Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 61,530,416 checks across 284 restaurants through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
SevenRooms, by the average share of dates with a bookable table. Across our list, SevenRooms rooms showed a bookable table on 32% of dates on average and 27% at the median, against 65% and 77% for OpenTable. Within New York alone, SevenRooms averages 14% against 36% for Resy. Within San Francisco, 43% against 71% for OpenTable.
Overall, OpenTable averages 65% against 58% for Resy, but much of that is where the restaurants are. 27 of our 59 OpenTable rooms are in San Francisco, where the median restaurant is bookable on 65% of dates, while 56 of our 169 Resy rooms are in New York, where the median is 35%. Compared within New York, OpenTable averages 43% against 36% for Resy, with two of our nine New York OpenTable rooms at 0%.
No. The platform does not change how many tables exist. What it reflects is which restaurants chose it. SevenRooms is a hospitality CRM aimed at operators who tightly manage their room and hold covers back for regulars and the door, which describes small, hyped restaurants, so hard rooms cluster there. The correlation is selection, and it is still a useful prior.
Substantially. Across 465,235,816 logged open slots, the average share of openings between 7:00 and 8:30 PM runs OpenTable 32%, Tock 31%, SevenRooms 25% and Resy 25%. At 9 PM or later it runs SevenRooms 27%, OpenTable 22%, Resy 22% and Tock 13%. If you want prime time, the platform shifts your odds before you pick a date.
The median room reaches 30 days ahead on OpenTable, 29 on Tock, 29 on Resy and 29 on SevenRooms. The furthest-out date we have actually caught bookable sits at a median of 29 days on OpenTable, 28 on Tock, 27 on Resy and 20 on SevenRooms.
Resy, like most of the hardest New York restaurants. The platforms are mixed enough that it is worth checking individually: Don Angie and Red Hook Tavern are on OpenTable, The Corner Store and Semma are on SevenRooms, and Per Se and Jungsik are on Tock. Resy itself is no guide to difficulty, since 18 of our Resy rooms read 0% and 30 read 100%.
If you are chasing hard reservations, effectively yes. All four are in use among the hardest rooms, the drop clocks differ by platform, and discovering at 8:59 AM that you have no account on the right one loses you the release. Create the accounts and save a card in advance.
The clusters differ. On Resy the most common confirmed drop is 9 AM at 20 of 63 rooms with a confirmed time, then 10 AM at 15. On OpenTable it is noon at 6 of 14 rooms with a confirmed time. On Tock, 10 AM at 6 of 16 rooms with a confirmed time. On SevenRooms, 10 AM at 5 of 14 rooms with a confirmed time. We publish the observed schedule per restaurant rather than relying on the platform average.
SevenRooms, measured by the share of dates with a bookable table. We track 284 restaurants across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, and measure every one of them the same way, on the same schedule, for a party of two and a party of four. Sorted by platform, the raw averages are not close.
Ranked from hardest to easiest by the average room: SevenRooms 32%, Tock 39%, Resy 58% and OpenTable 65%. The medians say it more bluntly: SevenRooms 27%, Resy 62%, Tock 40% and OpenTable 77%.
That looks like a clean four-way ranking, and it is not. Much of the distance between the platforms is geography rather than software, which the next section takes apart. The SevenRooms result is the part worth testing hardest, and it is genuinely useful before you know anything else about a restaurant.
The sample behind each row is worth stating, because the four are not equally well observed. Resy carries 45,843,783 of our availability checks, OpenTable 9,180,017, Tock 55,216 and SevenRooms 6,451,400.
OpenTable: 59 rooms, 65% mean, 77% median, 7 at zero.
Tock: 28 rooms, 39% mean, 40% median, 7 at zero.
Resy: 168 rooms, 58% mean, 62% median, 18 at zero.
SevenRooms: 28 rooms, 32% mean, 27% median, 6 at zero.
The four platforms are not spread evenly across our four cities, and the cities are not equally hard. The median New York restaurant we watch showed a bookable table on 35% of dates, against 65% in San Francisco, 67% in Los Angeles and 71% in Chicago. 23 of the 38 rooms at 0% are in New York.
Now look at where each platform's rooms actually are. Of our 169 Resy restaurants, 56 are in New York, 53 in Los Angeles, 50 in Chicago and 10 in San Francisco. Of our 59 OpenTable restaurants, 27 are in San Francisco. So a headline platform comparison is partly a comparison of cities wearing different logos.
Splitting by city changes the picture. In New York, OpenTable rooms average 43% with a median of 33%, and Resy rooms average 36% with a median of 37%, so on our New York list OpenTable is the easier of the two. Two of the nine New York OpenTable rooms we watch read 0%: Don Angie and Una Pizza Napoletana.
Elsewhere the pair moves around. OpenTable averages 71% against 72% for Resy in San Francisco, 79% against 63% in Los Angeles and 55% against 74% in Chicago. If you take one thing from this page, take that the city is a strong predictor on its own, and that anyone quoting a platform-versus-platform gap without saying which city they measured is quoting a mix of cities.
Median across all platforms: New York 35%, San Francisco 65%, Los Angeles 67%, Chicago 71%.
OpenTable against Resy, mean open rate: New York 43% to 36%, San Francisco 71% to 72%, Los Angeles 79% to 63%, Chicago 55% to 74%.
56 of our 169 Resy rooms are in New York. 27 of our 59 OpenTable rooms are in San Francisco.
Run the same control on SevenRooms. In New York, SevenRooms rooms average 14% with a median of 5%, against 36% for Resy in the same city. In San Francisco they average 43% with a median of 39%, against 71% for OpenTable. Among platforms with at least three rooms in a city, SevenRooms has the lowest average in two of our four cities: New York and Los Angeles.
The New York SevenRooms roster, hardest first, reads Or'esh (0%), Semma (0%), The Corner Store (0%), The Eighty Six (0%), Wild Cherry (0%) and Le Veau d'Or (3%). The easiest room on that list is Raku (47%), a number that would be unremarkable on our San Francisco OpenTable list, where seven of 27 rooms read 100%.
San Francisco tells the same story more quietly, with Verjus (10%), Cotogna (20%), Benu (30%) and The Big Four (37%) at the tight end of its SevenRooms list. Some of the city's most decorated rooms book this way, and they are among its least publicly bookable.
One caveat we would rather state than hide: SevenRooms is one of our smaller platform samples, 28 rooms, 12 of them in New York. The direction is consistent, but it rests on fewer restaurants than the Resy figure does.
Nothing in the software releases more seats. Reading the table as OpenTable being generous and SevenRooms hoarding gets the mechanism backwards.
What the platform tells you is which kind of restaurant chose it. SevenRooms is a hospitality CRM sold to independent operators who care intensely about controlling their room: guest history, seat-by-seat assignment, holding covers back for regulars and for the door. That is precisely the profile of a small, hyped, tightly managed restaurant, which is precisely the profile of a hard booking. It is also frequently reached through the restaurant's own website rather than a marketplace, so its rooms are easy to miss entirely.
OpenTable's roster skews the other way, toward larger dining rooms and hotel restaurants that expect to fill by taking bookings rather than by reputation. Tock began as a prepaid ticketing platform for tasting menus and still behaves like one, which is why so many of its rooms sell a seat outright and then look wide open.
So the correlation is selection, not causation, and it is still worth having. The platform is a visible proxy for something you cannot otherwise see from outside: how much of its own room the restaurant is managing by hand.
This is the part of the platform signal nobody publishes, and it is more actionable than the open rate. We record the time of every open slot we see, 465,235,816 of them so far, so we can say which part of the evening each platform's rooms tend to release.
Ranked by the average share of openings in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM band, richest first: OpenTable 32%, Tock 31%, SevenRooms 25% and Resy 25%. If you want prime time specifically, the platform your restaurant uses shifts your odds before you have chosen a date.
The tails are more lopsided than the middle. Share of openings at 9 PM or later, richest first: SevenRooms 27%, OpenTable 22%, Resy 22% and Tock 13%, so on Tock the late table is the rarest thing on offer and the early sitting is the one to chase. Share before 6 PM: Resy 39%, Tock 35%, SevenRooms 30% and OpenTable 26%.
Runway differs as well. The median room reaches 30 days ahead on OpenTable, 29 on Tock, 29 on Resy and 29 on SevenRooms. The furthest-out date we have actually caught bookable sits at a median of 29 days on OpenTable, 28 on Tock, 27 on Resy and 20 on SevenRooms. A low open rate on a short runway is why a hard room feels less like a booking system and more like a door that occasionally opens.
Share of openings at 7:00 to 8:30 PM: OpenTable 32%, Tock 31%, SevenRooms 25% and Resy 25%.
Share at 9 PM or later: SevenRooms 27%, OpenTable 22%, Resy 22% and Tock 13%.
Share before 6 PM: Resy 39%, Tock 35%, SevenRooms 30% and OpenTable 26%.
Median booking window: OpenTable 30 days, Tock 29, Resy 29, SevenRooms 29.
Release times cluster hard, and the cluster is not the same twice. On Resy the most common confirmed drop is 9 AM at 20 of 63 rooms with a confirmed time, then 10 AM at 15. On OpenTable it is noon at 6 of 14 rooms with a confirmed time, then midnight at 4. On Tock, 10 AM at 6 of 16 rooms with a confirmed time, then noon at 6. On SevenRooms, 10 AM at 5 of 14 rooms with a confirmed time, then 9 AM at 5.
That matters because a release you miss by an hour is a release you missed entirely. If you only ever book on one platform, you learn one of these clocks and quietly assume it is universal. It is not, and the failure it causes is small and completely avoidable.
Our measured schedule for every individual restaurant is published rather than generalised, because the modal hour is only a starting point. Some rooms hold to it for months and some drift, and we would rather show you one restaurant's actual observed drop than a platform-wide average you then have to trust.
Use it to set expectations and to sequence your effort, not to pick a restaurant. Nobody should eat somewhere worse because of which software it licensed.
If your evening depends on a SevenRooms room, treat it as the hardest tier from the first minute. Find the drop time, be there for it, set an alert for the cancellation, and widen the hour, because 27% of what SevenRooms rooms open is 9 PM or later. On a 32% average, a search that finds nothing is the normal outcome and not a reason to stop.
If it is on Tock or OpenTable, check the calendar before you spend any energy on strategy. Several of the most decorated rooms we track are on Tock and sit near the top of the availability range: Per Se reads 40% and César 100% for a party of two.
If it is on Resy, the platform tells you very little, because Resy spans our whole range: 30 Resy rooms read 100%, among them A Tí (100%), Amano Bistro (100%) and Ascione Bistro (100%), while 18 read 0%. Look up the restaurant rather than the platform.
SevenRooms: assume hard. Find the drop, set an alert, ask for a late table.
Resy: no useful prior. It holds 30 rooms at 100% and 18 at 0%, so check the room.
OpenTable: averages 71% in San Francisco and 43% in New York, where two of our nine rooms read 0%.
Tock: averages 39% open, with 13% of openings at 9 PM or later. Check the early sitting.
Arriving at 9:59 AM to discover that the restaurant is on SevenRooms rather than Resy, and that you have no account and no card saved, costs the drop. This is the cheapest mistake on this page to eliminate and the most common one to make.
Among the hardest New York rooms the platforms are genuinely mixed. Don Angie and Red Hook Tavern are on OpenTable. The Corner Store and Semma are on SevenRooms. Per Se and Jungsik are on Tock. Most of the rest are Resy. There is no shortcut: check each one, make the account in advance, save a card, and know whether the clock you are setting is midnight or 9 AM.
It is also why watching a single platform quietly hides part of a city. Of the 60 rooms we track in San Francisco, 27 are on OpenTable and 15 on Tock, against 10 on Resy. Somebody checking only Resy is looking at 17% of that city.
Because the list is deliberately short. Table Alert advertises 62,198 restaurants. We watch 284, continuously, which is how 61,530,416 availability checks and 465,235,816 logged open slots accumulate against a list this size. Nobody covering tens of thousands of rooms can tell you that SevenRooms restaurants in New York average 14% while Resy restaurants in the same city average 36%, because nothing in a directory that large is watching any single room closely enough to know.
We also never book a table. SnagRes watches these calendars and tells you when one opens; you book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. TableSwap advertises $25 a month plus roughly $75 per successful reservation, which attaches a fee to a restaurant seat, and attaching a fee to a restaurant seat is the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to stop.
The limits are worth repeating. Every percentage here is a point-in-time reading of the current booking window, dated 19 October 2026, while the counters are cumulative. Our New York OpenTable sample is nine rooms and our New York Tock sample is seven, so treat those two rows as directional. And all of it describes hard-to-book restaurants in four cities, which is not the same as describing any of these platforms as a whole.
Keep reading: The four platforms compared · When every restaurant releases tables · Booking for four is not harder · Catching the cancellation instead · The hardest tables we track · How we measure all of this
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