Restaurant POS · reliability comparison
Epos Now vs Toast: which is more reliable? (2026)
Epos Now is more reliable than Toast, scoring 85.9 vs 53.5 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Epos Now reported 6 incidents and Toast reported 14, with effective uptime of 99.86% and 98.67% respectively. Epos Now resolves incidents faster on average (2h 30m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Epos Now | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 85.9 | 53.5 |
| Rank (restaurant POS systems) | #5 | #11 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.86% | 98.67% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 6 | 14 |
| Partial / major outages | 2 | 8 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 30m | 4h 28m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Epos Now and Toast differ
- Toast reported 2.3× as many incidents as Epos Now over the last 90 days (14 vs 6).
- Toast had 8 partial or major outages, compared with 2 for Epos Now.
- Epos Now fixes problems faster: 2h 30m on average, against 4h 28m for Toast.
- Epos Now's longest outage on record lasted 7h 9m (Jul 23, 2026); Toast's lasted 1d 7h (Sep 17, 2026).
90-day uptime
Epos Now
Toast
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Epos Now incidents
- InformationalOct 31, 2026 · ongoing
Investigating a possible issue affecting some Epos Now services
- InformationalOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 3h 18m
Investigating a possible issue affecting some Epos Now services
Affected: EPOS NOW HQ BACK OFFICE
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 1h 50m
Affected: EPOS NOW FRONT TILL
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 6h 25m
Cloud Sync Intermittent Availability
Affected: EPOS NOW FRONT TILL
- Major outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 1h 27m
Cloud Servicesofficial update ↗
Affected: EPOS NOW HQ BACK OFFICE, EPOS NOW FRONT TILL, SUPPORT CENTRE, EPOS NOW PAYMENTS, APP STORE
- Partial outageOct 3, 2026 · resolved in 16m
Epos Now Login Service - Unavailable
Affected: EPOS NOW HQ BACK OFFICE, EPOS NOW FRONT TILL, SUPPORT CENTRE, APP STORE
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
Instant Depositofficial update ↗
Affected: Deposits
Other restaurant POS systems to consider
- Shopify POS · #1 · 100% uptime
- SpotOn · #2 · 100% uptime
- Loyverse · #3 · 99.91% uptime
- Clover · #4 · 99.88% uptime