Six QR menu tools compared on price, free plan, languages, allergens, ordering and AI. GustoQR comes first: free forever, 18+ languages, AI import, Pro $49 a year.
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Its free plan is not a trial and never ends: AI import from a photo or PDF, auto-translation into 18+ languages, the 14 allergens per dish, WhatsApp ordering with 0% commission and many menus on one account. No card needed.
When you want more, Pro is $49 a year: the menu assistant, waiter call, a POS with kitchen display and a Google Review QR. Square Plus costs that per month, per location. MENU TIGER Regular and Menuthere Lite cost about $204 a year.
Below: the ranking, the side-by-side table and six questions to ask any vendor. Every rival price was read on the vendor’s own page on 6 November 2026.
Best overall and best free: GustoQR. Free forever with AI import, 18+ languages and WhatsApp orders. Pro at $49 a year adds the assistant, waiter call and POS. MENU TIGER Regular and Menuthere Lite cost about $204 a year.
Not a trial. No card needed.
A small GustoQR mark shows under the menu.
Everything in Free, plus:
New price, new dessert, a dish sold out? Write it like a message. The assistant edits your menu, you watch the change on the preview, and one tap puts it on every table.
Scored for one venue on the rules below. GustoQR comes first on price, the free plan, languages, allergens, WhatsApp ordering and AI, and Pro costs per year what Square Plus costs per month.
Best for: Any venue that wants a free menu in 18+ languages with AI, and a full Pro for $49 a year. Restaurants, cafés, bars, hotels, salons and clinics.
Best for: Venues already taking card payments with Square.
Best for: Owners who want table and online ordering on a monthly plan.
Best for: Small UK venues with few orders a month.
Best for: Full-service restaurants buying a complete POS with Toast hardware.
Best for: Restaurants that want a website and online ordering run for them.
GustoQR’s two plans first, then every rival on the same columns.
| Tool | One venue, one year | Free plan | Languages | Allergens | Ordering | Waiter call | AI | Contract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GustoQR Free | $0, forever | Not a trial, many menus on one account | 18+, auto-translated | 14, guest filter, calories | WhatsApp, 0% commission | With Pro | AI import from a photo or PDF | None |
| GustoQR Pro | $49 (about £36) | Everything in Free | 18+, auto-translated | 14, plus nutrition and portions | WhatsApp, plus table to kitchen display | Yes, plus bill request | Menu assistant, 250 AI credits a year | None, cancel any time |
| Square | $0 + card fees, or $588 (Plus, US) | Yes, paid through card fees | n/s | n/s | QR ordering to the kitchen | n/s | n/s | n/s |
| MENU TIGER | $204 (Regular, monthly) | Yes, with order caps | Multilingual | n/s | Table and online | n/s | AI Menu Builder | n/s |
| Menuthere | $204 (Lite) | Up to 50 orders a month | n/s | n/s | Yes | n/s | n/s | n/s |
| Toast | $0 (Starter kit) or from $828 | Starter kit on Toast hardware | n/s | n/s | Mobile Order & Pay add-on | n/s | n/s | n/s |
| Owner.com | $2,988 + 5% per order | No | n/s | n/s | Online ordering | n/s | AI website | Month to month |
Prices read on each vendor’s page on 6 Nov 2026; MENU TIGER’s caps and Menuthere’s prices as listed in Menuthere’s UK comparison (11 Oct 2026). n/s: not stated on the page we read. GustoQR Pro is $49 a year, about £36; the charge is in USD.
The menu opens in each guest’s language, from 18+, on the free plan.
Photograph it or upload the PDF. AI builds your QR menu in minutes, free.
Guests send the cart to your WhatsApp as one message. 0% commission, on Free.
Guests tap “Call waiter” or “Request bill” and the waiter’s phone rings. Orders reach the kitchen display. On Pro.
Say “raise all drinks by 10%” and check the preview before it goes live. On Pro.
Salons, spas, clinics and hotels use GustoQR for service menus and price lists, with the same QR.
Owner.com charges guests 5% on both plans, and Square takes a card fee on every sale. GustoQR: 0% commission.
Menuthere stops at 50 orders a month and MENU TIGER caps orders too. GustoQR Free never expires and takes 0% commission on WhatsApp orders.
Square Plus is $49 a month per location, plus $30 a month per kitchen display. GustoQR Pro: $49 a year, kitchen display included.
Ask what happens to your codes when a trial ends or you stop paying. GustoQR Free never ends, so printed codes keep working.
Ask whether each dish has allergen fields guests can filter, not a line in the description. GustoQR: the 14 allergens per dish, with a guest filter, on Free.
Toast lists hardware and implementation as upfront costs; Owner.com starts at $2,988 a year. GustoQR: no setup fee, no contract, cancel any time.
For most venues, GustoQR. It is free forever with AI import from a photo or PDF, 18+ languages, the 14 allergens and WhatsApp orders, and Pro is $49 a year for the menu assistant, waiter call and a POS with kitchen display. Every rival price here was checked on 6 November 2026.
GustoQR. The free plan includes AI import from a photo or PDF and auto-translation into 18+ languages. The menu assistant, which you chat or talk to and which edits the whole menu, comes with Pro at $49 a year with 250 AI credits.
Yes. GustoQR is free forever, not a trial: AI import, 18+ languages, the 14 allergens and WhatsApp ordering, with no card needed and a small GustoQR mark under the menu. Menuthere’s free plan stops at 50 orders a month, and Square’s free QR menu earns through a card fee on each sale.
From $0 to several thousand dollars. On this list: GustoQR Free $0 and Pro $49, MENU TIGER Regular and Menuthere Lite about $204, Square Plus $588 per location, Owner.com from $2,988 plus fees.
No: GustoQR runs on its own, and next to the till and delivery apps you already use. They keep payments, receipts and delivery, while the table menu, orders, waiter call and kitchen display run in GustoQR.
GustoQR. Salons, spas, clinics, hotels and bars use it as well as restaurants: you list services and prices instead of dishes, and customers scan the same kind of QR.
Minutes. Photograph your paper menu or upload the PDF, AI builds the menu and translates it, then you print the QR from the print studio. On Pro, we set up the menu for you.
QR menu prices 2026: GustoQR is free forever, with 18+ languages and AI import. Pro is $49 a year. See what Square, Toast and MENU TIGER cost.
Print a free allergen matrix from your menu and see what UK, US, EU, UAE and Singapore law asks: allergens, calories, prices, fines and QR menus.
The light POS for cafés, guesthouses and boutique hotels. Guests order by QR, the kitchen screen lights up, bills split. Live tonight, $49 a year, 0% fees.