How Much Does Resy Cost Restaurants in 2026? Published March 17, 2026 · Updated July 14, 2026
Resy costs restaurants $249 to $399 a month in 2026, with no per-cover fees. That is the short answer, and it is newer than it looks: American Express announced in February 2026 that Tock is merging into Resy, and the two now sell one unified four-tier lineup. The old Resy Full Stack tier at $899 is gone. So are Tock's old $199 and $699 plans -- if you see those numbers on a review site, the page is stale. Here is the current lineup, what each tier actually includes, and where the extra fees hide. Full disclosure up front: we make TableLink, a competing flat-fee platform -- which is why every figure below is sourced and dated, so you can check our work. All figures verified against Resy's and Tock's published pricing on July 2, 2026.
Resy pricing in 2026: the four plans Two plans run on Resy's reservation engine, two on Tock's prepaid-booking engine. None of them charge per-cover fees:
The unified Resy lineup as published July 2, 2026. No per-cover fees on any plan; standard payment processing fees apply. Plan Monthly price Powered by Prepayment fee Platform $249 Resy None Platform 360 $399 Resy None Essential $269 Tock 3% on prepaid bookings Premium $399 Tock 2% on prepaid bookings, plus chargeback protection
Resy and Tock merged: what actually changed American Express bought Resy in 2019 and Tock in 2024, and on February 24, 2026 announced the two are becoming one platform. American Express says the Tock consumer app and site go dark by summer 2026, folding Tock's venues into the Resy app and bringing the combined network to roughly 25,000 venues. For diners it means one app instead of two. For restaurants it means Tock's prepaid-dining software now lives inside Resy's lineup as the Essential and Premium tiers -- and the pricing pages on both sites now show the same four plans. If you signed with Tock under its old pricing, expect your renewal conversation to happen on the new grid.
What is a "Resy restaurant"? A Resy restaurant is simply a restaurant that takes reservations through Resy -- when someone says "they're on Resy" or a listing says "get a resy," it means you book the table through the Resy app or resy.com instead of calling or using OpenTable. The name has drifted into slang for the reservation itself. For diners, being a Resy restaurant changes nothing about the meal and nothing about the price; booking is free. For the restaurant, it means paying Resy's monthly subscription covered on this page. American Express owns Resy, which is why Amex cardholders see priority access and exclusive tables at some Resy restaurants.
Is Resy free? Does Resy cost money? Resy is free for diners -- browsing, booking, and joining Notify lists cost nothing. Restaurants pay. The entry price is $249 a month, there is no free tier, and there is no pay-per-booking option. If you have seen "Resy is free" somewhere, it was written from the diner's side of the table.
Does Resy charge per cover? No. Unlimited covers, users, and devices are included on every plan, which is Resy's headline advantage over OpenTable's per-cover model. Seat 60 covers or 600 and the subscription stays the same. What Resy meters instead is prepaid bookings: sell ticketed events through the Tock-powered tiers and 2% to 3% of each transaction goes to the platform.
The prepayment fees, explained The Tock-powered tiers charge a percentage of every prepaid booking: 3% on Essential, 2% on Premium. Run a $150-a-head New Year's Eve tasting menu for 80 guests on Essential and the platform's 3% is $360 for one night. Do monthly wine dinners and seasonal prix fixe menus and the percentage quietly becomes thousands a year on top of the subscription. Premium's lower rate plus chargeback protection is Resy's nudge toward the $399 tier for any restaurant serious about prepaid events.
What a year of Resy actually costs Platform at $249 a month is $2,988 a year. Platform 360 at $399 is $4,788. Essential lands at $3,228 plus 3% of whatever you sell prepaid; Premium at $4,788 plus 2%. For a high-volume restaurant, the absence of per-cover fees is real money kept -- a 200-cover-a-night spot would pay OpenTable far more. For a 40-seat neighborhood restaurant doing 60 covers a night, $3,000 to $4,800 a year is a meaningful line item when margins run 3 to 5%. Flat does not automatically mean cheap -- it just means predictable. Run your own numbers in the Resy cost calculator.
Which features are gated behind Platform 360 POS integration is not included on the base Platform plan -- you need Platform 360 at $399. The same is true of customizable guest messaging, post-meal surveys, and the deeper analytics. It is easy to sign up for Platform expecting a complete system, then find the features you wanted sit one tier up. Budget against the tier you will actually need, not the one on the front of the pricing page.
What Resy gives you Credit where due. The Resy brand carries real cachet with diners in urban markets, and the Amex partnership sends high-spending cardholders to Resy restaurants through priority access and exclusive tables. Unlimited covers make the cost predictable at any volume. The CRM is solid on every plan -- profiles, tags, dining history. And with Tock folded in, the ticketed-events toolset is the strongest it has ever been. For the right restaurant, that bundle earns its fee.
What Resy does not give you Discovery, mostly. OpenTable's consumer app catches diners searching "Italian near me" and books them into whoever ranks; Resy's diner base skews toward people who already know where they want to eat. If you need a platform to generate new traffic rather than manage existing demand, Resy's engine is thinner. Email marketing is not built in the way OpenTable's higher tiers offer it, and the analytics that explain your booking patterns live behind Platform 360.
Who should use Resy Resy makes sense if the Amex cardholder pipeline reaches your clientele, you run regular ticketed events, and your volume is high enough that flat pricing beats per-cover math. A 150-cover-a-night restaurant in a market where the Resy name drives bookings can defend $399 a month without blinking. A neighborhood spot whose guests book through Google or call directly is paying for brand cachet it may not need -- and there is a cheaper way to run the same book.
Resy vs. flat-fee alternatives A flat-fee platform costs a few hundred dollars a year, not a few thousand. TableLink starts at $10 a month billed annually, $13 month-to-month -- reservations, waitlist, floor plan, and guest profiles included, with no per-cover fees and no features held back between tiers. Against Platform 360 at $4,788 a year, that is over $4,000 kept. The trade-off is honest: you give up the Resy brand and the Amex pipeline. If most of your bookings already come through Google, your own site, and regulars, you were not using those anyway. See the side-by-side comparison with Resy, the OpenTable fee breakdown for the per-cover side of the market, or the full 2026 alternatives guide with every platform's sourced pricing in one table.