RallyUp vs.
Fundraise Up

No. Fundraise Up has no subscription, but it also has no $0-fee plan — its platform fee runs up to 4% (5% on crypto) on top of Stripe or PayPal processing of roughly 2.2% + $0.30. RallyUp, by contrast, has a genuinely free plan funded by optional donor tips, and RallyUp Donation Pages charge no platform fee and ask donors for no tip at all. If you prefer a flat rate, RallyUp’s Flex plan charges per Component — 0% for Donation Pages, Peer-to-Peer and Livestreaming, 2.9% for Events and Store, and 6.9% for Raffles and Sweepstakes. See RallyUp pricing.

Raffles are not documented on Fundraise Up, and the company states that it does not include a dedicated event ticketing module either, so a ticketed raffle would have to live somewhere else. RallyUp runs raffles as a first-class Component: Single-Prize, Multi-Prize, 50/50 and Enhanced 50/50 with your own split, such as 60/40. RallyUp draws the winner automatically inside the platform and shows the winner’s live prize total on the campaign page. Raffles run at 6.9% on RallyUp’s Flex plan, or free on the RallyUp free plan with optional donor tips.

For an in-person gala, RallyUp is the clear fit. Fundraise Up does not document in-person gala tools at all — its only staff-facing tool is a Virtual Terminal for taking gifts over the phone. RallyUp runs the whole room: auctioneer-led Live Auction, Paddle Raise+, Fund-a-Need, Live Display, and Event Balances, which puts each guest on one tab all night and settles it with one charge instead of a checkout line. Ninety percent of those payments complete in under a minute, and guests on automatic checkout spend zero minutes at the checkout desk.

Fundraise Up does offer peer-to-peer through its “Fundraisers” feature, which gives supporters personalized pages, and that is a real strength of the product. RallyUp’s Peer-to-Peer goes wider: participants can fundraise through Raffles, Events & Ticketing, Sweepstakes, A-Thons, Crowdfunding, Store and Livestreaming, not just donations. Peer-to-Peer carries a 0% platform fee on RallyUp’s Flex plan, and templates ship with a predesigned Participant Center so a team fundraiser can be live in 15–20 minutes. RallyUp’s fundraising experts will also build the campaign for you free if you would rather not assemble it yourself.

Fundraise Up advertises “5 minutes to launch” using its donation-page templates, but its own guide says “a typical deployment of Fundraise Up is completed within ten days.” On RallyUp, an Instant Fundraiser Template produces a complete, fully functional campaign — page design, Components, participant center, receipts and checkout — in 15–20 minutes, and about 40% of new RallyUp campaigns use one. You can also hand the whole build to RallyUp’s fundraising experts for free and have it ready to review in about one business day. Have RallyUp build it for you.

If your fundraising includes raffles, auctions, ticketed events or a gala, RallyUp is the stronger alternative, because Fundraise Up documents no raffles, no auctions, no store and no dedicated a-thons. RallyUp offers 12+ stackable Components — Raffles, Auctions, Galas & Events, Sweepstakes, Events & Ticketing, Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer, A-Thons, Store, Livestreaming and Donation Pages — and any combination of them can run in one fundraiser with one URL and one checkout. Organizations that combine campaign types raise 38% more on average. There is no subscription and no contract, and RallyUp is rated 4.8/5 on G2 from 115 reviews.