Cal.com Pricing Teardown
Cal.com is an open source meeting scheduler. Check out this post if you're looking to understand their pricing better.
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What is Cal.com?
Cal.com is an open source meeting scheduler. If you've used Calendly links – you know what it is.
Cal.com boasts more integrations, open sourcing of code and their own video calls. To be honest, they even allow Facetime links which seems to me kind of cool as all-round Apple user.
23.6K stars on Github
Pricing structure
4 plans:
Free plan covers basic things (unlimited event types, calendar and video chat connections, workflows, integrations). It's cloud version is limited to one user and IMO totally kills the need for personal Calendly. Can be self-hosted as well
Teams starts at $288/year (2* 12/seat/month) and adds cool stuff like routing forms, collective events, SSO, custom branding and team-wide workflows. *Can be free if self-hosted*
Enterprise does not mention price and adds organizations (parent teams with sub-teams) and org-wide workflows, sync with Active Directory, high uptime & support SLAs, booking analytics and something called "Extensive Whitelabelling". Can be cloud or self-hosted but is never free
Platform does not mention price as well. It is Cal.com's plan for embedding their codebase into other products – essentially a white-label offering
Seat-based pricing
Discounts
20% for annual billing
Sponsorships for open source projects at Cal.com's discretion
License – AGPLv3 + separate Enterprise and Platform licenses
Does it make sense to pay?
Almost never unless you're big enough to need security features like SOC2, lazy enough to run a separate instance for each team or want to use their APIs for scheduling features of your product
Free and Team plans can be self-hosted for free and provide everything a pre-Series B organization needs. AGPL can make it tricky to use self-hosted Teams plan though, especially if you want to integrate directly with your product instead of third-party productivity apps.
This post is a part of series on commercial open source software pricing. See full list of articles here.