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  1. Software
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  3. Cal.com
Cal.com booking page embedded inline on a website, with event details, a month calendar and a list of available times

A booking page embedded on a website

Scheduling app with booking links, calendar sync, reminders, payments and team routing, free for individuals

from$12a month per user, billed yearly

Cal.com has a free plan and a 14-day free trial. Prices in US dollars as AdCal.com's pricing page showed them on 11 October 2026.

  • Web
  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • iPhone and iPad
  • Android
  • Chrome extension
  • Slack
  • API

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20% off your first 12 months of Cal.com

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New Cal.com customers who sign up through our link get 20% off for their first 12 months. It's applied automatically: no code needed.

What Cal.com does

Cal.com is a scheduling app that turns your availability into a booking link, checks your calendars for clashes and sends reminders. It suits freelancers, coaches, sales and support teams and larger companies with security needs. Individuals can use it free with unlimited event types and bookings. Teams costs $12 per user a month billed yearly or $16 monthly, and annual billing saves 25% on every paid plan.

  • Booking links and event types

    Each meeting type gets its own short link with set durations, locations, booking questions and limits such as minimum notice, buffers and daily caps. Links can be public, hidden or single-use private links.

  • Calendar sync and availability

    Cal.com checks every connected calendar, including Google, Outlook, Apple and Zoho, to avoid double bookings, detects the booker's time zone and supports several availability schedules with date overrides and holidays.

  • Team scheduling and routing

    Round-robin, collective and managed event types share bookings across a team. Routing forms send each booker to the right person using their answers, CRM ownership in Salesforce or HubSpot, or attributes such as region.

  • Workflows and reminders

    Workflows send emails, SMS and WhatsApp messages before or after bookings, cancellations and reschedules. The free plan gets templated workflows; custom ones need Teams.

  • Paid bookings

    Bookers can pay upfront through Stripe, PayPal or Cal Pay, which needs no separate account and supports cards and PayPal, with a refund rule set per event.

  • Embeds and developer tools

    Booking pages embed inline, as a pop-up or as a floating button on any site. Developers get webhooks, a REST API, OAuth, an MCP server for AI assistants and Atoms, ready-made booking components.

  • Cal Video and Cal.ai

    Cal Video is a built-in video call option, so no Zoom licence is needed. Cal.ai is an AI phone agent that calls people to book or confirm appointments, billed by the minute in credits.

  • Security and compliance

    Cal.com states ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA compliance. Organizations adds SAML single sign-on, SCIM provisioning and role-based permissions.

Works with

  • Google Calendar
  • Outlook
  • Apple Calendar
  • Zoho Calendar
  • Google Meet
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Zoom
  • Cal Video
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Pipedrive
  • Attio
  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • Zapier
  • Make
  • Slack
  • Telegram
  • Okta
  • Twilio
  • Microsoft 365
  • Google Workspace

How much Cal.com costs

Billing

Free

Free

For individuals, free forever

  • 1 user
  • Unlimited event types, calendars and meetings
  • Email and SMS notifications (SMS uses paid credits)
  • Templated workflows only
  • Stripe and PayPal payments
  • Two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync
  • Mobile app and browser extension
  • One-click import of Calendly events

Teams

$16a month per user

Small teams and start-ups; 14-day free trial

  • 1 team with shared availability
  • Round-robin scheduling
  • Managed and collective event types
  • Recurring events
  • Custom email and SMS workflows
  • Remove Cal.com branding
  • Routing forms and booking analytics
  • 750 messaging credits per member a month

Organizations

$37a month per user

Larger teams needing control and security; 14-day free trial

  • Unlimited sub-teams
  • Routing by custom variables
  • Company subdomain (yourcompany.cal.com)
  • SAML single sign-on and SCIM
  • SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance
  • Instant meetings
  • Domain-wide delegation and role-based permissions
  • 1,000 messaging credits per member a month

Enterprise

Contact sales

Annual pricing, through sales

  • Dedicated onboarding and engineering support
  • SLA and uptime guarantees
  • HRIS and directory integrations
  • Priority Slack and account support
  • Dedicated database
  • Unlimited SMS, WhatsApp and Cal.ai credits

Prices in US dollars; the page doesn't mention VAT. Yearly billing saves 25%. SMS outside the US and Canada costs credits at Twilio's rate plus an 80% fee. Open source projects can apply for sponsorship. Prices in US dollars, from AdCal.com's pricing page on 11 October 2026. Cal.com may charge VAT on top, and prices can change.

Cal.com pros and cons

Pros

  • Free plan has unlimited event types, calendars and bookings for one person
  • Teams costs $12 per user a month on yearly billing, with a 14-day free trial
  • Payments through Stripe, PayPal or Cal Pay are available on the free plan
  • Trustpilot reviewers (4.7 from 427) often praise fast support replies
  • Apps for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and four browsers
  • Cal.diy remains free under the MIT licence for self-hosting

Cons

  • Free plan allows only templated workflows; custom reminders need Teams
  • Prices are in US dollars only, with no VAT information on the pricing page
  • Texts to UK numbers use paid credits, while US and Canada texts are free on Teams
  • Seats are billed on the month's peak team size, not the end count
  • Commercial code went closed source in April 2026, upsetting some users
  • Reviewers report trouble with Microsoft Exchange 2019 calendars and Cal Pay withdrawals

Good for

  • Freelancers, tutors and coaches who want a free booking page with unlimited event types
  • Sales, support and hiring teams that need round-robin and routing forms
  • Businesses taking paid appointments through Stripe, PayPal or Cal Pay
  • Developers embedding scheduling into their own product through the API
  • Healthcare and regulated firms that need HIPAA, SSO and audit controls

Look elsewhere if

  • Teams that want UK pound pricing and VAT shown upfront
  • People who would rather an assistant arrange meetings over email than send a link
  • Anyone choosing it mainly as fully open-source software after the 2026 licence change
  • Firms relying on on-premises Microsoft Exchange calendars

What reviewers say about Cal.com

“The user interface is clean, intuitive, and visually appealing.”

“This definitely beats Calendly for the free version. My only concern is the billing and upgrade process.”

★★★★ · Trustpilot reviewer, United States, Trustpilot, 18 September 2026

“I would seriously think twice about relying on Cal Payments until these issues are properly sorted.”

★ · Trustpilot reviewer, United Kingdom, Trustpilot, 6 October 2026

What reviewers like

  • A clean, simple booking page that bookers find easy
  • A free plan that covers far more than most rivals' free tiers
  • Quick support replies, often started by an AI assistant
  • Wide calendar, video and CRM integrations, plus embeds
  • Flexible rules for availability, limits and routing

What reviewers complain about

  • Confusing billing, trial and upgrade steps
  • Microsoft Exchange and login problems
  • Payment and withdrawal issues with Cal Pay
  • The move away from open source in 2026
  • Occasional outages and slow replies on harder support cases

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Cal.com: what to know before you pay

How much does Cal.com cost in the UK?

The free plan costs nothing. Teams is $12 per user a month billed yearly or $16 monthly, Organizations is $28 or $37, and Enterprise is priced on request with annual billing.

The pricing page shows US dollars only and says nothing about VAT, so UK businesses should expect any tax to be worked out at checkout. Teams and Organizations both start with a 14-day free trial. Seats are billed on the highest number of team members during each billing period, so adding someone for a week and then removing them still counts as a seat for that month. Text message reminders are paid separately once you are outside the US and Canada: Teams includes 750 credits per member a month, worth $0.01 each, and UK texts are charged at Twilio's rate plus an 80% processing fee. Free accounts get no credits and have to buy them.

Is the Cal.com free plan enough?

For one person taking bookings, usually yes. The free plan has no limit on event types, connected calendars or meetings, and it includes payments, the mobile app and Salesforce and HubSpot sync.

The limits show up when a second person is involved or when you want automation. The free plan covers one user, keeps Cal.com branding on your booking page and only allows templated workflows, so custom reminder emails and follow-ups need Teams. Round-robin booking, collective events, routing forms and booking analytics are also Teams features. A Trustpilot reviewer described losing editing access to custom workflows after the policy changed to require a Teams plan.

Is Cal.com worth paying for?

For teams that share bookings, reviewers largely think so. Cal.com scores 4.7 from 427 reviews on Trustpilot and 4.8 from 86 on Product Hunt.

Reviewers most often praise the clean booking page, the number of calendar and video integrations and quick support replies, many of them handled first by an AI assistant. Complaints centre on Microsoft Exchange connections, occasional outages, a billing and upgrade process some find confusing, and recent problems with Cal Pay withdrawals. Teams at $12 a user suits small sales, support or hiring groups that need round-robin and routing. Organizations adds SAML single sign-on, SCIM, sub-teams and a company subdomain, which mostly matters to IT-managed firms.

Cal.com vs Calendly: which is better?

Cal.com gives individuals more for free and suits teams that want deep control over routing and their booking page; Calendly is the older, better-known name. Cal.com publishes its own comparison page against Calendly and imports Calendly event types in one click.

Reviewers on Product Hunt and Trustpilot often say Cal.com beats Calendly on its free plan, mainly because of unlimited event types and the built-in Cal Video. Two other rivals work differently. Howie is an AI assistant you copy into email threads to arrange meetings, which suits people who dislike sending booking links. Fillout is a form builder with scheduling built in, which suits teams that mostly collect information and book calls as a step in a form.

Is Cal.com still open source?

Only partly. In April 2026 Cal.com moved its commercial code to a closed repository and relaunched the free code as Cal.diy under the MIT licence, for self-hosting at your own risk.

Cal.diy keeps the core scheduling features but drops enterprise features such as single sign-on, organisation controls, workflows and analytics. Cal.com gave security as the reason, saying AI tools make it easier to find weaknesses in public code. Hosted customers keep the same accounts and plans. Some long-standing users on Product Hunt reacted badly to the change, so anyone choosing Cal.com mainly for open source should look at what Cal.diy includes first.

How do you get Cal.com cheaper?

Yearly billing is the main saving: it cuts Teams from $16 to $12 per user a month and Organizations from $37 to $28.

  • The free plan covers a single person indefinitely, so there is no need to pay until someone else joins.
  • The 14-day trial on Teams and Organizations lets a team test round-robin and routing before paying.
  • Removing leavers before a billing period starts avoids paying for seats that are no longer needed.
  • Open source projects that are non-commercial, or companies under $2 million in annual revenue, can apply for sponsorship in return for a Cal.com banner.
  • Email reminders cost nothing, while texts to UK numbers use credits.

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Questions about Cal.com

Are there any Cal.com discount codes?

We don't currently list a confirmed discount code. That doesn't mean the store has no promotions; check its website for current prices.

Can I cancel Cal.com at any time?

Paid plans are managed from billing settings, which open Stripe's customer portal where the subscription can be changed or cancelled. Cal.com's pricing page and help centre don't publish a refund policy, so it is worth asking support before paying for a year upfront.

Does Cal.com work with Outlook and Microsoft 365?

Yes. Cal.com connects to Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar and Zoho Calendar, and adds Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or Cal Video links. Some reviewers report trouble connecting older on-premises Microsoft Exchange 2019 calendars.

Can Cal.com store data in Europe?

Cal.com says it is GDPR, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliant, and lists US and EU hosting among its features. Its EU-hosted version, Cal.eu, keeps data within the EU but is on a waitlist and aimed at firms with at least 50 users.

Is there a Cal.com app for phones and desktops?

Yes. The Cal.com Companion app is free on iPhone and Android, with browser extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox and desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Can I take payments for bookings with Cal.com?

Yes, on every plan. Bookings can be paid through Stripe or PayPal, or through Cal Pay, Cal.com's own option processed by Whop, which charges 2.3% for cards and adds no commission of its own.

What does the Cal.ai phone agent cost?

Cal.ai, the AI agent that makes and takes scheduling calls, uses credits at 29 credits a minute, which is $0.29 a minute. Teams members get 750 credits a month and Organizations members 1,000.

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