Calendly vs Cal.com
Calendly or Cal.com? Here is how they compare on price, free plan, platforms and the jobs each does best, from each vendor's own pages.
| Compared on | Visit | Visit |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Booking-link scheduler with routing forms, Stripe and PayPal payments, and AI add-ons for notes and email | Scheduling with unlimited event types free for one user; its open-source edition now continues as Cal.diy |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Cheapest paid plan | $10/seat/mo billed annually (Standard)Calendly pricing | $12/user/mo billed annually (Teams)Cal.com pricing |
| What it covers | Unlimited event types, multiple calendar connections, automations and reminders, HubSpot and Mailchimp, Stripe and PayPal payments. Seats are needed only for people who connect calendars and host meetings, not for invitees. | Shown as $12 per user a month on yearly billing ('Save 25%'); the pricing page does not show the monthly-billed price. Includes 750 Cal.ai credits per member a month. |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial; the account then moves to the Free plan | 14-day free trial of Teams and Organizations |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, API | Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, Browser extension, API |
| Integrations (vendor's figure) | 100+ integrations, including Zoom, Google Calendar, Outlook, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Stripe, PayPal and Zapier | 100+ apps, including Zapier, Make, Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe and PayPal |
| Open source | No | No |
| Made by | Calendly LLC | Cal.com, Inc. |
Choose Calendly if…
- Price matters: its cheapest paid plan is $10/seat/mo against $12/user/mo.
- The job is sharing a booking link so clients and prospects pick a free time.
- The job is taking payment when someone books a session.
Choose Cal.com if…
- You want a desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux).
- The job is getting unlimited booking links free as a solo user.
- The job is distributing team meetings with round robin and routing forms.
Still weighing it up?
If neither is quite right, Calendly and Cal.com are also compared with their other rivals: Calendly vs Acuity Scheduling, Calendly vs Microsoft Bookings and Calendly vs SavvyCal.
To see one of them doing real work, read Send a Feedback Survey After a Calendly Meeting Ends.
What Calendly does
- Booking links and pages with event types, buffers, daily limits and custom availability
- Connects Google, Outlook and Microsoft calendars to avoid double bookings
- Automated email and text reminders, and follow-ups
- Payment at booking through Stripe or PayPal, on Standard and above
- Round-robin and team scheduling, with routing forms that qualify and route leads, on Teams
- Notetaker: recordings, transcripts, meeting recaps and draft follow-up emails (Plus plans)
Watch out for
- Free plan: 1 event type and 1 calendar connection, with no payments
- Round robin, team scheduling and routing forms need Teams, from $16 per seat a month billed yearly
- Notetaker and Callie come only with the Plus plans, are available only in English, and Callie is in beta
What Cal.com does
- Unlimited event types, calendar connections and bookings on the free plan
- Round-robin, collective, managed and recurring event types on Teams
- Routing forms, with routing by custom member attributes on Organizations
- Stripe and PayPal payments for bookings on every plan
- Workflows for email and SMS reminders and follow-ups, plus webhooks and APIs
- Cal Video, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and 20+ other conferencing tools
Watch out for
- Round robin, routing forms and removing Cal.com branding need a paid plan, from $12 per user a month billed yearly
- The pricing page shows only yearly-billed prices
- Cal.com's own code is no longer open source; the self-hosted Cal.diy edition drops teams, round robin, routing forms and workflows and is recommended for personal, non-production use
Questions
Is Calendly or Cal.com cheaper?
On published entry prices, Calendly is cheaper: $10/seat/mo billed annually (Standard) for Calendly against $12/user/mo billed annually (Teams) for Cal.com. What each plan includes differs, so compare the limits too.
Do Calendly and Cal.com have free plans?
Both do. Calendly: 1 event type and 1 calendar connection; one-on-one scheduling, a customizable booking page and the browser extension; no payments. Cal.com: 1 user; unlimited event types, calendars and bookings; email and SMS notifications; 100+ app integrations; Stripe and PayPal payments; two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync; no team features.