People leave Vendelux for one of three reasons: the price is not published and turns out to be an enterprise number, they need one fair read properly rather than a portfolio planned, or they wanted a list of names and got a strategy platform. Those are three different replacements, and a list that ranks them one to six is answering a question nobody asked.
So this is a placement rather than a ranking. Pengo is one of the six and its entry says what it does not do. If your job is the one in somebody else's row, that row is the honest answer.
What Vendelux actually is
An event intelligence and meeting management platform. Its own site describes helping teams identify high-impact events, understand their ICP's behaviour and build a strategy with attendee intelligence, over a database it puts at more than 250,000 B2B events. Its pricing page lists Starter, Plus and Enterprise, and no figure against any of them — each is a request-pricing form.
That last fact is why most of these searches happen. An unstated price is not a high price, but it is a price you cannot evaluate this afternoon.
The six, by the job they are best at
| Tool | Best when the job is | Published price |
|---|---|---|
| Vendelux | Choosing which events to fund across a year, with attendance history and ROI behind the plan | Not published |
| Lensmor | Attendee signals and contact reveals, including phone numbers, with a free tier to try first | $149 to $1,799 a month; free tier of 2,000 credits |
| Pengo | Reading one fair's exhibitor directory end to end and ranking every stand against your buyer | $39 to $299 a month; about $37 for a 200-stand fair |
| 10times | Free event discovery — finding out which fairs exist in a category at all | Free to browse |
| Apollo or ZoomInfo | You already have the account list and the missing part is contact data and sequencing | Published per seat on their own sites |
| A one-off list purchase | One fair, once a year, and no appetite for a subscription of any kind | Quoted per list |
Reading the table
If you want the portfolio question answered, stay
Nothing else on this list forecasts attendance across a category or attributes pipeline back to a stand. If that is the job, the replacement for Vendelux is Vendelux, and the negotiation is about price rather than fit.
If you want names and addresses, Pengo is the wrong row
Pengo keeps an email address only when the research states it read one on a published page, and it does not offer phone numbers at all. Lensmor sells reveals as a line item — 15 credits an email, 150 a phone number — and if that is the shape of what you need, that is the honest recommendation on this page.
If you want one fair read properly, that is Pengo's row
The specific failure this exists for: a fair publishes a paginated exhibitor portal, a tool answers page one with eighteen booths of a stated two thousand two hundred, and it reads exactly like a small fair. Pengo requires three signals to agree before it calls a directory complete — the pages it saw and did not read, the fair's own claim about its size, and whether the pass states it reached the last entry. Silence on the last is read as unfinished.
What comes back is every stand scored against a description of your buyer, with the sentence it was judged on quoted underneath, plus hall and stand numbers. What it is not is a planning tool: no attendance forecasting, no event-spend model, no ROI attribution, no free tier.
If the budget is nothing, start with a directory
10times is free to browse and will tell you which fairs exist in a vertical. It will not tell you what any of the exhibitors sell or whether they are worth your morning, and the gap between those two things is most of the work — but it is a real place to start and pretending otherwise would make this page worse.
Questions
What is the cheapest alternative to Vendelux?
Among tools that publish a price, Pengo is the lowest entry point at $39 a month, with each fair quoted before you press it. 10times is free to browse but does not research exhibitors. Vendelux publishes no figure, so nothing here can be described as cheaper than it with certainty.
Why does Vendelux not publish pricing?
Its pricing page lists Starter, Plus and Enterprise, each behind a request-pricing form. That is a common way to sell enterprise software. It means the first real number in the evaluation arrives after a sales call.
Which Vendelux alternative gives me attendee email addresses?
Lensmor sells contact reveals at 15 credits for an email and 150 for a phone number. Pengo does not sell either and keeps an address only where the research states it read one on a published page.
Which alternative is best for reading a large exhibitor directory?
Pengo is built for it specifically: the directory is read to its end rather than to a cap, a paginated portal triggers a continuation priced at the remainder, and a pass that establishes nothing settles as failed and releases the credits in full.
Do any of these have a free tier?
Lensmor publishes one — 2,000 credits, no card. 10times is free to browse. Pengo has no free tier and no trial. Vendelux does not state one.
Can I just buy a one-off exhibitor list instead?
For one fair a year, often yes, and it will be cheaper than any subscription here. What you will not get is a check on whether the list is the whole floor, or a reason attached to any row.
Is Pengo the best Vendelux alternative?
Only for one of the three reasons people leave. If you need one fair's directory read end to end and every stand ranked against your buyer, yes. If you need portfolio planning or phone numbers, another row on this page is the better answer.
The head-to-head versions are on Pengo vs Vendelux and Pengo vs Lensmor.
Sources
- Vendelux — Pricing — checked
- Vendelux — AI-Native Event Marketing Platform — checked
- Lensmor — Pricing and plans — checked
- Lensmor — The Lensmor platform — checked