3 categories · RankedCalendly
Calendly is meeting scheduling software with AI meeting tools, used by individuals, small businesses and large companies, including sales, marketing, customer success and recruiting teams · calendly.com ↗
Leads at small business. Ranked 1 of 74 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is HubSpot Meetings at 20%.
Ranked first. Next is HubSpot Meetings at 18%. 9 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is Chili Piper at 29%.
Why models recommend it
“The best meeting scheduling tool for sales teams on a limited budget is Calendly, which offers a free plan and paid plans starting at $10/seat/mo.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Calendly is arguably the most popular standalone scheduling tool... Best balance of features, price, and ease of use for most people.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“Calendly is the best overall pick for most sales teams because it balances CRM integration, round robin routing, and ease of setup.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Use well-established tools like Calendly, Chili Piper, or HubSpot Meetings, which are widely adopted and continuously updated”Mistral Small · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“specifically avoid putting PHI or highly confidential information into tools like Calendly that explicitly prohibit it”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Frequently flagged in privacy lists (e.g., Awesome Privacy recommends avoiding it)”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“A 2025 study of Zoom apps flagged the *Calendly for Zoom* integration as requesting access to meeting content that appeared unnecessary for its scheduling function.”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“Sharing Calendly links publicly creates risks including making your scheduling patterns visible to competitors or bad actors”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Calendly, over the 232 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 136 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 134 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 122 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 65 | 0 | View → | |
| 56 | 0 | View → | |
| 53 | 0 | View → | |
| 47 | 0 | View → | |
| 38 | 1 | View → | |
| 35 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Calendly →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Calendly's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Individuals, small business, large companies, sales, marketing, customer success, recruiting, education, technology, financial services, professional services
- Price stated
- Pricing
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free; No credit card required
- Integrations
- 150
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, CSA STAR, PCI DSS, ISO 27001
- Customers named
- Pua Pakele, Alation, Inc., Virtru, AgriWebb
- Headquarters
- United States
- Founded
- 2013
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 201 of the 232 answers that named Calendly and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
507 of the 609 domain citations in answers naming Calendly came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 276 | 14 | 2026-09-18 | Scheduling, CRM | |
| Report or ebook | 126 | 0 | 2024-03-29 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 69 | 0 | 2024-11-21 | ||
| Case study | 60 | 0 | 2026-05-29 | ||
| News or press | 32 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 28 | 0 | 2025-05-09 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 28 | 1 | 2026-08-18 | ||
| Conference or event | 20 | 0 | 2026-06-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2024-11-25 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-18Company and product blog
- 2026-09-18Typeform integration blog
- 2026-09-18Integrations blog
- 2026-09-18Sales and marketing blog
- 2026-09-17Growth and productivity blog
- 2026-09-17Social media integrations blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page calendly.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.