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Eat App vs Resy

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for restaurant reservation. Eat App has the lower 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.

Eat App has the lower entry price — Eat App starts at $0/mo, Resy at $289/mo. Free tier: Eat App Yes, Resy No. HIPAA: Eat App —, Resy —.

As of 2026-09-10 · figures link to their source below

Side by side

Eat App

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)
SOC 2
GDPR
Best forIndependent restaurants and neighbourhood spots testing a booking system at zero cost

Resy

$289/mo entry
Entry price$289/mo (Platform)
Free tierNo
HIPAA (BAA)
SOC 2
GDPR
Best forHigh-volume restaurants punished by per-cover pricing elsewhere

Sources — Eat App: restaurant.eatapp.co (verified 2026-09-10) · Resy: resy.com (verified 2026-09-10)

Key features

Eat App: Genuine forever-free tier with a real-time floor plan and booking widget; Subscriptions are flat with cover caps rather than per-cover billing (the marketplace add-on is the one exception); WhatsApp conversations and WhatsApp marketing built into the tiers; Loyalty suite and full guest CRM on the upper tiers

Resy: Flat monthly pricing with an explicit no-per-cover, no-per-reservation statement; Credit-card holds, deposits and prepayments on every tier as no-show defence; Tock-powered tiers add event ticketing, with the prepayment fee halved at the top end

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