Calendly alternative
A scheduler that asks who is booking, before it books.
Setupp is a Calendly alternative that puts your questions in front of the calendar and charges per workspace rather than per seat. Most people looking for an alternative are looking for one of two things: a bill that stops growing with the team, or a booking link that does not hand a slot to anybody who finds it.
By Vedant Kulkarni, founder of Setupp. Prices checked 25 October 2026.
What 10 hosts pay a month
$119.17 a month less with Setupp, $1,430 a year.
List prices, Setupp billed yearly. Calendly: $16 a seat a month, billed yearly, checked on 25 October 2026 on its pricing page.
Every team size, side by sideThis page does the first as arithmetic, using your numbers and our published prices, and describes the second as what it is: the intake questions run first, and the calendar appears only if the answers clear the rules you wrote.
The question underneath the search: Am I paying per seat for people who barely book, and can I stop anybody who finds the link from taking an hour?
Every Calendly 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 Calendly, Inc. Calendly is their trademark, used here to name the thing you are comparing against.
| At a glance | Setupp | Calendly |
|---|---|---|
| How the price grows | Flat per workspace | Per seat |
| Plan that screens bookers before the calendar | Pro and up | Teams and up |
| 3 hosts, a month | $15.83 (Pro) | $48 |
| 10 hosts, a month | $40.83 (Team) | $160 |
What it costs
What your team pays a month, on Setupp and on Calendly.
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$16
- 3 hosts
- $15.83Pro$48
- 5 hosts
- $40.83Team$80
- 10 hosts
- $40.83Team$160
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
Six 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.
You need scheduling for a team that books across dozens of separate calendars with per-person branding and its own domain. This is one workspace with one booking surface.
Your booking links are already printed on business cards, in an email footer, or in an integration you do not control. Setupp cannot serve somebody else's URL, so those links keep pointing where they point until you change them, and every one you miss is a booking that never reaches this side.
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.
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 have a link, and probably several
The thing you are actually moving is a set of URLs. Every one of them is in somebody's calendar invite, an email signature, a proposal template, a Notion page nobody has opened since March. Setupp gives you a new one per meeting type, at your own workspace slug, and cannot serve the old address. So the first week is not a migration, it is an inventory: find the links, decide which ones still matter, and leave the rest pointing where they point until the traffic through them drops to nothing.
The second thing is the questions. If you are already collecting answers before a booking, you have the material for the gate, and moving them across is mostly retyping. What changes is what happens next. Here the answers run before the calendar renders, and rules you write decide whether it renders at all, which means the first version of your rules should be looser than you think. A gate that turns away three real prospects in its first week is a gate the operator switches off, and a switched-off gate is the same as not having one.
The third thing is the team. Setupp is priced per workspace rather than per person, so adding the colleague who takes two bookings a quarter costs nothing and there is no seat to reclaim when somebody leaves. That is the arithmetic below. What it does not change is that every host connects their own calendar, and a host who has not is a host whose real availability nobody can see. The calculator is honest about the money; the connection step is the one that decides whether the calendar is telling the truth.
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 keep my existing booking links?
No. A Setupp booking page lives at your workspace slug and a meeting type slug, and there is no way to serve an address on another domain. Anything already printed or embedded keeps pointing where it points. The practical approach is to move one meeting type at a time and watch which of the old links still gets traffic.
What happens to bookings that already exist?
Nothing. They are on the calendars they were made against and Setupp has never seen them. Running both tools at once for a fortnight is the whole of the migration plan, and the steps below assume you will.
Is there an importer?
No, and this page is not going to imply there is one. Event types are quick to recreate because there are usually four of them, and intake questions are the part worth retyping deliberately rather than importing, since the rules you write against them are the point.
Are you affiliated with Calendly?
No. Setupp is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Calendly, Inc., and Calendly 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.
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- Multi-recipient invitesfrom Pro
- Qualification before the calendarfrom Pro
- A score on every booking
- An embed that inherits your brandfrom Pro