Slang.ai watches the phone line for $399 to $599/mo per location. Fasrad answers phone, website chat and inbox on one memory and one flat subscription.
Slang.ai covers a restaurant's phone line per location. Fasrad's one agent covers the phone, the website chat and the inbox for a flat fee.
Slang.ai is a serious product built for restaurant phones. It calls itself the AI Superhost, claims 2,000+ restaurants and 20M+ calls, and plugs into the reservation platforms front-of-house actually runs on: OpenTable, SevenRooms, Yelp, Tripleseat. People searching for a Slang.ai alternative usually have one of two reasons. It's the per-location bill, or it's realizing the phone is the only channel it covers.
Here's the pricing as of mid-2026, from their own page. Core is $399 a month per location and Premium is $599, both flat regardless of call volume. Bilingual Spanish is a $99/mo add-on on Core, and private-events handling is another $199/mo.
For a high-volume spot drowning in reservation calls, that math can work. For everyone else it's a lot of money for one channel, and the guest who emails about a private party or asks a question in your website chat is talking to nobody. Order calls get deflected too: Slang sends an SMS link pointing at your online-ordering platform.
Where Fasrad goes further:
Out of the box, reservations land in the agent's own calendar and CRM. Where OpenTable, SevenRooms or Yelp expose an API, the agent can push the booking across too, and deeper prebuilt reservation-platform sync is on the roadmap. SMS confirmations can be added through its phone provider. Live mid-call host handoff is a job for your host stand.
Pick Fasrad when you need every call answered, every table booked somewhere your staff can see it, and the same intelligence covering your website and inbox, for a fraction of one Slang location.
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Yes, for the core job: answering every call 24/7, booking tables mid-call, handling hours-and-menu questions and remembering regulars. Fasrad books into its own calendar and CRM and can push to OpenTable or SevenRooms where they expose an API, with deeper prebuilt reservation-platform sync on the roadmap. SMS confirmations can be added through its phone provider. Slang's phone bill buys you one channel. Fasrad's flat fee covers phone, web chat and email on one shared memory.
Yes. The agent checks its calendar live during the call, offers real open times, books the party, and notes the details (allergies, occasion, seating request) on the reservation and the guest's CRM record. The caller hangs up with a confirmed time.
The contact, a written summary and the full transcript are filed in the agent's built-in CRM automatically. Next time that number calls, or that guest emails, the agent already has the history. You can scan the day's calls in one view without listening back to recordings.
Yes. Forward your existing line to the agent's number, or put the dedicated number Fasrad gives you on new menus and listings. Switching from Slang.ai means repointing the forward, and there's nothing to port.
Start with a 7-day free trial. Full access, no card needed. Then $49 per month. As of mid-2026, Slang.ai runs $399/mo per location on Core and $599 on Premium, with Spanish ($99/mo) and private events ($199/mo) as paid add-ons on the lower tier. Fasrad is one flat subscription with no per-location multiplication, and the price covers web chat and email as well as the phone.
Yes. The agent is multilingual out of the box, with no add-on. On Slang.ai, bilingual Spanish is a $99/mo extra unless you're on the $599 Premium plan.
Yes. Slang.ai is restaurants-only by design. Fasrad is a general agent, so the same setup answers for a salon, a clinic, a law office or your second business. You write the greeting and the house rules, and the agent does the rest.