Six months ago, our original comparison made Cal.com's pitch simple: open source, free to self-host, and close to feature parity with Calendly. That pitch no longer holds. On April 14, 2026, Cal.com announced it was going closed source, moving its production code into a private repository. The public code now lives on as Cal.diy, under an MIT license, with the enterprise features stripped out.
SavvyCal also cut its prices, and Calendly put a hard number on its Enterprise tier. If you picked a scheduling tool based on our March post, some of the reasoning has changed. Here's where the three stand now.
Short answer: Sales teams that route inbound leads into Salesforce should still buy Calendly Teams at $16 per seat. Individuals and small teams who care about the booking experience should pick SavvyCal, now from $10 per user. Cal.com's cloud plans are still good value, but don't choose it for self-hosting anymore unless you're comfortable running a community fork with no enterprise features.
What changed since March
Cal.com went closed source. Its stated reason is security. In its announcement, Cal.com argues that AI tools can now be pointed at a public codebase and systematically scan it for vulnerabilities, and it decided that risk to customer data was too high. I have mixed feelings about that argument. Security through obscurity has a poor track record, and plenty of critical open source software stays secure in public. But Cal.com stores calendars, contact details and meeting links for a lot of companies. I understand why a vendor in that position would rather not hand attackers the source.
What matters for buyers is the practical effect. The Cal.diy repository describes itself as a fork of Cal.com "with all enterprise/commercial code removed." Teams, Organizations, Insights, Workflows and SSO/SAML are gone. The README says Cal.diy is "strictly recommended for personal, non-production use" and tells commercial users to use Cal.com instead. So "self-host Cal.com for free with the full feature set" is no longer an option.
SavvyCal got cheaper. In March we listed it at $12 and $20 per user. The plans are now Basic and Premium, at $10 and $17 per user per month.
Calendly published an Enterprise floor. Enterprise now starts at $15,000 a year with a 50-seat minimum.
Pricing in October 2026
| Calendly | SavvyCal | Cal.com (cloud) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Yes: one event type, one calendar connection | No free plan; free to try, 30-day money-back guarantee | Yes: one user, unlimited event types and calendars |
| Entry paid | Standard: $10/seat/mo | Basic: $10/user/mo | Teams: $12/user/mo |
| Upper tier | Teams: $16/seat/mo | Premium: $17/user/mo | Organizations: $28/user/mo |
| Enterprise | From $15k/yr, 50-seat minimum | None listed | Custom |
| SSO | Add-on on Teams; SSO & SAML on Enterprise | Not listed | SAML SSO and SCIM on Organizations |
Sources: Calendly pricing (yearly billing, save up to 20%), SavvyCal pricing (annual billing saves two months), Cal.com pricing (yearly billing, save 25%). All checked October 3, 2026.
Cal.com's free plan is the most generous of the three by a distance. One user gets unlimited event types and calendars, Stripe and PayPal payments, and two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync. Calendly's free plan gives you a single event type, which is really a trial. SavvyCal doesn't have a permanent free tier at all.
What a team actually pays
Take a 10-person sales team that needs shared team scheduling:
- ▸Calendly Teams: $16 x 10 = $160/month, $1,920/year
- ▸Cal.com Teams: $12 x 10 = $120/month, $1,440/year
- ▸SavvyCal Basic (includes team scheduling): $10 x 10 = $100/month, $1,200/year
That's a $720 annual gap between cheapest and most expensive. For a sales team, that's noise. If Calendly's Salesforce routing books one extra qualified meeting a quarter, it has paid for itself. Price shouldn't decide this one. Integrations and the experience for the person booking should.
At larger scale the math shifts. Calendly's $15,000 Enterprise minimum works out to $25 per seat per month at 50 seats. You only need it for SSO and SAML without the add-on, domain control, audit logs and the data deletion API. Cal.com's Organizations plan at $28 per user bundles SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning and SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance with no seat minimum. For a 20-person team that needs SSO and a clean compliance story, Cal.com Organizations at $560 a month is a better deal than buying into Calendly Enterprise.
Calendly: still the safe sales pick
Calendly's advantage is the same as it was in March. Everyone has seen a Calendly link, the Teams plan handles round-robin and lead routing well, and the Salesforce, Marketo and Pardot connections are mature. Enterprise adds routing with Salesforce lookup and a Microsoft Dynamics connection, which matters if your CRM team has opinions.
The downsides are cost and upsell pressure. AI notetaking and the Callie assistant are add-ons on top of seat prices. SSO is an add-on even on Teams, and real SAML with audit logging means Enterprise. That's a familiar pattern: security features held back for the expensive tier. If your security team insists on SSO for every SaaS app (mine would), budget for it from the start.
SavvyCal: the best experience for the person booking
SavvyCal's calendar overlay is still the feature no one else matches. The person you send a link to can overlay their own calendar on your availability, so they see their conflicts without switching tabs. It's a small thing that removes the most annoying part of scheduling links.
The price cut makes it easier to recommend. Basic at $10 covers unlimited calendars, unlimited links and team scheduling. Premium at $17 adds custom domains, delegated access for an assistant, and paid bookings through Stripe. Meeting polls, frequency limits and clustered meetings round it out.
Two caveats. There's no free plan, just a free trial backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. And SavvyCal doesn't list SSO or compliance certifications on its pricing page. That's fine for a consultant or a five-person agency. It's a problem the moment a procurement questionnaire arrives.
Cal.com: good value, different reason
Cal.com is still worth buying. The cloud product didn't change with the license switch, and the free plan alone beats Calendly's Standard tier on features for a solo user. Teams at $12 includes round-robin, routing forms, managed event types and analytics, and lets you remove Cal.com branding.
What's gone is the self-hosting argument. If you self-host an older open source Cal.com build, you're running code that will no longer get updates from Cal.com's private codebase. Plan your move now: to Cal.com cloud, to Cal.diy with its reduced feature set, or to another tool. Don't leave a scheduling system that holds customer contact data running on an abandoned branch.
For regulated teams, Cal.com Organizations is the strongest compliance story here at a published price: SAML SSO, SCIM, SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 for $28 a user.
Who should pick which
Pick Calendly if you run inbound sales on Salesforce or Marketo and need dependable routing and round-robin. Teams at $16 is the plan most buyers want. If you're also weighing Acuity for client bookings and payments, our Acuity Scheduling vs Calendly comparison covers that decision.
Pick SavvyCal if you're an individual or small team, your bookings are with clients or partners rather than leads, and you want the nicest experience for the person on the other end. Basic at $10 is the best value here for that use case.
Pick Cal.com if you want the strongest free plan, need SSO and compliance certifications without Calendly's $15,000 floor, or work in healthcare and need HIPAA coverage. Use the cloud version.
Skip self-hosted Cal.diy for anything business-critical. Its own README says not to use it in production, and I'd take them at their word.
My pick for a typical 10 to 50-person company: Cal.com Teams on the cloud, moving up to Organizations once SSO becomes a requirement. Its free plan is far stronger than Calendly's, Teams costs $4 a seat less than Calendly Teams, and it has the clearest security and compliance offering of the three. Sales-led teams living in Salesforce are the exception. For them, Calendly is still worth the extra $4 a seat.