Calendly vs Cal.com 2026: Prices, Free Plans and Team Seats

Cal.com is the better pick for solo users and price-conscious teams: its free plan includes unlimited event types, and Teams costs $12 per user a month billed yearly against $16 for Calendly Teams. Calendly is the better pick for sales teams that want Salesforce routing, a built-in AI notetaker, or the scheduling tool most of their prospects already recognize.

Prices were read on Calendly's pricing page and Cal.com's pricing page on October 19, 2026. One premise from older comparisons no longer holds: the free, self-hosted open-source version is now a separate project called Cal.diy, which Cal.com recommends for personal, non-production use only. So this is a hosted-versus-hosted comparison.

	Calendly	Cal.com
Free plan	One event type, one calendar connection	1 user, unlimited event types and calendars
Paid entry, billed yearly	Standard, $10 per seat a month	Teams, $12 per user a month
Team scheduling, billed yearly	Teams, $16 per seat a month	Teams, $12 per user a month
Monthly billing	Standard $12, Teams $20 per seat	Not printed on the pricing page
SAML SSO	Optional add-on on Teams, included on Enterprise (from $15,000 a year, 50 seats)	Organizations, $28 per user a month billed yearly
AI meeting notes	Notetaker on Standard Plus and Teams Plus	Not part of the plans compared here
Best for	Sales teams, Salesforce shops, buyers who want AI notes	Solo users, startups, technical teams, SSO on a budget

Toolradar data: on Toolradar, the software directory we run, Calendly is listed as an alternative to 52 other tools, first of 105 meeting scheduling tools, while Cal.com is listed as an alternative to 21, as of October 2026. Calendly is the benchmark buyers start from; Cal.com is the most common price challenger. Toolradar's Calendly vs Cal.com comparison keeps both records side by side.

What a year costs by team size

The totals below are our arithmetic on the printed yearly per-user rates: users times rate times 12. Cal.com prints only yearly rates for its paid plans, so this table compares yearly billing on both sides.

Scenario	Calendly	Cal.com
1 person, unlimited event types	$120 (Standard)	$0 (Free)
5 people, round-robin scheduling	$960 (Teams)	$720 (Teams)
5 people, round robin plus AI notetaker	$1,440 (Teams Plus)	No equivalent plan
20 people with SAML SSO	Teams $3,840 plus the SSO add-on, or Enterprise from $15,000	$6,720 (Organizations)

The solo row is the clearest gap. Calendly's free plan stops at one event type, so a consultant who offers a 15-minute intro call and a 60-minute session has to pay for Standard. Cal.com's free plan covers both, plus Stripe and PayPal payments and two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync.

For a five-person team, Cal.com saves $240 a year on list prices, a quarter of the Calendly bill. The SSO row needs a caveat, because Calendly prints no price for its Teams SSO add-on, and Enterprise starts at 50 seats, so a 20-person company that must have SSO either negotiates the add-on or pays for 30 seats it does not use.

On monthly billing Calendly charges $12 per seat on Standard and $20 on Teams; it says yearly billing saves 17% and 20% respectively. Cal.com's page labels its rates yearly and shows a 25% saving, but it does not print the monthly figure, so check it in checkout before choosing monthly.

Plan ladders and what each tier adds

Calendly

• Free: one event type, one calendar connection, one-on-one scheduling, a customizable booking page and the browser extension.
• Standard: unlimited event types, multiple calendars, automations and reminders, HubSpot and Mailchimp, and Stripe and PayPal payments.
• Teams: round-robin and team scheduling, lead qualification and routing, centrally managed event types, Marketo and Pardot, sending meetings to Salesforce, and an optional SSO add-on.
• Standard Plus and Teams Plus: the same plans with Notetaker for recordings, transcripts and recaps, and Callie, an AI assistant that schedules over email, at $18 and $24 per seat a month billed yearly.
• Enterprise: Salesforce lookup routing, Microsoft Dynamics, SSO and SAML, domain control, audit logs, a data deletion API and onboarding support.

Cal.com

• Free: 1 user, unlimited event types and calendars, email and SMS notifications, 100+ app integrations, payments, two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync, and a one-click Calendly import.
• Teams: one team with shared availability, round robin, managed and collective event types, recurring events, routing forms, booking analytics, custom APIs and removal of Cal.com branding.
• Organizations: unlimited sub-teams, a company subdomain, SAML SSO and SCIM, role-based permissions, domain-wide delegation, and SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance.
• Enterprise: custom annual pricing with dedicated onboarding, SLAs, HRIS and directory integrations and a dedicated database.

Both vendors offer a 14-day trial of their paid plans. At the end of Calendly's trial the account drops back to Free rather than charging, which makes it a low-risk test.

Round 1: free plans. Cal.com wins

Cal.com's free plan is a working scheduling tool for one person: unlimited event types, multiple calendars, payments and CRM sync. Calendly's free plan is a single booking link. For a freelancer, coach or job seeker, Cal.com Free replaces a paid Calendly Standard seat. Cal.com also imports Calendly event types in one click, which lowers the switching cost.

Round 2: team pricing. Cal.com wins

Cal.com Teams costs a quarter less per user than Calendly Teams on yearly billing and includes routing forms, round robin and collective events. Calendly's Teams plan answers with deeper sales features, but for an internal team that books interviews or support calls, the cheaper plan covers the job.

Round 3: sales workflows. Calendly wins

Calendly built its Teams plan around inbound sales: qualify, route and schedule leads, send meetings to Salesforce, and connect Marketo and Pardot. Enterprise adds routing with Salesforce lookup and Microsoft Dynamics. Cal.com's free plan syncs with Salesforce and HubSpot and Teams adds routing forms, but Calendly's lead-routing depth and marketing automation connectors are the reason revenue teams keep paying the premium. Our Calendly vs Acuity Scheduling comparison covers the client-booking side of the same decision, and HubSpot vs Salesforce covers the CRM these routes feed.

Round 4: AI features. Calendly wins

Calendly sells Notetaker and Callie as Plus versions of Standard and Teams. Notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to record, transcribe and share recaps, and Callie handles scheduling over email. The Plus tiers cost $8 more per seat a month than the base plans on yearly billing, and both tools are English-only for now. A team that would otherwise buy a separate notetaker should compare that $8 with a standalone tool; our AI scheduling apps ranking covers the alternatives, and Otter vs Fireflies prices two standalone notetakers.

Round 5: security and SSO. Cal.com wins below 50 seats

Cal.com puts SAML SSO and SCIM on Organizations at a printed price and lists SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance on that tier. Calendly's SSO is an optional add-on to Teams with no printed price, or part of Enterprise, which starts at $15,000 a year and 50 seats. A 20-person company with an SSO requirement gets a predictable bill only from Cal.com.

Round 6: self-hosting. Neither, for a business

Cal.com's open-source codebase now lives on as Cal.diy, an MIT-licensed fork with the enterprise and commercial code removed. The Cal.diy repository says it is strictly recommended for personal, non-production use and points commercial users to hosted Cal.com or on-premises Enterprise access. A developer who wants a private booking page can run Cal.diy on Docker; a company that needs support and compliance should treat the hosted plans as the real product. The Cal.com review covers the Cal.diy split in more detail.

Who should pick which

Pick Cal.com if you work alone, run a small or technical team, or need SSO without an enterprise contract. Its free plan replaces a paid Calendly seat for most individuals, Teams costs less per user, and Organizations prices SSO openly.

Pick Calendly if you run inbound sales on Salesforce, Marketo or Pardot, want AI meeting notes inside the scheduling tool, or book meetings with prospects who expect a Calendly link. The Calendly review and the Calendly pricing guide cover each tier in detail.

Look further if neither fits: the Calendly alternatives list covers buy-once and suite-bundled options, and the appointment scheduling software ranking covers client-booking tools for salons, clinics and tutors.

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Strengths and weaknesses

Calendly strengths: lead qualification, routing and Salesforce delivery on Teams; Notetaker and Callie on the Plus tiers; monthly billing printed on every paid plan; invoice payment from $5,000 on Standard or Teams.

Calendly weaknesses: the free plan allows one event type; SSO on Teams is an unpriced add-on; Enterprise starts at 50 seats; Teams costs $4 more per user a month than Cal.com Teams on yearly billing.

Cal.com strengths: a free plan with unlimited event types, payments and CRM sync; Teams at a lower yearly price; SAML SSO and SCIM at a printed price on Organizations; a one-click Calendly import.

Cal.com weaknesses: monthly rates are not printed; the open-source Cal.diy is for personal, non-production use; no AI notetaker tier on the pricing page; fewer marketing automation connectors named on the pricing page than Calendly.

How we compared them

Plan prices, inclusions and trial terms were read on October 19, 2026, on Calendly's pricing page, including its plan data and FAQ, and on Cal.com's pricing page. The Cal.diy details come from Cal.com's self-hosting documentation and the Cal.diy repository. Yearly totals are our arithmetic on the printed per-user rates. The cross-shopping counts come from Toolradar's tool records as of October 2026. Techpresso did not run either tool for this page.

Cite this: Techpresso, "Calendly vs Cal.com 2026: Prices, Free Plans and Team Seats", November 2026.

FAQ

Is Cal.com cheaper than Calendly in 2026?

Yes, on yearly billing. Cal.com Teams costs $12 per user a month against $16 for Calendly Teams, so a five-person team pays $720 a year instead of $960 on our arithmetic. For one person, Cal.com Free covers unlimited event types, while Calendly needs Standard at $10 per seat a month billed yearly.

Is Cal.com still free and open source?

Cal.com's hosted free plan is free for one user with unlimited event types. The open-source, self-hosted edition is now Cal.diy, an MIT-licensed fork that Cal.com recommends for personal, non-production use only. Commercial self-hosting goes through Cal.com Enterprise.

What does Calendly's free plan include?

One event type, one calendar connection, one-on-one scheduling, a customizable booking page and the browser extension. Unlimited event types and multiple calendars start on Standard.

Which is better for sales teams?

Calendly. Its Teams plan qualifies and routes leads, sends meetings to Salesforce and connects Marketo and Pardot, and Enterprise adds Salesforce lookup routing and Microsoft Dynamics. Cal.com covers routing forms and CRM sync at a lower price but names fewer sales tools.

How much does SSO cost on Calendly and Cal.com?

Cal.com includes SAML SSO and SCIM on Organizations at $28 per user a month billed yearly. Calendly sells SSO as an optional Teams add-on with no printed price, or includes it on Enterprise, which starts at $15,000 a year for 50 seats.

Does Calendly have an AI notetaker?

Yes. Standard Plus and Teams Plus add Notetaker, which records, transcribes and recaps Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings, plus Callie, an email scheduling assistant. They cost $18 and $24 per seat a month billed yearly and are available in English only.

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