by Calendly LLCScheduling and booking software
Per-seat scheduling with round robin, routing forms and CRM routing on Teams at $16 per seat billed yearly, and a free plan for one event type.
Booking links with round robin, routing forms and CRM routing for sales and recruiting teams, backed by Calendly’s own SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001.
Standard, at $10 per seat a month billed yearly, gives each user unlimited event types, six calendar connections, group and collective meetings, reminders and workflows, Stripe and PayPal payments and webhooks. Teams ($16) adds round robin, routing forms that send qualified leads to the right teammate, admin-managed event types, and Salesforce and Marketo, so a sales or recruiting team does not build that routing itself. The security page lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, CSA STAR, PCI and ISO/IEC 27001.
Against 3 other products we reviewed in Scheduling and booking software: what you pay for with each, the five access facts, the plan limits we recorded and each review's bottom line. The note under the table says how each one was checked.
| Metric | Calendly | Cal.com | Zoho Bookings | Acuity Scheduling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Saves engineering timeBooking links with round robin, routing forms and CRM routing for sales and recruiting teams, backed by Calendly’s own SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001. | Worth the priceA free plan that already takes paid bookings, team routing and round robin from $12 per user, and SOC 2, ISO 27001 and a HIPAA BAA with a published price. | Worth the priceRound robin and collective team booking from $6 per user, backed by Zoho’s SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 audits and connected to Zoho CRM and other Zoho apps. | Saves engineering timeClient self-booking with payments, intake forms, packages and memberships for a service business, priced per account rather than per staff member. |
| Overall score | 6.9 | 8.3Best | 7.0 | 5.0 |
| Free option | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan | 7-day free trial |
| Card to start | –Not measured | –Not measured | No card needed | No card needed |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $10/seat/mo | $12/user/mo | $6/user/mo | $16/mo |
| Pricing model | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat | Tiered |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing unit | Per seat per month; invitees need no seat | Per user per month; text and WhatsApp messages use credits | Per user per month; extra workspaces and resources as add-ons | Per account, by number of calendars (staff or locations) |
| Free option | Free plan (1 event type, 1 calendar); 14-day Teams Plus trial for new users | Free plan for 1 user (unlimited event types and calendars, payments); 14-day trial of Teams and Organizations | Free plan for 1 user (1 event type, 1 calendar); 15-day Premium trial, no card | No free plan; 7-day trial, no card (14 days when added to a Squarespace site) |
| Reference scenario (3 hosts, annual) | $48/mo on Teams ($16 × 3), computed | $36/mo on Teams ($12 × 3), computed | $18/mo on Basic ($6 × 3), computed | $27/mo on Standard (up to 6 calendars), computed |
| Month-to-month price | $20 per seat on Teams ($12 Standard) | $16 per user on Teams ($37 Organizations) | $8 per user on Basic ($12 Premium) | $34 on Standard ($20 / $34 / $69 for the three plans) |
| Round robin from | Teams ($16 per seat, billed yearly) | Teams ($12 per user, billed yearly) | Basic ($6 per user, billed yearly) | Standard ($27 a month billed annually), with two or more calendars |
| Payments and SMS reminders | Stripe and PayPal, and text reminders, from Standard | Stripe and PayPal on every plan; SMS by credits, 750 per member a month on Teams | Payments and SMS through your own provider on Premium ($9) | Stripe, Square, PayPal and Venmo on every plan; text reminders from Standard |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 | SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 (security page) | SOC 2 Type II report and ISO 27001 certificate (security page) | SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 for Zoho cloud services | Not stated on the pages we read |
| HIPAA BAA | Not offered; the help center says Calendly is not designed for HIPAA | $300/mo below 15 Organizations users; included from 15 users and on Enterprise | BAA template on request from Zoho legal; HIPAA data masking on Premium | Premium ($55), signed in the app |
| EU data hosting | Not offered; the DPA says processing occurs in the US | Cal.eu for Enterprise, at least 50 users, by waitlist | EU data centers (Amsterdam, Dublin), chosen by sign-up country | Not offered; Squarespace stores data in US data centers |
| SSO | SAML as a Teams add-on (price not published) or on Enterprise | SAML and SCIM on Organizations ($28 per user, billed yearly) | SAML SSO stated in a buyer’s guide; plan not named | Not listed |
| API and export | API on every plan; webhooks and meeting CSV export from Standard | Webhooks on every plan; API v2; Insights CSV download from Teams | API on every plan; appointments export as CSV or XLSX on every plan | Webhooks and CSV export on every plan; API on Premium |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Calendly is a full-featured scheduler for sales and recruiting teams, with routing, round robin and CRM integrations on Teams and audits in its own name. It costs more per host than the other per-user tools here and offers no HIPAA BAA or EU hosting. | From its public pages, Cal.com gives the most for the money here: a usable free plan, team routing from $12 per user and audits in its own name. SSO and audit logs start on Organizations, text messages run on credits, and a few pages place HIPAA and EU hosting differently. | From its public pages, Zoho Bookings is the lowest-cost way here to give a 3-host team round robin and collective booking, with Zoho’s audits and EU hosting behind it. Payments, text messages, routing forms and the audit log sit on Premium, and the plan for SSO is not stated. | From its public pages, Acuity Scheduling is built for service businesses: client booking with payments, intake forms and packages at one account price, and a HIPAA BAA on Premium. It lists no routing forms, collective meetings, SSO or audit reports. |
Evidence: Calendly: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Cal.com: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Zoho Bookings: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Acuity Scheduling: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Review from public pages
Written from Calendly's public pages (pricing, security or privacy, and docs) as read on Oct 16, 2026. We did not sign up, and no hands-on run is published yet.
We read Calendly's pricing page with its plan comparison and FAQ, the security page, the Customer Terms and Conditions, the Data Processing Addendum, the newsroom media kit and its brand guidelines, and help center articles on billing, SAML SSO, SCIM, the activity log, managed events, routing, round robin, collective events, Stripe payments, text reminders, workflows, webhooks, the API, branding, tracking and reporting, and AI at Calendly on Oct 16, 2026; we did not sign up, start a trial or call the API for this review. The pricing page shows yearly prices by default; the month-to-month prices ($12 and $20) are in its monthly view.
The pricing page is detailed: four plans, Plus versions of Standard and Teams with the Notetaker and Callie, and a comparison table that marks each feature by plan. Each help article names the plans it applies to, which places round robin on Teams, webhooks and text reminders on Standard, and SCIM and the activity log on Enterprise.
A few points are worth knowing. SAML SSO is an add-on on Teams, but no page we read gives its price. The billing toggle says "Save up to 20%", while Standard Plus and Teams Plus show 25% savings. The Customer Terms say fees are non-refundable and that a renewal may include a price increase of CPI plus 3% unless Calendly gives notice of a different rate. Text reminders cannot be sent during the trial.
Teams ($16 per seat billed yearly) combines round robin, routing forms, admin-managed event types and Salesforce and Marketo.
vs Zoho Bookings: SavvyCal and Acuity Scheduling list no routing forms; Zoho Bookings puts them on Premium.
HubSpot, Mailchimp, Zapier, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Stripe and PayPal all come with Standard ($10 per seat billed yearly).
The security page lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, CSA STAR, PCI and ISO/IEC 27001.
vs SavvyCal: SavvyCal says it does not hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001; the Acuity and Squarespace pages we read name neither.
The plan table lists 24/7 email support on every plan, 24/7 chat support from Standard and phone support on Enterprise.
The API overview lists all plans, the Free plan included; webhooks start on Standard.
The AI at Calendly help article says Calendly is not currently designed for HIPAA compliance, that protected health information should not be submitted, and that a BAA is therefore not applicable.
Workaround: Keep health details out of booking questions and notifications.
SAML SSO needs the SSO add-on on Teams or Teams Plus, or Enterprise; the add-on has no published price. SCIM, the activity (audit) log and domain control are on Enterprise.
Workaround: Enterprise publishes a starting price: $15,000 a year for at least 50 seats.
Standard ($10) includes collective and group meetings but not round robin, so spreading bookings across 3 hosts costs $48 a month billed yearly on Teams (computed).
Workaround: New users start with a 14-day trial of Teams Plus, so round robin and routing can be tried first.
The Customer Terms say fees are non-refundable, plan downgrades and seat reductions take effect at the end of the term, and renewals may include a CPI plus 3% increase.
Workaround: Month-to-month prices are published for Standard and Teams.
Calendly bills each seat per month; invitees need no seat. Yearly billing is 17% below monthly on Standard and 20% on Teams (the page’s labels). For our scenario, 3 hosts on Teams cost 3 × $16 = $48 a month billed yearly, or 3 × $20 = $60 month to month (computed), before tax. That covers round robin, routing forms, managed event types, Salesforce and Marketo, plus everything in Standard. Costs rise with Teams Plus ($24 per seat billed yearly, $32 monthly) for the Notetaker, Callie and advanced admin controls; with the SSO add-on, whose price is not published; and with Enterprise, from $15,000 a year for at least 50 seats, for SCIM, the audit log and domain control. Payment by invoice is offered from $5,000 a year on Standard or Teams.
Meeting data exports as a CSV file from the Calendar page (invitee details, event type, date, location and Stripe and PayPal payment details) on Standard and above, and the API is on every plan. Downgrades and seat reductions take effect at the end of the current term; deleting an account takes effect immediately. Enterprise adds a Data Deletion API.
From its public pages, Calendly is a full-featured scheduler for sales and recruiting teams, with routing, round robin and CRM integrations on Teams and audits in its own name. It costs more per host than the other per-user tools here and offers no HIPAA BAA or EU hosting.
| Limit | As recorded |
|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per seat per month; invitees need no seat |
| Free option | Free plan (1 event type, 1 calendar); 14-day Teams Plus trial for new users |
| Reference scenario (3 hosts, annual) | $48/mo on Teams ($16 × 3), computed |
| Month-to-month price | $20 per seat on Teams ($12 Standard) |
| Round robin from | Teams ($16 per seat, billed yearly) |
| Payments and SMS reminders | Stripe and PayPal, and text reminders, from Standard |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 | SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 (security page) |
| HIPAA BAA | Not offered; the help center says Calendly is not designed for HIPAA |
| EU data hosting | Not offered; the DPA says processing occurs in the US |
| SSO | SAML as a Teams add-on (price not published) or on Enterprise |
| API and export | API on every plan; webhooks and meeting CSV export from Standard |
Read from the vendor's public pages on Oct 16, 2026. No hands-on run is published yet. How we check
We have not published a sign-up run for Calendly yet. The access facts above were read from its sign-up and pricing pages on Oct 16, 2026.
We have not published API calls for Calendly yet.
Calendly lists 5 plans. The cheapest paid plan, Standard (billed yearly), costs $10/seat/mo.
Prices as listed, USD, excluding tax; observed 2026-10-16.
Source: calendly.com pricing page. Prices change; the observed date above is when our agent read them.
We read the pricing, security, legal, help center and developer pages of three scheduling tools on the same day and scored them on the same six indicators. What 3 hosts cost, where routing, payments, SSO and HIPAA sit, and who should pick which.
