A free Calendly alternative for teams, routing, and unlimited event types
42min gives freelancers and small teams the scheduling features that usually require paid Calendly plans: no credit card, no per-seat bill, no time limit.
No credit card · Free plan
The paid features, unlocked
These are the tools Calendly reserves for Teams and add-ons. In 42min they're on by default. Here's what they do for you.
Free to start, and it stays free
Calendly's paid tiers open with a 14-day trial. Nothing expires here, and there is no card on file. The features listed on this page are unlocked on the free plan today, and free for your whole team.
Free means everything
Calendly's free plan is one event type and one calendar. Our free plan is round robin, routing forms, automations, teams, webhooks: the whole product, for every user.
Free for the whole team
Calendly bills $10–16 per seat, per month. Invite your entire team to 42min and the price stays exactly $0.
Where Calendly is stronger. It has a larger integration marketplace and deeper enterprise procurement support. 42min is the better pick if your priority is full-featured scheduling without per-seat pricing.
What Calendly costs your team
Calendly bills per seat, every month. Here's the yearly bill next to 42min: Standard at $10/seat/mo for one person, Teams at $16/seat/mo once you have a team, both billed annually.
| Team size | Calendly | 42min |
|---|---|---|
| Solo (1 person) | $120 / yr | $0 |
| Small team (5 seats) | $960 / yr | $0 |
| Growing team (20 seats) | $3,840 / yr | $0 |
| Department (50 seats) | $9,600 / yr | $0 |
The solo row uses the annual Standard rate ($120/yr); the team rows use the annual Teams rate (~$192/seat/yr). Monthly billing runs about 20% higher. 42min is $0 at any team size.
Stop paying per seat
Whatever Calendly bills per seat, 42min is $0, with the same round robin, same routing, same reminders. Move your team over today.
No credit card · Free plan
Feature by feature
Everything in the 42min column is free. Most of Calendly's columns aren't.
| FEATURE | 42min FREE · everything | Calendly Free $0 · capped | Calendly Standard $10/seat/mo* | Calendly Teams $16/seat/mo* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE BASICS | ||||
| Price for full feature set | $0 | Not available | $10/seat/mo* | $16/seat/mo* |
| Per-user (per-seat) billing | Never | — | Yes | Yes |
| Active event types | Unlimited | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Calendar connections | Unlimited | 1 | Multiple | Multiple |
| Credit card to start | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Remove vendor branding | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| EVENT TYPES & SCHEDULING | ||||
| Round robin (team load-balancing) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Group events | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Group events with a rotating host (round robin) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Recurring meetings | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Auto-holiday blocking (50+ countries) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Named, reusable schedules | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Daily / weekly / monthly caps | ✓ | Daily only | Daily only | Daily only |
| Per-event language | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| FORMS & ROUTING | ||||
| Routing forms | ✓ Advanced | ✗ | ✗ | Add-on |
| If-then logic (AND / OR) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid |
| Multi-step lead qualification | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid |
| Route by geography & language | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Limited |
| Submission analytics + CSV | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid |
| AUTOMATIONS | ||||
| Email reminders | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS reminders | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid |
| Follow-up emails & workflows | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rich HTML email builder | ✓ | Plain | Plain | Limited |
| Webhooks | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid |
| Google / Outlook 2-way sync | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Apple iCloud Calendar | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Zoho / Yahoo / Fastmail / CalDAV | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| TEAMS & ANALYTICS | ||||
| Teams & multi-account | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| RBAC roles & admin controls | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Executive / funnel analytics | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Paid |
| CSV export | ✓ | ✗ | Limited | ✓ |
* Calendly Standard and Teams are billed annually; monthly billing is higher. Free-plan limits and tier gating per calendly.com/pricing, May 2026.
Calendly's free plan limits, explained
Calendly's free tier is real, and for a single person booking one kind of meeting it works fine. The limits show up when you need a second meeting type, a second calendar, or a teammate. Below is where the free plan ends (verified against calendly.com/pricing in May 2026) and what 42min includes instead.
One event type
You can draft several, but only a single event type stays active and bookable at a time. Need a 15-min intro and a 60-min deep-dive live at once? That's a paid upgrade.
One calendar connection
Conflict-checking reads from a single calendar. A second work or personal calendar means double-bookings, or a paid plan.
Calendly branding stays
The free booking page carries Calendly's logo and footer. Removing it requires Standard.
No team scheduling
Round robin, collective events, and managed event types are Teams-only. Solo use is the entire free experience.
No automated workflows
Beyond a basic confirmation, reminder and follow-up emails, SMS nudges, and workflows live on paid tiers.
No routing or webhooks
Routing forms and lead qualification, and webhooks, are gated behind Teams or add-ons.
42min has none of those limits. Run unlimited active event types, connect every calendar you own, and remove all third-party branding. Round robin, routing, reminders, and webhooks are available from the day you sign up, with no card and no tier upgrade. The screenshot below shows multi-country holiday blocking, something Calendly doesn't offer on any plan.
How to switch from Calendly in 4 steps
Moving is mostly copy-and-paste. There's no data export to wrangle: your bookings live in your calendar, and 42min reads them directly once connected. Plan on about ten minutes.
Create your free account
Sign up with email or Google, with no credit card to enter. You land in a full-featured workspace immediately.
Connect your calendar
Sync in both directions with Google, Outlook, Apple iCloud, Zoho, Fastmail, or any CalDAV server. 42min reads your busy times and writes new bookings straight back, across as many calendars as you like.
Recreate your event types
Rebuild your 15/30/60-minute meetings, or clone one and tweak. Set durations, buffers, questions, and availability. Keep them all active at once.
Swap your booking link
Update your email signature, website button, and social bios to your new 42min link. Most people are fully live in about 10 minutes.
Free and shaped around you
On Calendly, a missing feature usually means an enterprise upsell. On 42min you email us, and we often build it.
Request a feature, get a feature
Just tell us what you need in a short form. Requests go straight to the build board, with no paid tier and no waiting room.
Fast shipping, in public
We build openly and ship often. Requested features and fixes usually ship within a few weeks.
Deep customization
Per-event languages, custom flows, HTML emails, color coding, routing logic: adapt the product to how your team already works.
Who 42min is best for
Pick the tool that fits. A quick guide:
Pick 42min if…
- ✓Freelancers and solopreneurs who need more than one event type without paying a cent
- ✓Small teams that want round robin and routing forms but refuse a per-seat bill
- ✓International and multilingual businesses
- ✓Teams that want a say in the roadmap and features shipped on request
Calendly may fit better if…
- •You depend today on a specific native integration from Calendly's large marketplace (e.g. Salesforce)
- •You require enterprise compliance certifications and 24/7 SLA-backed support right now
- •You prefer a long-established vendor over a fast-moving product still building in public
Most of these are roadmap items for us, and the fastest way to move them up is to ask for it.
Questions, answered
It's free to use. Nothing expires and no credit card is required, and every feature listed here (routing forms, round robin, automations, teams, webhooks) is on the free plan at $0.
Teams already scheduling with 42min
Leave the per-seat bill behind
Connect Google, Outlook, or iCloud, recreate your event types, share your link. Everything you paid Calendly for is free here, and we'll build what's missing.
No credit card · Free plan