We are advocating an "Everybody who can pay for their tickets, pays for their tickets" idea.

This is a way to remind people to think on a larger scale— small contributions when done by almost everyone can actually make a huge difference.

We try to help more people with less money than less people with more money.

The idea is to encourage those who can pay to contribute financially and list strong reasons why we make a distinction between a corporate ticket, an individual ticket and a student ticket.

• The corporate price is the actual price of the conference ticket.
• The individual and student tickets are subsidized rates brought possible by sponsorship and other corporate ticket buyers to make the price more accessible for people with stricter budgets.
• The venue, food, videographer, marketing collateral, etc. cost a lot of money. Without sponsors and corporate ticket buyers, we won't be able to pay for those.
• Running a non-profit organization costs money too! PyCon is our main fund generating activity to cover operational costs. Python ID is lucky enough to have volunteers who work for free for the past years but there are still things that can't be paid with their time.

Collectively, PyCons across the world adopt an "Everybody Pays" policy [https://archive.md/mkiUX]

This policy is adapted from PyCon APAC 2025 policy with the same name.