Pay for seats booked, not clicked.
venuery and seats.io both give you a seating chart designer and a seat map for your own ticketing. The difference is what you pay for, and what comes with it.
venuery and seats.io
From each company's public pages, checked 15 October 2026.
| venuery | seats.io | |
|---|---|---|
| What you're billed for | Booked seats. Holds, selections and releases are free. | Used seats: a seat counts once per event when it's selected and kept, its status changes through the API, or it's given to a channel. |
| Season tickets | A season seat counts once per season. | A season seat counts at every event in the season. |
| Free plan in production | Developer: $0 with 250 booked seats a month; bookings never fail on a limit. | A 90-day testing trial that can't sell in production. |
| Paid plans start at | $49 a month (750 booked seats) | €450 a year prepaid (2,500 used seats), or €600 a month |
| Unused seats | Nothing to expire: you pay for what's booked. | Seats included in a plan expire at the end of the month or year. |
| Ticketing | Included as venuery Ticketing: checkout, season tickets, box office, scanner. $1.49 per order, and the seat map costs nothing extra. | Seat maps only: you bring your own ticketing and payments. |
| Designer, 3D and view from seat | Yes, with floor-plan tracing and seat finding. | Yes, with floor-plan scanning. |
| White label and embedded designer | Yes. The embedded designer comes with Growth. | Yes, white label on every plan. |
| Data location | United States. | Regional servers around the world. |
| Track record | New, built with a baseball team in 2026. | Says it handles over 7 million bookings a month. |
A year of seat maps, at list prices.
The cheapest plan on each for the same seats, assuming every seat counted on seats.io was booked. Selections that aren't bought also count there, so real costs can be higher. Euros and dollars aren't converted.
| Seats a month | venuery a year | seats.io a year |
|---|---|---|
| A small venue: 200 seats booked a month | $0 | €450 |
| A theater: 3,000 seats booked a month | $2,748 | €6,480 |
| A busy venue: 20,000 seats booked a month | $17,028 | €24,000 |
| Season tickets: 1,500 seats for 30 home games | 1,500 booked seats, counted once | 45,000 used seats, counted at every game |
Selling with venuery Ticketing instead? Then the seat map is free, and you pay $1.49 per order.
When seats.io is the better fit
- You need your data hosted outside the United States.
- You want a long track record at very high volumes before you switch.
- Your team already builds on seats.io’s SDKs and wants to stay on them.
Bring your charts and your live events.
Upload a seats.io chart file and it becomes a venuery chart: sections, rows, tables, booths and categories.
Import each live event's bookings from a seats.io report, matched by label. Try it as a dry run first.
The seat map embed and the REST API work the same way: holds while fans pay, bookings when they do.
venuery vs seats.io questions
Is venuery cheaper than seats.io?
At list prices, usually: venuery bills booked seats only, has a free plan for production, and counts a season seat once per season. Run your own numbers with the table above.
Can I keep my seats.io charts?
Yes. Import seats.io chart files directly, and bring each live event's bookings across from a seats.io report.
Does venuery sell tickets too?
Yes, if you want it to: venuery Ticketing is checkout, season tickets, a box office and a gate scanner for $1.49 per order. Or keep your own ticketing and use venuery only for seat maps.
What happens if I go over my plan?
Bookings never fail on a billing limit. On a paid plan, extra booked seats are billed per seat.
Sources, checked 15 October 2026: seats.io pricing · seats.io features · seats.io: changing pricing plans. seats.io is a trademark of its owner. Prices change; check theirs before you decide.
Try it on your own venue.
Draw a chart free in your browser, or import the one you already have.