Comparison

Bubo vs. OpenTable

One of them charges you for the guest. The other answers the phone the guest is already ringing.

Booking marketplace

OpenTable

$149–$499 / month, plus $1.00–$1.50 for every diner the network sends you

  • A marketplace where diners browse restaurants and book
  • Booking widget, diary and table management for your own site
  • Reach: people who were not looking for you specifically

It brings you diners you would not have had — and charges for every one, on a bill that grows with the good nights.

Your own bookings, kept yours — first 6 months free

Bubo

€49 / month

  • Booking widget on your website, plus your own booking page and QR code
  • Answers your phone 24/7 in 70+ languages — tables, orders and questions
  • WhatsApp confirmations, verified numbers, deposits and gift cards

The same price whether you turn the room twice or not at all. Nobody is counted at the door, and the guest’s number goes in your book.

$1.50 Per network diner on OpenTable’s Basic plan — published on their own site
€0 What Bubo charges per cover, on any plan, from any channel
24/7 Bubo answers the phone. A marketplace never does.
A full room, and a fee for every head in it.
A full room, and a fee for every head in it.

Side by side

What it does
Bubo
OpenTable
Why it matters on a Friday night

What a booking costs

Per diner from their network
Nothing
$1.50 on Basic, $1.00 on Core and Pro
A hundred network covers on a good week is a hundred and fifty dollars, on top of the subscription, every week.
Per diner from your own website
Nothing
$0.25 on Basic, or $49/month for unlimited; included on Core and Pro
On the entry plan you are charged for guests who came to your own site and typed your own name.
Monthly subscription
€49, first six months free
$149 Basic · $299 Core · $499 Pro
Before a single cover is counted, the entry plans are roughly three times apart.
Prepaid experiences
Deposits and prepayment at your payment method’s own rate
A published 2% service fee on all three plans
A ticketed New Year’s Eve is exactly when a percentage hurts most.

Whose guest is it

Who holds the relationship
You — the number is in your own book
The marketplace, which can market to them again
A guest you can reach again is worth many times a guest you paid for once.
Who else the guest sees
Nobody — your site, your page, your phone
Your listing sits beside other restaurants
A marketplace is a street of open doors. Yours is one of them.
What it does bring you
Nothing you did not already have — it answers what comes in
Diners who had never heard of you
This is the honest reason a marketplace is worth paying for, and it is worth saying out loud before the rest.

The phone, and what else comes in on it

Answers the phone
Yes — on the first ring, day and night
No
A phone that rings out during service is the booking you never knew you lost. Nobody leaves a voicemail for a restaurant; they call the next one.
Takes an order, not just a booking
Yes — takeaway and delivery, priced from your real menu, paid on WhatsApp
No
If part of your evening is people phoning to order, that is revenue a booking platform has nowhere to put.
Sells gift cards
Yes — your own page, the phone, or the counter
—
Money in today for a visit months from now.
Languages
70+, spoken on the phone and written in every message after it
A multilingual marketplace, in writing
A guest who phones in Turkish or Polish needs somebody to speak it, and a tourist who cannot finish the call does not book.

Every OpenTable figure on this page is from their own published plans, read in September 2026, and corroborated against independent pricing write-ups from the same month. Prices change — check theirs before you budget on it.

Everything else, at a glance

Bubo
OpenTable
Answers the phone, 24/7
✓ Yes
– No
Fee per network diner
– No
$1.00–$1.50
Fee per diner from your own site
– No
$0.25 on Basic
Brings diners who were not looking for you
– No
✓ Yes
Your listing shown beside other restaurants
– No
✓ Yes
Booking widget on your own website
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
Your own booking page and QR code
✓ Yes
—
Takeaway and delivery orders
✓ Yes
– No
Gift cards
✓ Yes
—
Spoken languages
70+
—
WhatsApp confirmations and reminders
✓ Yes
—
Number verified before a table is held
✓ Yes
—
Deposits and prepayments
✓ Yes
yes, plus a 2% service fee
Table and floor management
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
Guest history and notes
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
Every call recorded and summarised
✓ Yes
– No
Plan price published on their own site
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
Industries served
Six
Hospitality

OpenTable’s column is from their own published plans, September 2026. A dash means we could not confirm it either way rather than that it is missing.

The same job, on a very much larger invoice.
The same job, on a very much larger invoice.

What each one costs

Both publish their prices, which makes this the rare comparison you can do with a calculator instead of a sales call.

Bubo
OpenTable
Monthly subscription
€49 / monthFirst 6 months free
$149 Basic$299 Core · $499 Pro
Per diner from their network
Nothing
$1.50 on Basic$1.00 on Core and Pro
Per diner from your own website
Nothing
$0.25 on Basic, or $49/month unlimitedIncluded on Core and Pro
Prepaid experiences
Your payment method’s own rate
2% service feeOn all three plans
AI receptionist on the phone
From €59 / month150 minutes — roughly 75 to 100 calls
Not available

OpenTable’s figures are from their own published plans pages, read in September 2026 and cross-checked against independent pricing write-ups from the same month. Bubo’s are on our own pricing page. Currencies are as each company publishes them.

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