Wonder owns Grubhub. That makes “Wonder vs Grubhub” a stranger question than it looks, because in a lot of cases you are choosing between two ways of buying the same meal from the same company.
The useful version of the question is not which service is better. It is which app to open, and there the answer is usually clear.
The same restaurant, two prices
Since the acquisition, Grubhub restaurants appear inside the Wonder app in major metros, sitting alongside Wonder’s own chef-partner brands. The food is identical. It is cooked by the same restaurant, by the same kitchen staff.
What differs is what you pay to have it brought to you.
Ordered through the Wonder app, a Grubhub-sourced restaurant carries no delivery fee, because Wonder does not charge one on anything. Ordered through Grubhub directly, the same food from the same restaurant carries Grubhub’s delivery fee of roughly $1.99 to $9.99, unless you pay $9.99 a month for Grubhub+.
That is the whole practical finding. If a restaurant is visible in both apps, the Wonder app is the cheaper door into it.
The tradeoff is time. Grubhub-sourced orders take 40 to 60 minutes whichever app you use, because a restaurant is cooking them and a courier is collecting them. Only Wonder’s own kitchens hit the 20 to 30 minute window, since that food is cooked in the building the courier leaves from.
Which app to open
Open Wonder if you are in its coverage area. You get its own kitchens at 20 to 30 minutes with no delivery fee, plus whichever Grubhub restaurants are available locally, also with no delivery fee. There is no case where the same restaurant is cheaper on Grubhub.
Open Grubhub if you want a restaurant that has not been surfaced in the Wonder app, or if you are outside Wonder’s Northeast coverage entirely. Grubhub lists hundreds of thousands of restaurants nationally. Wonder shows the ones near you.
Check both if you are ordering from a chain. Coverage of Grubhub merchants inside Wonder is uneven and still expanding, so a restaurant missing from Wonder last month may be there now.
What the acquisition did and did not change
The two apps are still separate products with separate pricing. Buying Grubhub did not merge them. It let Wonder list Grubhub’s merchants inside its own no-delivery-fee structure, which is a pricing advantage rather than a product change.
If you want the detail on the deal itself, the $650 million price and what it has meant since, we covered the acquisition separately.
New customer pricing
New Wonder accounts get $15 off their first order and $15 off their second with code CONRAD456, which fills in automatically through this link. It applies to Grubhub-sourced restaurants in the Wonder app as well as to Wonder’s own kitchens, which is the non-obvious part worth knowing.
Grubhub runs its own new-customer offers, typically $10 to $25 off a first order, varying by market.
The short answer
They are the same company, so the question is really about which storefront you buy through. Inside Wonder’s coverage area, the Wonder app is the cheaper one for any restaurant that appears in both, and it is dramatically faster for Wonder’s own food.
Grubhub is the answer when geography or a specific restaurant rules Wonder out.
For how Wonder compares to the apps it does not own, see the UberEats price breakdown and the DoorDash comparison. If you are still deciding whether Wonder suits you at all, that depends mostly on how close you live to a kitchen.