What you're actually choosing between.
Every claim on these pages about another product is sourced to that product's own published pages, with the date we checked it. Each page also says plainly when the alternative is the better choice — because for some events it is.
- A spreadsheet + Canva
The tool you're actually competing with.
Most Indonesian organizers do not run on event software. They run on a shared spreadsheet for the tenant list and a Canva file for the floor plan. That combination works, right up to the point where the two files disagree with each other.
Read the comparison - Platforms that take 3.5–5%
A percentage grows with your success. A flat fee doesn't.
Ticketing and marketplace platforms in Indonesia typically take a percentage of every transaction. The arithmetic below is the same event priced both ways, using our published fees and a representative booth price.
Read the comparison - ExpoFP
The closest thing to Gelar anywhere — built for a different market.
ExpoFP is the closest analogue to Gelar in the world, and the only other player in this category that publishes its pricing. The differences below are mostly about which market each product was built for, not which team built it better.
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