Booking pages that read your calendars from your own servers, with every booking kept in your database and no fee per person.
- Replacing
- Calendly, by Calendly LLC
- With
- Cal.com
- Runs on
- Your servers, or Pilae Cloud in Switzerland and the EU
- Migration
- Included in onboarding, at a fixed price
Why teams leave Calendly
Your calendar says a lot
A scheduling tool reads every free and busy slot of everyone who uses it, and keeps the name and email of everyone who books. With Cal.com on your machines, that stays with you.
Booking pages on your domain
Booking links live under your own domain, and every booking is written to your Postgres in the country you chose.
No licence fee per person
Cal.diy is MIT-licensed, with no fee per user. Giving a colleague a booking page means creating an account, not changing a plan.
Calendly vs Cal.com operated by Pilae
| What is being compared | Calendly | Pilae |
|---|---|---|
| Where bookings are stored | In Calendly infrastructure, operated by Calendly. | In your Postgres, on your premises or on dedicated machines in any of 12 Pilae Cloud regions, six of them in Switzerland and the EU. |
| Event types | One-on-one, group, round-robin and collective events, routing forms and workflows. | Personal event types with buffers, questions and availability rules. Round-robin, collective events, routing forms and workflows are not in Cal.diy. |
| Calendars | Google, Microsoft 365 and Outlook, and iCloud calendars. | Google, Microsoft 365 and Outlook, and any CalDAV server, including Nextcloud. |
| Video and integrations | Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex links, a wide set of CRM and marketing integrations. | Zoom, Daily or Webex links, webhooks and API v2, plus n8n beside it for CRM updates and follow-ups. |
| Sign-on | SAML single sign-on on the higher plans. | Local staff accounts, with the admin side reachable only on your private network. SAML sign-in is in the commercial Cal.com product, not in Cal.diy. |
| Pricing model | A free tier, then per seat, per month, by plan. | On request, for the operated platform. Cal.diy itself has no licence fee. |
| Operation | Fully run by Calendly as a SaaS product. | Daily encrypted backups with monthly restore tests, planned upgrades by the Pilae Agent, 60-second probes. |
Self-hosted scheduling
Calendly is simple and it works, which is why it spreads through an organisation one seat at a time. Each of those seats connects a calendar to a service outside your perimeter, and each booking leaves a name and an email there.
Cal.com does the core of the job: personal booking pages connected to Google, Microsoft or CalDAV calendars, with a video link and a confirmation email for each booking. What we deploy is Cal.diy, the MIT-licensed edition Cal.com, Inc. publishes. It covers individual scheduling well; team rotations and routing forms are in the commercial product only. Pilae deploys it on your premises or on dedicated machines in any of 12 Pilae Cloud regions, six of them in Switzerland and the EU. Booking pages are public by design; the admin side is reachable only through the private network.
Moving off Calendly
The work is in the inventory: who books meetings, which event types they use and where the links are published. We check team scheduling first, connect the calendars, replace the links and keep Calendly open until new bookings have stopped arriving there. The move is part of our fixed-price migration.
After the switch, the Pilae Agent plans each Cal.diy upgrade, waits for your approval and applies it in your window. Pricing is on request. Tell us how your teams book meetings and we come back with a plan.
Moving from Calendly to Cal.com
List people, event types and links
Who books through Calendly, which event types they use, and where their links are published: signatures, the website, templates, forms.
Check team scheduling first
Round-robin, collective events and routing forms are not in Cal.diy. If a team depends on them, we settle how it will book before anyone moves, and say so before you sign.
Set up event types and calendars
Each person connects their calendar and recreates their event types and availability, with us on hand for the first ones.
Swap the links, then close the account
New links replace the old ones in signatures, the website and templates. Meetings already booked stay in everyone's calendar, and Calendly stays open until no new bookings arrive there for a full cycle.