How Much Does Dorsia Cost? Membership Tiers and Minimum Spend (2026)

Dorsia charges you twice: once a year for the membership, and again on every booking as a prepaid minimum spend. As of November 7, 2026, Dorsia’s own FAQ lists three tiers: Dorsia Access at $200 a year, Premium at $5,200 a year with $4,000 in Fun Coupons, and Premium Plus at $25,200 a year with $20,000 in Fun Coupons. The app is a free download on the App Store, but the FAQ is plain that “Bookings are reserved for Access members and above,” so $200 a year is the least you can pay and still book a table.

Those numbers are new. The same FAQ, as the Wayback Machine captured it on September 26, 2026, listed Premium at $5,000 and Premium Plus at $25,000, so both upper tiers rose $200 at some point between that capture and the day I read it. They will move again, so check the app before you pay. Whether any of it is worth paying is a separate question, answered in is Dorsia worth it, and if you are still working out what Dorsia is, start there.

Dorsia membership tiers and what each one includes

Dorsia Access ($200 a year). The FAQ’s wording is “Dorsia Access: Current pricing is $200/year (increasing soon).” Access is the entry ticket: it lets you book, and the FAQ lists no Fun Coupons with it. One App Store reviewer, writing on October 7, 2026, was blunt about what that buys: “The access subscription is essentially just paying to preview the actual good reservations.” That is one member’s view, but the FAQ sells the better inventory by tier.

Dorsia Premium ($5,200 a year). The FAQ lists it as “$5,200/year with $4,000 USD value in Fun Coupons in addition to other benefits and perks.” Premium members get “earlier access than Access members to table and event inventory across markets.” Their coupons arrive in installments: “Fun Coupons are distributed every 30 days for Premium members, who have 90 days to use them or lose them.”

Dorsia Premium Plus ($25,200 a year). The FAQ lists it as “$25,200/year with $20,000 USD value in Fun Coupons in addition to other benefits and perks.” This is the tier the best tables sit behind: Premium Plus members get “first access to everything on Dorsia, including special designated tables exclusively for Premium Plus members and pre-season booking.” The coupons come all at once and last a year: “Fun Coupons are provided entirely upfront for Premium Plus, and expire after 12 months.”

Fun Coupons. The exchange rate is “$1 USD to 100 Fun Coupons,” so Premium’s $4,000 is 400,000 coupons and Premium Plus’s $20,000 is 2,000,000. You can “Use them to pay your table minimums and reservations,” but they “are non-transferable, have no cash value,” and “Fun Coupons granted through your membership expire when your membership ends.” Nominating a friend who joins within 30 days earns “5,000 FC ($50) for Access, 30,000 FC ($300) for Premium, and 200,000 FC ($2,000) for Premium Plus.” Dorsia also runs an invitation-only corporate membership, Dorsia Executive, whose page publishes no price.

Dorsia membership cost per month

Dorsia does not bill monthly. Its Terms of Use say “each billing cycle is one year in length” and “your Dorsia subscription automatically renews each year.” So these monthly figures are my arithmetic on the annual prices, not a plan you can buy:

• Access: $200 a year is about $16.67 a month, with nothing back in coupons.
• Premium: $5,200 a year is about $433.33 a month. Take away the $4,000 in coupons and the part you cannot eat is $1,200 a year, or $100 a month.
• Premium Plus: $25,200 a year is $2,100 a month. Take away the $20,000 in coupons and the part you cannot eat is $5,200 a year, about $433.33 a month.

Two things follow. First, the latest rise came entirely out of the part you cannot spend: the coupon values did not change, so Premium’s non-dining cost went from $1,000 to $1,200 a year (20% more) and Premium Plus’s from $5,000 to $5,200. Second, the “net” figures only hold if every coupon gets used. The FAQ does not say how many dollars each Premium batch holds; if the $4,000 is split evenly, each 30-day batch is roughly $330, and each one expires 90 days after it arrives, which means booking through Dorsia about once a quarter just to keep the coupons alive. The Terms add that price changes “will take effect on your next billing cycle,” and the FAQ says that if you cancel, “you will not be eligible to be refunded any subscription fees.”

How the Dorsia minimum spend works

Every table carries its own minimum. The FAQ describes the booking step this way: “members prepay a locked-in minimum spend to confirm the reservation.” The price of that minimum is not fixed. In Dorsia’s words, “The minimum spend is calculated from a supply-and-demand pricing model, similar to what’s used in the travel industry, factoring in urgency, timing, availability, and high-demand periods.” So a Tuesday and a Saturday at the same restaurant can cost very different amounts.

Dorsia’s hospitality playbook, the guide it publishes for partner restaurants, fills in the rest. Members “prepay a minimum spend per person at the time of booking that goes toward their food and beverage spend, excluding tax and tip,” and it tells restaurants that “The prepaid minimum spends are priced higher than the typical check average, leading to higher gratuities for servers.” If you order less than the minimum, “Members do not get a refund if the minimum spend is not reached.” If fewer guests come, the bill does not shrink: “Members are not able to decrease in party size. If they show up with fewer guests, the minimum spend will stay the same.” If you order more, the FAQ says the difference “is paid by the member at the end of the meal along with tax and tip,” and the playbook says “Dorsia’s default tip is set at 20%.”

Two smaller charges sit around that. The Terms say “Dorsia may charge a payment processing fee (in addition to the Minimum Spend and Excess Spend) when your Reservation is confirmed,” without naming an amount, and that Dorsia Pay may pre-authorize “up to twenty dollars ($20)” before your reservation. In the UK and the European Economic Area, the minimum is “inclusive of applicable taxes.”

What Dorsia does not publish is the minimums themselves. Its New York restaurant page lists more than 130 restaurants and events with no prices as of November 7, 2026; the app shows each figure. The figures in print are old. FOUND NY, a New York dining newsletter, wrote on May 23, 2023 that “For most nights at Carbone, that’s $500 per person,” and put Torrisi at $300, Rezdôra at $190 and Dirty French at $85 per person. App Store reviewers have cited $160 and $180 per person at Los Angeles restaurants (September 21, 2023) and offering $350 a head on a Valentine’s Day custom request at COTE (January 30, 2025). Treat all of those as dated snapshots of a price that moves with demand.

What a cancellation, a late arrival or a no-show costs

Changes go through the app only, since “emailing us or calling the restaurant will result in forfeited minimum spend.” By default, cancel 8 or more hours ahead and the whole minimum comes back as Dorsia credit; cancel later and “members forfeit 50% of the minimum table spend”; skip the dinner and “they will forfeit 100% of their prepayment.” The Terms make you a no-show if you have not checked in “within fifteen (15) minutes after your Reservation Time,” and some restaurants set their own windows, shown on their page in the app. What comes back is credit, not cash: the Terms say credits “can only be used for the limited purpose of paying for Minimum Spends.” The membership fee is generally nonrefundable, except on cancellation “due to your disability or death.” I go through those terms, and what reviewers make of them, in is Dorsia worth it.

How Dorsia’s prices have changed

Dorsia went from no membership fee at all to a $25,200 top tier in about three years. The dated record, oldest first:

• October 5, 2023 (FAQ, Wayback capture): “At this time, there are no membership fees or extra service fees associated with a Dorsia membership.” The prepaid minimum already applied to every booking.
• January 30, 2025 (App Store review): a member wrote they “paid $150 to get access to the table” and were then told it needed the Premium membership at “$5000 a year.”
• August 26, 2025 (Business Insider): members paid “$175, $5,175, or $25,175 annually for a basic, premium, or premium plus subscription.”
• June 12, 2026 (FAQ, Wayback capture): a basic subscription at “$200/year (increasing soon),” Premium at $5,000 and Premium Plus at $25,000. Aventura Magazine reported the same three prices on July 17, 2026.
• August 3, 2026 (Caper Media): $200, $5,000 and $25,200. The FAQ captured on September 26, 2026 still said $200, $5,000 and $25,000.
• November 7, 2026 (live FAQ): Access at $200, still marked “increasing soon,” Premium at $5,200 and Premium Plus at $25,200.

The Terms reserve the change in plain words: “We reserve the right to adjust the price of the Membership Fee.” Access has carried its “increasing soon” warning since at least June 2026.

What one Dorsia dinner costs, start to finish

Here is a single dinner for two, priced with Dorsia’s own rules. The one number Dorsia does not publish is the minimum, so I use $300 per person, the level FOUND NY reported for Torrisi in May 2023. Your night’s figure will differ, and reviewers in 2026 (a New York Hots review in January, an App Store review in October) say the most wanted New York tables now sit in the Premium Plus tier, so for those the membership line could be $25,200 rather than $200.

• Membership: $200 for a year of Access, the cheapest tier that can book.
• At booking: $600 charged to your card (two people at $300), plus any payment processing fee, which the Terms allow but do not price.
• You order $540 of food and wine: the check is brought up to the $600 minimum, the default 20% tip on $600 adds $120, and sales tax goes on top. The night costs $720 before tax.
• You order $700 instead: the extra $100 is charged at the end, the tip on $700 is $140, and the night costs $840 before tax.
• If it is your only Dorsia dinner of the year: $200 plus $720 is $920 before tax.

If plans change, the same table costs this: cancel 9 hours out and the $600 comes back as Dorsia credit; cancel 6 hours out and you get $300 in credit and lose $300; miss it entirely and you lose $600; turn up as one instead of two and you still pay $600. Now book the same dinner directly on the restaurant’s own Resy page and order the same $540: the reservation itself costs nothing (where a restaurant takes a deposit, it comes off the bill), the 20% tip is $108, and the night is $648 before tax. On these numbers, Dorsia adds $72 on the night and $200 for the year, $272 in all, in exchange for a table you did not have to win. On Premium, coupons could cover the $600, but Premium itself costs $5,200 a year.

What SeatSwiper costs, for comparison

SeatSwiper is not affiliated with Dorsia, and it does a narrower job. It watches a restaurant’s own Resy, SevenRooms or OpenTable book and books the table the moment one opens or someone cancels, on your own account and in your own name, with nothing resold or transferred. The first booking is free. After that it is a flat $5, charged only when it actually books the table, with no subscription. A cancellation watch on a date that is already full costs $1 to start, charged when the watch begins even if no table ever opens; that $1 is not covered by the free first booking and is not refunded, and the same $5 applies if the watch wins you the table. There is no membership, no minimum spend and no credit that expires. It can’t get your account banned, because it books on your own account and checks every few minutes, never nonstop.

Applied to the dinner above: $0 if it is your first SeatSwiper booking, $5 if it is not, plus $1 if you started a cancellation watch, and then you pay the restaurant for what you actually ordered. Dorsia wins on something I cannot match, though. Its playbook describes “Dorsia’s allocated inventory,” tables its partner restaurants hold for members, and Premium Plus has designated tables of its own; those never reach the public book, so SeatSwiper cannot book them. It also cannot promise a table: it can lose a race for a single seat, it works only on Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable, and it needs your reservation login to book as you. If the restaurant you want is on the hardest restaurants to book in NYC list, compare the categories in are restaurant reservation services worth it and reservation alerts vs auto-booking, or see how another per-booking service prices the same job in TablePass vs SeatSwiper.