RestroAI pricing in 2026: how much does it cost and what's included?

How RestroAI is priced

RestroAI is bundled into Restrofi's plans, not sold separately. There is no standalone "RestroAI subscription" you can buy without Restrofi, and there's no add-on fee on top of your Restrofi plan. You pay for Restrofi; you get RestroAI as part of it.

There are also no per-message charges, no token limits, no AI usage caps. Whatever your plan unlocks, you get all of it for the flat monthly fee.

What's included at each plan tier

Feature	Free	Starter (₹499/mo)	Professional (₹1,499/mo)
Daily summary message	✅	✅	✅
Sales anomaly alerts	❌	✅	✅
Menu margin alerts	❌	✅	✅
Waste detection	❌	✅	✅
Bestseller predictions	❌	✅	✅
Customer behavior tracking	❌	✅	✅
Peak-hour shift detection	❌	❌	✅
Festival readiness reports	❌	❌	✅
Multi-outlet consolidated view	❌	❌	✅
Hindi/Hinglish/English	✅	✅	✅
WhatsApp delivery	✅	✅	✅

For the full breakdown of what each insight category looks like, see RestroAI features.

Why RestroAI is free at the basic tier

Most Indian restaurants — especially Tier 2 and Tier 3 operators — need to see value before committing. The free daily summary is enough to build the habit: every morning, your phone buzzes with yesterday's numbers. Once that becomes part of your routine, the upgrade to Starter for the full anomaly-alert experience is an obvious next step.

The pricing strategy is deliberate: don't gate the AI itself, gate the depth. Everyone gets RestroAI; paid plans get more of it.

When to upgrade from Free to Starter

The Starter plan (₹499/month) makes sense when:

• You want anomaly alerts, not just summaries
• You're tracking margin per dish (or want to start)
• You want bestseller predictions for prep planning
• You're running a single outlet doing roughly 50+ orders per day
• You've been using the free daily summary for 2-4 weeks and want more

For most independent restaurants past the survival stage, Starter is the right plan. ₹499/month for a full AI revenue intelligence layer + Restrofi's complete restaurant management suite is unusual pricing.

When to upgrade from Starter to Professional

The Professional plan (₹1,499/month) is the right fit when:

• You operate 2 or more outlets and want consolidated insights
• Festival and seasonal planning is critical for your business
• Peak-hour staffing decisions are non-trivial (multi-shift, multi-station)
• Your monthly revenue justifies the ₹1,000 incremental spend over Starter

The bar to clear is whether multi-outlet RestroAI and festival readiness will save you more than ₹1,000 a month in operational waste or missed opportunities. For most multi-outlet operators, that math works out within the first festival cycle.

How RestroAI compares to standalone restaurant AI tools

Most standalone "restaurant AI" tools targeting the Indian market price between $20-$200/month (₹1,700-₹17,000/month) for AI features alone — and most of those are English-only, US-tuned, and don't include the underlying restaurant management platform. You'd still need a separate POS, separate KDS, separate billing.

RestroAI: ₹0 to ₹1,499/month, Hindi/Hinglish/English support, included with Restrofi's full restaurant management suite. The combined value is significantly higher than the sum of separate tools.

Hidden costs (there aren't any — but here's what to know)

It's fair to ask: what does RestroAI cost beyond the plan price?

• WhatsApp message delivery: internally costs Restrofi about ₹0.50 per message via Meta's pricing. Already factored into your plan price. You don't pay per message.
• Setup fee: zero. RestroAI activates automatically once you have order data flowing.
• Annual contracts: not required. Monthly billing.
• Upgrade/downgrade: anytime, prorated on the unused portion of your current cycle.
• Cancellation: any time, no termination fee.

That's the entire economics. No asterisks.

Is RestroAI worth ₹499/month?

Quick math: if RestroAI helps you catch one ₹2,000 issue per month — a margin slip, a dead menu item, a Saturday sales drop you'd have shrugged off — it has paid for itself four times over.

In practice, most Restrofi customers on the Starter plan see RestroAI surface 2-4 actionable items per week. Even if half of those don't lead to a real change, the half that do typically generate 5-10x the plan cost in saved waste or recovered revenue. The ROI is rarely subtle.

For the underlying mechanics of how RestroAI surfaces these insights, see How RestroAI works. For a product orientation, What is RestroAI? is the place to start.

Where to start

If you haven't tried Restrofi yet, the free plan includes RestroAI's daily summary from day one. Sign up, take orders for a few days, and the first useful AI insight typically arrives within 48 hours.