Bizzabo alternative: matchmaking depth without buying the whole platform

The short answer. Bizzabo is a full event platform, and its networking is a premium add-on rather than something you can buy on its own - worth knowing before you compare anything else. If you want registration, a branded app, analytics and a wearable badge people tap to swap details, Bizzabo does all of it and we do none of it. All Along is the opposite trade: one job, from a spreadsheet, in about five minutes, with a written reason on every match. Consider us if you have the platform question settled and the meeting question is the one left open.

The useful thing to understand about Bizzabo is how it is sold. Networking is not the product - the platform is, and networking sits on top of it as a premium addition. That is a perfectly reasonable way to build a business and it makes the comparison clearer than usual, because it means the decision is not really matching against matching. It is whether you want a platform at all, and what you do about the networking if the answer is no.

If you are still scoping the category more broadly, it is worth reading the three questions to ask before you buy an event networking platform and why most people leave an event without meeting anyone useful. This page is the head-to-head once Bizzabo is already on your shortlist.

How Bizzabo and All Along compare

Every row below says who we think does that job better, including the rows where the answer is Bizzabo. A comparison written by one of the two companies is only worth reading if it is willing to lose an argument, so here are the ones we lose.

Everything in that table about Bizzabo was checked against their own website on 18 August 2026, and the pages we used are listed at the bottom of this post. Products move. If you find something out of date here, tell us and we will correct it.

What All Along costs

Both of us publish prices, which makes this an unusually straightforward comparison to make yourself - just be careful you are comparing the same shape. Bizzabo's published pricing is per user per month, billed annually, with a minimum number of users and a yearly platform figure underneath it, and networking sits on top as a premium addition. Ours is per event: free under fifty people with the full matching and full report, then as at August 2026 AU$209 for up to a hundred attendees and AU$419 for up to two hundred and fifty, roughly AU$1.70 to AU$2.10 a head, with a money-back guarantee. Nothing renews. You are charged on the number of people you invite, not the number who fill the form in, and free events over fifty people are not charged for.

Full plans and what is included are on the events pricing and community pricing pages.

What we can see that a bigger platform cannot

Every person who registers for an event on All Along writes down, unprompted, what they came for - in rooms as different as construction technology, law, cyber security and startup communities. It is a small body of data and we will not pretend otherwise. What it is good for is the thing a platform-wide analytics view cannot give you: not how many people attended a session, but what the people in your room were trying to do that week. Attendance data tells you what happened. It does not tell you what anybody wanted.

Choose Bizzabo if

• You are consolidating a whole event programme onto one system and want registration, the app, email and analytics from a single vendor.
• The wearable badge appeals - tap to swap details, gamification, and a live view of where people are actually going. That is hardware and we have none.
• You want one report covering registrations, sessions, app usage and networking together, rather than a narrow one about the room.
• You run enough events across the year that an annual per-user subscription works out sensibly.
• You need enterprise onsite services with technicians present for check-in and badge printing.

Choose All Along if

• You do not want a platform, or already have one, and the gap is that attendees leave without meeting anyone useful.
• You want to buy the matching on its own rather than as an addition to something larger.
• You want each match explained in a sentence, built from what both people wrote.
• You run a handful of events a year and an annual per-user subscription is the wrong shape.
• You want to try it properly, for free, on a real event under fifty people.

The honest summary: Bizzabo and All Along are built for different jobs. If getting the right people to actually meet is the outcome you are judged on, see how All Along works, or run the free networking gap calculator to see where your current set-up falls short before you commit to either platform.

Other comparisons

Most people reading this are weighing more than two names. The rest of our head-to-heads, written to the same standard and checked against each company’s own website: Grip, Braindate, Whova, Cvent and Swapcard.