QR Menu Software Pricing in 2026: What 9 Platforms Actually Cost

Most restaurants overpay for a QR menu because the sticker price is not the real price. QR menu software in 2026 costs between $0 and $179 per month, and the gap is almost entirely down to whether the platform is selling you a menu or selling you an ordering-and-marketing suite you may not need. A restaurant that only needs a scannable, always-current menu can run on $0-$10 a month. A restaurant that wants branded apps, kitchen displays and marketing automation will pay 10-20x that.

This guide lists what nine platforms actually charge as of August 2026, what each free plan really includes, and the recurring costs that do not appear on pricing pages.

How Much Does QR Menu Software Cost in 2026?

QR menu software costs $0 to $179 per month in 2026. Free plans exist on most platforms and are genuinely usable for a single small venue, typically capping menu items, monthly views or tables. Paid plans for an independent restaurant cluster around $8 to $20 per month. Platforms that bundle online ordering, branded mobile apps or marketing automation start at roughly $49 per month and rise to $179 per month and above.

The price you should budget for depends on one question: do you need a menu, or do you need a sales channel? If guests scan a code, read the menu and order from a server, you are buying a menu and should not pay ordering-platform prices.

How We Compared These Platforms

Every price below was taken from the vendor's own public pricing page or its help centre in August 2026. Where a vendor publishes only annual pricing, we say so. Where a vendor does not publish pricing at all, we say that too rather than guessing.

We scored each platform on five things that change what a restaurant actually pays:

• Real free tier — is it usable in production, or a trial in disguise?
• Unit of pricing — flat rate, per location, per table, or per order.
• Menu limits — categories, items, photos, monthly views.
• Allergen and dietary labelling — standard feature, manual workaround, or absent.
• Add-on creep — what the advertised price excludes.

1. QR Menu Generator — Cheapest Paid Plan with Built-In EU Allergen Compliance

Free: $0 forever — 1 restaurant, 5 categories, 20 products, 10,000 monthly views, QR code generation.
Pro: $9.90/month or $99/year.
Pro Plus: $17.99/month or $179.90/year.

Pro removes every menu limit and adds allergen and diet tags, advanced analytics, a WiFi QR code, campaign pop-ups, bulk price updates and AI menu translation. Pro Plus adds unlimited restaurants and multi-location management, which is where chains and hotel groups land.

The differentiator is regulatory: allergen labelling for all 14 EU Regulation 1169/2011 allergens is a first-class menu field, not a free-text note. For restaurants in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Italy or Scandinavia, that turns a compliance chore into a checkbox. There is no online ordering and no POS integration — it is deliberately a menu product, which is why it prices like one.

Best for: independent restaurants and cafés in the EU that need a compliant, always-current menu at the lowest defensible price. Start free.

2. Menubly — Lowest Headline Price

Free: basic mini-site, online menu, QR code and simple ordering, with Menubly branding and no custom domain.
Pro: $9.99/month, or $7.99/month billed annually.

Pro adds full menu customisation, a custom domain, PDF-to-digital conversion, commission-free ordering and WhatsApp ordering, and removes Menubly branding. The product is positioned as a link-in-bio mini-website with a menu attached, which suits venues whose Instagram profile is their main storefront.

Best for: small venues that want one link covering menu, hours and socials. Watch for: branding on the free tier is prominent, so the free plan is effectively a trial for anything customer-facing.

3. MenuTiger — Best Free Tier for QR Ordering

Freemium: $0 — 1 store, 10 tables, 200 QR-code orders and 250 online orders per month, 7 menu categories, 7 items per category, 1 admin.
Regular: $17/month, or $14.45/month billed annually — 2 stores, 15 tables per store, unlimited orders.
Advanced: $46/month, or $39.10/month annually — 4 stores, 40 tables, kitchen display system.
Premium: $119/month, or $101.15/month annually — 5 stores, 100 tables, table management.

MenuTiger is priced per table, which is the detail that decides whether it is cheap or expensive for you. A 12-table bistro sits comfortably in Regular. A 60-table restaurant is pushed into Premium at $119/month purely on table count, regardless of how simple the menu is.

Best for: small venues that genuinely want QR ordering, not just a QR menu. Watch for: the 7-categories × 7-items free cap is tight — 49 dishes is below a typical full menu.

4. QR TIGER — Best for Managing QR Codes at Scale

Free: 3 dynamic QR codes, 500 scans per code, limited analytics, QR TIGER branding.
Regular: from about $7/month billed annually.
Advanced: about $16/month annually.
Premium: about $37/month annually.
Professional: about $89/month annually.

QR TIGER is a QR code platform, not a menu builder. You get excellent code management, bulk generation, custom design and scan analytics — but the menu itself is usually a PDF or a page you host elsewhere. That is fine if you already have a menu page and want tracking; it is a poor fit if you want to edit dishes and prices.

Best for: groups managing many codes across many locations and campaigns. Watch for: a PDF behind a QR code is not a mobile menu, and it cannot carry structured allergen data.

5. GloriaFood — Free Ordering, Paid Everything Else

Core ordering system: free — unlimited orders, unlimited locations, no commission, no monthly fee.
Restaurant POS: $49/month per location on a two-year commitment.
Online card payments: $29/month.
Advanced promo marketing: $19/month.
Table reservation deposits: $0.50 per accepted booking.

GloriaFood's free tier is the most generous in this list by a wide margin, and the no-commission promise is real. The catch is that the free product is a takeaway ordering widget first and a dine-in menu second, and the features most restaurants end up wanting — taking card payments, running promotions — are the paid modules.

Best for: takeaway-led venues that want commission-free online ordering at zero base cost. Watch for: the POS add-on's two-year commitment.

6. MustHaveMenus — Best When Print Still Matters

Free: $0 forever, with limited features.
Pro: $49/month, or $492/year — roughly 19% cheaper annually.
Digital signage: +$20 per screen per month.

Pro covers unlimited JPEG, PDF and PNG downloads, custom sizes, brand management, watermark-free share links and QR codes with unlimited scans. MustHaveMenus is fundamentally a menu design tool with a large template library, and the QR menu is an output of that design workflow.

Best for: venues that still print menus, table tents and specials boards and want one tool for print and digital. Watch for: at $49/month it is roughly 5x the cost of a dedicated QR menu tool, which only makes sense if you use the design side.

7. UpMenu — Marketing-Led Ordering

From $49/month, including a digital menu, commission-free ordering, a loyalty programme, SMS marketing, push notifications and email campaigns.

UpMenu bundles the menu into a customer-retention stack. If you will genuinely run loyalty and SMS campaigns, the bundled price is reasonable; if you will not, you are paying about five times the market rate for a menu.

Best for: single-site restaurants with a repeat-customer base and someone to actually run campaigns.

8. Flipdish — Branded Apps for European Groups

From roughly €49/month for entry tiers, with branded-website packages commonly quoted around €149/month. Published figures vary by market and by package, so treat any single number as indicative and get a quote.

Flipdish sells branded ordering websites and mobile apps to European operators, with the QR menu as one channel among several. Pricing is quote-led, which is normal at this tier but makes clean comparison impossible.

Best for: multi-site European operators who want their own-brand ordering app. Watch for: this is a commercial engagement, not a self-serve signup.

9. Popmenu — Most Expensive, Most Bundled

From $179/month for the base subscription. Online ordering is a separate add-on at around $50/month, with roughly $1 per order, and catering orders carry about a 3% processing fee.

Popmenu is a marketing platform — dynamic menus, review management, automated campaigns, an AI answering service — sold to full-service restaurants with a marketing budget. The dynamic menu itself is genuinely good. It is simply not competing with $10/month menu tools.

Best for: established full-service restaurants replacing an agency retainer. Watch for: per-order fees stack quickly at volume.

Side-by-Side Pricing Table

All figures as published by each vendor in August 2026. Annual prices shown per month where the vendor advertises them that way.

Costs That Are Not on the Pricing Page

Per-table pricing

A platform priced per table punishes you for growing. Going from 15 to 40 tables on MenuTiger moves you from $17 to $46 per month without adding a single menu feature. Flat-rate platforms do not have this problem.

Per-order fees

A $1 per-order fee at 600 orders a month is $600 — more than three years of a $17/month menu plan. Per-order pricing only makes sense when the platform is generating orders you would not otherwise have received.

Reprinting QR codes

If your platform regenerates the QR code when you change your menu or plan, every change means reprinting table tents and stickers. Dynamic codes that stay fixed for the life of the venue avoid this entirely. Ask before you print 200 table tents.

Branding removal

Several free tiers put the vendor's logo on your customer-facing menu. Removing it is the single most common reason restaurants upgrade, so price the paid tier from day one if the menu is customer-facing.

Compliance work

If allergen data is a free-text field, someone on your team maintains it by hand across every dish, in every language, forever. Structured allergen fields are not a luxury in the EU — they are the difference between a five-minute update and an afternoon.

Which Plan Fits Which Restaurant

• Single café, menu changes weekly, no ordering: a free plan is genuinely enough. Upgrade only to remove branding and item caps.
• Independent restaurant in the EU: a flat-rate plan under $10/month with structured allergen fields. Per-table pricing is a trap at 30+ covers.
• Takeaway-led venue: GloriaFood's free core, then add payments when volume justifies $29/month.
• Restaurant group, 3+ sites: multi-location management on a flat plan, or a quote-led platform if you want branded apps. Compare total cost at your real table and order counts, not at the headline price.
• Venue that still prints: MustHaveMenus if the design library earns its $49/month; otherwise a cheap digital tool plus a designer.

For most independent restaurants and cafés, the honest answer is that a QR menu should cost under $10 a month. Anything above that should be buying you ordering, marketing or compliance you would otherwise pay for separately.

You can create a QR menu for free in a few minutes, compare it against your current setup, and only pay when you hit a limit that matters. Full feature and plan details are on the features and pricing pages.

Pricing verified against vendor pricing pages and help centres in August 2026. Vendors change prices without notice — check the vendor's own page before making a decision.