Most of this market will not tell you what it costs.

What each platform publishes

Read from each vendor's own pricing page on 26 October 2026, in the currency they quote. Nothing here is taken from a software directory: listings in this market go stale, and a wrong figure about somebody else's product is not a comparison, it is a correction waiting to happen. Where a vendor publishes nothing, that is what the table says.

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3 of the 4 publish no figure. Cvent Attendee Hub, one of the largest platforms in the category, is not in the table at all: we could not reach a first-party pricing page for it, so we make no claim about what it charges.

Price is the smallest of the differences

Free for event owners is easy to understand, and it is not really the point. It is the mechanism, not the product. We charge organisers nothing because that is how the Rooms get listed and the delegate lists get uploaded, and the Rooms are what make the thing worth having. Four differences matter more.

One account, every event, not one app per conference

Every platform in the table above is bought by an organiser, for their event. The attendee gets an app for that conference, uses it for two days, and loses it when the event closes. Next month, a different event, a different app, a different profile typed in again, and the people they met are gone.

The Gantry is the other way round. The account belongs to the attendee. Every Room on the platform is in one place, whoever is running it and wherever in the UK it is, and you swipe them by how far you are willing to travel and how far ahead you plan. Your profile is written once. Your connections accumulate across events rather than resetting at each one. That difference in full.

A delegate list with something actually on it

A printed delegate list gives you a name, a company and a job title, which tells you almost nothing about whether the conversation is worth having. The Gantry leads with what someone is working on right now and what they will happily be asked about, next to their role and their goals, for every person in the room.

That is the thing attendees pay for, and it is the reason the free tier shows you 30% of a room rather than nothing: a third of a real list is enough to tell whether the full one is worth having.

Connections, not leads

Lead capture is the default in this category, and it points one way: scan the badge, export the list, send the sequence. The Gantry has no lead export, because the thing it is trying to produce is a relationship you still have in two years, not a row in somebody's CRM. Introductions are logged only when the other person confirms them.

Nothing to download

The Gantry opens in a browser from a link in the invitation email. No app store, no install, and nothing for a delegate to forget to do on the way to the venue. Every step between a person and the thing they are trying to do loses some of them, which is arithmetic rather than a statistic.

We will not quote you an adoption percentage to go with that, and the published figures are worth reading about: they range from 25% to 95%, measure three different things, and the one most favourable to our position was published by a company selling the same alternative we sell.

No feed

There is nothing to scroll, nothing to perform for, no likes and no public tallies of who knows whom. The number of people you can approach at an event is capped on purpose, so a nudge means something when it arrives. Set against LinkedIn.

Questions that get you a straight answer from any vendor

Including from us. If you are comparing platforms, these four are the ones people avoid:

1. What is the total cost for one event of my size, including setup and support, with no annual commitment?
2. Does the price change if attendance doubles on the day?
3. What happens to my delegate data if I do not renew?
4. Can my attendees use it for free, and what do they get if they do not pay?

Our answers: nothing; no; it stays yours and you can take it with you; yes, and they get 30% of the Rooms, 30% of any room they join and 2 nudges per event, or all of your room if you grant them delegate access, which costs you nothing.

Common questions

What does event networking software cost?

Most of it is quoted on application. Of the four platforms whose own pricing pages we checked on 26 October 2026, three publish no figure at all. The one that does, Converve, lists guide prices from €3,400 per event for an event of 1 to 100 attendees. The Gantry charges event owners nothing.

Is The Gantry free for event organisers?

Yes, for every function: unlimited listings, bulk delegate upload, granting every delegate the full room for your event, and the analytics. There is no listing fee, no analytics subscription, no card and no trial that runs out.

How is The Gantry different from a conference app?

A conference app is bought by the organiser for one event, and the attendee loses it when the event ends. The Gantry is an account the attendee keeps: one profile, one connection list, and every Room on the platform across the UK, whoever is running it.

How is it different from LinkedIn?

There is no feed. The Gantry holds connections rather than leads, it is scoped to events you are actually going to, and the number of people you can approach at each one is capped on purpose.

If you are running a selection process, how to choose an event networking platform has twelve of these and the three that actually decide it. More on the economics in what event networking software actually costs, and the full tier breakdown on pricing.