How Much Does Resy Cost Restaurants in 2026? Published March 17, 2026 · Updated September 8, 2026
Resy costs restaurants $289 to $459 a month in 2026, with no per-cover fees. That is the short answer, and it keeps moving: 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 price actually gets you, 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. Prices and prepayment percentages re-read from Resy's published pricing page on September 8, 2026; feature detail verified July 2, 2026.
Resy pricing in 2026: four plans across two prices Resy's pricing page shows four separate plan cards, Platform, Essential, Platform 360 and Premium, across two published prices. None of them charge per-cover fees. In Resy's own words: "Resy pricing is transparent with no per-cover fees. We do not charge any fees on a per reservation basis." What it does meter is prepayments, and only on two of the four. Sharing a price with a plan that has the fee does not mean a plan has it:
Read from Resy's published pricing page on September 8, 2026. No per-cover fees on any plan; standard payment processing fees apply on top of the prepayment percentage. Platform and Platform 360 carry no prepayment fee line, which is not the same as a published zero. Plan Published price Fee on prepayments Per-cover fees Platform $289 a month None published None Essential $289 a month 3% fee on prepayments None Platform 360 $459 a month None published None Premium $459 a month 2% fee on prepayments None
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 -- and the pricing page carries four plan names across two prices. 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 $289 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 prepayments. Sell ticketed events or take a prepaid deposit on Essential and 3% of each transaction goes to the platform. On Premium it is 2%. Platform and Platform 360 publish no prepayment fee, so ask before you assume either way.
The prepayment fees, explained Two of Resy's four plans publish a percentage of every prepayment. Essential, at $289 a month, shows 3%. Premium, at $459 a month, shows 2%. 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. Standard payment processing sits on top of that percentage, not inside it. The lower rate sits on the pricier plan, which is a nudge toward Premium for any restaurant serious about prepaid events.
What a year of Resy actually costs $289 a month is $3,468 a year. On Essential, add 3% of whatever you take in prepayments. $459 a month is $5,508 a year, and on Premium the prepayment share is 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, $3,500 to $5,500 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.
Check which plan carries the feature you came for Four plan names across two prices makes it easy to buy the wrong one. The plans at the same price are not the same plan, and the fee on prepayments is the clearest proof of that: Essential publishes one and Platform, at the identical $289, does not. Feature entitlements split the same way, so read the card you are actually signing rather than the price above it. Ask Resy to confirm in writing which plan carries the things you came for, and budget against that plan rather than the cheapest number on the 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 deeper booking analytics sit on the higher-priced plans rather than the entry one.
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 $459 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 on every plan, with no per-cover fees. Deposits and card on file come with Pro and above, and TableLink takes no cut of the money either way. They run on your own Stripe account, so you pay Stripe its standard processing fee and nothing to us. Against Resy's $459 plan at $5,508 a year, that is over $5,300 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.