Eventbrite vs Ticketmaster

Eventbrite's Platform API (v3, base host www.eventbriteapi.com) is built around managing an organizer's own events rather than searching the wider Eventbrite catalog: creating and updating events, defining ticket classes and pricing, and reading orders and attendees, all authenticated with OAuth 2.0 (a private token for your own account, or the full authorization-code flow for apps acting on behalf of other users). The public event-search endpoint was retired in 2019 — a live request against it now returns a plain 404 rather than search results. Access is included with any Eventbrite account at no extra API charge; no separate self-serve paid tier is published.

Ticketmaster's Discovery API v2 (base host app.ticketmaster.com) returns JSON search results for events, attractions, and venues, authenticated with a free API key (a "Consumer Key") issued from a developer account. Every key starts on the default public quota of 5,000 calls/day at up to 5 requests/second, tracked via Rate-Limit response headers, with higher volume available case-by-case on request rather than through any published paid self-serve tier. Deep paging is capped at the 1,000th result per query, per the API's own documented limits.