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Chobble Tickets vs DICE

DICE is a mobile-first ticketing platform popular with music venues and live events. Here's how a small, open source alternative compares on pricing, features, and data ownership.

Pricing comparison

DICE doesn't publicly disclose its fees — pricing is negotiated per partnership, so what you pay depends on your deal. Industry estimates suggest fees of around 10% per ticket (bundled, including payment processing), though your actual rate may differ.

Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year (£25 for charities and community groups) with no per-ticket fees at all. You only pay Stripe or Square processing fees on top. If you sell more than about 35 tickets at £15 each in a year, Chobble Tickets is already cheaper — and the savings grow quickly from there.

Interactive cost calculator

Drag the sliders to see how costs compare at different volumes:

Total takings £2,000.00
Chobble Tickets DICE
Annual fee £50.00 £0.00
Platform fees £0.00 £0.00
Payment processing £0.00 £0.00
Total cost per year £0.00 £0.00
Cost per ticket £0.00 £0.00

DICE fees are negotiated per partnership and not publicly disclosed. This estimate uses approximately 10% per ticket (bundled, including payment processing). Actual fees may vary. Chobble Tickets: £50/year flat + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p).

Data ownership and privacy

DICE owns the customer relationship. Your attendees become DICE users first and your customers second. DICE markets other events to your audience through their app, and your data lives within their ecosystem.

With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted with hybrid RSA/AES encryption and stays under your control. There's no platform trying to cross-promote other events to your audience, and no marketing emails sent to your attendees.

Payouts

DICE pays out after your event ends. You're essentially lending DICE your ticket revenue until the event is over.

Chobble Tickets uses Stripe or Square directly, so payments go straight to your account with standard processing times. You're always in control of your own payment processor account.

The app requirement

DICE requires attendees to download their mobile app to access tickets. This adds friction for buyers — not everyone wants another app on their phone just to attend a gig. It also means DICE controls the attendee experience, not you.

Chobble Tickets works in any browser on any device. Attendees get their tickets via email with a QR code, and can add them to Apple or Google Wallet. No app download required.

Feature comparison

Both sites share some features:

  • Online ticket sales with payment processing
  • QR code or barcode scanning for entry
  • Email or in-app confirmations to ticket holders
  • Capacity management to prevent overselling
  • Refund processing
  • Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout

DICE has some features Chobble Tickets doesn't, and vice versa:

DICE has features Chobble Tickets doesn't:

  • Event discovery app — DICE's mobile app helps fans discover events in their area based on their music tastes, location, and past attendance, which can drive extra ticket sales you wouldn't get on your own
  • Spotify and Apple Music integration — personalised event recommendations based on fans' listening history, plus checkout through Spotify and YouTube
  • Anti-scalping via app lock — tickets are bound to the DICE app and can't be screenshotted or forwarded, making them essentially impossible to resell on secondary markets
  • Waiting list with face-value resale — fans can join a waitlist for sold-out events, and if a ticket holder can't attend, DICE automatically resells their ticket at face value
  • Dynamic pricing — automatically adjust ticket prices based on demand
  • All-in pricing — fees are bundled into the displayed price so fans see the total cost upfront with no surprise charges at checkout
  • Marketing attribution — track which channels and campaigns are driving ticket sales via the MIO dashboard
  • Algorithmic event recommendations — personalised discover feed for each fan based on their tastes and location
  • Large-scale access hardware — DICE Access system with laser scanning hardware, zone-based scanning, and time-slot scanning
  • Real-time audience insights — segmentation by genre, spend, and geography via the MIO partner dashboard
  • DICE TV — livestreaming platform for virtual events
  • Multi-currency support — sell in different currencies across DICE's international markets (UK, US, Europe, Australia)
  • Partner API — a GraphQL Ticket Holders API for reading events, tickets, orders, returns, and transfers

Chobble Tickets has features DICE doesn't:

  • End-to-end encryption — attendee data is encrypted at rest with hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM
  • No app required — tickets work in any browser on any device
  • Apple & Google Wallet tickets — attendees can add tickets to their phone wallet without a separate app
  • ICS calendar feeds — subscribers get automatic calendar updates
  • RSS feeds — syndicate your events to feed readers
  • Pay-what-you-want pricing — let attendees choose their price
  • Daily/recurring event support — built for events that repeat on a schedule with per-date capacity
  • Custom domain support — use your own domain name
  • Fully brandable checkout — your brand, not DICE's
  • Self-hosting option — run the platform on your own servers for free
  • Open source — inspect, modify, and contribute to the code under AGPLv3
  • Custom questions — add multiple-choice questions to events and collect answers at checkout
  • Public & admin API — RESTful JSON API for building custom integrations, plus authenticated admin API with API keys
  • Webhooks — outbound POST on every registration
  • Event groups with tiered ticketing — organise related events into collections for multi-event bookings with a single checkout, and create ticket tiers sharing a venue capacity cap
  • Custom email providers — use Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, or Mailgun so emails come from your domain, not the platform's
  • Customisable email templates — full control over confirmation emails with Liquid syntax for a fully white-label experience
  • Embeddable widget — drop an iframe into your existing website
  • No marketing emails to attendees — your audience stays yours
  • Transparent pricing — no negotiations, no surprises

When DICE might be better

  • You want access to DICE's event discovery platform and mobile app audience to drive extra ticket sales
  • You're running large music events and want DICE's app-based anti-scalping protection
  • You have very low volume and prefer negotiated per-ticket fees over an annual subscription
  • You want DICE's built-in waitlist and face-value resale features

When Chobble Tickets might be better

  • You want predictable, flat-rate pricing with no per-ticket fees
  • You don't want attendees forced to download an app
  • Privacy and encryption matter to you
  • You don't want a platform marketing to your attendees or promoting competing events
  • You're a community group, charity, or school (£25/year)
  • You want Apple/Google Wallet integration, calendar feeds, or RSS
  • You value open source and the ability to self-host
  • You want full control over your brand and checkout experience
  • You're selling enough tickets that per-ticket fees add up quickly

Who owns DICE?

DICE was founded in 2014 by Phil Hutcheon in London. It raised approximately $238 million in venture capital across multiple rounds, with investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, Exor Ventures (the Agnelli family investment vehicle), and Tony Fadell (iPod inventor).

In June 2025, DICE was acquired by Fever, a global live entertainment discovery platform last valued at $1.8 billion. Phil Hutcheon remains as CEO. Prior to the acquisition, DICE's 2022 financials included a going-concern warning, and in 2024 Bloomberg reported the company was in talks to sell a stake as SoftBank sought to exit its position.

Chobble Tickets is run by one person as a Community Interest Company (CIC) — a UK legal structure that locks the company's assets for community benefit. All of Chobble's code is public under AGPLv3, and the platform can be self-hosted by anyone without depending on Chobble as a company.

Pricing sources

The pricing information on this page was verified in March 2026. DICE does not publicly disclose its fees — the estimate used here is based on industry analysis and publicly available comparisons.