Cal.com vs Gamma
Pricing
Cal.com: Free for individuals, Team from $15/user/mo
Gamma: Free tier, paid from $9/mo billed yearly
Description
Cal.com: Open-source Calendly alternative: free scheduling for individuals, self-hostable
Gamma: AI tool that turns a prompt or a document into a presentation, document, simple website or social post
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
- Imports PowerPoint and PDF files and exports to PPTX, PDF, PNG or Google Slides, on the free plan too
- Unused monthly AI credits on paid plans roll over, up to twice the monthly amount
- Pro adds API access, custom branding and up to 10 custom domains for published sites
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
- The free plan's 400 credits are given once at signup and do not refill
- Removing the Gamma branding needs Plus or higher
- The free plan creates at most 10 slides per prompt
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.
Gamma builds slides, documents, simple websites and social posts from a prompt or from material you already have. Its agent starts with an outline you can shape, then designs the pages, and you keep editing by chatting with it or by moving things around yourself.
It suits founders who need a pitch deck, a sales one-pager or a quick web page without opening a design tool. Imported PowerPoints and PDFs keep their formatting, and you can pull content in from Slack, Notion and Dropbox.
Every AI action uses credits. Plus costs $9 per seat a month billed yearly, with 1,000 credits a month, and Pro costs $18 with 4,000. Annual billing saves up to 28% compared with paying monthly.
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