Event management platforms
Asked as “event management platform”, and as “in-person event registration and management software”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B software company. 50 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, six models each. Added to the September 2026 Edition; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
28%
Contested · Swoogo 20%
28Bizzabo20Swoogo14Eventbrite38others
28% of first choices, contested.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all six models, for a mid-market B2B software company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
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Cvent Event Marketing & Management6%47%57criticized challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 6% now.
Cvent Event Marketing & Management6%47%57criticized challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 6% now.Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
The floor is 12 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
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01Bizzabo28%
Bizzabo28%02Swoogo20%
Swoogo20%03Eventbrite14%
Eventbrite14%04Accelevents6%
Accelevents6%05Ticket Tailor6%
Ticket Tailor6%06Zoho Backstage6%
Zoho Backstage6%07Cvent Event Marketing & Management6%
Cvent Event Marketing & Management6%08Eventzilla4%
Eventzilla4%09Whova0%
Whova0%10vFairs0%
vFairs0%11RingCentral Events0%
RingCentral Events0%What they warned about
A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Eventbrite39%
21 of 54 labels negative · 13 of 6 models · 8 hard negative
“**Avoid if:** You are selling tickets under $25 (too expensive), selling high-end corporate tickets (no fee cap), or want exclusive ownership of your attendee database.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Cvent Event Marketing & Management47%
27 of 57 labels negative · 11 of 6 models · 10 hard negative
“Cvent ... Price Increases ... High Cost: Generally considered expensive and less accessible for smaller organizations” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
vFairs19%
4 of 21 labels negative · 4 of 6 models · 2 hard negative
“Huntress security research found software flaws and misconfigurations in two of the top five virtual event platforms: ... VFairs.” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
Whova13%
4 of 31 labels negative · 3 of 6 models · 2 hard negative
“**Avoid if:** Your audience consists of highly academic, scientific, or senior executive professionals... *Better Alternatives:* Sched or CrowdComms.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the six in this edition.
Sites the answers cite
76 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 6 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1034 links across 202 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
vendor site · Bizzabo42 answers · 69 citations · 13 models
40 answers · 50 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Rework31 answers · 39 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Eventify30 answers · 47 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Capterra28 answers · 50 citations · 12 models
25 answers · 38 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Eventzilla25 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Zoho21 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
vendor site · InEvent20 answers · 26 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Zuddl18 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Whova17 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
vendor site · InviteDesk16 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
35 answers · 11 models
28 answers · 10 models
27 answers · 12 models
23 answers · 10 models
21 answers · 12 models
18 answers · 10 models
17 answers · 8 models
16 answers · 7 models
14 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 10 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best event management platform”, “event management platform”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
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| Bizzabo bizzabo.com | 28% | 221 | 2,400 | 41 | 13,809 | $8 | 15 | |
| Swoogo swoogo.events | 20% | 84 | 4,400 | 49 | 17,342 | 25 | ||
| Eventbrite eventbrite.com | 14% | 144 | 673,000 | 4,192 | 11,231,792 | $483 | 25 | |
| Accelevents accelevents.com | 6% | 37 | 1,600 | 96 | 4,231 | $17 | 40 | 1 |
| Ticket Tailor tickettailor.com | 6% | 26 | 12,100 | 116 | 128,324 | 47 | ||
| Zoho parent site Zoho Backstage 6% | 6% | 37 | 1,000 | 19 | ||||
| Cvent Event Marketing & Management cvent.com | 6% | 164 | 0 | 1,714,548 | 73 | |||
| Eventzilla eventzilla.net | 4% | 39 | 880 | 3 | 6,888 | 1 | ||
| RSVPify rsvpify.com | 2% | 20 | 22,200 | 100 | 99,488 | 85 | ||
| Luma luma.com | 2% | 19 | 90,500 | 7,669 | 109,488 | 24 |
Google's top ten for the two searches hold 15 sites; 1 of them are among the sites the models cited here (whova.com). The first result for “best event management platform” is vfairs.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best event management platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which in-person event registration and management software would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top event management platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best event management platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an event management platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which event management platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
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Claude Opus 4.8no first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
GPT-6 Astrano first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
GPT-5.6 Solno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.1 Prono first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Perplexity Sonar Prono first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Zero rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
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Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
Cvent read as Cvent Event Marketing & Management
Unresolved, counted raw
AnyRoad
Asana Personal
Caterease
CrowdComms
Cvent Event Management
Events.com
Gatheround
IndieVivo
Klapperz
Momentus Elite
OBS Studio
Stripe Payment Links
StubHub
TicketTailor
TixFox
Townhall
Ungerboeck (rebranded as Momentus Technologies)
WordPress Event Manager
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Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.