Comparison
Guestcount vs Partiful
Partiful is free and built for social events with friends. Pick Partiful for a party, a club night among friends or any event where free and fast matters most. Pick Guestcount when a brand, agency or venue runs an invite-only event on its own domain, with partner invite links, door staff and a guest history that carries across events, from $249 per event.
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Guestcount and Partiful side by side
| Feature | Guestcount | Partiful |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free to build; you pay to publish. Single events from $249. Essential, Growth and Brand plans from $299 a month, billed monthly or annually. | Free event pages. Ticketed events carry a fee that depends on event size and ticket price; free tickets have no fees. |
| Branded RSVP pages | Yes: a theme, your colors and fonts, your flyer and page blocks, built in the page designer. | Free event pages. |
| Custom domain | Yes, on Brand: your own domain or a guestcount.com subdomain. | Not published |
| Embedding on your own site | Yes, set up with our team. | Not published |
| Approvals and waitlist | Yes: approval per event or per invite link, with bulk approval. When an event is full, guests are offered a waitlist and you promote them as spots open. | Guest approval (“Get on the List”) and a waitlist. |
| Plus-ones | An allowance per guest and per invite link. Guests pick a number, name each plus-one, or answer your questions for each. | Plus-ones, with an option to require their names, and group-size limits. |
| Door check-in | Yes: search, QR scan and walk-ups on iOS, a shared phone or the dashboard. Door staff sign in by phone and use no seat. | Check-in from the web guest list by hosts and cohosts. Ticketed events add QR ticket scanning and check-in staff. |
| SMS | Yes: invitations, updates and a confirmation text on every event, alongside email. | Up to 10 text blasts per event, sent to guest categories. |
| Partner invite links and attribution | Yes: a link per partner or person, with its own spots and plus-ones. RSVPs, approvals and check-ins are credited per link and per partner. | Not published |
| Guest history across events | Yes, on Essential, Growth and Brand: one record per guest across your events, with their show rate. | Not published |
| Team roles | Admin and Manager roles with per-person permissions, per-event collaborators, and door staff at no seat cost. | Cohosts, and Org Profiles for hosting on behalf of an organization, with multiple admins. |
“Not published” means we found no public source for it; ask Partiful directly.
Who Partiful is better for
- Parties and social events among friends.
- Hosts who want free event pages.
- Ticketed social events for hosts in the US and UK.
Who Guestcount is better for
- Brands, experiential agencies and venues running invite-only events.
- Events on your own domain, with your branding, questions and approval rules.
- Events where partners bring guests and door staff check people in from their phones.
Common questions
Is Guestcount a good alternative to Partiful for brand events?
Yes, for brand and venue events. Guestcount adds what brand teams need: your own domain on the Brand plan, partner invite links that credit each guest, door staff who sign in by phone, and a guest record that carries across events. For a party among friends, Partiful's free pages are a good fit.
Is Partiful free?
Partiful's event pages are free. Ticketed events carry a fee that Partiful says depends on event size and ticket price, and free tickets have no fees. Guestcount is free to build and starts at $249 per published event. See pricing.
Can I use Partiful for a corporate or brand event?
Partiful offers Org Profiles for hosting on behalf of an organization. Its help center also says events you host or promote must use Partiful for RSVPs and ticketing. Guestcount is built for brand events: branded RSVP pages, your own domain, approvals and partner invite links.
How many guests can I invite on Partiful?
Partiful's help center says you can invite up to 1,000 guests directly per event, and sharing the link is unlimited. In Guestcount you set the event's capacity, and once it's full, new guests are offered a waitlist.
Sources
Partiful details from these pages, checked . Guestcount details from the product.
- Partiful homepage: https://partiful.com/
- Partiful help: fees: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/articles/15525398-what-fees-does-partiful-charge
- Partiful help: text blasts: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/articles/15525389-what-s-the-maximum-number-of-text-blasts-i-can-send
- Partiful help for hosts: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/collections/19666489-partiful-for-hosts
- Partiful help: checking in guests: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/articles/15525408-how-can-i-check-in-guests-for-my-event
- Partiful help: selling tickets: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/collections/19666493-selling-tickets
- Partiful help: who can sell tickets: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/articles/15525289-who-can-sell-tickets-on-partiful
- Partiful help: Org Profiles: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/articles/15525555-what-is-the-partiful-org-profiles-feature
- Partiful help: linking out to other platforms: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/articles/16825273-why-can-t-i-link-out-to-promote-events-on-other-platforms
- Partiful help: how many guests you can invite: https://help.partiful.com/en-us/articles/15525323-how-many-guests-can-i-invite