Ummah vs Luma: Event Pages or a Whole Community Platform? A Luma alternative for Muslim communities
Ummah vs Luma for Muslim communities: 5% vs 3% platform fees, invites, calendars, and what happens after the event. Verified from Luma's pricing page.
What Luma Does Well
Luma is a genuinely good product, and for certain organizers it is the right call.
Fast, beautiful, modern pages that make any event look professionally run. Design is clearly a first-class priority.
Unlimited events and unlimited guests at no monthly cost, per its published pricing.
People subscribe to your calendar and get invites and newsletters, which suits recurring series like a weekly halaqa.
- Event pages people admire
- A generous free plan
- Calendar-first following
Switching Is Smaller Than It Sounds
You do not need a migration project. You need one link your community starts using.
- Start free or book a walkthrough
- Set up your page, events, and giving
- Tell your community once
Ummah vs Luma, Side by Side
On paid tickets, Luma's free plan takes 5% and Ummah's takes 3%. To get Luma to 0% you pay $59 per month billed annually; Ummah's 0% tier is $75 per month billed annually, and its $19 tier already drops to 1.5%. The bigger difference is everything that is not an event page.
Luma details verified from its published pages on June 10, 2026 (see sources below). "Not published" means we could not verify it from their public pages; it may exist. Pricing and features change, so confirm current details on their site.
Where Ummah Is Different
Luma is an event tool that ends at the event. Ummah is a community platform where the event is one touchpoint: the attendee follows your community, sees announcements in the feed, donates to your campaign, and appears in your member records and retention numbers.
On fees, the free plans differ meaningfully: 5% on Luma versus 3% on Ummah for paid tickets, and both keep free events free. If you sell enough tickets that 0% matters, compare Luma Plus at $59 per month (billed annually) against Ummah Basic at $19 per month at 1.5%, and Ummah Advanced at $75 per month billed annually at 0%, which also bundles donations, the Ummah Kiosk, TV displays, vendor booth maps and a website we build.
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Sources and verification
Every claim about Luma on this page was checked against these published pages on June 10, 2026. Their pricing and features can change at any time. If we got something wrong, email [email protected] and we will correct it.
- Luma pricing page : free plan (unlimited events and guests, 5% platform fee on paid events, 500 invites/newsletters per week), Luma Plus ($59/month billed annually, 0% platform fee, 5,000 invites per week), Stripe processing typically 2.9% + 30 cents
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