Event APIs, compared
The big APIs cover what sells tickets. FindLocal covers what's on a venue's calendar — the free Tuesday trivia and the bookshop reading included.
| FindLocalEvents API | TicketmasterDiscovery API | EventbritePlatform API | AllEventsEvents API | OpenWeb NinjaReal-Time Events Search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event coverage | Hyper-local: 5,596 trivia nights, 2,088 open mics, 1,675 karaoke nights and 2,094 storytimes among 105,943 upcoming events at 14,813 venues in 84 metros across the US and UK — counted live | Ticketed events sold through Ticketmaster and its partners — no free trivia night, no bookshop readingsource | Events created on Eventbrite — and not searchable by location since February 2020source | “200M+ events listed globally” across 40k+ cities; no US figure publishedsource | Whatever Google shows for the query — a live search per call, up to 500 results, not a cataloguesource |
| Free API tier | 1,000 calls/month, no card | Free key: 5,000 calls/day, 5 requests/secondsource | No event-search API — public search was removed in 2020source | Trial access by request (contact form)source | 50 requests/monthsource |
| Paid API for production use | Yes, self-serve — $9/mo for 10,000 calls · $49/mo for 75,000 callssource | By invitation only — higher limits are granted case by casesource | By invitation only | By invitation only — pricing not published, contact salessource | Yes — $25/mo for 10,000 (FindLocal: $9) · $75/mo for 50,000 (FindLocal: $49) · $150/mo for 200,000 requestssource |
| MCP server | Yes — same keysource | No | No | No | Yessource |
| Free self-serve widgets | Yes — free, no key, one script tagsource | No | Limited to a single organizer’s own events | Yessource | No |
| Data source | The venues’ own websites — straight from the source | Ticketmaster events onlysource | Eventbrite events onlysource | Scraped Eventbrite listings plus organizer submissions | Google search results and the Places API (not affiliated with Google)source |
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- FindLocal vs Eventbrite — Eventbrite removed public event search from its API in 2020. How FindLocal compares for developers who need events by city, date and category.
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