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The 9 closest of 16, each with its real monthly cost at 2 users and what it does that Cal.com does not. See all 17.
Zoho Bookings does everything we verified about Cal.com for $16 a month less at 2 users, $16 against $32. It is a price cut rather than an upgrade: on the two features checked against the vendors’ own pricing pages the two are level. The trade: Cal.com is built for open source you own and growing into a large team and Zoho Bookings is not, so this is a swap with a cost.
Monthly billing costs a third more than yearly, embedding is not in the plan comparison, and the AI phone agent (Cal.ai) is a separate product not priced on this page.
It runs $32 a month at 2 users with the add-ons it forces on you included. 11 of the 16 alternatives to Cal.com cost less than that.
Ranked by how much of what we record for Cal.com each platform also does. Zoho Bookings is the nearest, and it is $16 a month cheaper at 2 users. On every feature this site records, the two are level.
$16 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A service business or small team that wants payments, SMS reminders, round robin and a free single-user plan at one of the lowest per-user prices in the category.
Everything this site records for Cal.com is also recorded for these, and they cost less at 2 users. That is not the same as saying they are better: the last column is what Cal.com is built for that they are not, and for someone who needs that, the saving is not a saving.
| Platform | At 2 users | You save | What Cal.com does that it does not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zoho Bookings | $16 | $16 | open source you own and growing into a large team |
Prices are the real monthly cost at 2 users, or the equivalent size on whatever each one charges by, with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
$65 a month dearer$97 at 2,500 contacts
Booking inside the platform that already runs your CRM, funnels and SMS, with unlimited users and calendars at one flat price.
$8 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A sales or customer-facing team that wants the booking link everyone already recognises, with round robin and lead routing on the Teams plan.
$4 a month dearer$0 at 1 user
A solo professional or small team that wants a heavily customisable booking page with payments and video links on a flat price, and a clear step up to round robin when the team grows.
$8 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A sales or service team that wants routing forms, round robin and CRM owner assignment, with a free single-user tier to start on.
$20 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A solo operator or small agency who wants a working booking link with payments for nothing, or for one payment of $29 to $79, and never a per-seat bill.
$8 a month cheaper$12 at 1 user
Individuals and small teams who send a lot of links and want the recipient's experience (calendar overlay, ranked availability) to feel considerate rather than pushy.
$2 a month dearer$20 at 1 user
A service business (salon, clinic, coach, trainer) booking paid appointments for a few staff, where deposits, intake forms, packages and reminders matter more than team routing.
$32 a month cheaper$0 at 1 user
A small service business or team that wants a free booking page with payments and classes for up to four people, and the cheapest paid seat in the class once it pays yearly.
A solo user who wants a genuinely free, full-featured booking link, or a technical team that wants round robin and routing and the option to self-host the open-source code.
On this site it is the pick for open source you own, a free plan that works and growing into a large team. If that is you, read the savings above and then ignore them.
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
Zoho Bookings. It is $16 a month cheaper at the size we compare on and gives up nothing we verify, though you should read why it exists before swapping: no two of these do exactly the same job.
Zoho Bookings is cheaper and level with Cal.com on every feature we verify. Nothing here is strictly better: each one exists to do a slightly different job.
Cal.com is free at 1 user, $32 a month at 2 users and $160 at 10 users, read off their own pricing page and re-checked every week.
Monthly billing costs a third more than yearly, embedding is not in the plan comparison, and the AI phone agent (Cal.ai) is a separate product not priced on this page.
We compare 16 of them here, every one priced at the same size off its own pricing page, and the whole list of 17 is on the scheduling page.
Should yours be on this list? If you make scheduling and appointment booking tools and it is not compared here, ask to be shortlisted. Listings are free and cannot be bought.
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a price that does not move with users and a free plan. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other 14 are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
This page compares everything to Cal.com. The shortlist asks 6 questions about what people book with you and how many calendars there are, and gives you four picks priced at your own team size, which is a better question than “what is like the one I already have”.
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