What each week held
Withheld: something was read in 1 week of the last 12. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
What it declares
- unlimited event types and calendar connections (free tier)
- round-robin and collective scheduling
- attribute-based routing
- SAML SSO / SCIM provisioning
- dedicated database (Organizations tier)
- self-hosting / open-source community edition (Cal.diy)
- API/embedding for developers
- AI phone scheduling agents (Cal.ai)
As the company’s own pages describe it. Forge did not test any of these.
What users raised
- workflows/automations gated behind paid tiers
- self-hosting has hidden infrastructure costs
- per-seat pricing scales expensively for larger teams
- loss of full open-source trust after closed-source move
Themes people raised in public. A complaint is somebody’s opinion, not a measurement of the product.
Everything on record
5 observed claims. Newest first; the tag on each row is what kind of claim you are reading.
- PRODUCTCOMPANY CLAIMSep 6, 2026
Cal.com's Organizations tier adds attribute-based routing, member attributes, restriction schedules, SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, and a dedicated database, features positioned for compliance- and governance-focused buyers.
Defines the feature bar Organizations-tier buyers expect for SSO/governance versus rivals.
cal.com/pricing - PRODUCTFACTSep 6, 2026
Cal.com shipped v6.4–v6.6 releases in 2026 adding a major UI overhaul, live event previews, admin audit logs, AI 'agents,' custom domain support, new scheduling controls, and improved Salesforce routing/event change history, alongside a reported 20x performance improvement for large-org bookings pages.
Signals continued investment in enterprise-grade admin/governance and AI-agent capabilities that competitors will be compared against.
cal.com/blog/calcom-v6-4 - POSITIONINGFACTSep 6, 2026
In April 2026, Cal.com moved its production codebase from a public to a private repository, ending its fully open-source model; the public repo continues as "Cal.diy," an MIT-licensed, self-hostable community edition, while Cal.com's enterprise/commercial codebase is now closed source, a change the company attributed to AI-driven security concerns.
Major identity/positioning shift for a company long marketed as 'the open-source Calendly alternative'; affects self-hosters and developers who chose Cal.com specifically for its open-source license.
cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why - PRICINGCOMPANY CLAIMSep 6, 2026
Cal.ai, Cal.com's AI scheduling layer, is priced separately on a usage basis (reported at roughly $0.29 per minute for AI phone workflows) rather than per-seat, layering variable costs on top of the standard plans.
Affects total cost of ownership for teams adopting Cal.com's AI phone/voice scheduling feature.
cal.com/ai - PRICINGFACTSep 6, 2026
Cal.com's hosted pricing runs a free tier plus a Teams plan around $12–15/user/month (annual billing) and an Organizations plan around $28–37/user/month, with custom Enterprise pricing on request.
Sets the baseline per-seat pricing anchor buyers compare Cal.com against for team and org tiers.
cal.com/pricing
A record of what Forge read in public about Cal.com — its own pages and what people wrote about it. Nothing here is a test of the product, a ranking or a score, and Forge has no relationship with this company.