Cal.com alternative
Hosted, flat-priced, and the calendar is conditional.
Setupp is a hosted Cal.com alternative with qualification built in and a flat price per workspace, and it cannot be self-hosted. People arrive at this query from two different places. Some want to run their own scheduling infrastructure. Some want the thing an open-source scheduler is usually chosen INSTEAD of paying for, which is a bill that does not scale with headcount.
By Vedant Kulkarni, founder of Setupp. Prices checked 25 October 2026.
What 10 hosts pay a month
$79.17 a month less with Setupp, $950.00 a year.
List prices, Setupp billed yearly. Cal.com: $12 a user a month, billed yearly, checked on 25 October 2026 on its pricing page.
Every team size, side by sideSetupp answers the second and not the first. It is hosted, there is no self-hosted edition and no plan to build one, and the source is not published. What it does have is the part that is hard to add afterwards: the booking is conditional on the answers.
The question underneath the search: Can I stop paying per seat without running scheduling infrastructure myself?
Every Cal.com price on this page is a list price read off its own pricing page on 25 October 2026, and linked where it appears. Yearly billing, US dollars, before tax. If nobody rechecks them within 90 days, this page stops showing them rather than guess.
Setupp is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Cal.com, Inc. Cal.com is their trademark, used here to name the thing you are comparing against.
| At a glance | Setupp | Cal.com |
|---|---|---|
| How the price grows | Flat per workspace | Per user |
| Plan that screens bookers before the calendar | Pro and up | Teams and up |
| 3 hosts, a month | $15.83 (Pro) | $36 |
| 10 hosts, a month | $40.83 (Team) | $120 |
What it costs
What your team pays a month, on Setupp and on Cal.com.
Their list price against our flat one, at four team sizes. Paying something different? Put your own numbers in beside it.
- 1 host
- $15.83Pro$12
- 3 hosts
- $15.83Pro$36
- 5 hosts
- $40.83Team$60
- 10 hosts
- $40.83Team$120
Hosts, not everyone with a login. Up to 50.
Off your invoice, not off a pricing page.
- What you pay now6 × $12 a month
- $72
- Setupp Teamflat, up to 10 hosts
- $49
$276
$23 a month less, 32% cheaper, and the next 4 hosts cost nothing at all.
See it work
Three screens, straight from the product.
Real captures of a booking page and a booked call, not mock-ups. The numbers point at what is different.
Your questions come first.
- No time slot yetThe booker answers your questions before a single slot loads.
- Rules you writeEach answer is checked against conditions you set, like a minimum monthly budget. From Pro.
- Every host on one inviteEverybody on your side of the call is on the same calendar event as a full attendee. Pro includes 3 hosts.
No slot to take, and a message in your words.
- Turned away before the calendarMiss one of your rules and there is no slot to take. From Pro.
- Your words, not oursThey read the message you wrote for people who are not a fit yet.
- A way backIf things change, they can leave an address for you to follow up.
Every booking arrives scored, with the reason.
- A score on every bookingEvery booking is scored from 0 to 10, on every plan including Free.
- The reason, in plain wordsWritten for you, so you know which call to prepare for, and why.
- Hosts as real attendeesBoth hosts are on the invite and accepted it, rather than being copied in.
What is actually different
Three differences, and only one of them is the price.
Each of these is a fact about this product rather than a claim about another one, which is why each of them carries the tier it is on.
The slot is offered after the answers, not before.
Scoring on every plan including Free. Turning somebody away starts at Pro, $19 a month.A scheduling link is an open door. Anybody who finds it takes a slot, and the first time you learn whether they were worth an hour is when you are already in the hour.
Setupp puts the intake questions first and reads the answers before the calendar appears. If they fail the rules you wrote, they never see a time. If they pass, the booking is confirmed with a 0 to 10 score and the reasoning attached, so you walk in knowing which of the four meetings on Thursday matters.
The rules are yours and they are ordinary conditions on the fields you already ask about: company size, budget, whether they have a system in place today.
How the qualification gate worksA second host is a setting, not a purchase order.
3, 10 and 50 hosts by tier. Round robin assignment from Team.Put a solutions engineer on the discovery call and, under per-seat pricing, that is another subscription every month whether or not they take a booking that week.
Here the plan includes hosts the way it includes calendar connections. Pro covers three, Team ten, Business fifty. You add one in settings and the invoice does not notice until you cross the number on your plan.
One invite goes out with every host on it, availability is intersected across all of their calendars, and the reschedule updates the same event rather than sending a second one.
How multi-host invites workThe price steps twice and then stops.
Free, $19, $49 and $249 a month, per workspace.Per-seat pricing has one property that matters more than the rate: the bill is a function of headcount, so it grows every time the team does, and the growth is automatic.
A flat workspace price is a different shape. It is worse at the bottom, because a floor is a floor, and better everywhere above the crossover. The calculator further up finds yours.
Nothing is metered per booking at any tier, so a good month costs the same as a quiet one.
See every planAnd one more, from Pro: Setupp researches the company behind each booking before the call, from their website, their ads on Meta and Google and their competitors. See what pre-call research finds.
When not to move
Seven reasons to stay where you are.
Written by the people who would rather you did not sign up than sign up and leave in six weeks.
Self-hosting is the requirement. There is no self-hosted edition of Setupp, the source is not published, and neither is planned. If the point is that it runs on your own hardware under your own control, nothing further down this page changes that and you should stop reading here.
You want to fork it. Same answer, and worth saying twice, because it is the single most common reason somebody types this query.
You are one person with one calendar and a rate under the crossover the calculator found. A floor is a floor, and this one would cost you money.
Your booking links are printed on something. Business cards, an email signature template rolled out to two hundred people, a QR code on a banner. Setupp cannot forward somebody else's URL, so those links go dead when you close the account rather than redirecting.
You need a scheduler on iCloud today. Apple Calendar is written and tested against a stubbed server, and the integrations page marks it in development because it has never spoken to a real iCloud account. Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar are live.
Routing by territory, by round-robin weighting, by lead owner lookup in a CRM. There is round robin and there is collective assignment. There is not a rules engine that reads an account record and picks an owner.
You want everything in one place through a single automation platform. Outbound webhooks are on Business. A published Zapier app is not built yet, and the integrations page marks it planned rather than coming soon.
Before the arithmetic
You were probably running it yourself
The honest version of this page is short: if the reason you chose a self-hostable scheduler is that it runs on your own hardware, stop here. There is no self-hosted edition, the source is not published, and neither is planned. Nothing further down changes that, and a comparison page that buries it three sections deep is wasting your afternoon.
If the reason was the bill rather than the hosting, the trade is a different one. What you give up is control of the deployment, the ability to read the code, and the option to fork it the day a decision goes against you. What you get back is the part that is genuinely awkward to add to a scheduler after the fact: the booking being conditional on the answers. Every host's calendar is read live, the qualification rules run server-side on both the check and the booking, and a calendar Setupp cannot read is withheld rather than published as free.
There is a middle position worth naming, because people in it usually do not realise they are. Running your own instance has a running cost that is not on any invoice: the upgrades, the OAuth app that has to be verified in your own name, the day the token refresh breaks and it is your evening. If that cost is the one you are actually trying to stop paying, this is a fair comparison. If it is the licence you object to, it is not.
If you do move
Five steps, a fortnight, and nothing switched off early.
There is no importer and this page is not going to imply there is one. What there is instead is a way to run both at once until you are sure.
- Step 1
Connect the calendar
Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar, in about thirty seconds. Existing events become busy time immediately, so nothing double-books while both tools are running.
- Step 2
Rebuild one event type
By hand. There is no importer, and for one event type there does not need to be: duration, buffers, notice, availability windows. Ten minutes, and Free covers exactly one.
- Step 3
Write the questions and the rules
The part that has no equivalent to migrate, because it is the reason for moving. Start with the two questions you always end up asking on the call anyway.
- Step 4
Run both for a fortnight
Keep the old link live and put the new one on one surface. On Free the score is advisory: it never turns anybody away, so you can see what it would have said before you let it act.
- Step 5
Move the link
When the scores are matching your read on the calls, swap the link everywhere and let the old tool lapse at renewal. Never mid-cycle: you have already paid for it.
Qualify leads before they book, not after
What you get, by tier
The tier every claim on this page sits on.
Read out of the entitlements table the product enforces, not retyped from the pricing page, so this cannot promise something the code refuses to do.
| Capability | Free | Pro | Team | Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Setupp Score on every booking | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Turn a booker away automatically | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Your own scoring criteria | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Round robin assignment | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| A different form per event type | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Meeting document per booking | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Embed on your own site | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Outbound webhooks | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Hosts included | 1 | 3 | 10 | 50 |
| Per month, per workspace | Free | $19 | $49 | $249 |
Single sign-on, an audit log and a public API are on the roadmap and are deliberately absent from this table rather than listed and crossed out, because a row nobody enforces is a claim nobody checks.
Before you switch
The questions worth asking of any scheduler, including this one.
Is Setupp cheaper?
Above the crossover, yes. Below it, no, and the calculator on this page says so rather than rendering a zero. At the representative rate of $12 a seat the crossover is 21 hosts; at a lower rate it is higher, and at a low enough rate there isn't one. The gap widens as you add hosts WITHIN a plan and resets when you cross into the next one: at $12 a seat, ten hosts saves $71 a month and eleven saves $-117, because the eleventh is the one that moves you to Business. Drag the calculator across a step and you can watch it happen.
Can I import my existing event types and booking links?
No. There is no importer, and no way to forward a link that lives on somebody else's domain. Rebuilding one event type takes about ten minutes; the honest advice is to move one, run both tools for a fortnight, and only then swap the link everywhere.
Does the qualification gate work on the free plan?
The score does, the gate does not. Free collects the intake answers and scores every booking 0 to 10, and it confirms all of them. Declining somebody automatically starts at Pro. That split is deliberate: it lets you see what the rules would have done for a fortnight before you let them do it.
Which calendars does it work with?
Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar are both live: real free/busy for every host, and one event with all of them on it. The meeting link can be Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, and the booker and every host get the same one. Zoom is built and tested, and coming soon. Apple Calendar over CalDAV is written and in testing, and it is called live only once it has run against a real iCloud account. The integrations page shows where each one stands.
What happens to bookings already on my calendar?
Nothing. Setupp reads your calendar for busy time and writes new events; it never touches anything it did not create. Both tools can run side by side for as long as you want, which is what makes a two week overlap the sensible way to move.
Can I self-host Setupp?
No, and there is no plan to make that possible. Setupp is a hosted product on a flat per-workspace price. If self-hosting is what you are looking for, this is not the tool, and no part of this page argues otherwise.
Is Setupp open source?
No. The source is not published. Where the site makes a factual claim about what the product does, it is written so you can check it against behaviour rather than against code: every entitlement is listed on the pricing page, every OAuth scope is printed verbatim on the integrations page, and the deployment's own health endpoint reports which integrations are live.
What happens to my data if I stop paying?
The workspace drops to the Free plan rather than being deleted. Bookings, answers and scores stay readable, the badge comes back on the booking page, and the features above Free stop applying to new configuration rather than being removed from what already exists. If you want the data out, every booking and its answers are on the booking detail pages, and there is no export button yet.
Are you affiliated with Cal.com?
No. Setupp is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Cal.com, Inc., and Cal.com is their trademark. The prices on this page are list prices from their own pricing page, checked on 25 October 2026 and linked where they appear, and the calculator takes yours if you pay something else.
Stop taking calls you would have declined.
Connect a calendar, add the questions you already ask on every call, and set your minimum. It takes about twenty minutes, and it saves the half hours you spend finding out a call was never going to work.
Free for one host, for as long as you like. You don’t need a card or a sales call to start.
- Multi-recipient invitesfrom Pro
- Qualification before the calendarfrom Pro
- A score on every booking
- An embed that inherits your brandfrom Pro