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Both cover scheduling & booking. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| OnceHub | zcal | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $10 | From $7 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | 14 days | 14 days |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
| Covers | Scheduling & Booking | Scheduling & Booking |
| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Scheduling with a phone number attached
OnceHub does the booking page and the routing every scheduler does, then hands the booking a dedicated phone number, so a call that was always going to happen on the phone gets booked and dialled from one record. Free covers one link and one calendar. Past that it is priced per seat, and the routing tier costs about twice the basic one.
Our note
Against Calendly and Cal.com this is the pick only if the phone number or the routing matters, since both of those do plain scheduling for less. On the free tiers the three are close enough that the deciding factor is which one your calendar prefers.
Scheduling with most of it on the free plan
zcal is a booking page in the Calendly shape, and its argument is how much sits on the free tier: the paid plans are mostly about branding, teams and payments rather than about how many event types you may have. Booking pages carry a designed cover rather than a plain form. For one person sending a link, the free plan is usually the whole product.
Our note
Start on free and expect to stay there if you are one person, because the paid tiers are aimed at teams rather than at power users. Cal.com is the alternative worth weighing, and it is open source if self-hosting matters to you.
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