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The free-or-$29-once booking page — unlimited booking types without a monthly subscription.
The cheapest credible booking page for one person: $0 to start, $29 once for the full solo feature set, no subscription required.
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TidyCal does the core booking-link job for $0, or $29 once for auto meeting links and custom emails — no monthly subscription required.
You want clients to book and pay you without adding another monthly bill, and unlimited booking types matter more than polish.
You need enterprise controls, deep CRM routing, or you dislike buying the lifetime tier through AppSumo.
Workflows are built only from verified capabilities in our listing research — no vendor copy, nothing invented.
Starts A client needs a session with you
You get A confirmed, paid booking with no email tennis
The whole scheduling-and-payment chore in one link
Starts You sell sessions in blocks or on subscription
You get Prepaid, recurring client sessions
Predictable income without chasing invoices
Starts A booking lands on Individual Lifetime or above
You get A meeting with its video link and emails handled
Approval Manual booking approvals can be switched on per booking type
No manual link-pasting or confirmation chasing
Starts You already run Calendly event types
You get The same booking setup without the monthly fee
Switching cost is close to zero
Your booking page is live the moment you sign up; Free already allows unlimited booking types.
Free connects 1 calendar; add your session types and prices.
Individual Lifetime at $29 once adds auto meeting links, custom emails and 10 calendars — no renewal.
Put the page in your signature, site and profiles; use the Calendly importer if you are switching.
Time to first useful result: Under 1 hour · no-code 5/5
Free $0 forever (unlimited bookings and types, 1 calendar, 1% platform fee on Stripe payments). Individual Lifetime $29 one-time via AppSumo — auto meeting links, AI assistant, custom emails, 10 calendars. Agency Lifetime $79 one-time — round robin, collective, team page, 10 SMS/mo. Pro $12/mo billed monthly or $99/yr ($8.25/mo billed annually) — no branding, no platform fee, custom domain, unlimited calendars and SMS. Lifetime plans are one-time payments, not subscriptions.
$0 — forever free
Flat / month · $0/mo for one person
$29 one-time payment (sold via AppSumo)
Custom / quoted · $null/mo for one person
$79 one-time payment (sold via AppSumo)
Custom / quoted
$12/mo billed monthly, or $99/yr ($8.25/mo billed annually)
Flat / month · $8.25/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 — forever free | $0/mo | Flat / month | 1% platform fee on Stripe payments, on top of Stripe's own fees · No auto-created meeting links, custom emails or AI features |
| Individual LifetimeSolo pick | $29 one-time payment (sold via AppSumo) | $null/mo | Custom / quoted | Sold through AppSumo, not directly on tidycal.com · Reduced (not removed) TidyCal branding; 1% platform fee still applies |
| Agency Lifetime | $79 one-time payment (sold via AppSumo) | — | Custom / quoted | Team tier — a solo gains little over Individual Lifetime · 1% platform fee still applies |
| Pro | $12/mo billed monthly, or $99/yr ($8.25/mo billed annually) | $8.25/mo | Flat / month | The only recurring subscription — the cost Lifetime buyers avoid |
Almost none: the only recurring risk is choosing Pro ($8.25–$12/mo) or the 1% platform fee on paid bookings under Free and Lifetime. Lifetime tiers never renew.
Price record · 2026-11-07: First listing check, 2026-11-07, on tidycal.com/pricing read directly: Free $0 forever, Individual Lifetime $29 one-time, Agency Lifetime $79 one-time, Pro $12/mo monthly or $99/yr ($8.25/mo billed annually), all extracted as text including the full comparison table (calendar connections 1/10/10/unlimited; 1% platform fee on Free and both Lifetime plans, none on Pro). The pricing FAQ confirms Lifetime plans are single payments with no renewal, sold on AppSumo.
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TidyCal is the budget answer in this job, and its pricing is genuinely unusual: a free plan that already includes unlimited bookings and unlimited booking types, then lifetime deals instead of subscriptions. As of November 2026 the free tier connects one calendar, takes paid bookings through Stripe and PayPal (with a 1 percent TidyCal platform fee on top of Stripe's own charges), and covers recurring, package and group bookings, date polls and a digital storefront. Individual Lifetime costs $29 once, sold through AppSumo, and adds the things a working solo actually needs: auto-created Zoom, Meet and Teams links, an AI booking assistant, custom emails and analytics, booking limits and manual approvals, and up to 10 calendar connections. Agency Lifetime at $79 once adds round robin and collective meetings, a team booking page and 10 SMS reminders a month. Pro is the only subscription, at $12 a month or $99 a year ($8.25 a month billed annually), and it removes TidyCal branding and the platform fee, adds a custom domain, priority support, unlimited SMS reminders and unlimited calendar connections. The trade-offs are polish and depth: the interface is simpler than Calendly's, team features are thinner, and the lifetime route runs through AppSumo rather than TidyCal itself. But for a solo founder whose scheduling need is simply 'clients book and pay me', TidyCal delivers it for $0, $29 once, or $8.25 a month — the cheapest credible True Solo Cost in this job.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. A 5/5 no-code setup live in minutes and the clearest flat pricing in this job carry it.
The difference: Calendly is the polished default at $10/seat/mo with one free event type; TidyCal is unlimited types free or $29 once, with a 1% payment fee.
The difference: SavvyCal charges $10/mo for invitee calendar overlay and focus defence; TidyCal is the plainer, far cheaper link with packages and subscriptions built in.
The difference: Cal.com is open source with unlimited free event types and self-hosting; TidyCal is closed but simpler, and its paid tier is a one-time $29 instead of a subscription.
Free is $0 forever with unlimited booking types on one calendar. The realistic solo upgrade is Individual Lifetime at $29 once — about $2.42 a month spread over its first year and nothing after — checked on tidycal.com/pricing on 2026-11-07. Pro, the only subscription, is $12 a month or $99 a year.
Yes. TidyCal's own pricing FAQ states Lifetime plans are a single payment with no renewal — $29 for Individual, $79 for Agency — purchased through AppSumo and activated on your TidyCal account.
Two limits: one calendar connection, and a 1 percent platform fee on payments processed through Stripe, on top of Stripe's own fees. Auto-created meeting links, custom emails and AI features also sit on the paid tiers.
Calendly charges $10 a seat a month for what TidyCal covers free or for $29 once, and TidyCal allows unlimited booking types on Free where Calendly Free allows one event type. Calendly counters with a more polished product and a far larger integration catalogue.
TidyCal is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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