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Calendly vs Cal.com
Calendly is the dominant scheduler. Cal.com is the open-source challenger that has reached genuine feature parity on the cloud plan — and offers a free self-host option on top.
If you're paying Calendly for two or more seats, this comparison is a question of how much you value polish over portability.
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Pricing comparison
| Tool | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Calendly Teams | $20/user/mo | Includes routing, workflows, collective events. |
| Cal.com Teams (cloud) | $15/user/mo | Round-robin, collective, managed events, workflows. |
| Cal.com self-hosted | $0 (your hosting) | MIT-licensed. ~$10/mo VPS comfortably handles a 10-person team. |
Who should switch
- ✓Teams paying Calendly Teams for 5+ users.
- ✓Engineering-led orgs that want scheduling on their own infra.
- ✓EU teams that prefer EU-hosted scheduling for data residency.
Who should not switch
- ·Sales teams with elaborate Calendly routing rules wired to Salesforce or HubSpot.
- ·Anyone allergic to small UI papercuts during migration.
- ·Enterprises with strict SCIM/audit-log requirements (Cal.com supports both, but Calendly's enterprise tooling is more mature).
Savings math
- Calendly Teams for 10 seats: $200/mo = $2,400/yr.
- Cal.com cloud Teams for 10 seats: $150/mo = $1,800/yr. Saving: $600/yr (25%).
- Cal.com self-hosted for 10 seats: ~$10/mo infra ≈ $120/yr. Saving: $2,280/yr (95%).
- Even a 2-person team saves $120/yr on Cal.com cloud vs Calendly Teams.
Caveats
- !Cal.com's integrations catalogue is smaller — check yours before migrating.
- !Workflows in Cal.com are powerful but the UI is less intuitive than Calendly's.
- !Self-hosting means uptime, SMTP, and backups are your problem.
Final verdict
Switch to Cal.com cloud if you have 2+ seats. Self-host only if you already run other internal services on a VPS.
Pricing checked June 15, 2026. We re-verify every comparison page on a rolling basis.
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