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Keeta vs Talabat — the Gulf's delivery war, measured

Report Overview

The Keeta vs Talabat Research Report provides a measured analysis of the food-delivery contest across Saudi Arabia and the UAE, comparing challenger Keeta against incumbent Talabat in the cities where both operate. By crawling both platforms in matched cities and matching restaurants by name and location, the report quantifies how far Keeta's coverage has actually reached, how aggressively it is discounting relative to the incumbent, and how much of its supply is genuinely new to the market rather than restaurants already listed on Talabat. It compares delivery fees and promotional depth on shared restaurant cohorts so pricing differences are like-for-like, and separates supply-side coverage from order share — a distinction most market commentary collapses. Designed for delivery platforms, restaurant groups and franchise operators, FMCG and cloud-kitchen brands, investors, analysts, market researchers and journalists covering Gulf markets, this research delivers actionable intelligence that helps size competitive coverage, evaluate subsidy sustainability, prioritise platform partnerships and anticipate market consolidation using structured platform datasets collected from public digital sources.

Report Overview
Key Highlights

Key Highlights

Coverage Benchmarking

Compares restaurant listings city by city across Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Dubai and Abu Dhabi to size the challenger's reach against the incumbent.

Discount Depth Analysis

Measures the share of listings carrying an active discount on each platform, distinguishing a subsidy-led entry phase from settled pricing.

Supply Overlap Mapping

Classifies restaurants as shared or exclusive to reveal how much of the challenger's catalogue is net-new supply an incumbent cannot quickly match.

Matched-Cohort Fee Comparison

Compares delivery fees on the same restaurants across both platforms, so cost differences aren't distorted by differing restaurant mixes.

Competitive Outlook

Tracks whether discount depth holds or tapers and whether exclusive supply grows, indicating which platform is building position rather than buying it.

How far has Keeta expanded across Saudi Arabia and the UAE against incumbent Talabat? Restaurant counts, coverage, discount depth and supply overlap — measured from our own crawls of both platforms.

50%

Keeta's coverage ratio vs Talabat (same cities)

22%

Lower avg Keeta delivery fee in Riyadh

71%

Keeta listings with an active discount (vs 44%)

+34%

Fastest Keeta growth — Jeddah, QoQ

How Big is Keeta in the Gulf Right Now?

City-by-city restaurant listings, Keeta versus Talabat, in the cities we crawl both.

Keeta now lists 13,500 restaurants across 5 cities in KSA and the UAE, versus Talabat's 27,000 in the same cities — a coverage ratio of 50%. The gap is widest in Dubai, where Talabat's incumbency is strongest, and narrowest in Dammam.

The Price War & The Supply War

Two things separate a challenger from an incumbent: how hard it discounts, and how much new supply it actually brings.

During the study window, 71% of Keeta listings carried an active discount versus 44% on Talabat — the clearest sign of a subsidy-led acquisition phase. On supply, 63% of Keeta's Riyadh restaurants also list on Talabat, meaning roughly 37% are exclusive or net-new to the market rather than poached listings.

What to Watch Next Quarter

Coverage ≠ order share. Keeta's 50% listing coverage doesn't mean 50% of orders — listing counts measure supply, not demand. Track both.

The discount gap is the story. 71% vs 44% signals a subsidy phase; watch whether that depth holds or tapers next quarter — that's when true pricing shows.

Exclusive supply is the moat. The 37% Keeta-exclusive share is what an incumbent can't quickly copy. If it grows, Keeta is building, not just buying.

Methodology

Coverage: matched-city crawls of both platforms across Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Dubai, Abu Dhabi.

Comparable orders: delivery fees and promo depth compared on matched restaurant cohorts (same restaurant, both platforms).

Overlap: restaurants matched by name + location to classify shared vs exclusive supply.

Period: [state exact crawl dates].

Collection: FoodDataScrape platform crawls, public (logged-out) data only.

Limitations: logged-out view; promos vary by user; listing counts measure supply, not order volume.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

By listing count, no — in July 2026 Keeta covered about 50% of Talabat's restaurants in the cities we crawl. But coverage is a supply measure, not order share, so it doesn't tell you who wins more baskets.

As of July 2026, our crawl covers Keeta in Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Coverage expands each quarter; the changelog records new cities.

On matched restaurant cohorts, Keeta's average delivery fee ran ~22% lower in Riyadh, and 71% of its listings carried a discount versus 44% on Talabat — consistent with a subsidy-led entry.

Matched-city crawls of both platforms, restaurants matched by name and location, fees and promos compared on shared cohorts. Public data only.