Calendly
Booking links that check your calendar and let people pick a time, with an embed for your site.
- Price
- Standard from $10/seat/month on yearly billing.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Setup
- No code
- Up and running
- About 5 minutes for a working booking link.
What Calendly is for
Calendly ends the "what time works for you?" back-and-forth. You share a link, the person sees your free slots straight from your calendar and books one, and the meeting lands in both calendars with a video link. Most of your leads have used it before, so it adds no friction to a sales call.
How it plugs into your product
- 1Sign up free and connect your Google or Outlook calendar.
- 2Create the event type, like a 30-minute demo, with your available hours.
- 3Paste the link on your landing page or use the embed code to show it inside the page.
- 4To charge at booking or send reminders, upgrade to Standard and connect Stripe or PayPal.
Does it fit your idea?
It fits if
- You sell a B2B SaaS and want a demo booking button on the landing page today.
- You only need one kind of meeting, like a sales call, which the free plan covers.
- You have a small sales team that needs round-robin so leads are spread across people.
Look elsewhere if
- Booking is a feature inside the product you sell, under your brand: Cal.com has an API made for that.
- You need paid sessions on a zero budget: payments need a paid plan here, while Cal.com takes Stripe on free.
- Your clients expect to pay by bank transfer or invoice when booking; Calendly charges only through Stripe or PayPal.
What people only find out after building
Read this before you build on it. Each item links to the official page that says so.
The free plan allows only 1 event type and 1 connected calendar; a free intro call plus a paid session already needs Standard.
Official source: calendly.comCollecting payment and automatic meeting reminders aren't on the free plan; they start on Standard.
Official source: calendly.comPayPal payments require a PayPal Business account, and Calendly doesn't calculate or collect taxes for you.
Official source: calendly.comEvery host who connects a calendar needs a paid seat, so the bill grows with each salesperson.
Official source: calendly.com
Price
Standard from $10/seat/month on yearly billing.
Free forever with 1 event type and 1 connected calendar.
- Free tier
- 1 event type, 1 calendar
- First paid plan
- $10/seat/month (yearly)
- Self-host or embed
- Embed only; no self-hosting
Checked on Oct 28, 2026 · official pricing
What it costs in practice
Two founders selling demos with reminders and a paid onboarding session: 2 seats × $10 = $20/month on yearly billing ($240/year), plus Stripe or PayPal fees. Monthly billing costs more. Rough estimate.
Estimate from the official price. Check it before you decide.
At a glance
- Free plan: yes
- Open source: no
“Not stated” means the official site doesn’t say.
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