EventMobi alternatives for trade show and expo organizers
EventMobi is an all-in-one event website, registration and app platform with real exhibitor tools. Here is how it compares to Map D for organizers who sell booth space, and where EventMobi is genuinely the better pick.
For organizers whose revenue comes from selling booth and sponsorship space off a live floor plan, Map D is the stronger fit — published per-event pricing and a database-backed floor plan with self-serve checkout. For programs centered on the event website, registration, badge printing and mobile app — with floor navigation rather than floor sales as the goal — EventMobi is a reasonable, transparent-pricing choice.
Written by Map D, which is one of the alternatives listed below. Claims about other platforms are limited to what those companies publish themselves, and each is sourced at the foot of the page. Last verified September 2026.
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What EventMobi is good at
EventMobi is a broad, established event platform and it is unusually transparent about pricing for the category. If the following describe your program, it is a fair shortlist entry and this page is not trying to talk you out of it.
- Published starting prices — $3,000 per event or $8,900 per year for unlimited events — which is rarer in this category than it should be and gives you a real number to start budgeting from.
- A broad, genuinely all-in-one bundle: event website, registration, badge printing, check-in, mobile app and lead capture under one vendor.
- Transparent, usage-based add-on pricing for extras — badge printing from $3.99/badge, hardware rental from $1,000, streaming packs from $500 — rather than folding everything into an opaque quote.
- Lead capture pricing is straightforward and organizer-controlled: sold in packs of 10 company licenses at $50 per license, with the organizer setting the resale price to exhibitors.
Why organizers look elsewhere
The gaps that send trade show organizers looking for an alternative.
- The published starting prices are a floor, not a quote. EventMobi's own pricing page says per-event cost 'scales based on attendee count, selected products, and add-ons,' so $3,000 is where a real event's cost begins, not where it ends.
- The floor plan is a static image with pins for wayfinding, not live inventory. EventMobi's Interactive Mapping lets attendees tap a pin to find a session room or sponsor booth on an uploaded map image — it is not a database of sellable booth inventory.
- No self-serve booth or sponsorship checkout is documented on EventMobi's own site. Its exhibitor-facing commercial mechanism is lead-capture company licenses sold in packs, not booths purchased directly off a floor plan.
How Map D compares
Map D’s column states what Map D does. Where a EventMobi equivalent is not publicly documented, the row says so rather than guessing.
- Map D offers
- 7 of 7
- EventMobi publicly documents
- 5 of 7
The second bar counts what EventMobi documents on its own site, which is not the same as what it can do. A criterion we could not verify is shown as unverified, not as missing — if EventMobi covers it somewhere we did not find, that is a gap in our checking rather than in their product.
| Criterion | Map D | EventMobi |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Included | Documented |
| Pricing unit | Included | Documented |
| Interactive floor plan with live inventory | Included | Documented |
| Self-serve booth and sponsorship checkout | Included | Unverified |
| Exhibitor self-service portal | Included | Documented |
| Registration, badging and lead retrieval | Included | Documented |
| Hotel booking for attendees | Included | Unverified |
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Map D’s rates are per event and listed on the pricing page. The dashed column has no height and no figure on purpose: where rates are not published we will not put a number on them, and where they are published we will not restate one that can change without notice.
Criterion by criterion
| Criterion | Map D | EventMobi |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Yes — $1,500, $2,500 and $2,750 per event, listed on the pricing page. | EventMobi publishes starting prices — $3,000 per event, $8,900 per year — but states cost scales with attendee count, products and add-ons; custom pricing applies above 10,000 attendees (checked September 2026). |
| Pricing unit | Per event. Adding organizers or exhibitors does not change the plan price. | EventMobi offers both per-event and per-year (unlimited events) pricing, scaled by attendee count and selected add-ons (checked September 2026). |
| Interactive floor plan with live inventory | Core to the product — booth availability, pricing and sales run off the same live plan. | EventMobi's Interactive Mapping is a static uploaded image (JPG/PNG) with location pins for wayfinding to sessions and sponsor booths, not a live, sellable inventory record (checked September 2026). |
| Self-serve booth and sponsorship checkout | Exhibitors select and pay for space directly from the plan. | No self-serve booth or sponsorship purchase flow is documented on EventMobi's own site; its exhibitor commercial model found is lead-capture company licenses sold in packs of 10 at $50 each, resold by the organizer (checked September 2026). |
| Exhibitor self-service portal | Profiles, staff badges, documents, add-ons, invoices and renewals. | EventMobi's Company Portal lets exhibitor admins manage their own booth staff and export leads as CSV; documents, invoices and renewals were not found on the pages reviewed (checked September 2026). |
| Registration, badging and lead retrieval | Available as quoted add-ons that connect to the same event record. | EventMobi's pricing page lists registration, badge printing, check-in, event app and lead capture as core included products (checked September 2026). |
| Hotel booking for attendees | Included — add your hotel or room-block booking URL and attendees reach it from the event map and app. | No hotel or room-block booking feature found on EventMobi's pricing, event-website or exhibitor pages reviewed (checked September 2026). |
The alternatives worth shortlisting
Map D
Shows whose revenue comes from booth and sponsorship sales
Live floor plan, self-serve booth checkout, exhibitor management and reporting on one platform, priced per event and published, with registration and badging as quoted add-ons.
EventMobi
Registration- and app-driven programs where floor navigation, not floor sales, is the goal
Broad all-in-one suite with transparent starting prices; floor plan is a static wayfinding map, not live booth inventory.
Whova
Conference programs where the mobile app and networking matter most
Strong attendee-app product with a genuine, self-serve exhibitor booth-selection feature, though also on an uploaded floor image rather than live inventory.
ExpoFP
Organizers who want a floor-plan specialist and nothing else
Focused specifically on interactive floor plans for trade shows and expos.
Where Map D is stronger
- Pricing is published and fixed: $1,500, $2,500 or $2,750 per event, with multi-year rates available — no attendee-count scaling to estimate before you get a real number.
- The floor plan is the system of record for booth inventory — availability, pricing and sales update on the same live plan, rather than a static wayfinding image with pins.
- Roughly 800 organizers run about 6,000 events a year on Map D, which has processed more than $250M in booth and sponsorship sales.
- Exhibitor self-service covers the full lifecycle — profiles, staff badges, documents, add-ons, invoices and renewals — not just lead-capture licenses and staff management.
When EventMobi is the better choice
- Your program is registration- and content-driven — event website, ticketing, badge printing, check-in and the mobile app are the core deliverables, and any exhibit space is secondary to attendee experience.
- You want a single vendor for the whole stack, including streaming/hybrid add-ons, printed badges and hardware rental, and you value published starting prices even knowing the final number depends on usage.
- Your floor plan need is wayfinding, not selling — helping attendees find sponsor booths, sessions and points of interest on a map — rather than tracking and selling booth inventory as a live record.
- You already run lead capture as a resold add-on to exhibitors and want that pack-based licensing model ($50/license, organizer sets resale price) rather than booth-priced inventory.
Frequently asked questions
How much does EventMobi cost?
EventMobi publishes starting prices on its own site: $3,000 per event, or $8,900 per year for unlimited events, with a note that per-event cost 'scales based on attendee count, selected products, and add-ons.' So the published number is a floor, not a final quote. Map D publishes fixed rates: $1,500, $2,500 or $2,750 per event.
Does EventMobi have a live floor plan like Map D?
EventMobi's Interactive Mapping is a static uploaded image with location pins, used so attendees can find sessions and sponsor booths — it is not a database of live, sellable booth inventory. Map D's floor plan is the system of record: booth availability, pricing and sales all run off the same live plan.
Can exhibitors buy a booth directly on EventMobi?
No self-serve booth or sponsorship checkout is documented on EventMobi's own site. Its exhibitor-facing commercial tool found is lead-capture company licenses, sold in packs of 10 at $50 per license, which the organizer resells to exhibitors at a markup they set. On Map D, exhibitors select and pay for booth space directly from the live floor plan.
What is the best EventMobi alternative for a booth-sales-driven show?
Map D, if your event's revenue comes primarily from selling booth and sponsorship space — published per-event pricing and a live, database-backed floor plan with self-serve checkout. For a registration- and app-centric program where floor navigation matters more than floor sales, EventMobi remains a reasonable, transparently priced choice.
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Sources
- EventMobi pricing page · checked 2026-09-22
- EventMobi lead capture page · checked 2026-09-22
- EventMobi Knowledge Base: Interactive Mapping setup · checked 2026-09-22
- EventMobi Interactive Event Maps product page · checked 2026-09-22
- Map D pricing · checked 2026-09-22
