Resy pricing for restaurants: plans, fees and what a year costs
For owners and general managers comparing reservation contracts.
Resy charges restaurants a flat monthly subscription with no cover fees. There are four plans: Platform and Essential at 289 USD a month, and Platform 360 and Premium at 459 USD a month. The two Tock-powered plans, Essential and Premium, add a 3% or 2% fee on prepayments, and standard card processing applies on top of every plan.
How much does Resy cost for restaurants?
Resy costs 289 USD to 459 USD a month on its published plans, before card processing and prepayment fees. That is 3,468 USD a year on the entry plans and 5,508 USD a year on the upper ones. Hospitality groups with several venues pay per venue, and larger contracts are quoted through sales.
Since Tock joined the Resy network, the price list has two pairs of plans. Platform and Platform 360 are the original Resy product, built around reservations and table management. Essential and Premium are marked on Resy's own pricing page as powered by Tock, and they carry Tock's strengths: ticketed events, prepaid experiences and deeper customization.
| Resy plan | Per month | Per year | Fee on prepayments | Built on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | 289 USD | 3,468 USD | none listed | Resy |
| Essential | 289 USD | 3,468 USD | 3% | Tock |
| Platform 360 | 459 USD | 5,508 USD | none listed | Resy |
| Premium | 459 USD | 5,508 USD | 2% | Tock |
Prices are Resy's published US list prices per venue, before tax. Standard payment processing fees apply on every plan, according to Resy's pricing page.
Does Resy charge a cover fee?
No. Resy does not charge per cover or per reservation on any plan. Its pricing page says so directly: one monthly fee, no fee per booking. That is the biggest structural difference from OpenTable, which adds 1.00 to 1.50 USD for every guest seated through its network.
The absence of a cover fee does not mean the subscription is the whole bill. On the Tock-powered plans, every prepaid dollar carries a percentage, and every card payment on any plan carries the processor's fee. For a restaurant that sells tasting menus or ticketed dinners in advance, those two lines can be larger than the subscription itself.
Resy Platform or Essential: which one a restaurant should pick
Both cost 289 USD a month, so the choice comes down to how your guests pay. Platform suits a restaurant that takes reservations, holds cards against no-shows and settles the bill at the table. It includes POS integrations at the entry price, which Essential does not.
Essential suits a restaurant that sells experiences: a chef's counter paid in full at booking, a wine dinner with tickets, a holiday menu with a deposit. You get Tock's ticketing and prepayment tools, and you pay 3% on what guests prepay. If you rarely take prepayments, that fee barely registers. If prepaid covers are the core of the business, it is the number to model.
When Premium's lower fee pays for itself
Premium costs 170 USD a month more than Essential, which is 2,040 USD a year. In exchange, the prepayment fee drops from 3% to 2%. The one percentage point pays back the higher subscription once prepayments pass 204,000 USD a year, or about 17,000 USD a month.
A worked example makes it concrete. A 40-seat tasting menu restaurant prepays 150,000 USD a year:
- On Essential: 3,468 USD subscription plus 4,500 USD in prepayment fees, 7,968 USD a year
- On Premium: 5,508 USD subscription plus 3,000 USD in prepayment fees, 8,508 USD a year
At that volume Essential is still 540 USD a year cheaper. At 300,000 USD of prepayments the order flips and Premium saves about 960 USD. Premium also adds premium support and POS integrations, so a restaurant near the break-even line may pick it for those alone.
Is Resy cheaper than OpenTable?
For most busy restaurants, yes. OpenTable Core is 299 USD a month plus 1.00 USD per network cover, so it costs more than Resy's 289 USD entry plans before a single guest is counted. OpenTable Basic starts lower at 149 USD, but its 1.50 USD network cover fee overtakes Resy's flat price at about 94 network covers a month.
What you buy with both is a diner network. OpenTable has its app and website. Resy has its app, its placement with American Express card members and the Tock audience. If a large share of your covers are first-time diners who found you through one of those apps, the network is doing real work and the fee is buying something.
If most of your guests are regulars, locals and people who searched your name on Google, the network adds little, and you are paying 3,468 USD a year or more for a booking engine. That is the point where a restaurant should price out the systems that sell only the engine. We laid out the full OpenTable math, cover by cover, on our OpenTable alternative without cover fees page.
What a year of Resy costs next to a flat per-venue system
Put one year side by side for a single restaurant that takes deposits on large parties but does not sell prepaid experiences:
| System | Subscription per year | Cover fees | Diner network |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resy Platform | 3,468 USD | none | yes |
| Resy Platform 360 | 5,508 USD | none | yes |
| OpenTable Core, 500 network covers a month | 3,588 USD | 6,000 USD | yes |
| Reserving Growth, billed yearly | 1,428 USD | none | no, bookings come from your site, Google and Instagram |
The gap between Resy Platform and a per-venue system is about 2,000 USD a year per location. For a group with five restaurants on Resy, that is 17,340 USD a year on Platform, against 4,788 USD a year for five venues on our multi-venue reservation software plan. Whether the difference is worth it depends entirely on how many new guests the Resy app sends you.
Whichever you choose, put every platform charge on one line of your books: the subscription, the prepayment percentage and the card processing. When those charges arrive as a stack of PDF receipts and statements, software that reads receipts and categorizes spend keeps the true monthly cost of the reservation system visible, instead of buried across three accounts.
Questions to ask Resy before you sign
- How long is the contract, and what is the notice period to leave
- Which plan includes POS integration with the POS we already run
- What is the card processing rate, and who is the processor
- Is the prepayment fee charged on the full prepaid amount including tax and service charge
- Can we export our full guest list and reservation history at any time, and in what format
- What changes for us as Tock tools are merged into Resy
Ask for the answers in writing. The same list works on any vendor, including us, and our reservation system comparison checklist covers the rest.
When a restaurant should skip Resy
Skip it if your reservations already come from your own website and Google profile, if you do not sell prepaid experiences, and if the monthly fee is the largest software bill in the building. In that case you need a reliable booking engine rather than a marketplace: a widget on your site, a table board with turn times, deposits on large parties and reminders that cut no-shows.
That is what our restaurant reservation system does, for 49 USD a month on Core or 149 USD a month on Growth with deposits and SMS, per venue and with no fee per guest. The plan details are on pricing, and the live table board runs on the home page without an account.