Lanes vs Presto Voice

Presto Voice's feature set is operational, not software-you-install-yourself: automated order taking at the speaker post, a spectrum of voice models so one deployment handles multiple brand menus and guest speech patterns, continuous upselling of add-ons and specials, 24/7 availability, and installation at scale without disrupting live lanes. It integrates with POS and headset providers, with a Toast integration announced for Sept. 21, 2026, and reports ROI on non-intervention, upsell, and revenue lift. Presto manages the deployment end to end.

Lanes is a developer tool with an entirely different surface: parallel agents each isolated in their own git worktree, loop engineering where a skill plus a verifier you define governs the run, and hard stops on tries, budget, and time. Runs appear on a Backlog / Planning & Implementation / Done board. There are real PTY terminals that load your dotfiles, a Monaco editor with inline git diffs and undo history, a git client with per-session branch history, session resume, a Databases Explorer for auto-discovered SQLite files, a Forms backend with hosted dashboard and API keys, and gateways to local Ollama, vLLM, OpenRouter, or z.ai. It is macOS Ventura or later, Apple Silicon and Intel.

There is no feature overlap to weigh here. One removes a human from a drive-thru headset; the other removes terminal-tab collisions from a coding workflow.

Presto Voice has no published pricing — the page lists pricing_type as contact, and the product explicitly is not for buyers who require published self-serve pricing before engaging. That means a quote, a scoping conversation, and a sales cycle, plus managed deployment and ongoing support bundled in. The economics only make sense against measurable lift: Presto publishes up to 6% monthly incremental revenue, up to 88% upsell offer rate, and up to 95% non-intervention. At multi-location scale, a few points of average-order-value gain is the entire business case; for one location, the overhead almost certainly does not clear.

Lanes is freemium with a macOS download, so a developer can evaluate it before paying anything. Its costs behave like a typical developer tool: subscription tiers plus whatever you already spend on model access, whether that is Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or a gateway to Ollama, vLLM, OpenRouter, or z.ai. A v0.46 release added gateways and installed Ollama for you, and v0.45 added hosted form dashboards and API keys.

One negotiation, one download. Comparing these on price is meaningless — the real comparison for Presto is against your current headset labor cost, and for Lanes it is against another coding subscription.