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The best Calendly alternatives in 2027 are SavvyCal (best overall, $12/user/mo billed monthly), Cal.com (best free plan: Unlimited links and calendars, 1 user) and Cal.diy (best open source, MIT). Calendly itself starts at $12/seat/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 13 Nov 2026; 5 more are compared below, including 2 with a free plan and 2 open source.
SavvyCal, Acuity Scheduling and zcal are the closest paid rivals to Calendly's $12 Standard seat, Cal.com is the best-known free-plus-teams option, and Reclaim AI adds calendar planning. Cal.diy is the main open-source route. Only a few tools do exactly this job, so this list is shorter than most. Prices were read on 13 November 2026.
| Tool | Type | Starting price | Free plan limit | Best for | Cost for your team | Checked | |
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CalendlyThe tool you are replacing |
You are here | $12/seat/moStandard, $12 billed monthly or $10/mo billed yearly; Teams is $20 monthly or $16 yearly; Notetaker and Callie are offered with Standard and Teams |
1 event type, 1 calendar connection, 1-on-1 scheduling | Booking links for sales and recruiting calls | — | 13 Nov 2026 | Pricing ↗ |
SavvyCal Not yet reviewed by ZekaiBest overall |
Paid | $12/user/mo billed monthlyBasic, $12 billed monthly or $10/mo billed annually ($120/yr); Premium is $20 monthly or $200/yr |
No free plan | Team links and polls at an entry price | — | 13 Nov 2026 | Pricing ↗ |
Acuity Scheduling Not yet reviewed by Zekai |
Paid | $20/mo billed monthlyStarter (1 calendar), $20 billed monthly or $16/mo billed annually; Standard $34 monthly or $27 annually; Premium $69 monthly or $55 annually |
No free plan | Service businesses that sell appointments and packages | — | 13 Nov 2026 | Pricing ↗ |
zcal Not yet reviewed by ZekaiCheapest paid |
Free plan + paid | $10.50/user/mo billed monthlyPro, $10.50 billed monthly or $7/mo billed annually |
Unlimited links and calendars; groups up to 5 per slot | Free unlimited links for solo users | — | 13 Nov 2026 | Pricing ↗ |
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Free plan + paid | $16/user/mo billed monthlyTeams, $16 billed monthly or $12/mo billed yearly; Organizations $37 monthly or $28 yearly |
1 user, unlimited links and calendars, Stripe and PayPal payments | Unlimited event types free, teams paid | — | 13 Nov 2026 | Pricing ↗ |
 Reclaim AI Zekai score 9.0 |
Free plan + paid | $12/seat/mo billed monthlyStarter, $12 billed monthly or $10/mo billed yearly; Business $18 monthly or $15 yearly |
Lite: 1 user, 1 calendar sync, 1 scheduling link | Booking links plus automatic focus-time blocking | — | 13 Nov 2026 | Pricing ↗ |
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Open source | Free (self-hosted) |
No limit, self-hosted (MIT) | Self-hosted booking pages you fully control | $0 | 14 Nov 2026 | Code ↗ |
 Easy!Appointments Not yet reviewed by Zekai |
Open source | Free (self-hosted) |
No limit, self-hosted (GPL-3.0) | Self-hosted bookings for small service businesses | $0 | 14 Nov 2026 | Code ↗ |
 Rallly Not yet reviewed by Zekai |
Open source | Free (self-hosted) |
No limit, self-hosted (AGPL-3.0) | Group meeting polls, a Doodle-style flow | $0 | 14 Nov 2026 | Code ↗ |
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Claim your toolYes. Calendly's Free plan includes one event type, one calendar connection, one-on-one scheduling, a customizable booking page and the browser extension. Unlimited event types, multiple calendars, reminders, payments and HubSpot or Mailchimp connections need Standard at $12 per seat billed monthly. Notetaker and Callie are offered with Standard and Teams.
Source: Calendly pricing page, read 13 Nov 2026.
1 event type, 1 calendar connection, 1-on-1 scheduling
Standard, $12 billed monthly or $10/mo billed yearly; Teams is $20 monthly or $16 yearly; Notetaker and Callie are offered with Standard and Teams
Cal.com and zcal have the strongest free plans: both give unlimited booking links, where Calendly Free allows one event type and one calendar connection. Reclaim AI's Lite plan is free with one scheduling link. For no licence fee at all, Cal.diy and Easy!Appointments can be self-hosted, but you maintain the server.
Cal.diy is the open-source successor to the Cal.com codebase under the MIT licence, without Teams, Workflows or SSO and recommended by its README for personal use. Easy!Appointments is a GPL-3.0 PHP and MySQL booking tool, and Rallly (AGPL-3.0) runs Doodle-style date polls instead of booking pages. Few real open-source projects cover this job.
Calendly Standard is $12 per seat billed monthly or $10 billed yearly, and Teams is $20 or $16. SavvyCal Basic is $12 monthly with team links included, zcal Pro is $10.50 monthly, Cal.com Teams is $16 monthly, and Acuity starts at $20 per calendar. Reclaim AI Starter is $12 and focuses on calendar planning.
Pros and cons from the Zekai review of Cal.com · Verdict: Powerful, open-source scheduling.
Pros and cons from the Zekai review of Reclaim AI · Verdict: Intelligent Calendar Automation
Calendly's change log says Notetaker may be turned on automatically for some newly created accounts, with a setting to turn it off. (source)
Calendly's change log says Notetaker is in limited release and not available to all users, even though the pricing page lists it with Standard and Teams. (source)
The pricing page limits Free to one event type and one calendar connection, and lists Enterprise from $15k a year starting at 50 seats (page undated, read 13 November 2026). (source)
SavvyCal is the best overall Calendly alternative on this page ($12/user/mo billed monthly). For no cost, Cal.com has a free plan (1 user, unlimited links and calendars, Stripe and PayPal payments). To self-host, Cal.diy is open source (MIT).
Yes. Calendly has a free plan: 1 event type, 1 calendar connection, 1-on-1 scheduling. Paid plans start at $12/seat/mo, checked on 13 Nov 2026.
Yes. Cal.diy, Easy!Appointments, Rallly are open source and free to self-host. zcal, Cal.com, Reclaim AI have a free plan with limits, shown in the table.
zcal starts at $10.50/user/mo billed monthly, against $12/seat/mo for Calendly, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 13 Nov 2026.
If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 13 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is zcal $52.50/mo, SavvyCal $60/mo, Reclaim AI $60/mo, against Calendly $60/mo for Calendly. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size.
Basic includes round-robin and shared-availability team links, unlimited calendars across Google, Microsoft, iCloud and Fastmail, and group polls; Calendly keeps round robin on Teams at $20. Choose SavvyCal if you need round-robin or team links without stepping up to a $20-per-seat tier. Stay with Calendly if you want a free tier or Calendly's HubSpot, Mailchimp and Salesforce connectors.
The documented reasons are: Calendly's change log says Notetaker may be turned on automatically for some newly created accounts, with a setting to turn it off (13 Mar 2026); Calendly's change log says Notetaker is in limited release and not available to all users, even though the pricing page lists it with Standard and Teams (1 Apr 2026). Each is sourced in the section above.
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