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  "slug": "calendly-to-calcom",
  "title": "Calendly Standard to self-hosted Cal.com",
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    "you_lose": [
      "Calendly's polish, particularly on mobile booking pages",
      "Managed calendar-sync reliability — OAuth tokens to Google and Microsoft are now yours to keep alive",
      "Some routing and workflow features gated behind Cal.com's own commercial licence"
    ],
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      "Free seats, which is the whole argument once you pass a handful of users",
      "Booking data in your own database",
      "AGPL-3.0 for the core product"
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  "caveats": [
    "Cal.com self-hosted is a Next.js monorepo and is heavier to run than its feature list suggests. The 4 GB requirement is not padding.",
    "Parts of Cal.com are under a commercial licence rather than the AGPL core. Check the /packages/features/ee directory against what you need before committing.",
    "Google Calendar OAuth setup is fiddly and is the most common place this migration stalls."
  ],
  "category": "scheduling",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-19"
}