Best Calendly Alternatives: 8 Tools Compared

People leave Calendly for one of two reasons, and the right alternative depends on which. The first is price: Calendly charges per seat ($10/seat/mo Standard, $16 Teams, billed yearly), which adds up for a team, and its free plan is limited to one event type. The second is a capability gap: Calendly books one person onto your calendar, so it cannot find one time that a whole group can make.

If your reason is price, you want a cheaper or free booking tool. If your reason is the group gap, you want a different category entirely, an availability poll, not a booking page. We have sorted the eight alternatives below by the job, so you can jump to yours. Pricing was checked August 2026 against each vendor's own page.

Here are all eight side by side, with the free-plan reality and who each one fits.

If you want the same job Calendly does, share a link and let someone book a slot, but cheaper, these are the picks.

• Cal.com is the standout free option: open-source, with unlimited event types, calendar connections, workflows, and routing for one user, and Teams at $12/user/mo. You can also self-host it. See our Cal.com vs Calendly comparison.
• SavvyCal ($10/user/mo, no free plan) has the nicest booking flow, letting recipients overlay their calendar on yours. Our Calendly vs SavvyCal piece has the detail.
• Google Calendar appointment scheduling is free for one booking page if you use Google. Calendly vs Google Calendar compares them.
• HubSpot Meetings is free with HubSpot's CRM and logs every booking automatically, though routing needs paid Sales Hub. See Calendly vs HubSpot Meetings.
• Microsoft Bookings is free if you already pay for Microsoft 365, from about $7/user/mo. See Microsoft Bookings vs Calendly.
• TidyCal and Acuity round out the field: TidyCal for a one-time payment instead of a subscription, Acuity ($16/mo, no free plan) for service businesses that take payment and run intake forms.

Here is the part most Calendly-alternative lists miss. If the reason Calendly does not fit is that you need to get a group to agree on a time, no booking tool solves that, including all the ones above. They answer 'when can someone book me?', not 'when can all of us meet?'

Calendly does have a free Meeting Polls feature, but it is propose-and-vote: you guess the candidate times and invitees pick from them. A full-availability grid works differently. Everyone paints all the hours they are free, and the best overlap surfaces on its own.

Timespree is that grid, and it is free: mobile-first, with automatic time-zone conversion, a calendar overlay, no participant limit, and no account needed to respond. If Calendly felt like the wrong tool because you were trying to schedule a team, a class, or a club, this is why, and a group availability poll is the fix. Lock the group's time on the grid, then use any booking tool above for the one-to-one calls.

Match the tool to your reason for leaving.

• Cheaper booking, still free: Cal.com if you want the most features free; Google Calendar, HubSpot Meetings, or Microsoft Bookings if you already pay for that suite.
• A better booking experience: SavvyCal for guest-first booking, Acuity for service businesses with payments.
• Pay once, no subscription: TidyCal.
• Getting a group together: a free grid like Timespree. This is the job Calendly was never built for, and it is worth a scheduling poll for team meetings rather than any booking link.