Calendly Standard, 6 seats → Easy!Appointments, self-hosted
Switch. At $50 an hour, Easy!Appointments saves you $828 over 3 years.
Worth doing only if your hour is worth less than
$85.98/hrBelow that rate, moving to Easy!Appointments pays for itself inside 3 years. Above it, your time is worth more than the saving, and you should stay on Calendly Standard.
Every figure on this page updates as you move these. Most comparisons of this kind quietly assume your time is free and your team never changes size.
What you pay now
| Calendly Standard $10.00/month × 6 seats, billed annual | $60.00 |
| Every month | $60.00 |
What the escape costs
| Linode Nanode 1GB 1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB disk · 0.98 TB transfer | $5.00 |
| Backblaze B2 backup 10 GB at $0.00695/GB/month | $0.07 |
| Your time 0.5 h/month keeping it patched and backed up | $25.00 |
| Every month | $30.07 |
| Migration, once 5 hours of your time, our estimate | $250.00 |
The same box elsewhere, if you already have an account. The arithmetic above uses the cheapest.
- Vultr $5.00 vc2-1c-1gb · $300 of credit for your first 30 days
- Linode $5.00 Nanode 1GB · used above
- DigitalOcean $6.00 1 vCPU · 1 GB
The difference
| Saved each month | $29.93 |
| After one year | $109 |
| After 3 years | $828 |
Or don't run it yourself
PikaPods runs Easy!Appointments from $1.80/month. Runs the same open-source software, applies updates, and takes daily encrypted backups to storage you own. The maintenance hours drop to zero, because not spending them is the entire product.
| PikaPods Easy!Appointments their published minimum for this app | $1.80 |
| Your time nothing per month; they patch it and back it up | $0.00 |
| Every month | $1.80 |
| Migration, once 3 hours — half our estimate for the self-hosted route, since there is no server to build | $150.00 |
| After 3 years, against Calendly Standard | $1,945 |
At $50 an hour that saves $1,945 over 3 years, against $828 for running it yourself.
That figure is PikaPods's own minimum for Easy!Appointments and rises with the CPU, memory and storage you give it — it is not the same allocation as the Linode box priced above, and a busy install will cost more. Verified 19 Oct 2026 from their catalogue.
What you give up, and what you get
You lose
- Calendly's polish, which matters because your customers see this page, not you
- Deep calendar sync; Google works, everything else is thinner
- Routing forms, workflows and reminders beyond the basics
You gain
- A LAMP app that runs on the smallest box sold and asks almost nothing of you
- Free seats, which is the entire argument past a couple of users
- GPL-3.0 with no feature gating
Read this before you decide
- This is the booking page your customers land on. If it looks dated, that cost does not appear anywhere in the arithmetic below and may still be the deciding factor.
- If you want a like-for-like Calendly replacement, read the Cal.com page instead — closer product, heavier server.
- Timezone handling has historically been the rough edge. Test it against a customer in another country before you switch.
Is the project alive?
alextselegidis/easyappointments has 4,447 stars, was last pushed 0 days ago, and last cut a release (1.6.1) 0 days ago. Licence: GPL-3.0. We rate it active. We do not publish comparisons against software that has gone dormant, however good the arithmetic looks.
Every number above comes from one of these, on the date shown. The Calendly figure is the site's own wording: “Standard ... $10 /seat/mo”.
| Calendly pricing page | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Linode plan catalogue | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Backblaze B2 pricing | 3 Sept 2026 |
| alextselegidis/easyappointments activity | 19 Oct 2026 |
Hosting requirements (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB disk), migration hours and maintenance hours are our estimates, not measurements. They are the numbers most worth arguing with, so we put them where you can see them. The cheapest plan meeting those requirements is selected automatically from Linode, Vultr and Linode's live catalogues.