Independent · sourced · Updated September 2026

Best Restaurant Reservation (2026)

12 restaurant reservation options compared on price, free tier, compliance and fit — ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it; where a vendor publishes no monthly price we name the kind of pricing it uses, never a guess.

The cheapest restaurant reservation is Eat App at $0/mo. 2 offer a free tier. All 12 compared below on price, free tier and compliance — every figure sourced and dated, updated September 2026.

As of Sep 26, 2026 · figures linked to their source in the table below

Cheapest Eat App $0/mo Compare → Also compared resOS $0/mo Compare →

Cite this comparison

Per The Front Desk Review, the cheapest restaurant reservation is Eat App at $0/mo; across 6 with published pricing the median is $124.50/mo ($47–$289/mo), 2 with a free tier, every figure sourced and dated, as of 2026-09-26. https://frontdeskreview.com/best/restaurant-reservation/

Key takeaways

Typical paid price: from $47/mo, median $124.50/mo, up to $289/mo — across 6 with published pricing.
Free tier: Eat App, resOS.
Tracked: 12 vendors, data current through 2026-09-26. STALE · 2026-09-10

Comparison

Entry price = lowest published self-serve monthly plan. Sourced per row.
#	Restaurant Reservation	Entry price	Free	HIPAA	SOC 2	Best for	Source	Visit
1	Eat App STALE · 2026-09-10	$0/mo Free	Yes	—	—	Independent restaurants and neighbourhood spots testing a booking system at zero cost	restaurant.eatapp.co	Visit →
2	resOS STALE · 2026-09-10	$0/mo Free	Yes	—	—	Small cafés, bars and pubs that need a free or very cheap booking system	resos.com	Visit →
3	Tablein STALE · 2026-09-10	$79/mo Starter	No	—	—	Small and mid-size independent restaurants wanting every feature on the cheapest tier	tablein.com	Visit →
4	SpotOn Reserve	$150/mo SpotOn Reserve	No	—	—	Restaurants already on SpotOn POS wanting reservations in the same stack	help.spoton.com	Visit →
5	Yelp Guest Manager STALE · 2026-09-10	$159/mo Basic	No	—	—	US restaurants already getting discovery traffic from Yelp	business.yelp.com	Visit →
6	Resy	$289/mo Platform	No	—	—	High-volume restaurants punished by per-cover pricing elsewhere	resy.com	Visit →
7	OpenTable STALE · 2026-09-10	not priced monthly	—	—	—	Restaurants that want inbound diner demand from a marketplace and will pay per cover for it	opentable.com	Visit →
8	SevenRooms STALE · 2026-09-10	quote-only	No	—	Yes	Hotel groups and multi-venue operators that need one guest database across venues	sevenrooms.com	Visit →
9	TableCheck STALE · 2026-09-10	quote-only	—	—	Yes	Hotel restaurant groups and multi-country operators in Asia-Pacific	tablecheck.com	Visit →
10	Toast Tables STALE · 2026-09-10	quote-only	No	—	—	Restaurants already running Toast POS that want reservations and waitlist in one system	pos.toasttab.com	Visit →
11	Tock STALE · 2026-09-10	not priced monthly	—	—	—	Tasting-menu and event-driven restaurants that take money upfront	exploretock.com	Visit →
12	Zenchef STALE · 2026-09-10	not priced monthly	No	—	—	European restaurants and groups that want zero cover commission	zenchef.com	Visit →

Prices are the lowest published self-serve monthly rate as captured on the linked source. Annual-billing and usage details are on each vendor's record in our open dataset.

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How we compiled this

Every figure below was re-fetched on 2026-09-10 and monthlyUsd holds only the published MONTH-TO-MONTH subscription. Two pages default their toggle to annual billing and were explicitly corrected for: Eat App's page opens on the annual column ($0/$69/$159/$299) and Yelp's opens on 'Annually' ($129/$279) — the month-to-month figures ($0/$99/$199/$389 and $159/$349) are what monthlyUsd carries, with the annual rates quoted in notes. resOS's monthly toggle is labelled '-50% for 3 months', so its displayed $24/$49/$75 are promotional; monthlyUsd carries the list prices $47/$98/$149 read from the page's own embedded per-currency data (monthlyOriginal), with the promo disclosed in notes. Fees that ride alongside a subscription are never folded into monthlyUsd: Resy's 3%/2% prepayment fees, Tablein's EUR0.67/EUR0.37 per extra reservation, Zenchef's 2-6% card fees, Eat App's $2/cover Booking-network add-on and SpotOn's $250 one-time setup (setupFeeUsd, not monthly) all stay in notes and their own fields. Zenchef prices in EUR only, so monthlyUsd is null on all three tiers with the euro figures verbatim in notes; its annual prices are exactly 12x monthly, so annualDiscountPct is 0, not a discount. Quote-only vendors carry null: SevenRooms (all three tiers 'Get a quote'), TableCheck (no pricing page at all), Toast Tables ('a flat monthly price' with no figure), and Eat App Enterprise. OpenTable and Tock carry null because their own pages could not be rendered today — curl returned HTTP 000 for every opentable.com host and path, and exploretock.com/join/pricing/ returned HTTP 403 to both a direct read and curl. No figure is recited from memory for either. Compliance is asserted only where the vendor states it: SevenRooms SOC 2 + GDPR (+PCI DSS, CCPA) from its trust portal, TableCheck SOC 2 Type 1 from its own press release. TableCheck's GDPR flag was demoted to null because neither its press release nor its privacy policy names GDPR, and its PCI-DSS claim was removed for the same reason. Formitable and Resengo are not listed separately — they are now Zenchef. No vendor was removed: all twelve are real, current products. accessedAt 2026-09-10 throughout.

Last verified 2026-09-26. We re-check published prices and compliance on a recurring cadence and update this page when they change. STALE marks a row with at least one plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 10 of 12 rows above are marked.

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What is the cheapest restaurant reservation?

Eat App has the lowest published entry price at $0/mo (Free), as of 2026-09-10.

How much does restaurant reservation cost per month?

Across the 6 restaurant reservation with published paid pricing, the median starting price is $124.50/mo, ranging from $47/mo to $289/mo, as of 2026-09-26. 2 also offer a free tier. 6 are quote-only.

Which restaurant reservation have a free plan?

Eat App, resOS offer a free tier.

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