Shortlist SeatLayer when you want $0 standard production entry, non-expiring purchased credits, a buyer interface you can compose around the shared renderer, interactive 3D, and scoped AI workflows. Start with a public 53,018-seat stadium, then plan the chart, inventory, and commerce cutover deliberately.
$0.10 per confirmed sold seat. Around 50% lower starting seat price than seats.io Silver. See pricing.
Open Floor plans and import your chart →Need a row-by-row decision? Open the SeatLayer vs seats.io comparison.
SeatLayer fits teams that already own the event and commerce workflow but need deeper venue design, buyer selection, inventory, holds, booking, channels, and 3D.
Need a literal capability grid? Continue to SeatLayer vs seats.io. This route stays focused on switch triggers, alternatives, and migration.
SeatLayer statements reflect shipped product and published pricing. Competitor facts were checked against current official seats.io pages on 5 Sep 2026.
| Switch decision | SeatLayer | seats.io |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price and meter | 100 free Platform/SDK credits every month, then $50 buys 500 confirmed-sold-seat credits: $0.10 each, falling to $0.05 at volume. No subscription and no minimum commitment. | Silver is €450/year for 2,500 used seats: €0.18 each if the full contracted capacity is used. Selection, status change, or channel assignment can make a seat used. |
| Unused value | Purchased credits never expire. Buy once and use the balance whenever customers sell seats. | Unused monthly capacity does not carry forward. Annual capacity can be spread inside the contract year but expires after it. |
| SDK coverage | Stable JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Vue, and Angular SDKs, seven server families, REST/OpenAPI, and supported production React Native, Flutter, iOS/Swift, and Android/Kotlin SDKs. | Broad web and the same seven server families, plus published React Native, Flutter, Android, and iOS SDKs. |
| Sales channels | Released channels provide versioned assignment, scoped buyer access, live enforcement, reporting, and webhook attribution. | Channels assign seats to buyer groups and make them selectable when the matching channel is supplied. |
| Buyer experience | Complete 2D picker plus optional chart-derived interactive 3D with live selection and fly-to-seat navigation. | Multiple-floor charts with isometric or stage perspective; organizer-uploaded seat-view images can include panoramic look-around. |
| Operating path | Use the SDK inside your product or add hosted event, Box Office, Control Room, ticket, and door tools with the organizer's gateway. | Reserved-seating infrastructure for host-owned ticketing, with an embeddable Designer and Event Manager. |
| Public chart import | Paste a public seats.io buyer page to create a native editable SeatLayer draft. Public workspace key + event key + region is the fallback. Review is required before publication. | The official renderer addresses a public buyer chart with a public workspace key and event key; no workspace secret is part of that public rendering path. |
| Enterprise and control | Custom enterprise agreement above 100,000 sold seats per month, plus SSO/SAML, SLA, DPA, integration support, and open chart export. | Enterprise begins at 20,000 used seats monthly or 240,000 yearly and includes priority support and an SLA; minimum commitments apply. |
| Season and resale boundary | Fixed Renewable Seasons are available. SeatLayer does not claim first-class resale. | Official pages document seasons, event groups, season-ticket workflows, resale, and released mobile SDKs. |
Every link here points to SeatLayer-owned product evidence or SeatLayer's public GitHub repositories.
Buy SeatLayer credits when you need them, with no annual commitment. Purchased credits never expire. seats.io Silver starts at €450 per year. Estimate your costs →
Reviewed 5 September 2026: seats.io pricing, renderer sessions, Seasons, resale.
Paste the public buyer-page URL, or enter the public workspace key, event key, and region. SeatLayer discovers the public chart and creates a draft; it never publishes the result automatically.
Use the buyer-page URL. When a host page hides the chart, enter the public workspace key, event key, and region instead—never a secret or admin key.
Check imported sections, rows, exact seats, gaps, labels, accessibility, categories, public settings, and observed statuses. Ambiguous or unsupported evidence is flagged for review.
Choose the SDK or hosted path, then test live inventory, hold expiry, payment, idempotent booking, webhooks, tickets, and door operations before switching production.
Chart import is not account migration: the importer creates a reviewable chart draft from public evidence. It does not transfer the seats.io account, event record, orders, tickets, customers, payments, or private dashboard data.
Both paths use SeatLayer venue geometry and live inventory. The SDK remains the primary product motion.
Origin-restricted embed keys and short-lived sessions narrow browser authority. Your server re-inspects the hold, prices the order, takes payment, books idempotently, and reconciles signed webhooks.
Connect the organizer's Stripe or Razorpay keys so payment goes to its account. SeatLayer can provide the event page, Box Office, Control Room, ticket issue, and door tools.
Boundary: The organizer's connected Stripe or Razorpay provider controls processing fees, applicable taxes, and payout timing; SeatLayer bills Hosted Ticket usage separately and is not the organizer's CRM.
Review hosted operations →The legacy chart-preview iframe is non-transactional. Use the web SDK for your checkout, or a hosted embed for an eligible Managed event with the organizer’s connected payment gateway. Managed Ticketing uses a separate Hosted Ticket wallet.
SeatLayer keeps chart data exportable and host commerce authoritative. Public chart import and Fixed Renewable Seasons are released; first-class resale and complete vendor-account migration are not.
Review the dated row-by-row capability comparison.
COMMERCIAL MODELInspect every published pack and the usage estimator.
IMPLEMENTATIONMap the browser, server, tenant, and webhook boundary.
CLOSEST PEERContinue to the dedicated SDK comparison.
SeatPicker buyer surface and the headless SeatingChart canvas on the same event and live-inventory model, alongside JavaScript, Vue and Angular packages. The React SDK guide documents the package, component contract, holds, and checkout handoff.Import one public chart, review the editable draft, then run that venue through inventory, payment, booking, and operator workflows before cutover.