Choco vs Koust

Choco (Germany, value score 9.0/10, #1 of 8 in Inventory & purchasing) and Koust (France, 7.0/10, #3) are two of the EU-headquartered inventory & purchasing solutions ranked on TechForMerchant. Criterion by criterion, here is how they compare.

	Choco	Koust
Value score	9.0 / 10 · #1 in Inventory & purchasing	7.0 / 10 · #3 in Inventory & purchasing
Market penetration	6.5 / 10	5.5 / 10
Scores	Deployment10Ease of use9Innovation8Price & terms10 Market penetration6.5 Adoption9Integration4	Deployment8Ease of use7Innovation6Price & terms8 Market penetration5.5 Adoption5Integration6
Tagline	Supplier ordering app connecting restaurants and wholesalers	Food-cost, inventory and recipe management for restaurants
Category	Inventory & purchasing	Inventory & purchasing
Status	Established Unicorn since 2022 ($1.2B valuation), $274.7M raised, tens of thousands of restaurants ordering through the app	Established Founded 2016, public pricing and multi-site features, widely listed among French food-cost tools
Headquarters	Germany, Berlin	France, Brest
Founded	2018	2016
From	Free Ordering app is free for restaurants; suppliers and distributors pay usage-based fees on quote	€80/month Essentiel plan per establishment (2 users); Professionnel €130, Entreprise €180; hygiene module €38/month; 14-day free trial
For	restaurants	restaurants
Size	independent chain	independent chain
Serves	US	CH
European	EU headquarters · EU-owned · hosting not stated	EU headquarters · EU-owned · EU hosting stated
Funding	$111M Series B2 (2022-04) Total $274.7M	Not disclosed
What is new	Made supplier ordering a free chat-style app for restaurants while monetising and automating the supplier side with AI order capture.	Adds invoice scanning and AI sales forecasting to a transparently priced food-cost tool for independents.
Strengths	Free for restaurants and quick to adopt Large network of onboarded suppliers in Germany, France, Spain, Austria and the US AI order processing on the supplier side reduces errors	Transparent pricing with a 14-day trial Invoice scanning and POS integrations for variance analysis AI sales forecasting and stock transfers on the top plan
Limits	Not a full inventory or recipe-costing system Value depends on your suppliers being on the platform	Interface and support mainly in French Invoice scan quotas per plan
Website	choco.com ↗	koust.net ↗

Our reading

Choco leads on Deployment, Ease of use, Innovation, Price & terms, Adoption. Koust leads on Integration.

Choco. Best for independent restaurants in Germany, France, Spain or Austria whose wholesalers are already on the platform and who want to replace phone and WhatsApp orders at zero cost.

Koust. Best for French-speaking independent restaurants that want food-cost, stock and HACCP tracking with published pricing and a trial rather than a sales cycle.

Ranking computed by AI (Claude) from customer reviews, comparators, trade associations and the news · editorial responsibility Camille POTVIN · reviewed 23 Sep 2026 · how this page is made