Cal.com is scheduling infrastructure you can own. Open source and self-hostable, with calendar sync across Google, Outlook, and iCloud, event types, round-robin and collective team booking, routing forms, workflows for reminders, payments at booking, and an API and embeds developers actually like. Individuals get a generous free plan.
Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own. Cardel scheduling is one person's calendar: no team routing, reminders, or payment at booking.
Cal.com is a booking page and API. Cardel's booking page sits on a site with blog, Showcase, Shop, Videos, and reader comments.
Cal.com confirms by email. Cardel keeps the invitee in your audience, emails from your own domain, and answers in a Messaging Center.
Cal.com charges at booking. Cardel sells items through the Shop and books time without payment.
Choose Cal.com when scheduling is the whole need, especially for teams or developers who want control.
Choose Cardel when a booking page should live inside your site, audience, shop, and inbox on one domain.
You are the Forgemaster. Cardel is your forge. What you build is yours.
Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Cal.com when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list below shows where the two overlap and where they part.
Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Cal.com for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.
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A check means that capability is available. Cal.com is marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.
Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.
Cardel
Build at no cost, then choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live.
Cal.com
See what Cal.com charges on their pricing page.
Forge your community
Looking for a Cal.com alternative? Bring your work to a site of your own.
See how Cardel compares with other products.
You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Business when your site goes live. Cal.com sets its own prices, so check their pricing page below for current plans.
Start with Get Started, set up your site, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.
* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Cardel or Cal.com, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Cardel or Cal.com may add or remove features that are not shown here.
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