Calendly vs Cal.com: Scheduling Tool Comparison (2026)

The case for

• The free plan is permanent with one event type and one calendar connection, which is enough for one person taking meetings.
• Standard is 10 dollars per seat per month on annual billing and connects up to six calendars, covering people with split work accounts.
• GST is applied for Indian business customers who supply a GSTIN, so the invoice carries an Indian tax line rather than none.

The catch

• You pay for every seat in the organisation whether or not it is filled, so an empty seat keeps billing until it is removed.
• Indian card holders must confirm payment through an emailed e-mandate link within 14 days each cycle, or the account stops working.
• Support treats payments as non refundable, and buyers report having to dispute unwanted charges with their bank instead of getting a refund.
• There is no phone support on any plan, and the tier that adds SAML, domain control and audit logs starts at 15,000 dollars a year.

The case for

• The free plan covers one user with unlimited event types, unlimited calendar connections, Stripe payments and over 100 app integrations
• The whole application is AGPL licensed and published on GitHub, so a team can self-host the same code the hosted product runs
• Teams costs $12 per user monthly and annual billing removes 25 percent, and both numbers are published rather than quoted by sales

The catch

• Round robin scheduling, routing forms, booking analytics and branding removal all require a paid plan, so the free tier stays a single person tool
• A paid self-hosting licence needs a minimum of 30 users, so smaller teams self-host on the AGPL build without the commercial features
• Organizations costs $28 per user monthly, more than double the Teams rate, and holds the white labelling and SAML capability
• SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 commitments plus SLA sit in Enterprise, which carries no published price and needs a sales conversation