What Grab does
Grab is a Southeast Asian everyday app that combines ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, package sending and payments in one place. It serves consumers, driver and delivery partners, merchants and businesses. Consumers use Rides, GrabFood, GrabMart, GrabExpress, Grab DineOut for table bookings, GrabPay cashless payments, insurance and rewards points. Merchants can sell and accept payments through the platform, while Grab for Business covers employee rides, corporate food orders, deliveries, gift cards, GrabAds and GrabDefence fraud protection. GrabMaps offers mapping and location data for businesses. The app is free to download, and each ride, order or delivery is paid per use, with business services arranged through Grab.
How Grab compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Grab does. All 5 offer an API, as Grab does. Grab offers a web app and a mobile app. Of the alternatives, 3 offer a web app and all 5 offer a mobile app. Grab was founded in 2012; the alternatives were founded between 2010 and 2017, 2 of them earlier. Grab is based in Singapore; none of its 5 alternatives is in Singapore. They are in Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria and elsewhere.