Restaurant POS · reliability comparison
PAR POS (Brink) vs Toast: which is more reliable? (2026)
PAR POS (Brink) is more reliable than Toast, scoring 64.6 vs 53.5 out of 100. Over the last 90 days PAR POS (Brink) reported 5 incidents and Toast reported 14, with effective uptime of 99.44% and 98.67% respectively. Toast resolves incidents faster on average (4h 28m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | PAR POS (Brink) | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 64.6 | 53.5 |
| Rank (restaurant POS systems) | #9 | #11 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.44% | 98.67% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 14 |
| Partial / major outages | 2 | 8 |
| Avg time to resolve | 8h 52m | 4h 28m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where PAR POS (Brink) and Toast differ
- Toast reported 2.8× as many incidents as PAR POS (Brink) over the last 90 days (14 vs 5).
- Toast had 8 partial or major outages, compared with 2 for PAR POS (Brink).
- Toast fixes problems faster: 4h 28m on average, against 8h 52m for PAR POS (Brink) (2.0× quicker).
- PAR POS (Brink)'s longest outage on record lasted 19h 18m (Sep 24, 2026); Toast's lasted 1d 7h (Sep 17, 2026).
90-day uptime
PAR POS (Brink)
Toast
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent PAR POS (Brink) incidents
- InformationalOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 17h 27m
PAR Payment Services: Funding Delay Notice for for Columbus Day (October 12th, 2026)
Affected: PAR Payment Services
- Partial outageSep 24, 2026 · resolved in 19h 18m
Admin Portal 20 Access issuesofficial update ↗
Affected: PAR POS on Admin20
- Partial outageSep 14, 2026 · resolved in 3h 41m
Limited Connectivity errorsofficial update ↗
Affected: PAR POS on Admin19
- Degraded performanceAug 26, 2026 · resolved in 3h 37m
Affected: PAR POS on Admin1
- InformationalAug 20, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: PAR Payment Services
- Partial outageJun 16, 2026 · ongoing
Degradation of Admin Portal 12 Servicesofficial update ↗
Affected: PAR POS on Admin12
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