eatigo is very good at one specific job: turning an empty 3pm into a paying table by offering time-based discounts of up to 50%. If your fixed costs are running anyway, that is real money. But every cover it sends arrives at a discount, and a discounted diner is a habit you are teaching — whereas a listing brings someone who chose you and pays your menu price.
Comparison last checked 2026-08-03
| What matters | Thairanked | eatigo |
|---|---|---|
| Cost model | One flat listing fee from 399 THB a year. No discount to fund, no per-cover charge — and diners pay your full menu price. | The published model is the discount itself: participating restaurants offer time-based discounts of up to 50%, every day, and the service is free for diners. Their restaurant fee terms are not published, so we put no number on them. |
| How placement is earned | Editors research and rank on merit. Verified listings sort above unclaimed ones inside the organic tier; paid featured spots are capped at three per list and always badged. Nothing about your pricing affects where you sit. | The discount is the shopfront. Diners browse by how much is off at which time slot, so the size of your discount is largely what decides whether they scroll past you. |
| User input & votes | Readers vote a business up or down on every list, and upvotes are the first sort key in the organic order. Verified businesses get Line, WhatsApp and Facebook share links that turn an arriving reader into a vote in one tap. | Ratings from diners who actually booked, which is a stronger signal than an anonymous vote. The catch is that they rated a discounted meal, not your normal service. |
| Commission on bookings | Zero. We take no cut of a booking, a cover or a bill — and we never ask you to discount either. | eatigo does not publish its restaurant terms, so we will not characterise them. What is published is unambiguous: the diner pays nothing and books at up to 50% off, so the discount is a cost you carry on every eatigo cover. |
| Placement longevity | Your listing runs for a year and stays published and indexed throughout, moving on votes, views and editorial review. Renewal is yearly and never automatic. | You stay on the platform, but your visibility lives on the time slots you release. Stop discounting and the reason a diner was looking at you stops with it. |
| Setup effort | One form and one payment. Our team reviews the listing and publishes it, usually within two business days, and keeps the details current afterwards. Nothing to manage day to day. | Ongoing: you decide which slots to discount and by how much, then hold those tables — reservations are confirmed instantly and there is no prepayment, so a no-show costs you the cover. |
| Audience & languages | People deciding where to eat in Thailand — around two-thirds of them abroad, reading in 11 languages, often before the trip is booked. | Large and regional — their own about page reports over 5 million diners seated at more than 4,000 venues across Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. These are people ready to book tonight. |
| Reporting | Page views on your listing and the votes readers leave. Honest limitation: no cover count, because no booking passes through us. | A real advantage: every reservation runs through the platform, so covers, no-shows and slot performance are all countable. |
eatigo was built to connect empty tables with empty stomachs, and that description is exactly right. Time-based discounts of up to 50%, every day, aimed squarely at the hours your dining room is dead — and if your rent, staff and electricity are being paid regardless, a discounted cover at 3pm is contribution you would not otherwise have had. It is free for diners, confirmation is instant with no prepayment, and the scale is real: their own figures are over 5 million diners seated at more than 4,000 venues across five markets. For a restaurant with a structurally quiet mid-afternoon, that is a legitimate answer and nothing on a ranked list will fill those specific hours as reliably.
The difference is what the customer is choosing on. A diner browsing discounts is choosing a price; a reader on a best-in-Bangkok list is choosing a restaurant. That changes who walks in, what they order and whether they come back at full price — and it changes what the channel costs you. A Thairanked listing is one flat fee from 399 THB a year, fixed before you pay it. There is no discount to fund on each cover, no commission on the bill, and no requirement to release your best tables at half price to be visible. The reader also arrives earlier: around two-thirds of our readers are outside Thailand, reading in 11 languages, often deciding weeks before they fly rather than an hour before dinner. And where the marketplace ranks by discount depth, our organic order sorts on reader upvotes first, then views, with editors doing the research — so being good, not being cheap, is what moves you up. 500,000+ page views Jan–Jul 2026 — on track for 1M+ in 2026.
Ask what problem you actually have. If it is empty hours — a dead 2pm, a Monday nobody comes — eatigo is built for exactly that, and half of a cover you would not have had beats all of nothing. If your problem is that you are busy at the wrong price, that discounted diners rarely return at full menu price, or that you cannot get in front of visitors before they arrive, discounting harder will not fix any of those. A listing costs the same whether you serve twenty covers or two hundred, so the busier you get the cheaper it looks per customer — which is the opposite of how a per-cover deal behaves. Plenty of restaurants run both, deliberately: the marketplace pointed at off-peak slots only, and a listing working the full-price dinner service. Skip us if you have no international customers at all, since around two-thirds of our readers are planning a trip from outside Thailand.
500,000+ page views Jan–Jul 2026 — on track for 1M+ in 2026. Page views from our analytics, not an estimate, and always quoted with the period they were measured in.
Around two-thirds of readers come from outside Thailand — Germany, the Netherlands, France, Japan, Korea and beyond — and content is published in 11 languages. Your listing reaches the trip that is still being planned, not only the customer already standing on your street.
A single listing fee from 399 THB a year — not a cost per click, not a cost per booking. You know the whole bill before you pay it, and renewal is yearly and never automatic.
We never take a cut of your bookings or sales. What a customer pays you is yours — a busy month costs exactly the same as a quiet one.
Verified businesses get Line, WhatsApp and Facebook share links, and readers who arrive through them can give you a thumbs up in one tap. Upvotes are the first thing our lists sort on, so happy customers can genuinely strengthen your spot — no paid placement can buy that.
Our newsletter subscribers get weekly picks of top-ranked places, new lists and travel tips — and the businesses those picks feature are the ones ranked on the site.
150,000+ Google AI Overview impressions Jan–Jul 2026. When someone asks an assistant where to go in Thailand, ranked lists are the shape of content it can quote — and ours are being quoted.
Join Thairanked from 399 THB a year — one flat fee, zero commission on bookings.