Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 86,946,734 checks across 288 restaurants through October 30, 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Per table, TablePass at $18 against AutoRes from $21.99. For several tables a month, a TablePass plan from $29 a month. Both charge for the booking, not the alert.
The ones that book for you work in your own account. TablePass asks you to link your credentials once, and AutoRes books into your Resy or OpenTable account.
Yes. Resy's Security Center says accounts with identified bot activity are automatically terminated, and Restaurant Business reported diners deactivated over an AI booking agent.
No. SnagRes texts you when a table opens and you book it yourself. It never asks for a booking login.
An iPhone app for New York that says it tracks reservation drops and secures tables for you. It is free to download on the App Store.
Prices and terms were checked on October 30, 2026 against each service's own site or App Store listing, Resy's terms and Security Center, OpenTable's terms of use, and Restaurant Business. Prices change often. For the legal side, read whether reservation bots are legal, and for the alert services, every alert service compared. Or see what is open in New York right now.
A booking bot watches a restaurant's calendar and books the table itself the moment one appears. TablePass, AutoRes and Spot all book in your own Resy or OpenTable account, which means they need your login or a linked session, and you pay per table or by the month.
That is the whole appeal: you name the restaurant and a confirmation arrives. It is also where the risk sits, because the booking is made by software acting as you.
Resy's terms bar automated software on its service, and its Security Center says accounts with identified bot activity "will be automatically terminated." OpenTable's terms of use bar robots, scrapers and AI tools in the same way.
This has happened to real diners. Restaurant Business reported that Resy deactivated the accounts of people whose AI booking agent made hundreds of requests an hour; both were later reinstated. Resy told the publication it does not permit unapproved third-party bots or agents. If a bot books as you and the account is flagged, the ban and any cancelled tables are yours, not the vendor's.
TablePass charges $18 per confirmed booking, or Gold at $29 a month (billed $348 a year, 3 bookings a month) up to Black from $499 a month. AutoRes charges from $21.99 per successful booking. Spot is $15 or $50 a month. Snatch'd is free to download.
SnagRes Plus is $14.99 a month, or $59.99 for the first year and $99.99 a year after, whether you book one table or ten, because it charges for the alert and never for the table.
SnagRes watches 288 hard-to-book restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago and texts you the minute a table opens, with the time and a link to the restaurant's own booking page. You book it in your own name, the normal way, in a few taps.
We never ask for a Resy or OpenTable login, never place or hold a reservation, and never sell one. The trade-off is plain: you have to be free to tap book when the text arrives.
Resale is a different thing: AppointmentTrader, Cita and Peak Reservations let people sell reservations they hold, and ResX lets diners pass on tables they cannot use without selling them. In New York, General Business Law section 391-w has barred third-party services from selling a restaurant's reservations without its written agreement since February 17, 2025, and Resy and OpenTable both prohibit resale in their terms.
You link your booking credentials once and it books when a table appears. Plans include a set number of bookings a month. Source: tablepass.nyc.
Charged per successful booking, with no subscription. It books into your own Resy or OpenTable account. Source: autores.io.
Invite only. Its agents watch availability and use your account to complete the booking. Source: Upstarts, September 27, 2026.
An iPhone app that says it tracks drops and secures tables for you. Source: App Store listing.
Texts you the minute a table opens and you book it yourself. It never asks for a booking login.
TablePass, AutoRes and Snatch'd book hard tables for a fee per booking, using your Resy login. What each costs, the account risk, and the free alternative.
These services book hard tables for you, in your own account, for a fee per table or a monthly plan. Here is what each one costs, whose login it uses, and what Resy and OpenTable say about bots. We make an alert service that never books, so weigh what follows with that in mind.
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