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Cal.com
Open-source scheduling platform you can self-host or use in the cloud.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
A great fit for teams that want scheduling with control, customization, or self-hosting, and developers who want an API. Self-hosting means upkeep, and the cloud product is still maturing some enterprise features. Verify current cloud pricing or evaluate the self-host option.
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Should you use Cal.com?
Use it if teams wanting customizable/self-hosted scheduling. Avoid it if non technical solo operators wanting a zero configuration Calendly replacement, because the self-hosted path needs server, backup and upgrade work.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹1,191/mo$12/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Cal.com is a commerce & operations / scheduling & appointments for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹1,191/mo for a GST-registered business ($12/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for teams wanting customizable/self-hosted scheduling, and a poor fit if non technical solo operators wanting a zero configuration Calendly replacement, because the self-hosted path needs server, backup and upgrade work.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
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
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹1,191
Cal.com advertises $12/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹1,191 a month (₹14,290/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹1,405 a month.
- Sticker price
- $12/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹1,191
- Registered per year
- ₹14,290
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹1,405
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Free for individuals (1 user). Teams from $12/user/mo; Organizations and Enterprise tiers add more (billed yearly), with Enterprise custom-quoted. Open-source self-host also free. USD. Confirm on vendor site.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Cal.com fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Cal.com compares
Against the 6 other appointment scheduling toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other appointment scheduling tools
Recorded for Cal.com and for at most a third of the 6 others we list.
- Custom subdomain
- Data residency
- Role based permissions
- Self hosting
- Self serve cancellation
- Booking analytics
- Booking links
- Developer API
Also in most alternatives
Recorded for at least half of the 6 others, and for Cal.com.
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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Audit my stackOverview
What is Cal.com?
Cal.com is an open-source scheduling infrastructure (a Calendly alternative) offering booking links, team scheduling, routing, and workflows, available as cloud or self-hosted with full customization and API access.
Best for
- Teams wanting customizable/self-hosted scheduling
- Developers needing a scheduling API
- Privacy-conscious orgs
Who should avoid it
- Non technical solo operators wanting a zero configuration Calendly replacement, because the self-hosted path needs server, backup and upgrade work
- Indian teams needing local invoicing, because seats are priced in USD and the pricing page shows no INR plan
What we verified about Cal.com
Read from Cal.com’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed57
- Webhook triggers
- webhooks fire when meetings are created, updated or cancelled
- Sso saml
- SAML single sign-on via identity providers is listed on higher tiers
- Self serve cancellation
- organizer and attendees cancel meetings using a secure link
- Self hosting
- the whole application can be self-hosted from the public repo
- Scim provisioning
- SCIM automatically creates, updates and removes user accounts
- Routing forms
- shared team pages and routing forms are named enterprise features
- Round robin scheduling
- distributes bookings across a team by availability, weights and priority
- Role based permissions
- RBAC controls who can create, manage and edit scheduling settings
- Remove vendor branding
- Cal.com logos and references can be removed on paid tiers
- Payment before booking
- Stripe and PayPal request payment upfront before a booking completes
- Mobile app
- mobile app and browser extensions listed under integrations
- Managed events
- admin-controlled event templates with lockable settings for team consistency
- Developer API
- Cal.com positions itself as scheduling infrastructure with API access
- Data residency choice
- US and EU hosting options are offered for data residency
- Custom subdomain
- booking pages can be hosted on yourcompany.cal.com subdomain
- Browser extension
- browser extension lets you schedule directly from the browser
- Booking links
- core product is shareable booking links tied to calendar availability
- Booking analytics
- Insights dashboard analyses booking trends, team workload and performance
- Attendee email verification
- attendees can be required to confirm email before booking finalises
- Attribute based routing
- meetings route dynamically using custom fields like region or role
- Automatic timezone detection
- pricing page lists automatic timezone detection and conflict checking
- Booker blocklist
- specific emails or domains can be blocked from booking
- Booking frequency limits
- limit how many times an event can be booked per day, week or month
- Booking requires confirmation
- requests can be reviewed and approved before being scheduled
- Buffer before after events
- buffers prevent back-to-back bookings around each meeting
- Collective events
- meetings where multiple team members attend together are supported
- Custom booking questions
- the questions attendees answer when booking are customisable
- Custom brand colors
- brand colour, logo and light/dark mode on booking pages
- Custom meeting locations
- define Zoom, Meet, phone or in-person as the meeting location
- Custom reply to email
- a custom reply-to address can be set for booking confirmations
- Dedicated database option
- enterprise can isolate org data in a dedicated database environment
- Domain wide delegation
- admins manage scheduling settings across all users in a company domain
- Double booking prevention
- multiple calendar sync exists specifically to prevent double bookings
- Dynamic group links
- combining usernames like cal.com/john+jane creates an on-the-fly collective link
- First slot only mode
- an event type can show only the earliest slot each day
- Fixed round robin
- book with a fixed host while rotating additional teammates from a pool
- Future booking window limit
- sets how far in advance people can book meetings
- Hide organizer email
- host email address can be kept private from attendees
- Meeting reassignment
- a scheduled meeting can be transferred to another team member
- Member attributes
- teammates can carry attributes such as location or department for routing
- Minimum notice window
- bookings can be required a set amount of time in advance
- Multilingual booking page
- meeting title and description translate for multi-language booking pages
- Multiple duration options
- one event type can offer 15, 30 or 60 minute lengths
- Private booking links
- invite-only links that are not publicly discoverable are listed
- Recurring events
- attendees can book repeating meetings such as weekly check-ins
- Redirect after booking
- attendees can be sent to a custom URL after booking completes
- Restriction schedule
- limits when specific event types can be booked by rule
- Round robin groups
- booking pools pair e.g. a sales rep and engineer on one call
- Seated events
- offer seats lets multiple people book the same slot for classes
- Self serve rescheduling
- attendees reschedule without back-and-forth emails per pricing page
- SMS and voice reminders
- enterprise page cites automated voice and SMS scheduling updates
- Time slot intervals
- slot increments configurable to 15, 30 or 60 minutes
- Total duration limits
- cap total minutes an event can be booked per period
- Unlimited calendar connections
- free plan connects unlimited calendars to sync availability
- Unlimited event types
- pricing page lists unlimited event types even on the free individual plan
- Unlimited sub teams
- parent team plus unlimited sub-teams is an Organizations/Enterprise feature
- Workflow automation
- custom workflows automate reminders, follow-ups and booking notifications
What people use it for7
- Run marketing for clients
- branding removal plus subdomain suits agencies reselling scheduling
- Capture and qualify leads
- routing forms and attribute routing match bookers to the right rep
- Reduce no-shows
- automated reminders are pitched as reducing no-shows
- Collect payment before booking
- Stripe and PayPal take payment before the slot is confirmed
- Book sales demos
- enterprise page frames it as closing deals faster with scheduling
- Take online bookings
- booking pages and links are meant to be embedded and shared
- Run group sessions
- offer seats supports group sessions or classes on one slot
Works with16
- Zoom
- Zoom is a supported conferencing integration
- Zoho calendar
- Zoho Calendar appears in the supported calendars list
- Zapier
- Zapier connects Cal.com to thousands of apps without code
- Stripe
- Stripe collects booking payments upfront
- Salesforce
- two-way sync of meetings and contacts plus CRM-based routing
- Paypal
- PayPal is listed alongside Stripe for booking payments
- Outlook
- Outlook is named in the calendar integrations list
- Okta
- Okta named as an example SAML identity provider
- Microsoft teams
- Microsoft Teams is a supported conferencing integration
- Make
- Make is listed next to Zapier for no-code automation
- Hubspot
- two-way HubSpot sync routes meetings by account ownership
- Google meet
- Google Meet is a supported conferencing integration
- Google calendar
- listed first among supported calendar integrations
- Apple calendar
- Apple Calendar is named in the calendar integrations list
- Azure ad
- Azure AD named as an example SAML identity provider
- Cal video
- Cal Video is Cal.com's own built-in conferencing option
Terms, compliance and how you buy25
- Soc2 certified
- site states SOC 2 Type II verified by annual independent audits
- Self hostable
- a team can run the same code the hosted product runs
- Open source
- the codebase is published on GitHub as open source
- Iso 27001 certified
- ISO 27001 is listed among the compliance commitments
- Gdpr compliant
- GDPR listed in the privacy-by-design compliance section
- Developer oriented
- API, webhooks and self-host path make it a developer-first choice
- Ccpa compliant
- CCPA appears alongside GDPR in the compliance stack
- Annual discount
- pricing page advertises save 25 percent on annual billing
- Agpl licensed
- our research notes the application is AGPL licensed
- Calendly alternative
- positioned explicitly as the open-source Calendly alternative
- Cloud or self host
- available both as a hosted cloud product and a self-hosted install
- Enterprise quote only
- the Enterprise tier shows custom pricing and needs sales contact
- Free forever individual plan
- the individual tier is labelled free forever on the pricing page
- Free tier is single user
- round robin, routing and analytics all need a paid plan
- Healthcare oriented tier
- enterprise page calls out healthcare and wellness as a segment
- Hipaa compliant plan
- Enterprise offers HIPAA compliance with a signed BAA
- No INR pricing
- our notes flag that Indian teams get no local invoicing or rupee plan
- Per seat pricing
- Teams is $12 per month per user and Organizations $28 per user
- Published seat pricing
- both team tiers show a number rather than requiring a sales call
- Self host licence 30 user minimum
- a paid self-hosting licence requires at least 30 users
- Self host needs ops work
- our notes warn the self-host path needs server, backup and upgrade work
- Slack connect support
- Slack Connect support channel is offered to enterprise customers
- Uptime sla
- enterprise page guarantees 99.9 percent uptime with a 99.99 option
- Usd billed
- seats are priced in US dollars with no INR plan shown
- White label on higher tier
- white labelling and SAML sit on Organizations at $28 per user
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Free for individuals (1 user). Teams from $12/user/mo; Organizations and Enterprise tiers add more (billed yearly), with Enterprise custom-quoted. Open-source self-host also free. USD. Confirm on vendor site.
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Does Cal.com give a GST invoice in India?
Cal.com does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Cal.com good for Indian small businesses?
Cal.com can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Cal.com have a free plan?
Cal.com lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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