Talos vs Owner.com
Owner raised $120M and built an AI suite that runs your restaurant for you. We're $99/mo, don't tax your customers, and don't send anything without your sign-off.
$99/mo vs $249–$499/mo.
Owner runs two plans — Flex at $249/mo (plus a 5% per-order fee to the restaurant) or Flat at $499/mo (no per-order restaurant fee). Talos is $99/mo on both Flex and Partner, with direct ordering, real-time orders, loyalty, multi-location, analytics, and white-glove menu setup included. Marketing Suite and the Mobile App are clearly-priced add-ons, not bundled tiers you grow out of.
On Flex, 10% of every order goes to Owner.
Owner charges every customer a 5% “order support fee” on both plans — that 5% rides on top of every ticket before delivery and tax. On Flex, the restaurant pays another 5% on the same order. So a single $50 ticket gives Owner $5 before subscription, processing, or delivery enter the conversation.
At $100k/mo in direct sales, that's $5,000/mo coming out of your customers' pockets and another $5,000/mo off your top line on Flex. Plus the $249 subscription.
Talos is $99/mo. No surcharge to your customers. No per-order fees on pickup.
Your customers, your sign-off.
Owner's AI Executives suite drafts and sends marketing campaigns on autopilot — and customers have publicly complained that promotional emails with discounts and free items have gone out without their approval. You can toggle a promo on or off, but you can't edit the discount amount or who it goes to.
Talos Marketing is the opposite by design. You draft the send, set the audience, and pick the discount amount yourself. Automations like Win-Back fire on schedules you approve, with codes scoped to specific customers. You're the one pressing send.
Your promotions. Your rules.
Owner's promotional discounts are templated — you can't set the amount, can't lock them to a specific customer, can't expire them on a schedule. With Talos, you create your own discount codes, automatic promotions, pop-ups, QR links, and customer-locked recovery offers. You set the amount, the audience, and the rules.
English and Spanish on the same link.
Owner doesn't advertise multi-language ordering anywhere on their site. Talos ships bilingual ordering as a core feature: customers tap a language toggle and order in the language they actually speak, and your kitchen ticket prints in the language your staff reads. Same link, two audiences.
Built around how you operate.
Owner gives every restaurant the same platform. If your restaurant has a unique workflow, we'll build custom features around it. One of our clients delivers lunch to nearby schools, so we built them a parent pre-order module. That's not something a venture-funded, one-size-fits-all platform does.
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Owner.com pricing and feature details from owner.com/pricing, owner.com/branded-apps, and customer reviews on Capterra, verified May 2026.
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