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Calendly vs Cal.com
Calendly and Cal.com compared on what their own pages say, row by row — nothing about either in our words except a plain reading at the end.
Calendly and Cal.com, row by row
| Calendly | Cal.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | “One event type” — Free source | “Start scheduling for free, with no usage limits.” — Individuals, one user source |
| Accounts | “meeting invitees do not require an account or seat” source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$10 /seat/mo” — Standard, billed yearly source | “$12 per user/month” — Teams, billed yearly source |
| Meeting apps | “Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other video conferencing tools” source | “Integrate with 100+ apps” — Free source |
| Calendars | “One calendar connection” — Free; Standard connects several source | “Unlimited links & calendars” — Free source |
| AI notes and summaries | “Add Notetaker to supported Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings.” — an add-on to Standard and Teams source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Single sign-on | “Enable SSO & SAML” — Enterprise, which starts at $15k a year source | “SAML SSO and SCIM” — Organizations, $28 a user a month source |
| API | “Data deletion API” — Enterprise source | “Custom APIs” — Teams source |
Every cell is the company's own words, linked. Prices change — this is what each page said on 10 November 2026. Something changed? Tell us.
What the two pages add up to
- Calendly’s free plan allows one event type and one calendar connection; Cal.com’s free plan has no usage limits and unlimited links and calendars for one user.
- Calendly Standard is $10 a seat a month billed yearly; Cal.com Teams is $12 a user a month billed yearly.
- Single sign-on is on Calendly’s Enterprise plan and Cal.com’s Organizations plan.
Which matters for your meetings
Cal.com's free plan is the more generous on paper: no usage limits, unlimited links and calendars for one person. Calendly's free plan allows one event type and one calendar. On paid plans Calendly Standard costs a little less a seat than Cal.com Teams, and Calendly sells a notetaker as an add-on.
What that comes to, worked out
A consultant who offers a free 15-minute intro and a paid 60-minute session needs two kinds of booking. Calendly's free plan allows one event type, so the second means Standard at $10 a seat a month billed yearly, $120 a year. Cal.com's free plan has unlimited links for one person, so both fit. The same goes for calendars: someone who keeps a work and a personal calendar wants both checked for clashes, which Calendly's free plan, with one calendar connection, does not do and Cal.com's does. For a team of five on paid plans, the year comes to $600 on Calendly Standard and $720 on Cal.com Teams.
The sums use only the numbers quoted above. Yearly prices are the monthly figure times twelve.
Where Meetful is different from both
Meetful's booking link makes the video meeting the moment somebody books, with what they want to cover already first on its agenda, so there is no Zoom link to paste. The person booking never makes an account. When the call happens, every line is written down under the name of whoever said it, from their own microphone.
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