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Cal.com Review

Scheduling infrastructure that started open source, now closed, with team and org-wide booking built in

Pricing verified July 7, 2026·Visit Cal.com
Category
Meeting Scheduling
Starting price
$12/seat/mo
Free option
Yes
Last update
June 2026

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What is Cal.com?

Cal.com is a scheduling tool for booking meetings, similar in shape to Calendly, built to also work as scheduling infrastructure for larger companies. A single person can use the free plan to take bookings off one calendar. Teams add round-robin routing, collective event types, and routing forms; organizations add sub-teams, SSO, and compliance certifications.

Cal.com ran as an open source project for five years before going closed source in April 2026, a move the company attributed to AI-assisted vulnerability scanning. A community fork, Cal.diy, continues as the open option for people who want to self-host.

The product ships fast. Cal.com pushes numbered releases with real changelogs, and the June 2026 release (v6.6) reworked the interface and added a live preview when setting up event types.

Who it's for

  • Founders and small teams that want a free single-user scheduling link with no seat cost
  • Companies that need round-robin or collective booking across a sales or support team
  • Organizations that want SSO, SCIM, and compliance certifications without paying enterprise sales prices for the base plan

Who should look elsewhere

  • Teams that specifically want an open source, self-hostable tool with no vendor lock-in, since Cal.com is now closed source
  • Anyone budgeting a flat monthly number who also plans to use Cal.ai, which bills per minute on top of the seat price

Pros

  • + Actual per-seat prices are on the pricing page, no contact-sales wall until Enterprise
  • + Free plan is unlimited on event types and calendars, not a time-limited trial
  • + Ships frequent, documented product updates with real changelogs
  • + Round-robin, routing forms, and Salesforce/HubSpot sync are available well below Enterprise pricing

Cons

  • Went closed source in April 2026 after years of marketing itself as the open source Calendly, which upset some of its original user base
  • Multiple users report slow support response times and an AI-first support chat that doesn't always escalate to a human
  • Cal.ai and other add-ons bill separately by usage, so the total cost can run past the advertised seat price
  • Organizations plan jumps to $28/seat/month, more than double the Teams price, for SSO and compliance features many buyers need earlier than Cal.com's tiering assumes

Cal.com pricing

Pricing: Partly public.Entry pricing is published. Higher or enterprise tiers are quote-only.
Starting price
$12/seat/mo
Billing model
per-seat
Free option
Yes
Vs category
Mid-range

What you pay for

Cal.com publishes real per-seat prices for everyone below Enterprise, so you don't have to talk to sales to know what a Teams or Organizations plan costs. The free plan is a genuine single-user tier, not a trial. Add-ons like the Cal.ai phone agent bill separately by usage, so a team leaning on those features pays more than the listed seat price suggests.

At about $12/month to start, it sits mid-pack on price in Meeting Scheduling.

PlanPriceHighlights
FreeFree1 user · Unlimited event types and calendars · Email and SMS notifications · 100+ app integrations · Stripe and PayPal payments · Two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync
Teams$12/seat/moEverything in Free, plus one team · Round-robin scheduling · Managed and collective event types · Recurring events · Removes Cal.com branding · Routing forms · Booking analytics
Organizations$28/seat/moEverything in Teams, plus unlimited sub-teams · Company subdomain (yourcompany.cal.com) · SAML SSO and SCIM · SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001 compliance · Role-based permissions
EnterpriseCustomEverything in Organizations, plus dedicated onboarding and engineering support · SLA and uptime guarantees · HRIS and directory integrations · Dedicated database

Prices shown are per user per month billed annually, which Cal.com says saves 25% versus monthly. Enterprise is quote-only. Cal.ai, the AI phone agent add-on, bills separately at $0.29/minute after bundled credits run out.

Pricing verified July 7, 2026 · source

How Cal.com's pricing compares

Cal.com next to its closest alternatives on entry price, billing, and whether pricing is public.

ToolStarting priceBillingFree optionPricing disclosed
Cal.com$12/seat/moper-seatYesPartly public
Calendly$10/seat/moper-seatYesPartly public
Vimcal$20/seat/moper-seatYesPartly public
SavvyCal$10/seat/moper-seatNoPublic
Reclaim$10/seat/moper-seatYesPublic
Motion$29/seat/moper-seatTrial (Free trial on paid plans (exact length not disclosed on the pricing page))Public
Chili PiperCustom / quotequote-onlyNoPartly public

Is Cal.com still actively developed?

Last significant update: June 2026. Cal.com v6.6 migrated the whole product to a new design system, redesigned the event type settings page with a live booker preview, added drag-and-drop for event types, workflows, and routing forms, and introduced isolated availability so one event type can run on its own schedule.

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Cal.com FAQ

Is Cal.com free?+

Yes, for one user. The free plan has no seat cost and includes unlimited event types and calendars, but team features like round-robin scheduling start on the $12/seat/month Teams plan.

Is Cal.com still open source?+

No. Cal.com went closed source in April 2026, citing AI-assisted vulnerability scanning as the reason. A community fork called Cal.diy continues as an open source option.

What does Cal.com's Organizations plan add over Teams?+

Organizations ($28/seat/month annually) adds unlimited sub-teams, a company subdomain, SAML SSO and SCIM, and SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 compliance checks.