How Much Do Tickets Cost? Compare Current Get-In Prices

How the table is calculated

The table uses upcoming US events in this site’s catalog with available inventory and a price observation within the past hour. Each event contributes its lowest qualifying catalog price once. Events without a verified price and event add-ons or packages excluded by the catalog are omitted; no upper price cap is applied.

What the columns mean

The lower-price figure is the fifth percentile of event get-in prices. The median is the middle event’s get-in price, not the typical seat within a venue or the average amount customers paid. Under $50 is the share of included events whose get-in price is below $50.

A real example

Numbers in a table are easier to trust with one real listing attached. On September 16, 2026, the cheapest listed ticket to Boston Celtics at Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan, for the game on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, was $21.03 all-in (priced on September 16, 2026). That single game sat inside the same NBA figures the table above reported that day; it was not a special case, just one row in the underlying data. For the current version of that same row, use the live table above rather than this fixed example.

A single game like that can be well below the league's median get-in price and still be a completely normal, available listing. The median describes the middle of the whole league's priced games, not a floor or a ceiling for any one matchup.

Why can two prices for the same event look different?

A hero price, an FAQ sentence and a table row can each be generated at a slightly different moment and from a slightly different rule, especially for an event far in the future. We check same-day events at least every few hours, events in the next month at least every two days, and events further out on a slower cycle, because checking every listing every minute for a show a year away isn't a good use of that time.

If you ever see two different prices for what looks like the same event on the same page, the honest explanation is almost always timing, not two real prices. Open the event's own listings page for the current number; that page is checked on the fastest cycle we run.

Use the numbers as a starting point

These are observations of available offers, not completed-sale prices or a forecast. The figures can change as listings and the sample change. Open an event to check the current seats, required quantity and restrictions; the final party total includes the chosen quantity and applicable tax.

How to use this table in three steps

The table tells you what similar events cost lately. Only the event's own page tells you what your seats cost right now.

What moves a league's median from week to week

A league's median can shift as its schedule changes. A week full of marquee matchups tends to push the median up. A week with more ordinary regular-season games tends to pull it back down. Neither direction means prices are broken or a rule has changed.

Playoff or postseason games, when they enter the sample, typically sit well above the regular-season median for that same league, which is normal and expected rather than a sign of unusual pricing.

One table, many decisions

This table can't tell you what to pay. It can only tell you what similar events have been going for. What you do with that is up to your own budget and the seats you want.

Use it to set expectations before you shop, then let the actual event page make the final call.

Comparing across categories, fairly

Sports, concerts and theater don't compare directly, because each draws on a different mix of venue sizes, seat counts and typical demand. A low sports median and a higher theater median doesn't mean sports is a better deal; it means the two categories are structurally different.

Use the table to compare within a category or league, season to season or week to week, rather than across categories, for the most meaningful read.