alignd vs Cal.com
alignd or Cal.com? The short answer.
Cal.com is a scheduling platform for publishing your own (or your team's) availability, with a generous free plan for one user and many integrations. alignd is narrower: it gets a group of people to agree on a time, with painted availability or voting, ranked results and one invite to everyone. Note that Cal.com moved its production code to a private repository in April 2026.
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Which should you choose?
Choose alignd if
- Your meetings involve people outside your organisation whose calendars you can't connect.
- You want guests to answer in seconds with no account.
- You want a simple per-host price instead of per-user pricing.
Choose Cal.com if
- You want a full booking platform with routing, workflows and many integrations.
- You need team booking pages and collective availability across your own colleagues.
Feature by feature
alignd vs Cal.com, side by side.
| Feature | alignd | Cal.com |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Finding a time across a group, then sending the invite | Booking pages and scheduling infrastructure |
| Free plan | 5 confirmed bookings a month, both modes, Google Meet | 1 user, unlimited event types |
| Paid plans from | $5.99/month (Premium), per host, not per seat | $12 per user/month (Teams) |
| Find a time across a groupPeople outside your organisation, whose calendars you can't see | Yes. Yes | Partly. Collective events across Cal.com users; polls not documented |
| Guests paint their free timeFree-form availability with an overlap view | Yes. Overlap view, slots ranked by how many can make it | Not documented |
| Vote on proposed times | Yes. Yes, maybe or no | Not documented |
| Guests need an account | No. Optional 6-digit email code | Not documented |
| Each guest sees their own time zone | Yes. Yes | Not documented |
| Calendar invite to everyone once a time is picked | Yes. Calendar invite and .ics, all plans | Not documented |
| Video link added automatically | Yes. Google Meet, all plans | Yes. Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, Cal Video and more |
| Your own branding | Yes. Max plan | Partly. Remove Cal.com branding on Teams |
| Ads on the free plan | No. No | Not documented |
| Open source / self-host | No. No | Partly. Not since April 2026; the Cal.diy fork is MIT-licensed |
Competitor details checked against each vendor's public pages on 11 October 2026. Prices in USD as shown by each vendor, excluding tax. “Not documented” means we couldn't confirm it from public sources. Spotted something out of date? Email hello@wearealignd.com and we'll fix it.
Key differences
What actually differs.
Connected calendars versus open polling
Cal.com's group features work by connecting the calendars of people on Cal.com. alignd asks each guest directly, so it works for anyone with an email address.
Open source status
Cal.com announced in April 2026 that its production code moved to a private repository. The public fork, Cal.diy, is MIT-licensed and positioned for personal, non-production use.
FAQ
Questions
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