Calendly vs Cal.com vs SavvyCal: scheduling-tool pricing, and the one with a free self-host option

Calendly and SavvyCal land within a dollar of each other at the entry paid tier — $12/seat/month for both — so price alone doesn't separate them. Cal.com is the outlier, and not because it's more expensive: it's open source, and you can **self-host it for free**, paying nothing but your own server cost if you're willing to run it yourself. Its hosted cloud version runs $12–15/seat for Teams and jumps to around $37/seat for Organizations.

Calendly's Standard tier at $12 covers what 70% of its paying users actually need. The step up to Teams, $20/seat, exists specifically for round-robin meeting distribution and native routing into Salesforce or HubSpot — skip it if you're not doing sales-team scheduling.

SavvyCal's pitch is a genuinely different interface: instead of a grid of open slots, it shows your calendar next to the booker's, letting them pick a time that visibly works for both sides. It's a real usability difference, not just a re-skin, and it's priced almost identically to Calendly as a direct challenger rather than a budget alternative.

| | Entry paid price | Notable |
|---|---|---|
| Calendly | $12/seat/mo | most third-party integrations, biggest install base |
| SavvyCal | $12/seat/mo | side-by-side calendar view, no meaningful free tier |
| Cal.com | free (self-hosted) or $12–15/seat cloud | open source, most flexible |

If you want the path of least resistance and the widest integration ecosystem, Calendly's brand recognition alone makes onboarding new clients or colleagues frictionless — they've almost certainly used it before. If interface quality is the deciding factor and you're willing to try something less universally recognized, SavvyCal is worth the switch at the same price. If you'd rather pay a server bill than a SaaS bill — or you specifically need to keep scheduling data on infrastructure you control — Cal.com's self-hosted option is the only one of the three that lets you opt out of the subscription model entirely.