Restaurant POS · reliability comparison
Clover vs Toast: which is more reliable? (2026)
Clover is more reliable than Toast, scoring 87.8 vs 53.5 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Clover reported 6 incidents and Toast reported 14, with effective uptime of 99.88% and 98.67% respectively. Clover resolves incidents faster on average (1h 55m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Clover | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 87.8 | 53.5 |
| Rank (restaurant POS systems) | #4 | #11 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.88% | 98.67% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 6 | 14 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 8 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 55m | 4h 28m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Clover and Toast differ
- Toast reported 2.3× as many incidents as Clover over the last 90 days (14 vs 6).
- Toast had 8 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Clover.
- Clover fixes problems faster: 1h 55m on average, against 4h 28m for Toast (2.3× quicker).
- Clover's longest outage on record lasted 7h 28m (Jul 7, 2026); Toast's lasted 1d 7h (Sep 17, 2026).
90-day uptime
Clover
Toast
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Clover incidents
- Partial outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 2h 45m
Clover is experiencing an issue impacting Ecommerce products
Affected: Ecommerce, Online Ordering
- InformationalOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1h 21m
[NA] Clover experiencing issues with the Customer Engagement Apps
- Degraded performanceSep 22, 2026 · resolved in 28m
[NA]Web dashboard login issues for a small subset of merchants on Safari Browsers
Affected: Dashboard
- Degraded performanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 3h 19m
Clover in EMEA is experiencing an issue
Affected: Dashboard, Cloud Pay Display
- Degraded performanceAug 30, 2026 · resolved in 1h 54m
[NA] Clover merchants experiencing issues with payment processing
Affected: North America - Payment Authorization Services
- Degraded performanceAug 25, 2026 · resolved in 1h 10m
Clover in NA is experiencing issues with Cloud Pay Display
Affected: Dashboard, Cloud Pay Display
Recent Toast incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved in 25m
Affected: Sling by Toast Scheduling
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 3h 24m
Toastweb - Toast App Performance Degradation
Affected: Toast POS app, POS Web application
- Degraded performanceOct 14, 2026 · resolved in 3h 20m
10/14/2026 - Sling Latency Issues
Affected: Sling by Toast Scheduling
- Partial outageOct 7, 2026 · resolved in 1h 5m
Affected: Card Processing
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved in 8h
Affected: Deposits
- Major outageOct 4, 2026 · resolved in 5h 42m
Affected: Deposits
Other restaurant POS systems to consider
- Shopify POS · #1 · 100% uptime
- SpotOn · #2 · 100% uptime
- Loyverse · #3 · 99.91% uptime
- Epos Now · #5 · 99.86% uptime