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Calendly vs Convex

The scheduling category leader — dominant polished SaaS booking tool
vs. The reactive database where queries are TypeScript code

Calendly website ↗Convex website ↗

Pricing tiers

Calendly

Free
$0. 1 user. 1 event type. Unlimited 1-on-1 meetings. Basic calendar integrations.
Free
Standard
$12/user/mo. Unlimited event types. Group events. Remove branding. 7 integrations.
$12/mo
Teams
$20/user/mo. Round-robin, collective, Salesforce/HubSpot, Zapier, routing, metrics.
$20/mo
Enterprise
Starts ~$15,000/year (5-10 users). SSO, SCIM, advanced routing, dedicated success manager, SLA.
$15000/mo
Calendly website ↗

Convex

Starter (Free)
Free with overage via usage-based billing. Great for prototypes.
Free
Professional
$25/developer/month. Overage: $2/M function calls. Daily backups, email support, custom domains.
$25/mo
Business / Enterprise
From $2,500/month. SAML/SSO, SLA, dedicated deployments, Slack Connect support.
$2500/mo
Convex website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Calendly vs starter on Convex.

MetricCalendlyConvex
db storage gb—0.5 GB
deployments—40 deployments
egress gb month—1 GB/month
file storage gb—1 GB
function calls month—1000000 calls/month
team members—6 users

Features

Calendly · 16 features

  • Admin Management — Centralized team billing + controls.
  • Analytics — Team conversion + activity.
  • Availability — Schedules + recurring hours.
  • Buffers — Before/after meetings.
  • Daily / Weekly Limits — Cap bookings.
  • Event Types — One-off, group, collective, round-robin.
  • HubSpot Integration — Native sync.
  • Inline + Popup Embed — Widget for websites.
  • Marketing Routing — Form-based routing to teams/reps.
  • Meeting Polls — Group availability poll (like When2Meet).
  • Paid Bookings — Stripe integration.
  • Round-Robin — Distribute across team.
  • Salesforce Integration — Native, deep sync (Teams+).
  • SSO — Enterprise only.
  • Webhooks — Real-time events.
  • Workflows — Automated reminders + follow-ups.

Convex · 18 features

  • Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
  • Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
  • Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
  • Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
  • Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
  • Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
  • Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
  • Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
  • File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
  • Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
  • HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
  • Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
  • Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
  • Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
  • Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
  • Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
  • Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
  • Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.

Developer interfaces

KindCalendlyConvex
CLI—Convex CLI
SDK—Android / Kotlin Client, iOS / Swift Client, JavaScript/TypeScript Client, Next.js Integration, Python Client, React Client (useQuery), Rust Client, Svelte Client, Vue Client
RESTCalendly REST APIDeploy / Dashboard API, HTTP Actions
OTHERCalendly App, Calendly Embed Script, Calendly Webhooks, Chrome Extension, Zapier IntegrationWebSocket Subscriptions
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