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Mamal vs. Toast
Toast is a serious, mature platform — that’s exactly why we compare against it honestly, including the parts where it’s ahead of us. What we won’t copy is how it’s sold.
Side by side
The structural differences.
| Feature | Mamal | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing on the website | All of it — one page, three numbers | Software tiers published; the full cost of your setup is typically quoted per merchant |
| Card processing rate | 2.49% + 15¢, flat, published | 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 | In development — early access | Mature, battle-tested at enormous scale |
| Ecosystem & integrations | Young and growing | Huge — 100+ integrations, payroll, capital, marketplace |
Comparison reflects publicly available information as of July 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 and has spent a decade building deep full-service features, handheld hardware, and an enormous partner ecosystem. If you need all of that today, at any price, Toast is a rational choice — and plenty of great restaurants make it.
We built Mamal for the restaurants who kept telling us the same story: the software is fine, but the relationship isn’t — the quote-based pricing, the hardware you can’t reuse, the fees that appear on statements, the contract that outlives your patience. Mamal is our answer to the relationship problem.
The trade, plainly
Choose the trade that fits.
Toast gives you maturity and ecosystem, sold the traditional way. Mamal gives you honest economics — published pricing, no contract, your own hardware — and a product that’s still growing, built in the open with the restaurants using it. If the second trade sounds right, come build it with us.