Restaurant Booking System Pricing Compared: NomNom, OpenTable, ResDiary, SevenRooms, TheFork, Sugarvine & resOS (2026)

Trying to compare restaurant booking systems on price is strangely hard — and that isn’t an accident. Some won’t show you a price at all; you have to book a sales call to find out. Others look cheap until a per-cover fee quietly grows with how busy you get. Only a handful give you a flat monthly figure you can actually budget around.

This guide puts seven of them side by side: NomNom, OpenTable, ResDiary, SevenRooms, TheFork, Sugarvine and resOS. We make NomNom, and we’ve put ourselves in the same grid as everyone else — not at the flattering end of a rigged table. Where a competitor doesn’t publish its price, we say so rather than inventing one. Where it charges commission, we say that too. And where someone does something better than us, we’ve left that in.

One caveat on the numbers: prices were accurate to the best of our knowledge in mid-2026, in pounds where a UK figure exists. Booking-system pricing changes often and is frequently quote-only, so treat the grids as a map of the shape of each bill, and confirm the exact figure with the vendor before you sign anything.

The two things that decide your bill

Before the grids, two distinctions matter more than any single number.

Flat subscription vs per-cover commission. Most systems here charge a flat monthly (or annual) fee and nothing per booking. Two of them — OpenTable and TheFork — run a diner marketplace and charge a fee for every cover that arrives through it. That fee scales with your success: the busier you get, the more you pay. A flat fee doesn’t.

Published price vs “contact sales”. Only three of the seven — NomNom, Sugarvine and resOS — publish a price you can read on their website today. The other four are quote-only: the figure depends on your size, your covers and a negotiation. We’ve marked those “quote only” and put the best third-party estimates in the notes below the grid, clearly labelled as estimates.

The cost, at a glance

1. OpenTable’s UK site shows “Contact us for pricing” on its Core and Pro plans — no pound figure. Its US plans are reported at roughly $149 / $299 / $499 a month plus a per-cover fee; the UK numbers that circulate are third-party estimates. Full breakdown in our OpenTable cost guide.
2. No current standalone setup fee is publicly disclosed; an older one-time install fee was discontinued and onboarding is bundled into the subscription.
3. OpenTable’s standard terms run 12 months with auto-renewal and around 30 days’ notice before renewal (per third-party reports of its US terms; the UK contract length isn’t published).
4. ResDiary doesn’t publish tier prices. Third-party estimates put the entry tier around £99–£109 a month, rising to £200–£400+ a month for larger venues.
5. Genuinely commission-free on bookings — but it adds 1.2% on deposits and payments and 3% on gift vouchers, and SMS, pre-orders and events are paid add-ons (£10–£35 a month each).
6. SevenRooms doesn’t publish pricing. Third-party estimates start around $499 a month per venue (US), on an annual contract — it’s pitched at larger and group venues.
7. TheFork shows “Ask for pricing” on both of its plans.
8. Bookings through TheFork’s own marketplace carry a commission (the vendor calls it “a percentage of your average bill per guest”; third parties estimate roughly €2–€5 per cover). Bookings through your own website or widget are commission-free.
9. resOS prices in euros and dollars (Basic €45 / Plus €85 / Unlimited €125 a month, for 350 / 750 / unlimited bookings); the pounds shown here are an approximate conversion that moves with exchange rates. SMS reminders are a paid per-message add-on.

What’s included

The price only tells you half the story — here’s what you actually get for it. A tick means it’s included as standard; “add-on” means it’s a paid extra; a dash means it isn’t a standard, advertised feature (not necessarily that it’s impossible). Nearly all of these let you take deposits or card holds, and all run more than one venue, so we’ve left those out of the grid and focused on where they differ.

The standout is that last column. OpenTable, TheFork, ResDiary and Sugarvine each come with a diner-facing marketplace or directory listing that can put you in front of new customers. NomNom, SevenRooms and resOS don’t — they’re built around your booking page, not a discovery network. If filling empty mid-week tables from a big network matters to you, that’s a genuine point in the marketplace systems’ favour, and worth weighing honestly.

A quick word on each

• NomNom — £17.99/month, one plan, everything in: commission-free booking on your own branded page, Stripe deposits and card holds, SMS reminders, push notifications, an allergy-aware customer database, gift vouchers, multiple venues and unlimited devices. No contract, no setup fee, 14-day free trial. The honest gap: no diner marketplace.
• OpenTable — the big marketplace name, with real discovery reach; a subscription-plus-per-cover model; UK pricing is quote-only. Full breakdown: How much does OpenTable cost UK restaurants?
• ResDiary — established, deep and group-friendly, and genuinely commission-free — but quote-only, with payment surcharges (1.2% / 3%) and several paid add-ons. More in our commission-free round-up.
• SevenRooms — more a CRM and guest-data platform than a booking widget, pitched at larger and group venues. No marketplace and no per-cover fee, but enterprise-priced and quote-only.
• TheFork — Europe’s big marketplace (now being acquired by American Express). The subscription is quote-only, with commission on marketplace covers; your own-website bookings are commission-free.
• Sugarvine — a UK flat-fee system (£75 + VAT/month) that bundles a listing on the Sugarvine consumer dining guide. Commission-free, on a 12-month contract; it notes a 1.5% handling fee on Stripe deposits.
• resOS — transparent and self-serve, with a genuine free tier (up to 25 bookings a month), every feature included on each paid tier except SMS (a per-message add-on), and a 90-day money-back guarantee. Priced in euros and dollars, so the pound figure moves with exchange rates. Also in our commission-free round-up.

So which is cheapest?

If you want a flat, published, no-commission price you can budget around, the shortlist is short: NomNom at £17.99/month, Sugarvine at £75 + VAT, and resOS (free to start, then roughly £38–£105/month). Everyone else is either quote-only or charges per cover — or both.

NomNom is the lowest published flat fee in the group, and the only one that combines no contract and a free trial and no per-cover fee. The trade-off is honest and worth repeating: we don’t run a diner marketplace, so if a big discovery network is the main thing you’re buying, OpenTable or TheFork will reach people we can’t. But if most of your bookings already come from your own regulars and your own website, paying a per-cover fee — or £75-plus a month — for a marketplace you don’t really lean on is hard to justify.

Try NomNom

You can try NomNom free for 14 days — no card, no setup fee, no sales call. See how commission-free booking works, or read the deeper dives this guide draws on: how much OpenTable really costs and our round-up of commission-free systems.

Prices and features were accurate to the best of our knowledge in mid-2026, summarised from each vendor’s published information and from third-party trackers; quote-only figures are third-party estimates. Always confirm current pricing directly with the vendor. SMS credits are purchased separately.