Updated October 2026. Fees checked against Ticket Fairy's pricing page on October 8, 2026.
A $10 ticket on Ticket Fairy costs your buyer $12. A $50 ticket costs $55. You keep the full ticket price in both cases, because the fee is added on top at checkout. That makes the fee easy to ignore on your side.
Your buyers notice. Below are Ticket Fairy's US fees from its own pricing page, what buyers pay from $5 to $250, how that compares with TixFox, and what Ticket Fairy includes for the fee.
How much does Ticket Fairy charge? In the US, Ticket Fairy adds a service fee to every paid ticket: a flat $2.00 on tickets under $20, 10% from $20 to $99.99, 9% from $100 to $249.99 and 8% from $250 up. Card processing is included, buyers pay the fee by default, and free tickets cost nothing.
How Ticket Fairy's pricing works
Ticket Fairy charges one fee per paid ticket, and that fee covers its platform, card processing and customer service for your buyers. There's no setup fee and no required monthly fee. According to its pricing page, the US fee depends on the ticket price:
- Under $20: a flat $2.00
- $20 to $99.99: 10% of the ticket price
- $100 to $249.99: 9%
- $250 and up: 8%
- Free tickets: no fee
Every paid ticket carries at least $2.00. Ticket Fairy notes that taxes, optional services, bank instalments and custom agreements can change the total, so a big festival with a negotiated deal may pay something different.
By default, the buyer pays the fee on top of the ticket price. Ticket Fairy calls that Added. You can switch an event to Absorbed, where the buyer pays the price on your poster and the fee comes out of what you receive, or Added Later, where the fee only appears at checkout.
What your buyers pay at each ticket price
On TixFox, the fee is $0.39 per ticket plus Stripe's card processing, 2.9% + 30¢ per order in the US. When you pass the fees on, the checkout works out the processing so you still receive the full ticket price. In the examples below, you keep the ticket price on both platforms. The difference is what the buyer pays on top.
For a one-ticket order:
- $10 ticket: $12.00 on Ticket Fairy, $11.01 on TixFox
- $20 ticket: $22.00 on Ticket Fairy, $21.31 on TixFox
- $25 ticket: $27.50 on Ticket Fairy, $26.46 on TixFox
- $50 ticket: $55.00 on Ticket Fairy, $52.20 on TixFox
- $100 ticket: $109.00 on Ticket Fairy, $103.70 on TixFox
- $250 ticket: $270.00 on Ticket Fairy, $258.18 on TixFox
Both columns include card processing. Taxes and optional extras can change the total.
The $2 minimum on low-priced tickets
A flat minimum is easy to explain and hard on low prices. On a $5 ticket, Ticket Fairy's $2.00 is 40% of the price. On a $10 ticket, it's 20%.
TixFox's share is high on a $5 ticket too, at 17.2%, because Stripe's fixed 30¢ is a big slice of a small payment. The gap is still wide: a buyer pays $7.00 for that ticket on Ticket Fairy and $5.86 on TixFox. If you run open mics, community screenings or anything priced under $20, this is where the difference shows up in your buyers' carts.
Above $20, Ticket Fairy's fee settles at 10% and drops to 9% and 8% for expensive tickets. TixFox's share keeps falling as the price rises, because its fee is a fixed 39 cents plus Stripe's 2.9%.
Across a whole show
A dollar or two per ticket adds up fast.
A 300-ticket show at $30 a ticket puts $900 of Ticket Fairy fees on your buyers. On TixFox the same show comes to $483 if everyone buys one ticket, and $435 if they buy in pairs, since Stripe's 30¢ is charged once per order, not per ticket.
When buyers pay the fees, that $417 stays with them instead of going to checkout fees. That matters most when your crowd is watching every dollar.
If you absorb the fees instead
Some organizers want one clean price on the poster. In that case the fee comes out of your share, and the gap is yours:
- $25 ticket: you keep $22.50 on Ticket Fairy, $23.58 on TixFox
- $50 ticket: $45.00 on Ticket Fairy, $47.86 on TixFox
- $100 ticket: $91.00 on Ticket Fairy, $96.41 on TixFox
A family buying four $25 tickets in one order costs you $10.00 in Ticket Fairy fees, and $4.76 on TixFox: four times 39 cents plus $3.20 in card processing on the $100 order.
How you see the fees at checkout
On TixFox, buyers see the ticket price, then the TixFox fee and the processing fee as separate lines, before they pay. You choose per ticket type whether to pass the fees on or absorb them.
On this order from our demo event, the buyer paid $61.25 and the organizer received $58. On Ticket Fairy, the two $25 tickets alone would carry $5.00 in fees.
How you get paid
Ticket Fairy gives you two options. You can link your own payment account, Stripe (or Xendit in Indonesia and the Philippines), and get paid daily while tickets sell. Or you can choose to be paid after your event, with Ticket Fairy collecting the card payments and holding them until then. The second option needs no setup, which is handy for a first event, but the payout comes after the event.
On TixFox, every sale goes straight into your own Stripe account, and TixFox never holds your money. Stripe then pays out to your bank on its normal schedule. Our guide to selling tickets with Stripe has the payout timing.
What Ticket Fairy's fee pays for
Price isn't the only thing to compare. Ticket Fairy's site leads with festivals, nightclubs and concerts, and its fee covers more than the sale itself:
- Customer service for your buyers. Ticket Fairy answers your ticket buyers' questions for you.
- Referral rewards. Every buyer gets a personal link and can earn back part of their ticket price, or all of it, when friends buy through it. You set the rewards, and they come out of your ticket revenue.
- Payment plans. Fans can pay a deposit and the rest weekly or monthly.
- Face-value resale and waiting lists. A fan who can't come sells the ticket back through Ticket Fairy at the original price.
- Reserved seating and timed entry. TixFox reserved seating is coming soon, but Ticket Fairy has it now.
- Apple Pay and pay-later options. With Stripe connected, Ticket Fairy lists Apple Pay, Afterpay and Clearpay.
Card processing is also part of Ticket Fairy's fee. On TixFox, Stripe charges an extra 1.5% on international cards, so if many of your buyers pay with cards from abroad, the gap narrows a little.
Outside the US
Ticket Fairy uses the same 10%, 9% and 8% steps in other countries, with different minimums:
- United Kingdom: £1 minimum on tickets under £10
- Australia: A$2 under A$15, A$2.50 from A$15 to A$25
- New Zealand: NZ$2 under NZ$15, NZ$2.50 from NZ$15 to NZ$25
- Canada: CA$2 under CA$20
TixFox's fee in those currencies is £0.38, A$0.64, NZ$0.85 and CA$0.56 per ticket, and lower on cheap tickets (£0.30 under £5, for example), plus Stripe's card fee for your country, listed on Stripe's pricing page. Ticket Fairy's figures include card processing and TixFox's don't, so run the numbers on your usual ticket price before you decide.
What one organizer says about TixFox
A low fee only helps if the platform keeps up with your event. Sydney Finley wrote on Trustpilot in August 2026 that TixFox is "very responsive to adding new features" and has "been a great addition to our event."
Watch how selling on TixFox works
This walkthrough shows the whole setup in under six minutes: connecting Stripe at 0:26, ticket types and the pass-or-absorb fee setting from 1:35, and what your buyers see at checkout from 3:49.
When Ticket Fairy is the better choice
Choose Ticket Fairy if:
- You run festivals or club nights where referral rewards and payment plans matter.
- You want someone else to handle buyer support.
- You need reserved seating or timed entry now.
- You sell expensive tickets and want face-value resale built in.
When TixFox costs less
Choose TixFox if:
- You want your buyers to pay less at every price shown here, from $5 to $250.
- You sell low-priced tickets, where a $2 minimum takes a big bite.
- Your buyers order in groups, since Stripe's 30¢ is per order.
- You absorb the fees and want to keep more of each ticket.
- You want every sale in your own Stripe account from the first ticket.
For the fees on other platforms, see our breakdown of Ticket Tailor's fees and our 2026 ticketing price comparison.
To try TixFox, create a free account, connect Stripe and put your first event on sale. Free events cost $0, and paid tickets are $0.39 each plus Stripe's card processing. See TixFox pricing.
FAQ
How much does Ticket Fairy charge per ticket?
In the US, a flat $2.00 on tickets under $20, 10% from $20 to $99.99, 9% from $100 to $249.99 and 8% from $250 up. Every paid ticket carries at least $2.00, and card processing is included.
Does Ticket Fairy charge for free events?
No. Ticket Fairy says there are no fees on free tickets, for you or your attendees.
Who pays Ticket Fairy's fee?
By default, the buyer. The fee is added to the ticket price at checkout and you receive the full ticket price. You can choose to absorb it instead, event by event.
Does Ticket Fairy's fee include card processing?
Yes. Ticket Fairy says its fee includes standard card processing and customer service for your buyers, so nothing is added on top for processing.
How does Ticket Fairy pay organizers?
Either daily into your own Stripe account (or Xendit in Indonesia and the Philippines) while tickets sell, or in one payout after your event if you let Ticket Fairy collect the payments.
Is Ticket Fairy cheaper than TixFox?
Not on the published US fees. On a $25 ticket, a buyer pays $27.50 on Ticket Fairy and $26.46 on TixFox, card processing included in both. Ticket Fairy's fee also covers buyer support, and it offers referral rewards and payment plans.
Sources
- Ticket Fairy: Pricing (US fee schedule and country fees). ticketfairy.com/pricing. Checked October 8, 2026.
- Ticket Fairy: Payments and payouts. ticketfairy.com
- Ticket Fairy: Referral rewards. ticketfairy.com
- Ticket Fairy: Sell tickets with Stripe. ticketfairy.com
- Stripe: Pricing (US cards, international cards). stripe.com/pricing
- Trustpilot: TixFox reviews, screenshot taken October 8, 2026.
- TixFox: Pricing and FAQ. Checkout screen from the TixFox demo event, October 2026.
