We make Drry, which has a booking page of its own, so read this with that in mind. Cal.com is free forever for one person, with unlimited event types and Stripe or PayPal payments included. Teams costs $12 per user a month billed yearly ($16 billed monthly), Organizations $28 yearly ($37 monthly), and Enterprise is quoted. Checked against cal.com/pricing in September 2026. One more thing has changed that most Cal.com pricing articles miss: since April 2026 the product is closed source, which matters if "I can always self-host it" was part of why it looked free.
Is Cal.com free? Yes, and generously
This is Cal.com's strongest card. The free plan is for one user and has no usage limits, and it includes most of what a solo coach pays for elsewhere:
- Unlimited event types and calendars. A free discovery call, a paid session and a check-in, each on its own link, all reading every calendar you connect.
- Stripe and PayPal payments at booking. On the free plan, which is where most schedulers ask for a subscription first.
- Email and SMS notifications, over a hundred integrations, the mobile app, and a one-click import of your Calendly event types.
What the free plan leaves out is anything involving a second person. Round robin, collective and managed event types, routing forms, booking analytics and removing the Cal.com branding all start on Teams. A solo coach can live on free indefinitely; a practice of three cannot.
The paid plans, and who they are for
- Teams: $12 per user yearly, $16 monthly. One team with shared availability, round robin, managed and collective event types, recurring events, customisable notifications, routing forms, booking analytics, and no Cal.com branding. A 14-day trial comes first.
- Organizations: $28 per user yearly, $37 monthly. Unlimited sub-teams, a company subdomain, SAML SSO and SCIM, and compliance paperwork. Built for companies with an IT department, not for a coaching practice.
- Enterprise: custom, annual. Dedicated onboarding, uptime guarantees and a dedicated database, priced on a sales call.
Paying yearly saves 25% on both paid plans, by Cal.com's own figure.
What Cal.com costs a real coach
For the Calendly side of those sums in full, see our Calendly pricing breakdown.
Payments: does Cal.com take a cut?
We could not find one. Paid bookings run through your own Stripe or PayPal account, Cal.com's Stripe app is listed as free, and the pricing page names no transaction fee on any plan, the free one included. So a $150 session costs you the processor's normal rate and nothing to Cal.com. That, plus unlimited event types on free, is why Cal.com wins almost every "free scheduler" comparison on price.
The open-source angle, honestly
For five years Cal.com's pitch included being open source: you could read the code and run your own copy. On April 14, 2026 it announced it was going closed source, citing the risk of AI tools finding vulnerabilities in public code, and released the open code to the community as Cal.diy, under the MIT licence.
Cal.diy is worth knowing about, and it is not the same thing as a free Cal.com you host yourself. It is self-hosted only, with no managed version. Teams, organisations, routing forms, workflows and SSO were removed from it. And its own README carries a warning that it is strictly recommended for personal, non-production use, and that self-hosting requires real knowledge of servers, databases and securing sensitive data. For a coach taking client bookings, that is a clear signal: the hosted free plan is the free option, and Cal.diy is a project for developers who want to experiment.
Where Cal.com stops
Cal.com is scheduling infrastructure, and very good infrastructure. It books the call, can host it in its own video room (Cal Video) or hand it to Zoom, Google Meet or Teams, and sends the reminders. What it does not try to be is the place the client goes next: the program, the course, the group they join. That lives in another tool, on another bill. If you also run group calls on Zoom, our Zoom pricing guide has that part of the sum. If you are shopping around, the Cal.com alternatives guide covers the rest of the field.
How Drry compares (the disclosed pitch)
Our side, stated plainly so you can discount it. Drry is a paid-community platform for coaches with a booking page built in: the session lands on the calendar your classes run on, and the client becomes a contact and, if you like, a member of your community. It is on every plan, with 1 session type free and unlimited session types on Creator at $29 a month. Paid sessions go through your own connected Stripe account and we take 0%.
On scheduling alone Cal.com beats us, and we would rather say so. Its free plan gives you unlimited event types where ours gives you 1 session type. It reads your Google or Outlook calendar before offering a time and Drry does not; it can rotate calls across a team and we cannot. Drry is the better fit only when the booking is the front door to a program, a course or a community you want to run in the same place. The full comparison is Drry vs Cal.com.
Questions coaches ask
How much does Cal.com cost?
For one person, nothing: the free plan is free forever. Teams costs $12 per user a month billed yearly, or $16 billed monthly; Organizations is $28 per user yearly or $37 monthly; Enterprise is custom, annual pricing. Those are the figures on cal.com/pricing as checked in September 2026. So a team of 3 on Teams pays $432 a year on annual billing.
Is Cal.com free?
Yes, for one user. The free plan has no usage limits and includes unlimited event types and calendars, email and SMS notifications, over a hundred integrations, and Stripe and PayPal payments at booking. What it does not include is anything for a second person: round robin, a shared team, routing forms, removing the Cal.com branding and booking analytics all start on Teams.
Is Cal.com still open source?
Not the product you sign up for. Cal.com announced on April 14, 2026 that it was going closed source, and released its code to the community as Cal.diy under the MIT licence. Cal.diy is self-hosted only, has the team, routing, workflow and SSO features removed, and its own README says it is strictly recommended for personal, non-production use. Older articles describing Cal.com as open source predate that change.
Can I self-host Cal.com?
You can self-host Cal.diy, the MIT-licensed community edition Cal.com released when it closed its own code, and Cal.com's self-hosting docs now point there. For a coach that is rarely the saving it looks like: you take on the server, the database and the security of every client's details, the team features are not in it, and the project itself advises against production use. The hosted free plan is free already.
Does Cal.com take a fee on payments?
We could not find one. Payments at booking run through your own Stripe or PayPal account, the Stripe app in Cal.com's app store is listed as free, and Cal.com's pricing page names no transaction fee on any plan. So a paid session costs the processor's standard rate. Check your first payout to be sure, as you should on any platform.
Is Cal.com cheaper than Calendly?
For a solo coach, yes, by the whole subscription: two event types and payments are free on Cal.com and need a Standard seat on Calendly ($10 a month billed yearly). For a team, Cal.com's Teams plan is $12 a user yearly against Calendly's $16, so a team of 3 saves $144 a year. Calendly's advantage is familiarity, not price.