500 credits
$50
10.0¢ per sold seat
Go live for $0. Pay as seats sell.
Build free in test mode and go live for $0. Every organization gets 100 free sold seats a month, then prepaid credits from 10¢ down to 5¢ per sold seat. No subscription. Purchased credits do not expire.
One credit per confirmed sold seat. Designing, browsing, holds and unsold seats are free. Selling your own tickets instead? Hosted Ticketing is $0.50 a ticket →
Around 50% lower starting seat price than seats.io. $0.10 per sold seat against their €0.18 per used seat, with no annual subscription. Compare your costs →
CREDIT TOP-UP ESTIMATOR
USD · REVIEWED 1 SEP 2026
Estimate credits from confirmed sales.
CREDITS REQUIRED
4,900
after 100 free SDK credits
MINIMUM TOP-UP
$400
1 × 5,000-credit pack
CREDITS LEFT
100
remain and do not expire
CASH / SOLD SEAT
8.0¢
at this entered volume
How it works: your 100 free seats each month come off first, then we pick the cheapest mix of packs. Taxes and enterprise terms are not included.
Static example: 5,000 confirmed sold seats in a month, less 100 free credits, need one 5,000-credit pack for $400, which works out to 8.0¢ per sold seat with 100 credits left over. If sales are lower than the purchased balance, unused credits remain available until used.
Two plans. Pay only when a seat sells.
Build seating into your platform, or sell your own events. Neither has a subscription.
For ticketing platforms
Platform SDK
$0to go live
100 free sold seats every month, then 10¢ down to 5¢ a seat. Volume and enterprise terms for large on-sales.
- Seat picker for web, iOS, Android, React Native and Flutter
- Embedded Venue Designer for your customers
- Holds, booking API and signed webhooks
- Server SDKs for Node, Python, PHP, Java, Go, Ruby and .NET
- Benchmarked at 200,000 seats; 3D included
- White label with any credit pack
Hosted Ticketing
$0.50per confirmed ticket
Your first 25 tickets are free. Your gateway charges its own processing fee.
- Seat map and checkout on your website
- QR and PDF tickets by email
- Box office counter with 80 mm or A4 printing
- Door check-in on a phone
- Full or partial refunds
- Stripe, PayPal, Square, Braintree, Authorize.Net, Checkout.com, Mollie, Razorpay, Tap, Mercado Pago, Xendit, Flutterwave, Paystack or iyzico
Need only a layout first? Make a seating chart free, no signup required → · 3D seat map · All features
- 200,000seats on one map, ready in 1.95 sOpen the stadium →
- 100,000seats in a public arena you can tryOpen the arena →
- 10,000buyers on one event, zero server errors
- 9 msto hold a seat under that load (p99)
Tested on public venue files with simulated buyers, September 2026. How we measured loading · How we measured buyers · Every run on GitHub
SDK credit packs: 10¢ down to 5¢ a seat
Each pack funds confirmed sold seats; from 50,000 credits the unit price holds at 5¢, and every purchased credit remains available until used. USD · REVIEWED 1 SEP 2026
1,000 credits
$90
9.0¢ per sold seat
5,000 credits
$400
8.0¢ per sold seat
25,000 credits
$1,500
6.0¢ per sold seat
50,000 credits
$2,500
5.0¢ per sold seat
100,000 credits
$5,000
5.0¢ per sold seat
Already have credits? The estimator assumes a zero balance, so your real top-up can be lower.
Large on-sales. An SLA, invoicing, and sales channels for promoters, sponsors and the box office are agreed with you, based on your on-sale.
Need platform or enterprise terms? Talk to us →Compare the cost of your sales pattern.
SeatLayer starts at $0.10 per sold seat with no annual plan. Enter your sales to compare a year of charges.
| Starting economics | SeatLayer Platform/SDK | seats.io Silver | seatmap.pro Starter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production entry | $0 100 free sold-seat credits each month | €450 prepaid annually 2,500 used seats per year | €400 annually 2,500 sold-seat annual cap |
| Starting paid basis | $0.10 per sold seat $50 buys 500 credits | €0.18 per used seat | €0.16 effective at the full annual cap |
| Unused value | Purchased credits never expire | Included capacity expires with the period | Annual cap does not roll forward |
Prices shown in each provider’s billing currency.
1-year software charges · 5,000 confirmed sales
- SeatLayer SDK
- $400.00
- 100 free credits used; 100 purchased credits remain. Standard SDK credits.
- seats.io
- €900.00
- Silver annual; 5,000 used seats per year. €900.00 invoiced.
- seatmap.pro cloud
- €2,000.00
- Growth cloud; 10,000 annual cap. €2,000.00 invoiced.
seatmap.pro also sells a self-hosted licence: €20,000 for 1 year, plus your own servers. SeatLayer is cloud only.
Examples and how we calculate costs
Method: apply up to 100 free SDK credits in each entered month, use your existing balance, then choose the cheapest pack combination covering the remaining period. This is a planned top-up for the whole period; buying smaller packs month by month may cost more. Select the lowest-priced applicable published annual seats.io plan and seatmap.pro cloud cap. A two-year estimate repeats your entered sales year and applies seatmap.pro’s published 10% cloud prepay discount; annual caps still reset each year. Monthly plan switching, custom discounts, taxes, processor fees and Hosted Ticketing are excluded. An SLA selection requires a separate SeatLayer entitlement quote; the displayed SDK credit charge is only the base cost. White label is included with any SeatLayer credit pack, so selecting it only raises the competitor plan tier. Peer support and feature scope are not identical.
All sales in one month, zero starting credits, used seats equal sold seats, standard annual plans, original currencies. These remain readable with JavaScript off.
| Confirmed sales | SeatLayer | seats.io | seatmap.pro cloud |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,500 | $230 | €450 · Silver | €400 · Starter |
| 5,000 | $400 | €900 · Silver + overage | €2,000 · Growth |
| 10,000 | $800 | €1,800 · Silver + overage | €2,000 · Growth |
| 50,000 | $2,500 | €7,200 · Gold | €5,000 · Pro |
| 100,000 | $5,000 | €12,000 · Gold + overage | €10,000 · Scale |
Compare seats.io features and fit → · Compare seatmap.pro deployment and fit →
Use the seating workflow before a credit is used.
You pay one credit per seat, only when a sale is confirmed. Everything before that is free. Full rules are in the credit billing documentation.
Before confirmation
- Design and publish venue charts
- Show and browse the seat map
- Select seats and create temporary holds
- Release holds or manage house blocks
- Move seats at the box office
- Open the optional 3D view
At the first confirmed sale
When your system confirms a booking, each sold seat uses one credit. A box office sale counts the same way. A seat is only ever charged once, and opening 3D never uses a credit.
How seat bookings are confirmed →- 01 Buyer opens the map $0
- 02 Two seats held $0
- 03 Checkout succeeds Your checkout
- 04 Two seats confirmed sold −2 CREDITS
Pricing questions
Still have a question? or email hello@seatlayer.io.
When exactly is a sold-seat credit used?
One credit is used the first time a seat is confirmed sold for an event. Browsing the map, picking seats, holding, releasing, blocking or moving seats never uses a credit.
Do purchased credits expire?
No. Credits you buy never expire and stay in your organization's balance until used. If no seats sell, no credits are used.
How much does Hosted Ticketing cost?
$0.50 per confirmed ticket, and every new organization gets its first 25 tickets free. There is no subscription. Buyers pay into your own gateway (Stripe, PayPal, Square, Braintree, Authorize.Net, Checkout.com, Mollie, Razorpay, Tap, Mercado Pago, Xendit, Flutterwave, Paystack and iyzico), which charges its own processing fee. Hosted tickets are billed separately from SDK credits.
Do I need a card to start?
No. Test mode is free, with no time limit and no card. Test events, holds, live updates and webhooks work like production and use no credits. Switch to a live key when you are ready to sell.
Is Copilot or other AI work billed by credits?
No. AI features are not billed with seat credits today. If that ever changes, you will see the cost before anything runs.
Is a monthly subscription required?
No. Buy a credit pack when you need one. For large volumes or enterprise terms, talk to us.
How much does a seat map API cost?
One prepaid credit per confirmed sold seat, and nothing else. Packs run from 10¢ a seat on the 500-credit pack down to 5¢ from 50,000 credits. Every organization gets 100 free credits a month, there is no subscription, and purchased credits never expire.
Is there a free seat map API tier?
Yes. Go live for $0 with 100 free sold seats every month. Designing charts and test mode are free too, with no time limit and no card.
How does SeatLayer pricing compare to seats.io?
SeatLayer's starting seat price is around 50% lower: $0.10 per sold seat against seats.io's €0.18 per used seat. You go live for $0 with 100 free seats a month and no annual plan, and purchased credits never expire. seats.io Silver starts at €450 a year for 2,500 used seats. Your total depends on your sales, so use the calculator above.
Start in test mode. Pay when a seat sells.
Test mode is free with no card. For large volumes or enterprise terms, talk to us.