One runs the auction night. The other runs the tournament.
CricAuction is a dedicated multi-sport auction app. Here the auction is one stage of a cricket tournament.
The short answer
Pick on what happens either side of the auction
Both run the bidding. The decision is whether you are buying an auction event or a cricket tournament that contains one.
Choose CricAuction when
The auction is the whole event, and it may not be cricket.
- Seven sports, one product
- Native iOS and Android apps
- Categories, Excel import, PDF exports
- Projector themes and a YouTube overlay
Choose CricketOrganizer when
The auction is one stage of a cricket tournament you also run.
- Entry fees to your own UPI ID
- Fixtures and a points table after
- Purse ceiling enforced by the server
- Free to 3 teams, auction included
Where the auction sits
One player record, five stages
This is the difference in one picture, and the reason two products can look alike on auction night and still be different purchases.
- 01
Registration
Your form, your UPI ID, your approval
- 02
The pool
Approved players, roles, base prices, sets
- 03
Auction night
Live bidding on one console
- 04
Room and stream
Broadcast board, owner hubs, OBS overlay
- 05
After the hammer
Fixtures and a public points table
Stage 03 is the part a dedicated auction app also covers. The other four are what you would otherwise run somewhere else.
The boundary that matters
What CricketOrganizer will not do for you
On the page asking for your tournament, because finding these later is how software loses a season.
No wagon wheels or ball tracking
Matches are scored ball by ball, but the output is the record, not shot-analysis charts.
NRR is a separate calculator
The table sorts on points, then wins, then team name.
Payment approval is manual
You review the uploaded screenshot. Nothing confirms it for you.
The stream is yours
We give you a browser source. We do not touch your YouTube account.
Cricket only
No football, kabaddi or volleyball mode.
No native app yet
Browser only. iOS and Android planned for November 2026.
Browser-only cuts both ways. There is nothing to install, so owners who are not in the hall join an auction run entirely online from whatever device they already have.
Money
Both charge per event, not per month
So the comparison is per auction or per tournament, at the team count you are actually running.
CricAuction
$19.99 to $99.99
per auction, in bands by team count
- Smallest paid band
- up to 4 teams
- Largest paid band
- up to 30 teams
- Free tier
- yes
- Source
- App Store listing
Its rupee bands on the website and in the FAQ are not identical to each other, so read the figure on its own pricing screen rather than from any third-party page, including this one.
CricketOrganizer
Free, then $6 a team
per tournament, auction always included
- Free tier
- 3 teams, 75 players
- Paid ceiling
- Up to 32 teams
- Gated features
- none
- Cut of entry fees
- none
Entry fees your players pay go to your own UPI ID and never pass through us.
See the full price list for every team count and currency.
Our own numbers
What we can show you rather than claim
No competitor operating data, no ratings we did not earn. These are our own auction figures, each one printed with what it counted.
- 105+
- Tournaments organized
- 80+
- Auctions run
- 3,000+
- Live bids placed
- 95%
- Sell-through
since launch
live bidding, not manual picks
across those auctions
of listed players found a team
Lifetime totals since launch, rounded down. They include tournaments since removed, so they will not match a count of what is live on the platform today.
Before you decide
Run the twenty-minute test, not the feature checklist
Both products are free or cheap to try at small scale, which makes a real rehearsal more useful than any comparison page.
Rehearse the bidding
Set up four teams and ten players, then run a mock auction with two owners on their own phones. Watch what happens when both bid within a second of each other.
Test the money path
Submit one paid registration as a player would, then find and approve the proof as the organiser. This is the step that quietly costs organisers a whole evening.
Check the stream on the real machine
Add the overlay as a browser source on the laptop that will run the night, at the canvas size you will stream at, before the hall is full.
CricAuction capabilities and prices were read from its homepage, app pages, FAQ and App Store listing on 5 September 2026. Products and prices change; confirm anything that decides your season directly with the vendor. For the broader category rather than these two products, read the cricket tournament software comparison or the CricHeroes comparison for scoring-led tournaments.
The people behind the tournaments.
We put the auction up on a projector and the hall went quiet every time a bid came in. First time it felt like an event instead of a meeting.
Players registered themselves with photo, role and bowling style. We used to spend a week collecting that over WhatsApp and half of it still came in wrong.
I hammered a player to the wrong team and undid it in a second, in front of the whole room. The bidding just carried on.
The squad and auction PDFs at the end are what the committee actually wanted. Every player, base price and final bid on record, and nobody typed it up.
Entry fees came in over UPI straight to my own account, with the payment screenshot sitting on each registration. No cash box and no register.
Our second season took one evening to set up. The format, the purse and the bid steps were already the way we wanted them.
Good to know
CricAuction and CricketOrganizer: common decisions
Choosing
Is CricketOrganizer a CricAuction alternative?
It is if the auction is one stage of a cricket tournament you also have to register players for, collect entry fees for and schedule. CricketOrganizer runs the registration form, the payment-proof review, the auction and the fixtures in one tournament. If you only ever need the auction evening itself, and especially if it is not cricket, CricAuction is built for exactly that job.
Which one should I use if the auction is the whole event?
Either can run an auction evening. Choose on what happens either side of it. CricAuction is a dedicated auction product across several sports. CricketOrganizer is a cricket tournament product, so the same player list carries on into squads, fixtures and a public points table once the hammer stops.
Streaming
Can I stream a CricketOrganizer auction on YouTube?
Yes, through your own encoder. The auction console gives you a transparent browser-source URL in two layouts, a lower third and a corner scoreboard, which you add to OBS, Streamlabs or any encoder and send to YouTube Live. There is also a full broadcast board for a projector or a second screen. CricketOrganizer does not connect to your YouTube account or start the stream for you.
Access
Does CricketOrganizer have an Android or iPhone app?
Not yet. Everything runs in a mobile browser today, including the team-owner hub owners bid from and the public auction link. Native iOS and Android apps are planned for November 2026 and remain subject to App Store and Google Play approval. CricAuction publishes native apps on both stores now, so if an installed app is a requirement, that is a real difference.
What stops a team from spending its whole purse on one player?
The server does, not the screen. Before a bid is accepted it checks that the team can still fill the squad slots it owes at the cheapest base price left in the pool, and refuses the bid if it cannot. Owners see that ceiling in their own hub, so the number they bid to is the number the database enforces.
Pricing
Which one is cheaper?
It depends on your team count and the currency you buy in, and CricAuction publishes more than one set of bands, so no honest single answer fits here. Both charge per event rather than per month. CricketOrganizer is free for up to 3 teams and 75 players, then priced per tournament. Read CricAuction’s current price in its own pricing screen before you budget.
Keep exploring
- Cricket Auction SoftwareLive bidding, one screen
- IPL Auction SoftwareAuction night, run properly
- Cricket Fixture GeneratorRound robin to knockout
- Player Registration SoftwareForms, fees, approvals
- Tournament Management SoftwareThe whole tournament, one place
- Cricket Scoring AppBall by ball, from any phone
Running the tournament, not just the auction night?
Up to 3 teams and 75 players run free, auction included, with no card and no trial clock.
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