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Pulse AI vs Loman AI
Two AI phone agents for restaurants, compared from Loman's own website: POS coverage, payment on the call, reservations, pricing, and where each one is the better choice.
Short answer
Loman is built for restaurants, lists POS integrations including Toast and Clover, and takes card payment during the call on its Premium plan. Pulse posts orders to Square and GoTab today, leaves payment for pickup, and also runs phone lines for senior living, hotels, sports facilities, rentals and white-label partners. Your POS and how customers pay decide which fits.
Loman is one of the best-known AI phone agents for restaurants, and if you are shopping for one, it's probably on your list. It's also a very different product from Pulse in a few specific ways that decide which one fits a given restaurant. Everything about Loman below comes from Loman's own website, checked on September 29, 2026.
The short version
| Loman AI | Pulse AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Restaurants: single, multi-unit and enterprise brands | Restaurants, plus senior living, hotels, sports facilities, property rentals and white-label partners |
| POS and systems | Lists Toast, SpotOn, Clover, Shift4, Square, Aloha by NCR, Olo, Stream, OpenTable and Resy | Posts orders to Square and GoTab today |
| Payment | "Secure payment over the phone" on its Premium plan | Never takes card numbers on the call. Orders are paid at pickup, cash included |
| Reservations | Books reservations, with OpenTable and Resy listed | Answers reservation and catering questions. No OpenTable or Resy connection today |
| Pricing | Starter and Premium plans. Prices not published: "Request Pricing" | Free for 7 days, then $199, $349 or $499 a month for 700, 1,400 or 2,000 calls |
| Setup | "Less than 24 hours" for most restaurants | A test number on your real menu, usually within a week |
| White-label | Not mentioned | Core. Your name on the call, the caller ID and the invoice |
Where Loman is the better choice
We would rather say this plainly than have you find out after a demo.
- You run Toast, SpotOn, Clover, Aloha or Olo. Loman lists all of them. Pulse posts orders to Square and GoTab today, so if your restaurant runs on one of the others, Loman can connect where we can't yet.
- You want customers to pay by card during the call. Loman's Premium plan takes payment over the phone. Pulse deliberately doesn't.
- Your phone is mostly reservations on OpenTable or Resy. Loman books into both. We don't connect to either today.
Where Pulse fits better
You take phone orders paid at the counter
Plenty of regulars order by phone and pay when they pick up, often in cash. Pulse is built for exactly that. The order posts to your POS unpaid, the way a phone order normally does, and nobody reads a card number to software. We made that a fixed rule after watching a caller hang up when an agent improvised about payment.
You care how the total is calculated
Every AI phone agent says it's accurate. Pulse keeps the language model away from prices: the model decides what the caller wants, and plain code reads prices and modifiers from your POS and adds them up. The total the caller hears is then checked against the total the POS calculates. We wrote up exactly how that works, and it's worth asking any vendor the same question.
You run more than a restaurant
Loman is built around restaurants. Pulse also runs resident lines for senior living, front desks for hotels, bookings for courts and classes, and maintenance lines for rentals. If you operate across categories, or you're an agency serving several, one platform matters.
You want to sell it under your own name
White-label is the core of Pulse, not an add-on. Agencies and software companies resell it with their name on the greeting, the caller ID and the invoice. See how white-label works.
What to ask either of us on a demo
- Show me a real order posting into my POS, with modifiers, and the ticket it prints.
- Where does the total come from, and what checks it?
- What happens when I 86 an item halfway through service?
- What does the agent say when it doesn't know the answer?
- What exactly will I pay each month, in writing?
You can test ours right now on a real pizzeria menu at (313) 889-7436. Order something awkward and try to break it. Or start a free 7-day trial and hear it on your own menu, with your own callers.
Free for 7 days
Try it on your own phone line.
Sign up, connect your POS and forward your line. Pulse answers your real calls from your real menu, free for 7 days or 150 calls, whichever comes first. Card required. Cancel before day 8 and you pay nothing. Plans from $199 a month after that.
Questions people ask
Is Pulse a Loman alternative?
Yes. Both answer restaurant phones with AI. Loman connects to more POS systems and can take card payments on the call. Pulse posts to Square and GoTab, keeps payment at pickup, and also serves other industries and white-label partners.
How much does Loman cost?
Loman does not publish prices. Its pricing page lists Starter and Premium plans and asks you to request pricing.
Does Pulse work with Toast?
Not today. Pulse posts orders to Square and GoTab. If your restaurant runs on Toast, a product that lists Toast, such as Loman, can connect where Pulse cannot yet.
Can Pulse take card payments over the phone?
No, by design. Orders post to your POS unpaid and the customer pays at pickup, card or cash.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Restaurants can try Pulse free for 7 days or 150 calls, whichever comes first. You pick a plan and add a card when you start, and you are not charged until the trial ends. Cancel from your dashboard before then and you pay nothing.
How much does Pulse cost for a restaurant?
After the free trial, plans are $199 a month for 700 calls, $349 for 1,400 calls and $499 for 2,000 calls. Running several locations? Talk to us and we quote it for you.
Loman details are quoted from loman.ai and its pricing page, checked on September 29, 2026, and may have changed since. Loman is a trademark of its owner. Pulse AI is not affiliated with or endorsed by Loman.