Toast is primarily a restaurant POS company. The Toast website product is one module in a much larger stack: POS, online ordering, payroll, marketing, loyalty, scheduling, gift cards. Some restaurants love the depth. Others find themselves paying $400/month for a website plus three modules they barely use.
This is the honest Remi vs Toast comparison, focused on the website piece.
TL;DR
- Toast's website module starts at $69/month. Almost identical to Remi on the surface.
- The Toast bill stacks fast. Online ordering, loyalty, marketing, gift cards, email — every guest-facing feature is a separate paid module on top.
- Remi is $69/month for the website, flat. Bring your own POS, ordering, processing.
- The decision is: are you already deep in the Toast stack, or do you want to keep your website independent?
What you actually pay on Toast
Toast's pricing in 2026 is module-based. The website module advertised at $69/month is a real price, but rarely the final one. Common stacks:
| Module | Monthly | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Toast Website | $69 | Custom domain, basic CMS, menu editor |
| Toast Online Ordering | $69–125 | First-party ordering, no commission to Toast |
| Toast Loyalty | $50 | Customer program, integrated with POS |
| Toast Email Marketing | $75 | List management, campaigns |
| Toast Gift Cards | $25 | Branded gift card sales |
| Toast Payroll | $69 + per-employee | Optional but commonly bundled |
Plus payment processing fees on every transaction (Toast's processing rates are competitive but not free).
A modest operation using website + online ordering + loyalty + email lands at $263/month = $3,156/year for the digital side, before processing.
A full Toast restaurant (everything bundled): $400–600/month = $4,800–7,200/year for the software stack, plus payroll per-employee, plus per-transaction processing.
Remi: $828/year for the website. You bring your own POS, ordering, loyalty, payroll. The cost differential at scale is large — but it depends on whether you'd be running those modules anyway.
What Toast includes that Remi deliberately doesn't
If you're already on Toast for the POS, the integration is the value. Specifically:
- Menu sync. Edit a dish on the Toast POS, it propagates to the website, online ordering, and loyalty rewards. No double-entry.
- Real-time sales data on the website. Hide a dish from the menu when it 86s during service. Show "out of stock" automatically.
- Customer recognition. A returning customer placing an online order is recognized via their POS visit history. Loyalty points apply automatically.
- Unified reporting. One dashboard for online orders, in-restaurant orders, marketing campaigns, and POS sales.
That tight integration is genuinely useful, and it's the thing Remi can't replicate. Remi is intentionally separate from your POS, which means you get the website-side independence at the cost of the POS-side integration.
What Remi includes that Toast underplays
- 5 themes designed for restaurants, not styled to be neutral. Toast websites tend to look similar to each other (clean, white, photography-driven). Remi themes are designed to feel different from each other.
- Menu paste-detection. Most Toast restaurants build menus dish-by-dish in their dashboard. Remi imports a menu doc in one paste.
- WCAG 2.2 AA compliance, every theme. Toast's templates have improved on accessibility but vary; Remi ships compliant by design.
- Your data is portable. A Remi site exports cleanly. A Toast site is integrated with Toast — leaving the POS often means redoing the website.
- Month-to-month. Toast often pushes annual contracts.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Toast Website | Remi |
|---|---|---|
| Listed price | $69/mo | $69/mo |
| Typical real cost | $250–500/mo (with modules) | $69/mo |
| Setup fee | Sometimes ($300–500) | $0 |
| POS integration | Deep (Toast POS) | None (use any POS) |
| Menu editor | In Toast dashboard | Standalone, paste-detection |
| Online ordering | Toast module ($69–125/mo) | Bring your own (Square, Stripe, ChowNow, etc.) |
| Loyalty | Toast module ($50/mo) | Bring your own |
| Email marketing | Toast module ($75/mo) | Bring your own (Mailchimp, Klaviyo) |
| Gift cards | Toast module ($25/mo) | Bring your own (Toast POS as standalone, Square, etc.) |
| Custom domain | Included | Included |
| WCAG 2.2 AA | Varies by template | Built in, every theme |
| Annual contract | Often required | Month-to-month |
| Data portability | Low (POS-coupled) | High |
Accessibility: a quieter story
Toast's published accessibility statement (opens in new context) covers the platform's products. Like all bundled platforms, the actual rendered output of a customer-facing website depends on which template the restaurant picked, which menu items have images, whether the restaurant uploaded alt text, and whether the third-party widgets they embedded were themselves compliant.
The pattern we covered in the ADA piece applies: PDF menus, image-only menus, and inaccessible booking widgets are the top violations. Toast websites can ship with any of those depending on owner choices.
Remi removes the choices. PDF menus aren't an option. Image uploads require alt text. Templates are pre-tested for contrast. The version of "compliant" we ship is the one that holds up to a screen reader, not the one that looks compliant on paper.
Migration: Toast website → Remi
This depends heavily on whether you're keeping the Toast POS.
Keeping Toast POS, just moving the website:
- Sign up for Remi.
- Paste your menu (or export from Toast as CSV and import).
- Move photos.
- Repoint the domain.
- Cancel just the Toast Website module. POS, online ordering, loyalty stay.
Leaving Toast entirely:
This is a bigger move. You'd be migrating POS, ordering, customer data, and the website all at once. Most restaurants do this in two phases: switch the website first (1 day), then plan the POS migration over 4–8 weeks.
Most restaurants who try Remi while staying on Toast POS find that they miss only one thing — the menu sync. That's a real loss. Whether it's worth $200–400/month depends on how often your menu changes.
Where Toast actually wins
Toast wins clearly when:
- You're already on Toast POS. The integration is the product. Don't break it just to save $200/month on the website.
- You run high-volume online ordering. Toast's first-party online ordering with no commission is genuinely competitive vs DoorDash Storefront and ChowNow.
- You want everything on one bill. Some operators value the simplicity even at higher total cost.
If you're shopping for a POS in 2026, Toast is a serious option. The website is a fine reason to stay if you're already in their ecosystem.
If you're shopping for a website without a POS migration, Toast's $69 starts to look like the trailhead of a $400 stack. Remi's $69 stays $69.
Bottom line
If you're deep in Toast for the POS and you use the modules, the bundled website is fine. Don't move it.
If you're shopping for a website specifically, or you're on a different POS already, Remi gives you a great restaurant website for $69/month without needing to commit to anyone's larger stack.