3 categories · RankedCal.com
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Calendly is first at 66%.
Calendly is first at 56%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Calendly is first at 54%.
Why models recommend it
“Cal.com is the most affordable sales engagement platform because of its robust free tier that's free for individuals forever.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Cal.com is the strongest starting point among Calendly alternatives for free solo booking and affordable team routing”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“tools like Cal.com (open-source, self-hosting available) ... offer stronger privacy-by-design architectures”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
“High-rated options balancing privacy and functionality include Cal.com (open-source)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Included in "avoid" lists alongside Calendly and Doodle on privacy sites”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“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 question · warning
“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 question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cal.com, over the 138 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 122 | 73 | Compare → | |
| 82 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 78 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 2 | View → | |
| 37 | 0 | View → | |
| 33 | 1 | View → | |
| 33 | 0 | View → | |
| 26 | 1 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 19 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cal.com →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 133 of the 138 answers that named Cal.com and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
336 of the 447 domain citations in answers naming Cal.com came from a third party's page. Twenty-four were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 650 | 95 | 2026-09-29 | Scheduling, CRM | |
| Comparison | 40 | 33 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Report or ebook | 32 | 13 | 2026-09-29 | CRM | |
| Conference or event | 30 | 5 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Case study | 13 | 12 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 7 | 7 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 3 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 2 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| News or press | 2 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cal.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.