This is not really a fight between two websites. It is two ways of making the website a consequence of the register: Toast puts it in the $578 Growth pack on a two-year agreement, and BentoBox, since the Clover fold-in, will not sell you one at all unless you run Clover. The cheapest road to either is $6,444 over three years, before the BentoBox module that has no published price. The third road is $199 once, and it survives whatever you do with the terminal.
The countertop starter kit is $1,153 up front on Traditional (Toast Flex terminal, Tap card reader, router) or $0 on Pay-as-You-Go, and it is yours, not leased. The checkout states a 2-year software agreement that then renews a year at a time unless either side gives 30 days' written notice. Leaving early costs the software fees left in the term, or $150 for each month left on Pay-as-You-Go — fourteen months left is $3,066 on Core, or $2,100 on the $0 plan.
BentoBox was the specialist restaurant website: a designed site, online ordering, events and catering enquiries, sold as separate modules and quoted per restaurant. In 2026 you cannot buy it on its own. Its pricing page now opens with "BentoBox is now Clover" and answers the price question with a different sentence: "Currently, BentoBox products/services are only available to Clover POS customers." There is no dollar figure anywhere on the page, and existing customers are routed to a customer success manager rather than a checkout.
So the real price of a BentoBox website in 2026 starts with a register. Clover's full-service restaurant bundles are $179 (Starter), $239 (Standard) and $354 (Advanced) a month for 36 months, or $1,799, $2,548 and $4,447 up front plus $89.95, $109.90 and $129.85 a month — and Clover's own FAQs say subscriptions are non-cancelable and ineligible for refunds. The website module sits on top of that, in a quote. Any monthly figure you see quoted for BentoBox today is either the 2023 list or a third party's guess; the vendor publishes none.
Toast's side of that sentence: the Toast website is in Growth, so a restaurant that already runs Toast Core and wants a proper site either jumps $359 a month or buys the Digital Storefront add-on, which Toast's pricing page lists as an add-on with no price next to it. Ask for both numbers in writing before you accept either.
Nothing here counts card processing, which every one of them charges separately: Clover 2.3% + 10¢ in person and 3.5% + 10¢ typed in; Toast 2.49% + 15¢ in person and 3.50% + 15¢ online. Those numbers are large, they are on both sides, and leaving them out of the software total is the only honest way to compare subscriptions.
Read the $6,444 carefully. It is a register you are buying to qualify for a website — a 36-month non-cancelable subscription, a terminal, a printer, a cash drawer, and a card rate tied to Clover. If your register is already fine, the honest price of a BentoBox website for you is not $6,444; it is the whole cost of changing POS.
The two companies are in different businesses and the same trap: the site is not a product you can buy, keep and move. It is a feature of a machine you rent.
The Toast website is sold inside Growth at $578 a month, on a 2-year agreement, with Toast's terms restricting its services to approved Toast hardware. Cancel, downgrade or change register and the site goes with the pack. Nothing on Toast's pages offers the website as a download.
BentoBox now answers a pricing question with "only available to Clover POS customers". A shop on Toast, Square, SpotOn or Lightspeed that wants BentoBox has to replace its register first, on a 36-month non-cancelable Clover subscription, then negotiate the website module on top.
Both roads end in the same place: the thing a guest actually looks at — your hours, your menu, the photos, the phone number — is owned by whoever owns the register. The day the register changes, the page is rebuilt from a Word document and a folder of photos someone has to find. A one-time page removes that whole class of problem, because the deliverable is the file.
A restaurant website, priced three ways: inside a POS pack, inside a register you must replace, and as a file you keep.
| Toast (Core / Growth) | BentoBox (now Clover) | ShopLaunch | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price published? | Yes — $69 / $219 / $578 a month, plus a $1,153 kit | No. No plan, no price, no checkout; quote through Clover | Yes — $49 / $199 / $499, once |
| Can I buy it without a register? | No. Its terms restrict the service to approved Toast hardware | No. "Only available to Clover POS customers" | Yes. It needs nothing behind it |
| Contract | 2 years, then a year at a time | 36 months on the Clover subscription, non-cancelable | None |
| Hardware | $1,153 countertop kit (or $0 on Pay-as-You-Go) | Clover terminal, printer, cash drawer — bundled, and non-cancelable | None. Your phone and your printer |
| Online ordering | Yes, from Core ($219) | A module; no published price. Clover's own online menu page is included in its bundles | No. We do not take orders or payments |
| The website itself | In Growth ($578) or a Digital Storefront add-on with no published price | The product — sold as modules inside a Clover quote | Built for you in 24 hours |
| What happens when you leave | The site stops with the subscription | Ask, in writing, what happens to the site and the domain at the end of the Clover term | Nothing to leave. The files are yours |
| Time to live | Install is scheduled with Toast; no published timeline | Under a week once the Clover install and the quote are done | 24 hours from a completed form |
| Three-year software + hardware | $9,037 at Core · $21,961 at Growth | $6,444 (Starter) to $12,744 (Advanced), before the website module | $199 |
BentoBox: getbento.com and its pricing page, read 11 November 2026 — "BentoBox is now Clover", "Currently, BentoBox products/services are only available to Clover POS customers", no price published. The $149 / $249 a month and $1,000 / $1,500 setup figures are the last list BentoBox printed, in 2023, and are labelled as such wherever they appear. Clover: clover.com/pricing/restaurant, read 11 November 2026 — Starter $179, Standard $239, Advanced $354 a month for 36 months, or $1,799 + $89.95, $2,548 + $109.90 and $4,447 + $129.85; cards 2.3% + 10¢ in person, 3.5% + 10¢ typed in; subscriptions non-cancelable. Toast: pos.toasttab.com and its Starter Kit checkout, 7-11 November 2026. Every figure is before tax and before card processing.
Not a template you fill in, and not a replacement for a register. We take your hours, prices and photos, build each piece, and hand back files and a live link.
One form, five minutes. Live the next business day. No app for you or your guests, no monthly fee, and no cut of anything you sell.
The page and the menu are the Local Pack. No register required, nothing recurs, and nothing to renegotiate when the Clover term ends.
Under a tenth of one month of Toast Growth, and nothing after it.
The one most shops order.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Payment is taken by Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, on their checkout page — we never see your card. By ordering you agree to our terms and refund policy. The files are yours to keep and reprint.
On paper, the Clover road is cheaper: $6,444 over three years on Clover Starter against $21,961 for Toast Growth with the website. But that $6,444 is a 36-month non-cancelable register subscription you are buying to qualify, and the BentoBox modules come on top in a quote with no published price. If your register is already fine, comparing those two numbers is comparing the cost of changing POS with the cost of a website.
BentoBox publishes no price. Its pricing page states that BentoBox is now Clover and that its products are only available to Clover POS customers; existing customers are directed to a customer success manager. The last list it printed, in 2023, was $149 a month (Essentials) and $249 (Plus) plus $1,000 or $1,500 setup per concept. Any 2026 monthly figure you read for BentoBox is a third party's estimate, not the vendor's price.
No — not as a new customer. BentoBox's own pricing page says its products and services are currently only available to Clover POS customers, so the website is now a module of a point-of-sale platform. Existing BentoBox customers can still add modules through their success manager, which is a different situation from buying it today.
In the Growth pack at $578 a month, which also adds gift cards, loyalty and SMS and email marketing, on the same two-year agreement as the rest of Toast's software. A restaurant already on Toast adds it through a Digital Storefront add-on that shows no price on the pages we read — so the number to ask for in writing is: what does my monthly bill become if I add the website to my current pack?
Ask, in writing, before you sign — and ask specifically who owns the domain, whether the site can be exported, and what the site looks like on the last day of the term. Clover's own FAQs say its subscriptions are non-cancelable and ineligible for refunds, which makes the exit terms the most important sentence in the quote. We have not found a published answer, and we are not going to guess one.
Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, takes it on their checkout page. Your card details are entered there, never on this site, and they handle the receipt and the tax. We never see your card number.
What BentoBox publishes (nothing), the Clover road, Toast's Growth pack and the three-year totals, on one printable A4 page.
Sixteen more, each priced over three years from the vendor's own page — restaurant POS, ordering, booking apps and the DIY builders.
Everything on one page: the 2026 cost comparison · the fee calculator · barbershops & salons.
Send your shop once. We build the page, the menu, the posters and the posts, and hand it back the next business day — with the files. Nothing to cancel, nothing welded to a terminal, and nothing that stops working when you change POS.