Pizza in Oakland

20 restaurants in Oakland list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Razzo's Pizza at $6.50, listed as Vegan Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $16.49, and the dearest we found is $34.75 at Amici's East Coast Pizzeria at CloudKitchens, so the two ends of the list are $28.25 apart, which is 435% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 10 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 7 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Oakland is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 152 of the 1060. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Alameda, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Oakland? Razzo's Pizza, at $6.50 on 4312 MacArthur Blvd. The same dish reaches $34.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $28.25.

What should pizza cost here? About $16.49 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Oakland that list it. Of the ones listed above, 10 are more than a dollar below that and 7 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Alameda, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $4.49 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.