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Mamal vs. Toast
Toast is a serious, mature platform, which is exactly why we compare against it honestly and include the parts where it is ahead of us. What we will not copy is the way it gets sold.
Side by side
The differences that are structural.
| Feature | Mamal | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing on the website | Software price published on one page; processing quoted in writing before you sign | Software tiers published; the full cost of your setup is typically quoted per merchant |
| Card processing rate | One rate, quoted in writing before you sign, with our margin shown | Not published — negotiated per merchant quote |
| Contract | Month to month, cancel from the dashboard | Term agreements are standard; early termination can carry a fee |
| Hardware | $0 — runs in the browser on iPads, Android tablets, and PCs you own | Proprietary Android terminals and handhelds, purchased or financed from Toast |
| If you leave | Export everything free; your hardware still works — it’s yours | Proprietary terminals have no second life outside Toast |
| Online ordering | Included — your own site, no per-order commission | Strong — included with plans, with per-order or add-on fees on some configurations |
| Loyalty & gift cards | Included in the one plan | Available as paid add-ons |
| Register & kitchen maturity | Shipped — younger, and proven on fewer restaurants | Mature, battle-tested at enormous scale |
| Ecosystem & integrations | Young and growing | Huge — 100+ integrations, payroll, capital, marketplace |
Comparison reflects publicly available information as of September 2026 and may change; verify details with each vendor. Toast is a trademark of Toast, Inc. Mamal is not affiliated with or endorsed by Toast.
Credit where due
Where Toast is genuinely strong.
Toast runs tens of thousands of restaurants. A decade on the genuinely hard parts: full-service depth, handhelds that survive a Saturday, an ecosystem nobody is close to.
We did not build Mamal because their software is bad. We built it because of everything around the software. The rate nobody would put in writing. Terminals still being paid off after leaving.
The trade, plainly
Choose the trade that fits.
Toast gives you maturity and an ecosystem, sold the way this industry always has. We give you a published price, no contract, and hardware that stays yours. On a younger product, run by far fewer restaurants. That is a real trade.