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Meeting scheduling · November 2026 Edition

HubSpot Meetings vs Cal.com

Zero of fourteen models named HubSpot Meetings first on the direct prompt; zero named Cal.com. Both were named by all fourteen models and HubSpot Meetings carries 51 labels and Cal.com 40, so the shares are not directly comparable.

HubSpot Meetings

accepted challenger

By HubSpot, Cambridge, United States, founded 2006. Named in two categories this edition.

Cal.com

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

First-choice share18%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate2%8%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#4A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels5140A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, HubSpot Meetings reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Calendly was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Calendly vs HubSpot Meetings · Calendly vs Cal.com · HubSpot Meetings vs Chili Piper

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the meeting scheduling page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
HubSpot MeetingsFirst choices, of fourteen modelsCal.com
Direct00
Paraphrase00
Comparative01
Budget-constrained92
Scale-constrained00
Negative131 against HubSpot Meetings · 3 against Cal.com
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, HubSpot Meetings and Cal.com were named in the same answer eighty-two times, of the 139 answers naming HubSpot Meetings and the 138 naming Cal.com. In those answers Cal.com took the first choice nine times and HubSpot Meetings eleven.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where HubSpot Meetings and Cal.com stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
HubSpot Meetings Cal.com first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, HubSpot Meetings on the left and Cal.com on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where HubSpot Meetings and Cal.com stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

11 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Calendly alternatives: Chili Piper, HubSpot Meetings, RevenueHero
Gemini 3.5 FlashChili Piper alternatives: Calendly, HubSpot Meetings, RevenueHero
Perplexity SonarChili Piper alternatives: Cal.com, Calendly, HubSpot Meetings, LeadAngel
Mistral SmallCalendly, Chili Piper alternatives: HubSpot Meetings
DeepSeek V4 FlashCalendly, RevenueHero alternatives: Cal.com, HubSpot Sales Hub
Qwen 3.7 FlashCalendly, Chili Piper alternatives: HubSpot Meetings, Salesforce Scheduler
Kimi K2RevenueHero alternatives: Calendly, HubSpot Meetings
GLM 4.7 FlashXCalendly alternatives: Cal.com, Chili Piper, HubSpot Sales Hub
MiniMax M2.5Calendly alternatives: Cal.com, Chili Piper, HubSpot Meetings
GPT-6 LunaCalendly alternatives: Chili Piper, HubSpot Meetings
Muse Glimmer 30BCalendly alternatives: Chili Piper, HubSpot Meetings

Neither was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniChili Piper alternatives: Calendly, HubSpot Sales Hub
Grok 4.20Calendly alternatives: Chili Piper, HubSpot Sales Hub, OnceHub, SavvyCal
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
HubSpot Meetings leads by sixteen points.
HubSpot Meetings20%#2 of 12
Cal.com4%#4 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
HubSpot Meetings leads by fourteen points.
HubSpot Meetings18%#2 of 11
Cal.com4%#4 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Cal.com leads at enterprise.
Cal.com7%#3 of 8
HubSpot Meetings2%#5 of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about HubSpot Meetings

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.

“Heavy visitor tracking and data harvesting... inappropriate for personal use” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“If you're already using HubSpot CRM, HubSpot Meetings is likely the best fit due to its deep integration and free tier.” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“For a sales team with a very limited budget, I'd strongly recommend starting with HubSpot Meetings (free).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“HubSpot Meetings (free tier) is the best overall choice for sales teams on a limited budget.” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Cal.com

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of six in this category shown.

“Included in "avoid" lists alongside Calendly and Doodle on privacy sites” Grok 4.20 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Tools such as Cal.com can provide control and customization, but self-hosting leaves your team responsible for uptime, security patches, backups, and scaling.” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative
“the recent broken access control history means you should verify patch status, version, and access controls before using it for sensitive data” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Cal.com is the strongest starting point among Calendly alternatives for free solo booking and affordable team routing” Muse Glimmer 30B · budget prompt · first choice
“tools like Cal.com (open-source, self-hosting available) ... offer stronger privacy-by-design architectures” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · first choice
“High-rated options balancing privacy and functionality include Cal.com (open-source)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.