The best Calendly alternative for most people is Cal.com: its free plan has unlimited event types and calendars where Calendly Free allows one of each, and team seats cost $12 a user a month billed yearly against Calendly Teams at $16. SavvyCal is best for the booking experience, because invitees can overlay their own calendar on your open times ($10 a user billed yearly, no free plan). Acuity Scheduling is best for service businesses that book clients, with intake forms, payments and packages, priced per calendar from $16 a month billed yearly.
Best Calendly alternatives in 2026
Cal.com
Free plan with unlimited event types, calendars and 100+ integrations, plus one-click import of your Calendly event types. Teams is $12 a user a month billed yearly with round robin and routing forms; Organizations ($28) adds SSO and SCIM. No longer open source since April 2026.
SavvyCal
Invitees overlay their own calendar on your availability, and you can rank preferred times and protect focus blocks. Round robin, polls and workflows from Basic at $10 a user billed yearly; Premium ($17) adds your own domain and Stripe payments. No free plan, 30-day money-back guarantee.
Acuity Scheduling
Client booking with intake forms, payments (Stripe, Square, PayPal, Venmo) and reminders, priced per calendar instead of per user: $16 a month billed yearly for 1 calendar, $27 for up to 6, $55 for up to 36. Packages, memberships and waitlists from Standard.
Questions buyers ask
What is the best alternative to Calendly?
Cal.com for most people: a free plan with unlimited event types and calendars, and team seats at $12 a user a month billed yearly against Calendly's $16. SavvyCal if the experience of the people you invite matters most, and Acuity Scheduling if you run a service business booking clients with forms and payments.
Is there a free Calendly alternative?
Yes. Cal.com's free plan has no usage limits for one user: unlimited event types and calendars, payments and CRM sync, where Calendly Free allows one event type and one calendar connection. Google Calendar appointment schedules are also free with a personal Google account, limited to a single booking page; more booking pages, payments and email verification need a paid Google Workspace or Google One plan. SavvyCal and Acuity have no free plan.
Is Cal.com still open source?
Not the main product. In April 2026 Cal.com moved its commercial code to a private repository, citing the security risk of AI tools scanning public code for vulnerabilities. The public code lives on as Cal.diy, an MIT-licensed community edition for self-hosting that removes Teams, Organizations, Insights, Workflows and SSO, and that Cal.com recommends for personal, non-production use only. The hosted Cal.com free plan is unaffected.
Calendly vs Cal.com: which is better?
Cal.com for price and flexibility: a fuller free plan, cheaper team seats ($12 against $16 a user billed yearly) and an API built for developers embedding scheduling. Calendly for polish and sales teams: a larger integration catalog, routing tied to Salesforce on Enterprise, and an optional notetaker and email scheduling assistant in one product.
What is the best Calendly alternative for small businesses that book clients?
Acuity Scheduling. Clients pick a service, fill in an intake form and pay when they book, and it handles reminders, packages and memberships. It is priced per calendar, so a business with up to 6 staff calendars pays $27 a month billed yearly in total, not per user. If you only book internal or sales meetings, Cal.com or SavvyCal fit better.
What about Microsoft Bookings, TidyCal and Zoho Bookings?
Microsoft Bookings is included with many Microsoft 365 business plans, so it is the natural pick if your company already runs on Outlook and Teams. TidyCal is a simple booking link sold for a one-time fee instead of a subscription. Zoho Bookings fits companies already on Zoho CRM. All three are narrower than Cal.com or Calendly; we have not reviewed them in depth yet.
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