Laylo adds marketing on top of your ticketing. Trybe is both.
If you want tickets and marketing under one roof, choose Trybe: pre-sales, email, SMS, automations, Instagram DMs and Meta ads share one contact list and one bill with your ticket sales. If you sell on another platform and only want drops and fan messaging, Laylo plugs into DICE, Posh, Shotgun and Eventbrite.
| Feature | Trybe | Laylo |
|---|---|---|
| Ticketing and the door | Yes. Built in, with phone scanning at the door. Organizers pay nothing to sell tickets. | No. Not a ticketing tool. It connects to platforms such as DICE, Posh, Shotgun and Eventbrite. |
| Messaging costs | Yes. Emails about events you host on Trybe are free. SMS is 10 tokens a segment, about $0.016. | Partial. 1 credit per email and 5 per SMS segment: about $0.002 an email and $0.01 a text, after 250 free credits a month. |
| Instagram comment-to-DM | Yes. Included: 1 live auto-reply on the free plan, unlimited on Pro. | Partial. A $15 a month add-on. Keyword DMs are included. |
| Automations | Yes. Visual builder with waits, conditions and branches. | Partial. Capture triggers and an AI sales agent. No flow builder documented. |
| Abandoned checkout | Yes. A built-in automation, with no fee per sale. | Partial. AI Ticket Sales Agent: $1 + 3% per recovered sale. |
| Meta ads | Yes. Campaigns launched from Trybe, with ticket sales counted at checkout. | Partial. Tracking pixels. |
| Contact export | Yes. Export your Community anytime. | Not documented. Fan list export isn't documented. |
Tickets, contacts and marketing live together, so every sale and sign-up feeds the same Community without an integration.
See how it worksInstagram auto-replies come with every plan: one live on the free plan, unlimited on Pro.
See how it worksA built-in automation follows up on abandoned checkouts, instead of $1 + 3% per recovered sale.
See how it worksUpload a CSV of the fans who opted in, with their emails and phone numbers.
Collect sign-ups for your next drop, then email and text them when tickets go on sale.
Give an event sold on another platform a Trybe page, a tracked link and the marketing tools.
Emails about events you host on Trybe are free. SMS costs 10 tokens per segment in North America, about $0.016, and 25 elsewhere, and tokens never expire. You don't need a paid plan to send.
Yes. A Launch gives an event sold elsewhere its own Trybe page, a tracked link and the marketing tools.
Trybe's pre-sale pages collect emails and phone numbers before tickets drop, and your campaigns or automations alert everyone the moment sales open.
Everything we say about Laylo comes from its own pages, checked on October 5, 2026. Spotted something out of date? Email help@trybe.fm and we'll fix it. Laylo · Messaging credits · Instagram integration (DMs and comments) · AI Ticket Sales Agent · Laylo integrations
Selling tickets costs you nothing, and email, SMS, automations, Instagram DMs and Meta ads all run from the same place.