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Humanae vs Luma
A beautiful event page, plus sponsors who apply, volunteers who come back, invoices, and a 3% rate for your members. Every tool is free, with no plan to unlock.
A $20 ticketPlatform fees
Humanae's monthly fee$0.00
One event, start to finish
Follow one night from six weeks out to the morning after. Under each step: what Luma does.
Six weeks out
Turn on sponsor applications, and companies apply from your event page with a tier or their own amount. Their card is held until you approve. Or let our team find a sponsor for you.
Luma has no built-in sponsor applications.
Two weeks out
Open the roles you need. Volunteers apply right from the event page, and everyone who helps is saved to your library for next time.
Luma has no volunteer roles or library.
On the night
Scan tickets from your dashboard, watch the room fill in real time, and message the no-shows before the speeches start.
Luma scans tickets at the door too.
The morning after
Send the survey, invoice your sponsor, and let your members' dues renew on their own. The next event starts with everyone you met at this one.
Luma renews memberships too, but its invoices are receipts for payments already made.
Every day in between
Free to use, and marked wherever Luma works differently.
Members, attendees, volunteers and sponsors in one place, with their history, your notes and tags.
Luma: contacts with tags, no notes
A room for your members, and one for every event.
Signed-in members get the 3% rate and your discounts. No code to share.
Luma: member tickets at the same 5%
No platform fee on tickets or donations, once you're verified.
Not on Luma
Payouts, refunds and tax reports in an account that's yours.
Venues, caterers and photographers in the Humanae marketplace.
Not on Luma
Invite co-organizers and choose what each one manages.
Luma: every admin has the same rights
Do the math
Side by side
| Compared on |  | luma |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | ||
| To use the platform | Free, with no monthly fee | Free, or $59 a month for Luma Plus, billed yearly |
| Fee on a paid ticket | 5%, or 3% when your members buy | 5% on the free plan, 0% on Plus |
| On a $20 ticket | $1, or $0.60 from your members | $1 on the free plan |
| Who covers the fee | You choose, per event | You do; it can't be added at checkout |
| Registered charities | 0% platform fee | No charity rate; 40% off Luma Plus for nonprofits |
| Paid memberships | 3% of dues | Calendar memberships with tiers |
| What comes with it | ||
| Member prices | Automatic for signed-in members, at 3% | Member-only tickets, at the same fee |
| Sponsors | Applications, finding and invoicing | — |
| Volunteers | Roles, applications and a library | — |
| Invoices | For sponsors and unpaid dues | Receipts for payments made |
| Contacts | A CRM with history, notes and tags | Contacts with tags |
| Venues and vendors | A marketplace to find them | — |
| Newsletters | A dedicated newsletter, with your events, free for up to 250 people | Scheduled, with your events |
| Door check-in | QR scanning | QR scanning |
Moving day
Dear Luma, you're lovely, truly. But our sponsors kept asking where to apply, and our volunteers kept asking where to sign up.
Questions
For organizers who want sponsors, volunteers and invoices around their events, yes. Tickets cost 5% (3% when your members buy) with no plan to buy, and every tool is free to use.
Luma's pricing page lists a 5% platform fee on paid events on its free plan, and 0% on Luma Plus at $59 a month, billed yearly, with Stripe's fee on top (checked November 2026).
Yes. Luma calendars can sell memberships with tiers that renew, and member-only tickets. On Humanae, dues cost 3% of each payment, and members pay the 3% ticket rate automatically.
Humanae is free to use, with no monthly fee. You pay 5% when a ticket sells (3% when your community's members buy), 3% on membership dues, and registered charities pay 0%. Stripe's processing fee applies on top, as on every platform.
We found no sponsor applications in Luma's help center. On Humanae, sponsors apply from your event page with a tier or their own amount, their card is held until you approve, and our team can find sponsors for you.
On the free plans, both take 5% of a paid ticket. Humanae is 3% when your community's members buy and 0% for registered charities, without a monthly plan. Luma Plus removes Luma's fee for $59 a month.
No. Luma's help center says it doesn't offer an option to add fees on top of ticket prices. On Humanae, you choose for each event: absorb the fee, or add it at checkout.
Yes. Export your contacts from Luma, upload the CSV to Humanae to invite them, and publish your next event. Payouts go to your own Stripe account.
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