Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 61,530,416 checks across 284 restaurants through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
We are not lawyers and this is not advice. New York's 2024 law targets third parties that offer or arrange reservations for a fee without the restaurant's consent. TableSwap charges per successful booking; SnagRes arranges nothing. Read the law and decide for yourself.
An alert service never logs into your account, so there is nothing to ban. Booking automation does act as you, and Resy has banned accounts for it.
A booker that fires the instant a table appears has an edge on speed, at the cost of the fee and the account risk. An alert gets you the same text a few seconds later and leaves the booking, and the account, in your hands.
TableSwap: Worldwide. Platforms: Resy, OpenTable, SevenRooms. Price: $25/mo plus $75 per successful booking. Books on your behalf: Yes, and charges for it. Trial: Not published.
SnagRes: 284 restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Platforms: Resy, OpenTable, Tock, SevenRooms. Price: free for one restaurant, Plus $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Books on your behalf: never. Measured record: 61,530,416 availability checks, with a published open rate, release hour and slot pattern for every room.
SnagRes tells you a table opened. TableSwap gets you the table and charges $75 when it works. One is an alert service; the other offers and arranges a booking for a fee.
In December 2024 New York signed a law aimed at third parties that offer or arrange restaurant reservations for a fee without the restaurant's consent, after a year in which resold tables at the hardest rooms were selling for hundreds of dollars. A service that books on your behalf and charges per success sits exactly where that law points. An alert service sits outside it, because it arranges nothing: you book, under your own account, and pay the restaurant.
That is also why SnagRes can publish a measured record for every room it watches. We have nothing to hide about the mechanism. 61,530,416 logged availability checks across 284 restaurants, a published open rate, release hour and slot pattern for each, and not one booking made on anyone's behalf.
Gets the table. If you would rather pay $75 to have the booking made than tap a text yourself, that is a real service and it is not ours. It also covers the world; we cover four cities. And it watches SevenRooms and OpenTable alongside Resy, as we do, though it does not list Tock.
Anything that books on your behalf needs to act as you on the platform. Resy has banned accounts for automated booking, and a ban is on the account, not the tool. An alert never logs into your account, so there is nothing to ban. That is the risk to weigh against the $75, and it is the reason we chose the side we did.
TableSwap: $25 a month, plus $75 each time it books you a table. SnagRes: free for one restaurant with email alerts, or $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year for unlimited rooms, exact times and instant texts, and never a fee for a table.
Is TableSwap legal in New York? We are not lawyers and this is not advice. New York's 2024 law targets third parties that offer or arrange reservations for a fee without the restaurant's consent. TableSwap charges per successful booking; SnagRes arranges nothing. Read the law and decide for yourself.
Can I get banned from Resy for using an alert service? An alert service never logs into your account, so there is nothing to ban. Booking automation does act as you, and Resy has banned accounts for it.
Which is more likely to get me the table? A booker that fires the instant a table appears has an edge on speed, at the cost of the fee and the account risk. An alert gets you the same text a few seconds later and leaves the booking, and the account, in your hands.
TableSwap watches Resy, OpenTable and SevenRooms worldwide, charges $25 a month, and then $75 for each reservation you successfully book through it. SnagRes t
TableSwap watches Resy, OpenTable and SevenRooms worldwide, charges $25 a month, and then $75 for each reservation you successfully book through it. SnagRes texts you and never books. That is not a feature difference, it is a different kind of service, and one of them is the thing New York wrote a law about.
One restaurant free, no card. SnagRes alerts you and never books.
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