Conferencer vs Ex Ordo — an honest comparison

What it costs

Ex Ordo: Not published. Conferencer: $0.

Ex Ordo: Not published; There is no public price. The pricing page is a form that asks for your contact details, the number of submissions you expect — 125 to 2000+ — and your currency, and then a person sends you a number.

Conferencer

$0, always

MIT licensed and self-hosted: no plan, no per-event fee, no limit on submissions, no share of your revenue. Your only bill is the box it runs on, and a $5 VPS covers it.

What Ex Ordo is

Peer review and conference management for research events.

Ex Ordo is a hosted conference-management platform for scientific, medical and technical events, built around peer review of abstracts and papers. The counters on its homepage read 2,905 conferences, 799,187 researchers and professionals, and 887,746 reviews completed.

Who it is for: Large academic and professional research conferences.

Side by side

The same job, line by line.

The Ex Ordo column states only what their own public pages state; the sources are linked at the foot of the page. The Conferencer column is checkable in the repository.

ConferencerEx Ordo

Published price

Conferencer$0 — MIT licensed, no plans, no per-event fee

Ex OrdoNone — a quote form priced by expected submissions

Before you can try

ConferencerClone, npm run seed, and click around a real demo conference

Ex OrdoFill in a contact form and wait for a reply

Self-hosted

ConferencerYes — one container, one SQLite file, Node 22+

Ex OrdoNo — hosted only

Committee review

ConferencerMulti-round plans, anonymized rounds, 8 scorecard types, conflict-of-interest recusal, auto-distribution with caps

Ex OrdoPeer-review software is their flagship product

Scale

ConferencerBuilt to run one conference programme properly

Ex OrdoPublished counters show conferences past 1,000 presentations

Speaker onboarding

ConferencerOnboarding tasks, versioned file requests, a deliverables matrix, a speaker portal

Ex OrdoNot listed on their public pages

Public site

ConferencerA full public site — sessions, speakers, agenda, itinerary, gallery, personal .ics schedule — no login

Ex OrdoA conference platform and virtual event space

Where Ex Ordo is genuinely better

Serious peer-review depth: Peer review is the core of their product, with the workflows large research meetings expect — not a module alongside ten others.
Proven at scale: Their published counters: 2,905 conferences and 887,746 reviews completed. Conferencer was built for one real conference and makes no scale claim.
Human support: "Backed by humans, not bots" is their own promise, and for a 1,000-abstract meeting that matters.

Where Conferencer differs

The price is public: $0: No form, no sales call, no per-submission bands. The LICENSE file is twenty-one lines and has no pricing table in it.
You can start today: Clone, seed, and you are clicking around a real demo conference — no demo gate between you and the product.
The whole loop after review: Decisions with templated emails, speaker onboarding tasks, the agenda grid and the public site, in the same tool as the review.

Sources for every claim about Ex Ordo on this page, read on 12 August 2026: exordo.com/pricing · exordo.com. If a figure here has gone stale, the linked page is the truth.

Conferencer vs Ex Ordo.

Ex Ordo: Not published. Conferencer: $0.

Peer review and conference management for research events.

The same job, line by line.