Cal.com
Open scheduling platform with booking links, team routing, an API and the Cal.ai phone agent.
Cal.com is scheduling software that lets people book meetings through a shared link. Cal.com checks connected calendars for conflicts, applies availability rules and sends reminders, and offers team features such as round-robin assignment and routing forms. Cal.com also includes Cal.ai, an AI phone agent, plus an API for developers. Individuals can use it free.
Best for Individuals who need a free booking page and teams or developers who want routing, compliance controls and an API for embedded scheduling.
- Listed in
- Productivity & Team Work
- Platforms
- Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, Browser extension, API
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Made by
- Cal.com, Inc.
- Added
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What is Cal.com?
Cal.com is a scheduling platform for individuals, businesses and developers building their own booking products. A user connects one or more calendars, defines working hours and buffers, and picks a meeting location such as a video call, phone call or in-person visit; invitees then choose a slot from a booking link. The service detects time zones, prevents double bookings, sends email or SMS reminders and can take payment through Stripe. Team plans add shared availability, round-robin distribution, collective events, routing forms and booking analytics, while organisation plans add SAML single sign-on, SCIM and sub-teams. Cal.ai, an AI phone agent, handles scheduling by voice call. Developers can use a public API, webhooks, OAuth and React components, and the product can also be self-hosted. Apps are offered for mobile, desktop and several browsers.
Key Features
Booking Links
Publishes a short personal link where invitees pick a time that fits the host's connected calendars.
Availability Controls
Sets minimum notice, buffers before and after events, slot intervals and daily, weekly or monthly booking limits.
Team Scheduling
Distributes meetings by round-robin, books several colleagues together and routes requests with forms and attributes.
Workflows and Reminders
Sends automated email and SMS reminders and follow-ups around each booking.
Cal.ai Phone Agent
Provides an AI agent that conducts scheduling over phone calls.
Developer Platform
Offers an API, webhooks, OAuth clients and embeddable React components for building scheduling into other apps.
How Cal.com works
Connect your calendar
Link existing calendars so Cal.com can cross-check them and avoid double bookings.
Set your availability
Define the days and hours you accept meetings, plus any buffers or blocked periods.
Choose how to meet
Pick a video call, a phone call or an in-person location for each event type.
Screenshots
Use Cases
- Sales Lead Routing
- An inbound form sends each prospect to the right representative and records the booking in Salesforce or HubSpot.
- Interview Scheduling
- A recruiter shares a link so candidates can pick a slot when the whole panel is free.
- Paid Consultations
- A coach collects payment through Stripe at the moment a session is booked.
- Patient Appointments
- A clinic uses the organisation plan's HIPAA support to schedule telehealth visits.
- Embedded Booking
- A marketplace adds scheduling between its own users with the API and React components.
Things to know
- Collaboration needs a paid plan
- Round-robin scheduling, shared availability, routing forms and removal of Cal.com branding begin on the Teams plan.
- Compliance features sit higher up
- SAML SSO, SCIM and the listed SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 compliance belong to the Organizations plan and above.
- Free plan has templated workflows
- The feature table marks custom workflows on the free tier as limited to templates.
FAQs
What is Cal.com?
Cal.com is scheduling software that lets others book time with you through a link while it handles calendar syncing, time zones, reminders and video calls.
Is Cal.com free?
Yes, for individuals. Cal.com's free plan covers one user with unlimited event types and calendar connections, and the pricing page labels it free forever.
How much does Cal.com cost?
Cal.com has a free Individuals plan and paid Teams, Organizations and Enterprise plans billed per user. See the official pricing page for current prices; Teams and Organizations start with a 14-day trial.
Does Cal.com have an API?
Yes. Cal.com publishes a public API, webhooks, OAuth client support and React components called Atoms for embedding scheduling in other products.
Does Cal.com work on mobile?
Yes. Cal.com lists iOS and Android apps along with desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux and extensions for Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox.
What is Cal.ai?
Cal.ai is Cal.com's AI phone agent, which the site describes as scheduling carried out through AI-powered calls.
Can Cal.com be self-hosted?
Yes. Cal.com lists a self-hosted option and links to its GitHub repository and Docker setup.
Which video tools does Cal.com support?
Cal.com works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams and also has its own conferencing tool, Cal Video.
Who it's for
- Individuals
- Sales teams
- Recruiters
- Healthcare practices
- Developers
- Enterprises
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