Calendly is free for one event type, one connected calendar and unlimited one-on-one meetings, with no time limit (checked Nov 7, 2026 on calendly.com/pricing). The pricing page labels the plan “Always free”. A second event type, a second calendar or an automatic reminder moves you to Standard, which is $10 a seat a month billed yearly or $12 billed monthly. Every price in this post was checked on Nov 7, 2026 from the vendor's own page, in the currency the page showed.
Is Calendly free?
Yes. Calendly's Free plan includes “One event type”, “One calendar connection”, “One-on-one scheduling”, a customizable booking page and the browser extension, in the pricing page's own words. The comparison table lists one-on-one meetings as “Unlimited” on every plan, so the free tier has no cap on how many people book you. Seats are only needed by the people who host meetings. Invitees never need an account.
What does Calendly's free plan include?
Calendly's Free plan is a single booking link for a single kind of meeting, synced to a single calendar. The feature comparison lists 1 connected calendar for Free against 6 for Standard, Teams and Enterprise (Nov 7, 2026). The customizable link and page, the mobile app, the browser extension and availability rules are included. Automated reminders, payments, a second calendar, a second event type and every integration beyond the calendar itself sit on paid plans. The moment you want a 15-minute intro and a 60-minute working session as separate links, you need a seat.
What Calendly costs after the free plan
Calendly's paid plans are priced per seat, and on Nov 7, 2026 the pricing page shows these prices.
Standard, $10 a seat a month billed yearly, or $12 billed monthly. Standard adds unlimited event types, up to 6 connected calendars, automations and reminders, HubSpot and Mailchimp connections, and payments through Stripe and PayPal.
Teams, $16 a seat a month billed yearly, or $20 billed monthly. Teams adds round-robin and team scheduling, lead qualification and routing, centrally managed event types, Salesforce, Marketo and Pardot, and an optional SSO add-on. The page marks it “Popular plan”.
Enterprise, starting at $15,000 a year for a minimum of 50 seats, in US dollars only, with SAML SSO, domain control, audit logs and dedicated support.
Calendly's free plan has no cap on meetings. It has a cap on kinds of meeting: one. The $10 seat is mostly the price of a second booking link.
Is Calendly free with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace?
No. Calendly is a separate product and neither suite includes it, but both include a booking page of their own. Microsoft Bookings is included in Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, E1, E3, E5, A3, A5, F1, F3, Teams Essentials and Teams Premium, per Microsoft's own Bookings overview (learn.microsoft.com, Nov 7, 2026). Google Calendar's appointment schedules let “a personal Google Account or Workspace Business Starter plan” create a single booking page for free; more than one schedule, automatic email reminders, payments and the other extras require “an eligible Google Workspace or Google One subscription” (Google Calendar Help, Nov 7, 2026). If you already pay for either suite, you already own a booking page with roughly Calendly's free-plan limits.
Which free scheduling apps have no event-type limit?
zcal, TidyCal, Koalendar and Cal.com all give away unlimited booking links on their free plans, which is the exact limit Calendly charges $10 a seat to remove (all checked Nov 7, 2026). Of the 573 scheduling tools in the AppClap catalog (Nov 7, 2026), 305 have a free tier, so free is the norm in this category and the question is only what each one holds back.
zcal. zcal's Free Forever plan has “unlimited links, calendars and meeting polls”, and its FAQ says the plan has “no time limit and no ads”. Pro is $7 a user a month and adds teams, SMS reminders and your own branding; Business is $12.
TidyCal. TidyCal's Free plan is “$0 forever” with unlimited bookings, unlimited booking types, paid bookings through Stripe and PayPal, and 1 connected calendar. Payments on the free plan carry a 1% platform fee. The paid options are a one-time $29 Individual Lifetime or $79 Agency Lifetime on AppSumo, or Pro at $12 a month ($99 a year).
Koalendar. Koalendar's free plan is marked “Free forever” with unlimited bookings, unlimited event types and unlimited scheduling links. Pro is $6.99 a seat a month billed annually, or $9.99 monthly, where “a seat is a user or a resource that can be booked”.
Cal.com. Cal.com's free plan is “Free forever” for individuals with “Unlimited links & calendars” and no usage limits. Teams is $12 a user a month and Organizations is $28, each with a 14-day trial. Cal.com moved its production code into a private repository in April 2026, so it is a free plan now, not an open source one.
Tymeslot. Tymeslot's Cloud Free is €0 with unlimited bookings and meeting types and a small Tymeslot footer on the booking page. Cloud Pro is €9 a month or €90 a year, one flat price per account rather than per seat.
| Tool | Free plan (Nov 7, 2026) | Free limit | Cheapest paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calendly | Yes, always free | 1 event type, 1 calendar | $10/seat/mo, yearly |
| Cal.com | Yes, free forever | Individuals only, unlimited links | $12/user/mo Teams |
| zcal | Yes, free forever | Unlimited links, no teams | $7/user/mo Pro |
| TidyCal | Yes, $0 forever | 1 calendar, 1% fee on payments | $29 once, or $12/mo |
| Koalendar | Yes, free forever | Unlimited links, 1 seat | $6.99/seat/mo, yearly |
| Tymeslot Cloud | Yes, €0 | Tymeslot footer on the page | €9/mo flat |
| Rallly | Yes | 3 open polls, 30-day retention | $6/seat/mo, yearly |
The open source booking pages with no seat count
Easy!Appointments, Rallly and Tymeslot are free to run on your own server with no seat count at all, and 41 of the 573 scheduling tools in the AppClap catalog are open source (Nov 7, 2026). Easy!Appointments is GPL-3.0 with about 4,480 GitHub stars and a 1.6.1 release on Oct 19, 2026 (repo); its site answers “Is Easy!Appointments really free?” with “Yes! Easy!Appointments is 100% free and open source”, and the maintainers sell managed hosting at €20 a month billed annually. Rallly is AGPL-3.0 with about 5,350 stars (repo); the hosted free plan allows 3 open polls with 30-day retention, Pro is $6 a seat a month billed yearly, and self-hosting is free. Tymeslot is AGPL-3.0 and its README calls self-hosting “free, forever” (repo).
The AppClap flat-price test, where a tool passes when the price on its pricing page is the price on the invoice, is kind to this category. Calendly, zcal, Koalendar and Cal.com pass: the seat price times the seats is the bill. TidyCal's free plan fails on the 1% payment fee, and its Pro passes. The self-hosted three pass because there is no invoice. We looked at them in more depth in the open source Calendly alternatives.
Why Calendly's paid plans still sell
Calendly's seat price buys the parts a sales team actually runs on: round-robin distribution, routing forms that qualify a lead before they see a calendar, Salesforce and HubSpot ownership rules, admin-managed event types and SSO. None of the free plans above do that. A founder with one kind of call does not need any of it and should stay on a free plan, Calendly's or someone else's. A team of eight account executives booking demos is paying $16 a seat for a routing engine, and next to a missed lead that is cheap. The honest comparison is Calendly Teams against Cal.com Teams at $12, with Microsoft Bookings or Google's appointment schedules as the zero-cost option if the company already pays for the suite.
How to read a scheduling app's pricing page
- What is counted? Seats for hosts (Calendly, Cal.com, zcal, Koalendar), accounts (Tymeslot) or nothing (self-hosted tools).
- How many event types does free include? Calendly says 1. zcal, TidyCal, Koalendar and Cal.com say unlimited.
- How many calendars can it check? Calendly Free checks 1 and Standard checks 6. TidyCal Free checks 1. zcal and Cal.com say unlimited.
- Is there a fee on payments you collect? TidyCal Free charges 1%. Calendly Standard lists no platform fee on Stripe and PayPal.
- Do you already own a booking page? Microsoft 365 business plans include Bookings, and a Google account includes one appointment schedule.
What we do about it
AppClap reads pricing pages so you do not have to, and we never take vendor money. The Calendly alternatives page lists everything we track against it, and the free scheduling tools shelf holds all 305 free tiers in the category.
Or describe what you need in plain words: a free booking page with more than one event type.
Sources: calendly.com, Pricing (yearly and monthly toggles); cal.com, Pricing; zcal.co, Pricing; tidycal.com, Pricing; koalendar.com, Pricing; tymeslot.app, Pricing; rallly.co, Pricing; easyappointments.org; learn.microsoft.com, Microsoft Bookings overview; Google Calendar Help, “Compare premium features for appointment schedules”; GitHub repos alextselegidis/easyappointments, lukevella/rallly and Tymeslot/tymeslot; AppClap catalog counts, Nov 7, 2026. All checked Nov 7, 2026.
