Calendly vs Acuity Scheduling
The honest version: both are capable, both have real weaknesses their users write about constantly, and there's a third option this comparison won't hide until the end — it's free, so we can afford to be fair about the first two.
Calendly
Free (1 event type); ~$10–$16/seat/mo
The default booking link — polished one-on-one and team scheduling, priced per seat.
Calendly's free plan allows one event type; Standard is ~$10 and Teams ~$16 per seat per month — a five-person team on Teams is roughly $960 a year, for scheduling alone.
- “Fair for one seat, steep across the team — and inactive seats keep billing”
- “The free plan is one event type with Calendly branding”
- “Auto-renewal charged us and cancelling was a fight”
Acuity Scheduling
~$16–$49/mo
Squarespace's appointment platform — a favorite of salons, studios and clinics, from ~$16/mo.
Acuity runs ~$16–$49 a month depending on calendars and locations — roughly $190–$590 a year, on top of whatever you use for books, projects and team chat.
- “Squarespace froze it — no meaningful new features in years”
- “Email-only support with bot-driven answers”
- “No free tier — the trial is seven days”
you book meetings — sales calls, interviews, consultations.
you run an appointment business — packages, intake, gift certificates.
The option Calendly-vs-Acuity articles skip
Coordinator covers what both do — free, with unlimited users and no usage meters — inside one system that also runs the rest of a small business: real books, projects with job costing, booking pages, client records, and a network where your invoice lands in your client's books. The honest trade: it's web-only today, and each specialist keeps its deepest niche feature — both comparison pages above say exactly which.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
Competitor pricing approximate, from published plans as of August 2026.
Settle it with the free one
Try the third option this afternoon — if it doesn't fit, the other two aren't going anywhere.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.