How we rank, and how we earn
Prices checked
Short answer: by price for your team, and nothing else. Commissions and sponsors exist, but the ranking code cannot see them.
Three questions the ranking asks
- Does the plan fit? It must hold your number of seats and your bookings a month, and its price must be verified on the vendor's pricing page.
- What does it cost a month? Price × seats for per-seat plans, the flat price otherwise; on annual billing, the per-month price billed yearly.
- Which is lowest? Each vendor is represented by its cheapest fitting plan (equal prices: lower list price, then plan order). Vendors are sorted by that total, then by name.
"Cheapest overall" lists may include $0 plans; "cheapest paid plan" lists leave them out. Nothing else enters the sort: no ratings, no features score, no editor's pick. Put in your own numbers in the scheduling software cost calculator, or compare price per user and cost by team size.
Where the prices come from
Every price is read from the vendor's official pricing page and saved with a verbatim quote. A daily check re-reads each page; a flagged difference is reviewed by a person before anything on the site changes. Monthly-toggle prices are re-captured with a browser script. The per-vendor evidence and source list are on how ScheduleCost checks prices, and every check is in the price-check log.
How we earn
Cal.com, Setmore and SimplyBook.me links on this site are affiliate links. If you buy through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you, and they are labelled where they appear. The ranking code never reads affiliate status, and a test checks rankings are identical with and without it. Links to every other vendor go to its pricing page and pay us nothing. There is also one labelled sponsor slot, outside all rankings and tables.
Corrections
Seen a price that no longer matches the vendor's page? Email [email protected] with the page and the vendor. We re-check the official page and log the change.