11 Calendly Alternatives in 2026, Priced and Matched to the Job

Why people leave Calendly, and why your reason picks the tool

Calendly is the default scheduler, not the only one. People leave it for three reasons. The free plan allows a single event type, team pricing runs per host, and Calendly says it "does not currently comply with HIPAA, GLBA, or similar health and financial regulations" ^[1]. Each reason points to a different alternative, so the right replacement depends on which wall you hit. Each wall has a price, too. A second event type means Calendly Standard at $120 a year, team rotation means Teams at $192 per host per year, and health data cannot go on any Calendly plan at any price.

We started from the tools people search for next to Calendly and the rivals Calendly compares against on its blog. For each one we read the vendor's own pricing page from the United States on October 13, 2026, not third-party price lists. Where a page hid its amounts, we say so. Calendly Standard, the reference point throughout, costs $10 a seat a month billed annually ^[2], and Teams costs $16.

Acuity Scheduling: the pick for service businesses

Acuity is the alternative most people compare first, and Calendly's own comparison describes it as designed mainly for service-based solopreneurs such as stylists, coaches and massage therapists. It belongs to Squarespace and works with or without a Squarespace website. It is built around clients rather than prospects. It takes payments through Stripe, Square, PayPal or Venmo on every plan, supports deposits, tips, gift certificates and subscriptions, and adds an appointment waitlist on Standard.

Pricing is per account, not per seat ^[3]. Starter costs $16 a month billed annually or $20 monthly, Standard $27 or $34, and Premium $49 or $61, with one, up to six and up to 36 calendars. That structure is the whole argument. A six-person studio pays $324 a year on Standard billed annually, while six Calendly Teams seats cost $1,152, a difference of $828 a year. At full use, Premium's $588 a year works out to about $16 per calendar per year.

Acuity is thinner where Calendly is strongest. It has no routing forms in the Calendly sense, no Salesforce-style round robin for sales teams and fewer native CRM connections, and its AI is a booking chatbot on Premium. There is no free plan, only a seven-day trial, so a solo user pays at least $192 a year. Sales teams should keep looking. For the full head-to-head, read our Calendly vs Acuity comparison.

Cal.com: more for free, plus EU hosting

Cal.com is the closest like-for-like rival. Its free plan includes unlimited event types, calendar syncing, workflow automation, Stripe payments and its own video tool, which beats Calendly's single event type outright. It also offers a one-click import of Calendly events. One naming note: Cal.com now asks that the main product not be called open source, since the open-source edition is a separate project called Cal.diy, yet some of its pages still say otherwise.

The pricing page lists Teams at $12 per user a month billed yearly and Organizations at $28, with Enterprise on request ^[4]. Read the billing toggle carefully. The home page FAQ quotes Teams at $16, apparently the monthly rate, and the routing page quotes Organizations at $37. For five users on yearly billing, Teams costs $720 a year against $960 for five Calendly Teams seats, a saving of $240.

Compliance is where Cal.com pulls ahead. Its enterprise page offers a HIPAA-compliant Enterprise plan with a signed business associate agreement, and Organizations adds SAML SSO, SCIM and US or EU data hosting. It also runs its own MCP server and routes on Salesforce ownership like Calendly does. The weak side is the ecosystem. Calendly lists 100+ native integrations, while Cal.com leans on its app store, Zapier and Make.

TidyCal: one payment instead of a subscription

TidyCal is the anti-subscription option. Its free plan offers unlimited bookings, unlimited booking types and paid bookings, and it imports Calendly event types on every plan. TidyCal sells two one-time licenses through AppSumo, $29 for Individual Lifetime and $79 for Agency Lifetime, plus a Pro subscription at $12 a month or $99 a year that removes branding and adds a custom domain. For a solo coach who wants several session types and payments without a monthly bill, it is the cheapest route. The $29 license costs less than a quarter of one year of Calendly Standard billed monthly, which is $144.

The limits sit in the fine print. Free and lifetime plans charge a 1% platform fee on Stripe payments, on top of the processor's fee, and Pro drops it. On $10,000 of session payments a year, that fee adds $100: less than Calendly Standard at $120, but more than TidyCal Pro's $99. Calendly's comparison notes that TidyCal sends only two email reminders per meeting and has no mobile app or extension. Round robin and collective meetings exist only on Agency Lifetime and Pro, so large teams should look elsewhere.

YouCanBookMe and SavvyCal: when the booking page itself matters

YouCanBookMe

YouCanBookMe aims at small and midsize businesses that want booking pages to look like their own site. Its free plan gives one calendar connection and one booking page, much like Calendly Free, with YouCanBookMe branding. The rendered pricing page shows placeholder amounts, so we read the prices from the page script: Individual at $9 a month, Professional at $13 and Team at $18. Yearly billing saves 10% and two-year billing 20%. Professional adds six calendar connections and ten booking pages, and round robin sits on the Team plan. It connects to 7,000+ tools via Zapier, but Calendly's comparison stresses that it has no routing forms or meeting polls and accepts only Stripe.

SavvyCal

SavvyCal's signature feature lets the person booking see their own calendar on top of yours, which matters to founders and consultants who send links to busy people. Basic costs $10 a user a month and Premium $17, with two months off on yearly billing. Basic already includes unlimited calendars, unlimited links and team scheduling, which Calendly reserves for paid plans and Teams. Custom domains, delegation to an assistant and paid bookings require Premium. There is no permanent free plan.

Setmore: a free plan that covers a small team

Setmore is the only tool here whose free plan covers a small team: up to four users at $0. It is aimed at service businesses, with staff calendars, a booking page, payments through Stripe, Square or PayPal, and Tap to Pay. A four-person salon can run on it without paying. No Calendly plan allows that, since every Calendly host needs a seat.

Pro costs $5 a user a month on annual billing or $12 billed monthly. A five-person repair shop that needs text reminders and branding removal pays $300 a year on Pro billed annually, against $600 on Calendly Standard, and it would still need Calendly Teams, at $960, for rotating bookings. Setmore also sells HIPAA compliance through Setmore Health with a signed BAA. The limits are practical. Free sends one reminder and Pro two, Setmore counts every staff calendar as a user even without a login, and it lacks routing and deep CRM sync.

Sales tools: Chili Piper and HubSpot Meetings

Chili Piper

Chili Piper calls itself the inventor and clear leader of routing leads from web form to calendar. It qualifies, routes and books inbound demo requests in real time, with Salesforce and HubSpot at its core, account identification and SSO on the entry plan. It is a revenue team purchase. Routing and Scheduling starts at $1,250 a month with up to 15 seats included and $45 per seat after that, which is $15,000 a year, and monthly billing is not available. For 20 reps the entry plan costs $17,700 a year, while twenty Calendly Teams seats billed annually cost $3,840, a difference of $13,860. Even a 40% multi-year discount only brings the list price down to $9,000 a year.

HubSpot Meetings

HubSpot's scheduler is part of Sales Hub, and you can start with it for free, with no credit card. Bookings land directly in HubSpot contact records, which removes the integration step entirely. Calendly reaches the same records only through its native HubSpot integration. For a team that already runs on HubSpot CRM and only needs personal links and round robin, it may be all that is required.

Built-in and lightweight options

Google appointment schedules and Microsoft Bookings

Every Google account can publish a booking page from Calendar, though some features require an eligible Google Workspace or Google One subscription. Payments work through Stripe, and up to five reminders can be sent. It is basic by design. Schedules cannot be created in the mobile Calendar apps, cannot use resource calendars and have no routing. For office hours inside a Workspace company, it is good enough and already paid for. Microsoft Bookings plays the same role inside Microsoft 365. Calendly argues that Bookings connects to only one calendar and defaults to Microsoft Teams; Microsoft's own page did not load for us.

Reclaim, Book Like A Boss and zcal

Reclaim is an AI calendar that also sends scheduling links, not a full booking platform. Its free Lite plan includes one scheduling link, and Starter costs $10 a seat a month on yearly billing or $12 monthly, capped at ten seats. A ten-person team pays $1,200, exactly what ten Calendly Standard seats cost, but an eleventh hire means moving everyone to Business at $1,980 a year. Book Like A Boss turns a booking page into a small storefront, with products, upfront payments, donations and tips, and it takes no cut of sales. zcal calls itself the modern, free Calendly alternative, with unlimited links at no cost. It is young.

Picking by budget and by job

The cheapest route for one person and for five

For five people who each need a booking link, Setmore Pro on annual billing costs $300 a year, Cal.com Teams $720 and Calendly Teams $960. Acuity Standard covers up to six calendars for one $324 yearly price, the cheapest for a service business where staff do not need their own logins. Over three years the gap widens to $900, $2,160 and $2,880, so the cheapest option saves almost $2,000. Calendly's volume table lowers its price above 30 seats, but for teams of 30 or fewer it is the most expensive of these tools.

The best fit by job

Health data rules Calendly out. For a three-therapist practice the numbers favor Acuity, because Premium at $588 a year covers all three calendars and the BAA, while a per-user HIPAA tool would have to cost under $16.33 a month per therapist to match it. For payments, TidyCal takes Stripe and PayPal on its free plan with a 1% fee, Acuity takes four processors on every plan, and Calendly needs Standard but takes no platform fee. For group classes, Acuity is built for the job with packages and waitlists, while Calendly's group events have no waitlist. Agencies should look at TidyCal Agency Lifetime at $79 once or SavvyCal Premium for custom domains, which Calendly does not offer.

Switching without wasting a prepaid year

Moving off Calendly is mostly a matter of event types, links and integrations, because booked meetings stay in your calendar. Cal.com and TidyCal both import Calendly event types; elsewhere you rebuild them by hand, which takes minutes for a solo user and days for a large team. Time the switch to your renewal date. Calendly's Customer Terms say "all Fees are non-cancellable and non-refundable", and they add a renewal increase of the Consumer Price Index plus 3%. Every tool here renews automatically, so read each renewal clause before comparing prices.

A sensible plan for a ten-person team takes about two weeks. Rebuild event types in the new tool during week one, run both tools in parallel during week two, and switch every link on the renewal date, including email signatures, websites and CRM templates. Know what you give up. Leaving Calendly means losing its routing and CRM sync, its extensions in Gmail, Outlook and LinkedIn, and Notetaker recaps, which stay accessible only while the account exists. Keep a free account if you need that history. Five questions usually narrow the list to two tools:

• How many people host meetings, and do they need logins?
• Do you need routing, or only personal links?
• Do you take payments, and is a platform fee acceptable?
• Do you handle health data?
• Which CRM must bookings reach?

Where Calendly still wins

Calendly still wins on ecosystem and polish. It offers 100+ integrations, browser extensions and an Outlook add-in, and pairs routing natively with Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo and Pardot. A sales team connecting Salesforce, Gmail, LinkedIn and Zoom does it with native integrations, while most alternatives here would need Zapier for at least one connection. Its official MCP server works on any plan, including the free tier, and with Notetaker and Callie its AI layer is ahead of most rivals. Invitees know the interface already. The gaps are compliance and geography: no HIPAA, and data stored in U.S. data centers, while Cal.com lets you choose EU hosting. For a European team, that alone can rule Calendly out.

The bottom line

There is no single best Calendly alternative, only the best answer to your reason for leaving. Pick Acuity for service businesses with staff, Cal.com or TidyCal for more free event types, Setmore for a free small team, Chili Piper for enterprise inbound routing, and Google or HubSpot if you already pay for them. Stay with Calendly if your meetings are sales, recruiting or client calls that must reach Salesforce or HubSpot, or if you want AI recaps without another subscription. A five-seat team that switches to save $240 a year may lose more in setup time. Our Calendly pricing guide shows what staying would cost.