Cal.com vs Canny
Pricing
Cal.com: Free for individuals, Team from $15/user/mo
Canny: Free tier, from $79/mo
Description
Cal.com: Open-source Calendly alternative: free scheduling for individuals, self-hostable
Canny: Customer feedback management for product teams
Pros
- Free for individual use with no limits, not a trial
- Open source and self-hostable for full control over your data
- Clean booking pages that look professional
- Feedback boards let users vote on features so you build what people actually want
- Public roadmap builds trust and reduces 'when will you add X?' emails
- Connects to Jira, Linear, Intercom, and Slack for team workflows
Cons
- Not as polished as Calendly: occasional rough edges in the UI
- Self-hosting requires technical knowledge to set up and maintain
- Fewer native integrations than Calendly
- Jumps from free to $79/month (expensive for a feedback tool)
- Overkill if you have fewer than 100 active users giving feedback
Details
Cal.com does what Calendly does, but it is free for individuals and open source. You get a booking page, calendar integrations, and the basics of scheduling without paying Calendly’s rates.
If you are a solo founder who just needs a scheduling link, Cal.com saves you $10-20/month compared to Calendly. The tradeoff is polish: Calendly has had years more to smooth out the experience. Cal.com is good enough for most scheduling needs, and the option to self-host appeals to founders who want control over their data. If scheduling is mission-critical to your business and first impressions matter, Calendly or SavvyCal are more refined.
Canny helps product teams collect, organize, and prioritize customer feedback. Clean interface with built-in roadmaps and changelogs.
Bootstrapped to $3.3M ARR by Sarah Hum and Andrew Rasmussen, both ex-Facebook. Remote team of 16, profitable since year one.
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