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title: "Free Restaurant POS vs Paid POS"
canonical: https://spooncub.com/blog/free-restaurant-pos-vs-paid-pos
date: 2026-08-17
author: TechInventify
---

# Free Restaurant POS vs Paid POS

Free POS trades money for limits, ads, or a later surprise. SpoonCub is not free. A 7-day trial, then Standard at ₹399 a month.

Free can be right for a stall testing whether it will stay open. Paid is right when the ticket must still be there next month.



# Free POS


- Low risk while you experiment.
- Often caps orders, outlets, or exports.
- Read what happens when you outgrow it.


# Paid, SpoonCub


- [Standard](https://spooncub.com/index.md#pricing) is ₹399 a month or ₹3,999 a year, for one restaurant with staff included.
- No hardware bundle.
- A 7-day trial starts after email verification, so you can run a real shift before you pay. No card is taken on this website. You pay later from the staff app.


# Which one to run



Do not pick free because the word is comforting if you already lose bills every weekend. Do not pick paid if you have not served a full week yet.



Related: [Free restaurant POS in India](https://spooncub.com/blog/best-free-restaurant-pos-software-in-india/index.md).



[Start a free trial](https://spooncub.com/register/index.md) or [talk to us](https://spooncub.com/contact/index.md). The live plan is on the [pricing](https://spooncub.com/index.md#pricing) section.

Human-readable page: https://spooncub.com/blog/free-restaurant-pos-vs-paid-pos