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Grace vs Stampede.
Stampede is the closest comparable to Grace by a wide margin — UK-based, hospitality-focused, unified platform. The differences are in where each was built and how each ships.
Both Grace and Stampede sell themselves as a unified platform for UK independent hospitality. Both make the “one guest, one record” argument. Both reject the four-vendor patchwork. The differences sit in three places: whether the EPOS is native or rented, whether AI is the operator interface or a feature badge, and whether the whole product ships on every plan or sits behind feature gates.
How they compare
Side by side.
Pricing model1
Grace
£99 / £179 / £299 / Enterprise. All four published. Per venue, per month. 15% annual discount.
Stampede
Essential / Pro / Premium / Bespoke. Two of three prices hidden behind “enquire now.” Pro shown in dollars ($299) on a UK pricing page at time of writing.
What's included on each plan2
Grace
Full product on every plan. We charge for size (marketable contacts, venues), not for features.
Stampede
Feature-gated. Workflows, voucher imports, AI review responses and local benchmarking are Premium-only.
Per Stampede's published Pro vs Premium feature lists, May 2026.
EPOS / point of sale3
Grace
Native iPad EPOS. Hash-chained audit trail, accrual accounting, native KDS, dual-attribution on sensitive actions.
Stampede
No native EPOS. Their PayOS module is, in their own words, “powered by Square.”
AI surface
Grace
Grace AI is the primary operator interface across every module. Plain-English commands like “Show me at-risk guests this month” or “Add a Bacon Sandwich at £2.99 in Mains.”
Stampede
AI-native in positioning. In the product, AI is feature-level: AI-assist segment builder, AI-assist review responses (Premium tier only).
Reservations
Grace
Booking widget, deposits, OTP-verified guest identity, service-aware availability, walk-ins, waitlists, host screen.
Stampede
Booking widget, deposits/cancellation fees, unified inbox.
Guest CRM
Grace
One record per guest, behavioural tiers assigned automatically to every guest regardless of opt-in, dietary/allergy/preference tracking, marketing consent per-channel.
Stampede
Guest profiles with tags and notes. Loyalty enrolment-based, not behavioural.
Marketing
Grace
Email + SMS journeys. Always-on (welcome, win-back, birthday). Revenue attribution as the headline metric — bookings driven and covers driven, not just opens.
Stampede
Email + SMS marketing with workflow builder (Premium tier). Meta Pixel integration. Opens and clicks are the primary reported metrics.
Loyalty
Grace
Universal tiers (every guest classified behaviourally). Points on bookings and on spend. EPOS redemption. Service-recovery overrides.
Stampede
Points/rewards, Apple Wallet card. Enrolment-based.
Reviews4
Grace
On the Grace roadmap; not in v1. Google review prompts ship in v1.1.
Stampede
Full reviews module with AI-assist responses (Premium tier).
This is the only material area where Stampede is genuinely ahead of Grace today. Honest disclosure.
Payments
Grace
Native via Mollie, or keep your existing provider (Square, SumUp, Teya, more). 0% Grace fee on in-venue card payments. Processing fees go to your provider, not us.
Stampede
Payments via PayOS, powered by Square. 0% commission claim on the pricing page meta-title.
Accounting integration
Grace
Xero-ready sales summary with accrual accounting baked in. Designed for the accountant, not just the operator.
Stampede
Not surfaced on the public site.
Audit + permissions
Grace
Six canonical roles, four trust levels, three scope dimensions, PIN policy on sensitive actions, hash-chained audit trail.
Stampede
Standard role-based access; deeper model not visible on the public site.
Target venue type
Grace
UK independent hospitality — restaurants, bars, cocktail bars, pubs, small groups (2–10 venues).
Stampede
Restaurants, Pubs & Bars, Hotels. Multi-site groups including 25+ location enterprises.
Live customer proof5
Grace
Pre-launch. The Nuthatch (founder's venue) is the first published story.
Stampede
2,200+ venues claimed. Named groups: Lane7, Great British Inns, Pizza Pilgrims, Pasta Remoli.
Stampede leads materially here. Grace's wedge is provenance (built inside a working venue), not volume.
- 1.https://stampede.ai/pricing
- 2.Per Stampede's published Pro vs Premium feature lists, May 2026.
- 3.https://stampede.ai/payos
- 4.This is the only material area where Stampede is genuinely ahead of Grace today. Honest disclosure.
- 5.Stampede leads materially here. Grace's wedge is provenance (built inside a working venue), not volume.
What Grace does
Specific to Grace, missing in Stampede.
A real EPOS, not a rented one.
Native iPad point-of-sale with the audit and accounting depth independent operators actually need.
- Hash-chained audit trail across every till transaction
- Accrual accounting baked in, Xero-ready exports
- Native kitchen display — no printer needed
- Dual-attribution on refunds and voids
- Offline mode that survives a dropped connection
AI as the interface, not a feature badge.
Grace AI runs across every module, in plain English. Not bolted on.
- Add menu items, refund a guest, run a report — just ask
- ‘Show me at-risk guests this month’ works
- Permission-aware (AI can't do what the operator can't)
- Audited like any other action
All four prices on one page.
No “contact us” gates. Capacity-based, not feature-gated.
- Every plan ships the whole product
- You scale by size (contacts, venues), not by tier
- Annual discount published, not buried
- No upgrade-needed-for-basic-features pattern
Built inside a working venue.
Grace is shaped by what survives Friday-night service, not by what looks good in a board pack.
- Founder runs an independent restaurant in Middlesbrough
- Every feature has to earn its place during service
- No feature ships if it can't survive a real floor
- Built by an operator, not by an investor
Where Stampede leads
What they do that Grace doesn't (yet).
Honest reverse. If these matter to your venue, Stampede is worth looking at.
Live customer proof
2,200+ venues, named groups (Lane7, Great British Inns, Pizza Pilgrims), and testimonials with concrete numbers (94.8% Wi-Fi opt-in, £15,800 attributed marketing ROI). Grace is pre-launch; if you need live customer case studies today, Stampede has them.
Full Reviews module
Stampede ships a complete Reviews module today, including AI-assisted review responses on their top tier. Grace's Reviews module is on the v1.1 roadmap. If review collection and response is a v1 must-have for you, Stampede leads here.
Apple Wallet loyalty card
Stampede's loyalty product integrates directly with Apple Wallet for the digital loyalty card. Grace's loyalty equivalent (a guest-facing app) ships in v1.1.
Customer fit
Two different venues.
Grace is built for…
Independent UK venues — restaurants, pubs, bars, cocktail bars, small groups up to ~10 venues — who want one platform end-to-end, native EPOS included, with AI as the operating surface and pricing that scales by capacity not by feature lockouts.
Stampede is built for…
UK hospitality groups, including larger multi-site operations (25+ locations) and hotels, who already use Square for payments and want a sharper marketing and CRM layer on top, plus a Reviews module today.
Common questions
Things operators ask before switching.
Claims verified as of June 2026. Competitor pricing and features change — we update this page as we notice changes worth noting. If you spot something stale, tell us.
Want to see Grace at work?
30 minutes, no slides, just the product running at a real venue.