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OpenTable
Restaurant reservation and management platform
As of 30 August 2026, OpenTable starts at $39/month. OpenTable is the world's leading restaurant reservation platform, seating over 1 billion diners annually. Softwr lists it under Restaurants. OpenTable is made by OpenTable Inc. (Booking Holdings), launched in 1998, available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What OpenTable does
OpenTable is the world's leading restaurant reservation platform, seating over 1 billion diners annually. It provides restaurants with reservation management, table management, guest profiles, and marketing tools. OpenTable connects restaurants with millions of diners searching for places to eat.
What people use it for
- Point of Sale
- Order Management
- Inventory Control
- Staff Scheduling
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about OpenTable.
- OpenTable for Restaurants charges a subscription fee on top of per-cover network fees: Basic is $149/month with covers free for the first 30 days then $1.50 per network cover, Core is $299/month at $1 per network cover, and Pro is $499/month also at $1 per network cover, so cost scales with both plan tier and diner volume rather than a flat seat price (archived plans page, 5 November 2025)
- On the Basic plan, reservations booked through the restaurant's own website are not free: they cost $0.25 per cover or a $49/month flat fee, a charge that is waived only on the higher Core and Pro tiers (archived plans page, 5 November 2025)
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Pricing
What OpenTable costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Basic
$39 /mo
- Reservations
- Table management
Core
$249 /mo
- Guest profiles
- Marketing
Pro
$449 /mo
- Full features
- Premium support
Capabilities
Features
Online reservations
Table management
Guest profiles
Waitlist
Marketing tools
Reviews
Toast
Integration with Toast
Square
Integration with Square
Lightspeed
Integration with Lightspeed
Revel
Integration with Revel
Web support
Available on web
Ios support
Available on ios
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does OpenTable restaurant solutions cost?
OpenTable does not publish specific pricing rates or plan tiers on its website. Restaurants must contact the sales team to receive custom pricing quotes based on their individual needs.
SourceIs there a free trial for OpenTable?
OpenTable's website does not specify free trial availability. Interested restaurants are directed to request a demo or contact the sales team directly for information about trial options and custom pricing.
SourceBehind it
Who makes OpenTable
- Company
- OpenTable Inc. (Booking Holdings)
- Based in
- San Francisco, California
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- Aloha POS
- DoorDash
- Flipdish
- Foodics
- Galley Solutions
- HotSchedules
- Jolt
- Lineup.ai
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