPs, so you know which room fills up before the day.
5. The reunion or private party
An invite code or password gate, named plus-ones, and a photo upload section after the event. Copy this: the invite code, which keeps the address off the open web without forcing guests to make an account.
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Can I use my own domain for an event website?
Sometimes, and usually on a paid tier. EventCreate puts one custom domain on its Growth plan or a Whitelabel add-on. Luma Plus adds a custom URL for event pages. RSVPify's Platinum plan lets you embed the RSVP form on a website you already run, which is often the cleanest answer if you have one. The pricing and help pages we checked for Eventbrite, Evite and Partiful don't offer a custom domain.
If you build the site yourself, the domain is yours from day one. On Greta.sh, custom domain setup comes with Starter.
FAQ
What is the best free event website with RSVP?
Partiful or Luma for casual events; Luma's free plan has no guest cap. RSVPify's free plan suits a named list of up to 100 RSVPs, and EventCreate's covers one event of up to 50 attendees with a schedule.
Do guests need an account to RSVP?
It depends. Partiful says guests can RSVP from a link with no app needed, though invites sent through Partiful go to guests' Partiful accounts. Test it by RSVPing to your own event from a logged-out phone. On a site you build, a no-login RSVP link is your design choice.
Can I limit attendees or set an RSVP deadline?
Usually. RSVPify lists limits and capacities, EventCreate lists automated capacity management, and Luma can require approval. On a custom build, the cap, deadline and waitlist are rules in your prompt.
Can I use my own domain for an event website?
On some paid tiers: EventCreate's Growth plan or Whitelabel add-on, or RSVPify Platinum embedded on your own site. A site you build runs on your domain from day one.
How much does Eventbrite charge per ticket?
In the US, 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order. Free events cost nothing, and fees vary by country.
Which AI tool can build and deploy a website from one prompt?
Several can generate a page. Greta.sh generates the full site, including the RSVP form, guest database and admin view, and deploys it on your domain from Starter, $5 a month on the welcome offer (normally $20 a month); the Database feature is listed on Pro, $20 a month on the welcome offer (normally $50 a month).
Own the page your guests open
Pick a free tool if the event happens once and the guest list fits its cap. When events repeat, or the page needs to live on your domain with a list you control, build it once and reuse it every time.
