Calendly is $10–$16 per seat per month; Cal.com is open source under MIT and can run in your own account. Scheduling is cheap either way, so the case for owning it is the data: who booked, when, and what they told you.
Scheduling is the cheapest tool on most companies' list. Calendly Standard is $10 per seat per month and Teams $16, billed annually. Cal.com's hosted Teams plan is $12. Nobody replaces Calendly to save money.
The reason to own it is that a booking form is a lead form. The answers people type, which page they booked from and what they read first are sales data. In a hosted tool they live in a separate silo, joined to your analytics by hand if at all.
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We took the last route on our own site: the booking form posts to our own API, the lead carries the visitor id, and the admin panel shows the path each person took before booking.
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