RallyUp vs.
BetterWorld 

Yes, on its free plan — BetterWorld’s free tier is a genuine 0% platform fee, funded by donor contributions at checkout, with no feature gating. Above that tier it is not free: Flex removes the donor contribution and applies a 2.2%–5% platform fee, Partner is $1,550/year and Keystone $5,950/year, with standard processing of 2.9% + $0.30 throughout. RallyUp also has a free plan with a 0% platform fee funded by optional donor tips, and RallyUp Donation Pages go one step further — no platform fee and no donor tipping required at all. On RallyUp you can also disable tipping and switch to flat-rate Flex fees per campaign, or keep the tips your donors leave.

BetterWorld publishes its tiers: $0 with a 0% platform fee funded by donor contributions, Flex at 2.2%–5% once the donor contribution is removed, Partner at $1,550/year and Keystone at $5,950/year, plus Concierge event support at $275 per event and on-site staffing at $1,600 plus travel, with processing at 2.9% + $0.30. RallyUp has no subscription and no per-event service charges: its free plan is 0% with optional donor tips, and Flex charges per Component — 2.9% for Events and Store, 4.9% for Auctions, A-Thons and Crowdfunding, 6.9% for Raffles and Sweepstakes, and 0% for Donation Pages, Peer-to-Peer and Livestreaming. Auction platform fees are also capped at $100 per item on RallyUp, however high the winning bid goes. See RallyUp pricing.

Not as a raffle. BetterWorld runs Giveaways with a provably-random draw and a live entry counter, but BetterWorld itself states that a Giveaway is “not a Raffle” legally, and there is no 50/50 format, no configurable split and no prize total. RallyUp runs raffles as a dedicated Component in four formats — Single-Prize, Multi-Prize, 50/50 and Enhanced 50/50 where you set your own split, such as 60/40 — draws the winner automatically inside the platform with automatic notification, and shows the winner’s live prize total on the campaign page. Raffles are 6.9% on RallyUp’s Flex plan and carry no platform fee on the free plan. Whether a raffle is permitted — and what’s required to run one — depends on several factors, not just your state; it’s the organizer’s responsibility to research the applicable rules and confirm legality for their own situation, including with the relevant authorities and their own legal counsel as needed. RallyUp doesn’t provide legal advice or confirm that any campaign is legal.

BetterWorld does document real live-event tooling — auctioneer-led live auctions, a Display View for the room, and a paddle-raise thermometer — but a single one-charge guest tab is not among it, and its event help is priced as an add-on at $275 per event, with on-site staffing at $1,600 plus travel. RallyUp runs auctioneer-led Live Auction, Paddle Raise+, Fund-a-Need and Live Display, and Event Balances gives every guest one tab across the whole night that settles in a single charge, with line-free checkout that is instant or fully automatic. RallyUp also adds Auction Gifts, where non-winning bidders pledge a gift charged only if they win nothing, which lifts auctions 20–35% on average. And RallyUp’s Power Preview lets you run real test card transactions and test bids through checkout on a draft campaign before guests ever see it.

No to both natively: BetterWorld has no separate online store and no built-in livestreaming, integrating instead with third-party platforms such as YouTube Live and Facebook Live. RallyUp has both as full Components — a Store for selling branded merchandise at 2.9% on Flex, and Livestreaming with fundraising games and item spotlights that prompt instant donations, at 0% on Flex. Because they are Components rather than separate tools, a livestream or a store can sit inside the same RallyUp fundraiser as an auction, a raffle or ticketing, sharing one page, one URL and one checkout — and either can be added to a campaign that is already live without rebuilding it.

RallyUp is the strongest BetterWorld alternative for organizations that fundraise all year rather than around one event: it adds Sweepstakes, dedicated A-Thons with pledges and milestones, an online Store, built-in Livestreaming, and Peer-to-Peer across every campaign type, where BetterWorld’s peer-to-peer covers crowdfunding and donations only. RallyUp is rated 4.8/5 on G2 from 115 reviews and 4.5/5 for ease of use on Capterra, and its fundraising experts will build your campaign free, usually within one business day, while BetterWorld’s build help is a paid Concierge add-on. Both platforms have a genuinely free tier, so the switch does not have to cost anything to try — start at Create My Campaign.