Kea review: pricing, features and who it fits
Kea suits busy takeout and pizza restaurants that want one flat price with unlimited calls and text ordering: $450 a month with no per-order costs.
- Best for
- Busy takeout and pizza restaurants that want one flat price with unlimited calls
- Not ideal for
- Restaurants with uneven volume that would rather pay per order, or that want WhatsApp ordering
- Published price
- $450/mo
- Pricing model
- Flat monthly
GrubDial publishes this page and competes with Kea. Every fact links to Kea's own site, checked October 24, 2026. Where Kea fits better, we say so.
What Kea does
Phone and text ordering. Orders go to 11+ direct POS integrations, including Toast, Square, Clover and Olo.
More
Self and third-party delivery, reservation and waitlist handling, spam call handling
Source: kea.ai/about
Kea pricing
Prices as the vendor publishes them. They exclude card processing, tax and phone line costs.
Kea
$450/mo
Voice and text ordering, unlimited concurrent calls, direct POS integration, secure payments, delivery, reservations and call reporting.
When a per-order fee costs the same
A flat plan costs the same in a slow month as a busy one. GrubDial charges 5% of the AI order total if you pay it yourself. Below this monthly AI order total, GrubDial costs less. Above it, Kea costs less. Before card fees.
Kea, $450/mo unlimited calls
$9,000
in monthly AI orders
GrubDial pricing: 0%* or 5% of AI order total + 3% if order paid by credit card. * 5% passed on to customers as menu price increase.
Kea strengths and drawbacks
The same questions we ask of every tool, GrubDial included.
Where Kea is strong
- One flat price with unlimited concurrent calls.
- Orders go straight to the POS and kitchen display.
- Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay, plus reservation and waitlist handling.
Check before you sign
- The $450 is the same in a slow month as a busy one.
- WhatsApp ordering is not listed.
Source: kea.ai/technology
Kea vs GrubDial
The same criteria for both, from each company's own site.
- Order channels
Kea: Phone and text ordering
GrubDial: Phone, WhatsApp and SMS on one number
- WhatsApp ordering
Kea: Not listed
GrubDial: Yes, on the same number as phone orders
- Text ordering
Kea: Yes, text ordering
GrubDial: Yes, SMS on the same number
- POS systems named
Kea: 11+ direct POS integrations, including Toast, Square, Clover and Olo
GrubDial: Square, Toast, Clover, SpotOn and 20 other popular POS systems
- Pricing model
Kea: Flat monthly
GrubDial: Per order
- Published price
Kea: $450 a month. Unlimited calls, no per-order costs
GrubDial: 0%* or 5% of AI order total + 3% if order paid by credit card
- Payments
Kea: Credit card, Apple Pay and Google Pay
GrubDial: Card on the call, texted payment link or cash at pickup
- Reservations
Kea: Yes, reservations and waitlist
GrubDial: Not listed
- Drive-thru and kiosk
Kea: Not listed
GrubDial: Not listed
- Order accuracy
Kea: 99.3%, vendor-reported (kea.ai)
GrubDial: 97.3%, vendor-reported (grubdial.ai)
- Billing and contract
Kea: $450 a month, every month
GrubDial: No contract. 30 days free, then billed per AI order
* 5% passed on to customers as menu price increase.
Kea alternatives
Other tools that answer the phone and send orders to your POS, and when each one fits better.
Certus AI
A lower flat price with ordering, billed monthly.
$250/mo with ordering, billed monthly, with a 30-day money-back guarantee
Read the Certus AI reviewMaple
Printed plans and OpenTable reservations.
Pro: $350/mo billed monthly or $220/mo billed yearly. Voice (no ordering): $150/mo or $85/mo yearly
Read the Maple reviewConverseNow
Phone, drive-thru, text and kiosk ordering for chains.
Not published. Book a consultation
Read the ConverseNow reviewKea questions
Straight answers from Kea's own site and ours.
Kea lists $450 a month, which it frames as $15 a day, with no per-order costs, no hidden fees and unlimited calls.
Sources
Kea facts checked October 24, 2026 on Kea's own pages. GrubDial facts come from grubdial.ai. Prices change, so confirm every fee on a demo. Spotted something out of date? Email sales@grubdial.ai.
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