Hungry Hub deserves credit for not being a discount site: it sells fixed-price packages, which protects your menu pricing in a way a half-price coupon does not. But it is still a marketplace — its own partner FAQ describes commission calculated on bookings that arrive — so the cost recurs with every table, while a listing is one fixed fee and the customer is simply yours.
Comparison last checked 2026-08-03
| What matters | Thairanked | Hungry Hub |
|---|---|---|
| Cost model | One flat listing fee from 399 THB a year — the whole bill, known before you pay it. No per-booking charge and no package to build. | A commission on bookings: per their own partner FAQ, it is calculated from bookings marked Arrived and Pending Arrival, and shown in the partner portal’s Finance tab. They do not publish the rate, so we do not quote one. |
| 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. Your pricing is irrelevant to your position. | A marketplace organised by package: All You Can Eat, Party Pack, Come More Pay Less and so on, each with a price per person. What gets you browsed is how attractive that package looks next to the others. |
| 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 booked and were marked as arrived — verified attendance, which is a stronger signal than an open vote. Credit where it is due. |
| Commission on bookings | Zero, permanently. No cut of a booking, a cover or a package — a fully booked Saturday costs you exactly what an empty one does. | Yes — commission on bookings that arrive, settled through the partner portal with transfers on the 10th and 20th of each month. It is a results-based deal, which is fair; it is also a cost that never stops. |
| 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 a partner with no subscription to lapse — a genuine advantage. The cost simply lives in every seated booking instead of in the calendar. |
| Setup effort | One form and one payment. Our team reviews the listing and publishes it, usually within two business days, then keeps the details current. Nothing to run day to day. | A real operational commitment: a package to design and cost, seats allocated to the platform, bookings managed in the portal, and a monthly billing cycle with correction deadlines to keep up with. |
| Audience & languages | People deciding where to eat in Thailand — around two-thirds of them abroad, reading in 11 languages, often before the trip is even booked. | Focused and high-intent: their partner page reports over 1,400 participating restaurants and hotels and more than 2 million seats served, aimed at customers looking for special dining experiences. These people are booking, not browsing. |
| Reporting | Page views on your listing and the votes readers leave. Honest limitation: we cannot report covers, because no booking passes through us. | Strong: revenue reports, commission fees and payment summaries in the partner portal, downloadable for your accounts. If you want every baht attributed, they can do that and we cannot. |
Hungry Hub built its business on fixed-price packages rather than blunt discounting, and that distinction matters more than it sounds. A per-head price for an all-you-can-eat, an omakase or a party pack lets you engineer the margin yourself instead of lopping half off your à la carte prices and hoping. Their own materials describe exclusive fixed-price deals aimed at customers looking for special dining experiences, with more than 1,400 participating restaurants and hotels and over 2 million seats served. The partner side is properly run too: commission calculated on bookings that actually arrive, a finance tab with downloadable reports, and payouts on a fixed twice-monthly schedule. For a restaurant with a package that works, this is a serious sales channel and no listing replaces it.
We are not a sales channel, and that is the whole difference. A marketplace earns when a table is seated — their partner FAQ describes commission calculated on bookings that arrive — so the better you do, the more the channel costs, and the customer relationship begins inside somebody else’s portal. A listing earns nothing further, ever. One flat fee from 399 THB a year, and the diner who reads about you calls you, books with you and pays you your price, including every time they come back. There is also no package to design: readers see your restaurant as it actually is, not a per-head deal engineered to compete on a marketplace grid. And the reach is a different shape — around two-thirds of our readers are outside Thailand, reading in 11 languages, deciding weeks ahead, with 150,000+ Google AI Overview impressions Jan–Jul 2026 out of 500,000+ page views in the same period, on track for 1M+ in 2026. On our lists, position moves on reader upvotes first, then views, on top of editorial research — so a great kitchen can climb without cutting a price.
Run the numbers, not the argument. Look at last month’s Hungry Hub bookings, apply the commission you agreed, and set that against a fixed annual listing fee. If the packages are filling seats you would not otherwise have filled — a new opening, a big room, a slow season — the commission is buying you volume and it is worth paying. If a growing share of those bookings are people who would have walked in anyway, that is exactly when a fixed-cost channel starts to look better, because a listing costs the same at two hundred covers as it does at twenty. Plenty of restaurants do both on purpose: packages to fill capacity, a ranked listing to be chosen at full price by travellers planning ahead. And if you have no international customers at all, skip us — around two-thirds of our readers are planning a trip from outside Thailand, and we would rather say that than sell you something that will not pay for itself.
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.