Calendly alternatives
The best Calendly alternatives for a small business (2026)
The best Calendly alternatives are Cal.com for free unlimited booking links and payments, Google Workspace's booking pages if you're on Gmail, Microsoft Bookings if you're on Outlook, Reclaim for AI that protects your focus time, Motion for a calendar that plans your tasks, and Mojobase for one-on-one bookings that arrive with a brief.
Updated . Prices and features checked on each company's own site
Why do people look for alternatives to Calendly?
- The free plan allows one event type and one calendar connection.
- Round-robin and team scheduling need the Teams plan, at $16 a seat a month billed yearly, or $20 monthly.
- Calendly's AI, Notetaker and Callie, comes in Standard Plus at $18 or Teams Plus at $24 a seat a month billed yearly, and works only in English.
What are the best Calendly alternatives?
| Tool | Best for |
|---|---|
| Cal.com | Free unlimited booking links, with payments and SMS |
| Google Workspace | Teams already on Gmail and Google Calendar |
| Microsoft 365 | Teams already on Outlook and Microsoft Teams |
| Mojobase | One-on-one bookings that arrive with a brief |
| Reclaim.ai | AI that defends focus time around your meetings |
| Motion | Booking links on a calendar that plans your tasks |
1. Cal.com: best for free unlimited booking links, with payments and SMS
Cal.com's free plan covers what Calendly charges for: unlimited links and calendars, email and SMS notifications, and Stripe and PayPal payments, for one user. Teams adds round robin and routing forms. It imports your Calendly events in one click.
- Individuals (Free) includes: 1 user; Unlimited links and calendars; Email and SMS notifications; 100+ app integrations; Stripe and PayPal payments; Two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync1
- Teams: $12 per user per month, yearly (page says save 25%); $16 billed monthly2
- Feature: One-click import of Calendly events.3
2. Google Workspace: best for teams already on Gmail and Google Calendar
Google Workspace includes appointment booking pages from Business Standard, along with business email, Meet recording and 2 TB of storage per user. If you already pay for Workspace, you may not need a separate scheduling tool for simple bookings.
- Feature: Appointment booking pages and eSignature with Docs and PDFs start on Business Standard.4
- Business Standard: $14 per user per month, annual commitment of 1 year, billed monthly; $16.8 billed monthly5
3. Microsoft 365: best for teams already on Outlook and Microsoft Teams
Microsoft 365's business plans include Bookings for appointment scheduling, with Teams for the meeting and Outlook for the calendar. It suits businesses already paying for Microsoft 365, where Bookings costs nothing extra.
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $7 per user per month, paid yearly (annual subscription, auto renews); $8.4 billed monthly6
- Feature: 10+ extra apps in the plans: Bookings (appointment scheduling), Planner, Forms, Loop and Clipchamp (Standard and Premium).7
4. Mojobase: best for one-on-one bookings that arrive with a brief
Mojobase Calendar's booking link checks your connected calendars, asks your questions, and gives the guest a link to reschedule or cancel. Each booking brings a brief from the guest's answers and past emails, and the guest joins Customers. It has one-on-one links only: no team booking, payments or SMS reminders.
- Price: $39 a month for the first person and $25 for each after; the first 10 companies pay $29 and $19, for life
- AI: included, with your choice of model, or bring your own
5. Reclaim.ai: best for aI that defends focus time around your meetings
Reclaim works on top of Google Calendar or Outlook: it protects focus time and habits, adds buffers after calls, and offers scheduling links on top. It suits people whose problem is too many meetings rather than booking them.
- Lite includes: 1 user team; 5 AI agents; 1 week scheduling range; 1 calendar sync; 1 scheduling link; Limited integrations: Google Tasks, Slack, Zoom, Google Meet; Task recommendations8
- Starter: $10 per seat per month, yearly (toggle says save 20%); $12 billed monthly9
- Feature: AI Focus Time: set a weekly focus-time goal and it defends time around existing events.10
6. Motion: best for booking links on a calendar that plans your tasks
Motion's calendar schedules your tasks around deadlines and re-plans the day when a meeting runs long, and its booking links and embeddable calendar let prospects book you from your website. It suits founders who manage their own week tightly.
- Feature: Meeting scheduling and booking links; the calendar can be embedded on your website so prospects can book.11
- Feature: AI calendar that auto-plans tasks around deadlines, duration and priority, and re-plans the day when a meeting runs long or plans change.12
- Pro AI: $19 per seat per month, pay annually (page says save 33%); $29 billed monthly13
How should a small business choose a Calendly alternative?
Start with who gets booked. If one person takes all the calls, any tool here works and the free plans may be enough. If several people share incoming meetings, you need round-robin or collective links, which Calendly and Cal.com sell on their team plans.
Then check what you already pay for. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 both include booking tools in their business plans, so a separate subscription may be duplication. Finally, decide whether booking is the job or the meeting is. Calendly, Cal.com and Microsoft Bookings make booking easy; Reclaim, Motion and Mojobase care more about what happens around the meeting.
How do Calendly alternatives compare on price and features?
Prices are per user or seat a month, billed yearly, from each company's own pricing page.
| Tool | Free plan | Paid plans start at | Booking extras | AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calendly | One event type, one calendar | $10 a seat (Standard) | Payments and reminders from Standard; round robin on Teams | Standard Plus $18 or Teams Plus $24 a seat |
| Cal.com | One user, unlimited links | $12 a user (Teams) | Payments and SMS free; round robin on Teams | Not priced separately |
| Google Workspace | None; 14-day trial | $14 a user (Business Standard, with booking pages) | Gmail, Meet and Drive in the same plan | Gemini included |
| Microsoft 365 | None; one-month trial | $7 a user (Business Basic, with Bookings) | Teams and Outlook in the same plan | Copilot Chat included; Copilot in apps costs more |
| Reclaim | One user, one scheduling link | $10 a seat (Starter) | Focus time, habits and buffers | AI agents per seat by plan |
| Motion | None | $19 a seat (Pro AI) | Embeddable booking calendar | 7,500 AI credits a seat a month |
| Mojobase | None | $39 a month for the first person, $25 each after | One-on-one links only | A monthly allowance included, or your own API key |
Mojobase's price covers email, team chat, documents, tasks, customers, Numbers and the Handbook as well as Calendar. For five people it's $139 a month.
What does Mojobase do differently from Calendly?
Calendly ends when the meeting is booked; Mojobase starts there. A Mojobase booking link has the rules you'd expect: a set length, your availability, buffers, minimum notice, a daily limit and questions for the guest. It checks your connected Google and Outlook calendars for conflicts, sends a confirmation and reminders by email, and gives the guest a private page to reschedule or cancel.
Then the rest of the business joins in. The guest becomes a person in Customers. Before the call, the AI writes a short brief from their answers and any past emails with them. After it, your typed or pasted notes become a summary on the event, suggested tasks, and a follow-up email in drafts. Ask "who booked this week, and what do they want?" in Quick actions (⌘K) and get the answer from the bookings themselves.
What it doesn't have: group, collective or round-robin links, meeting polls, payments at booking, SMS reminders, routing forms or call recording. It's built for 1 to 25 people, and it works well for teams up to 100.
What do you lose by leaving Calendly?
You lose the most complete booking tool here. Calendly has reusable event types for one-on-one, group, round-robin and collective meetings, routing that qualifies website visitors from form answers, Stripe and PayPal payments, reminder and follow-up workflows by email or text, meeting polls, and more than 100 integrations including Salesforce and HubSpot. Its MCP server lets AI apps book and cancel meetings for you.
If your sales team routes inbound leads to reps, or you sell paid sessions, Calendly or Cal.com fits that better than a calendar-first tool.
How do you switch from Calendly without missing bookings?
Leave your Calendly links working until the last booked meeting has passed, and put the new link everywhere at once: your email signature, website, social profiles and saved replies. Cal.com imports Calendly events in one click; for other tools, recreate your two or three most-used event types first.
In Mojobase, create the booking link in Calendar, connect the calendars it should check, and ask the AI to draft a short note to anyone with a pending meeting, telling them how to move it if they need to.
Questions people ask
What is the best free Calendly alternative?
Cal.com's free plan is the most generous: unlimited links and calendar connections, SMS notifications and Stripe and PayPal payments for one user. Reclaim's free Lite plan includes one scheduling link. Calendly's own free plan allows one event type and one calendar connection.
Which Calendly alternative has round-robin booking?
Cal.com includes round robin, managed and collective links on its Teams plan at $12 a user a month billed yearly. Calendly includes it on Teams. Mojobase has one-on-one booking links only, so a team that shares incoming meetings should choose Cal.com or Calendly.
Can I take payment when someone books?
Yes, with Calendly from Standard and with Cal.com on its free plan, both through Stripe or PayPal. Mojobase booking links don't take payments. Create and send the invoice in Stripe; Numbers reads it and shows what is owed. If it goes overdue, the AI drafts a reminder with Stripe's payment link for you to send.
Do guests need an account to book with Mojobase?
No. A Mojobase booking link is a public page. Guests pick a free time in their own time zone, answer your questions and get a confirmation by email, with their own link to move or cancel the booking.
Does Mojobase record or transcribe meetings?
No. Mojobase doesn't join calls. Type or paste your notes on the event and the AI writes the summary, suggests tasks and drafts the follow-up email. If you want calls recorded, Calendly's Notetaker or Motion's meeting notetaker do that.
Sources
- Cal.com: Individuals (Free) includes. cal.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Cal.com: Teams. cal.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Cal.com: Feature. cal.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Google Workspace: Feature. workspace.google.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Google Workspace: Business Standard. workspace.google.com/pricing?hl=en_us, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Business Basic. microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-business-basic, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Microsoft 365: Feature. microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-plans-and-pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Reclaim.ai: Lite includes. reclaim.ai/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Reclaim.ai: Starter. reclaim.ai/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Reclaim.ai: Feature. reclaim.ai/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Motion: Feature. usemotion.com/features/ai-calendar, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Motion: Feature. usemotion.com/features/ai-calendar, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Motion: Pro AI. usemotion.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Calendly: Notetaker and Callie are added to Standard or Teams with a toggle. calendly.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.
- Calendly: Teams. calendly.com/pricing, checked 7 Nov 2026.