Toast vs AfterShip Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Starter Kit
- Cloud-based point of sale
- Hardware configuration incl. 1 terminal
- Additional add-ons available
Point of Sale
- Cloud-based point of sale
- Custom hardware configuration
- Additional add-ons available
Build Your Own
- Perpetual inventory management
- Easy integrated payroll and tips manager
- Automated inventory
- Employee benefits
- Employee scheduling
- Guest marketing, loyalty and gift cards
- Pair with hardware setup of your choosing
Save money by bundling POS and Toast Payroll
- Payroll essentials
- Basic scheduling
- Other team management tools you may want for your business, including Restaurant Insurance powered by NEXT^†, Vestwell 401(k)^ and Toast Pay Card and PayOut§
Point of Sale
- Cloud-based point of sale
- Custom hardware configuration
- Additional add-ons availible
Build Your Own
- Perpetual inventory management
- Supplier management
- Online ordering and delivery
- Guest marketing, loyalty, and gift cards
- Employee scheduling
- Easy integrated payroll
- Employee benefits
- Pair with hardware setup of your choosing
Essentials
- Branded tracking page with your logo & colors
- Automatic carrier detection and correction
- Email & SMS notifications for every shipment milestone
- Tracking dashboard with status & reports
Premium
- Fully customizable tracking page + custom domain
- AI-powered EDD & product recommendations
- Full analytics suite
- API & webhooks
- Order Edits
Enterprise
- Dedicated CSM & onboarding
- Enterprise SLAs & SSO
- Custom integrations
- Multi-org management
Toast vs AfterShip FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- AfterShip is the cheaper option, starting at $29/mo vs $69/mo for Toast.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Toast has a free plan. AfterShip doesn't — you'll need to pay from day one.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Toast uses hybrid pricing, while AfterShip goes with usage-based. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Toast: Toast sits in the mid-market for restaurant tech — not as cheap as Square for Restaurants, not as enterprise-heavy as Oracle MICROS. The $0 entry tier is a direct shot at Square's free POS, while the Retail tab signals they're quietly expanding beyond their core restaurant identity to compete with Lightspeed and Shopify POS. AfterShip: AfterShip sits in the mid-market range for post-purchase tracking tools — not the cheapest (plenty of Shopify apps undercut them), but not enterprise-priced either. They're going after scaling DTC brands and mid-size retailers who've outgrown basic carrier emails but aren't ready to build custom tracking infrastructure.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Toast and AfterShip and let you know when something moves.