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Kill Calendly

$16-20/mo per user

Calendly charges $16-20/month per user to share a booking link. Cal.com is the open source version of the same thing. Self-host it on Railway in under an hour for $5/month total - regardless of how many people are on your team.

Why Replace Calendly?

  • ×You're paying $16-20/month per person for five features Cal.com has had since version one - booking links, availability, buffer time, confirmations, and calendar blocking
  • ×Per-seat pricing compounds fast - five people on Calendly is close to $100/month, five people on self-hosted Cal.com is still $5/month
  • ×Calendly auto-renews annual plans and the cancellation is intentionally buried under Account > Billing
  • ×Self-hosting Cal.com on Railway means you own your scheduling data and pay one flat hosting bill regardless of team size

What People Use Calendly For

Personal booking links for prospects and clients
Event types (30-min call, 60-min call, discovery call)
Buffer time between meetings
Confirmation emails when someone books
Calendar blocking to prevent double-booking

Replacement Stack

Cal.com (self-hosted)

Open source Calendly. Unlimited event types, multiple calendar connections (Google, Outlook, iCloud, Exchange), team scheduling, round-robin routing, booking pages on your own domain, confirmation and reminder emails, embed on your website, webhooks, and routing forms. The full 99% open source build covers everything except SAML SSO and HIPAA compliance.

Free (self-hosted)Get Started

Railway

One-click hosting for Cal.com. Railway handles Docker, environment variables, and database provisioning automatically. Usage-based pricing, no contracts, no minimum commitment. At this scale you'll pay around $5/month.

~$5/moGet Started

Kill Checklist

1

Export your Calendly data

~5 mins

Go to Reporting in your Calendly account and export a CSV of past bookings. Save it somewhere accessible - you won't import it into Cal.com but you may want the history later. All future bookings go through Cal.com.

2

Create a Railway account

~5 mins

Railway is where Cal.com will run. Usage-based pricing, no contracts, no minimum commitment. At this scale you'll pay around $5/month. Sign up and connect your GitHub account.

https://railway.com?referralCode=killyoursaas →
3

Deploy Cal.com on Railway

~5 mins

Railway has a one-click Cal.com template. Click the deploy link, sign in, and click Deploy. Railway will provision the Cal.com application container, a PostgreSQL database, and pre-configured environment variables. Takes 3-5 minutes. No terminal required.

https://railway.com/new/template/cal?referralCode=killyoursaas →
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  • ✓Pick which Calendly features you care about - skip the rest
  • ✓Get a Claude prompt customized to your exact setup
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