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SavvyCal vs Clerk

The indie-darling scheduling tool — polished UX, overlay-first design
vs. User management and authentication as a service

SavvyCal website ↗Clerk website ↗

Pricing tiers

SavvyCal

Basic
$12/user/mo (or $120/year). Unlimited event types, round-robin, single signatures.
$12/mo
Premium
$20/user/mo (or $200/year). Custom branding, custom domain, ranked/round-robin routing, webhooks.
$20/mo
Lifetime
$199 one-time. Full Premium forever (for early supporters / occasional offers).
$199/mo
SavvyCal website ↗

Clerk

Free
50k MAU included. No SSO/SAML. Perfect for side projects and early prototypes.
Free
Pro
$25/mo (or $20/mo annual). 50k MAU, $0.02 each after. 1 enterprise SSO connection per app. Webhooks, JWT templates, custom session duration.
$25/mo
Business
$300/mo (or $250/mo annual). Advanced organizations, enhanced support, additional enterprise features.
$300/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Volume MAU discounts, SLA, workspace-wide SAML SSO, dedicated support.
Custom
Clerk website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing basic on SavvyCal vs hobby on Clerk.

MetricSavvyCalClerk
mao—100 orgs/month
mau—50000 users/month
sso connections—0 connections

Features

SavvyCal · 15 features

  • Automations — Reminders + follow-ups.
  • Buffer Time — Before/after meetings.
  • Calendar Overlay — See recipient cal overlayed on yours.
  • Collective — Find time that works for all hosts.
  • Collective Round-Robin — Best of both.
  • Custom Branding — Logo + colors.
  • Custom Domain — cal.yourbrand.com.
  • Embed Widget — Inline + popup for websites.
  • Group Events — Many attendees → 1 host.
  • One-on-One — Standard solo meetings.
  • Paid Bookings — Stripe integration.
  • Ranked Availability — Suggest preferred times.
  • Round-Robin — Distribute across hosts.
  • Teams — Shared scheduling for teams.
  • Webhooks — Real-time events (Premium).

Clerk · 15 features

  • Account Portal — Hosted sign-in/user profile pages at accounts.yourapp.com — zero UI code, fully …
  • Bot Protection — Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA integrated into sign-up.
  • Clerk Billing — Built-in Stripe-powered billing: subscriptions, plans, proration — ties directly…
  • Enterprise SSO (SAML/OIDC) — SAML and OIDC for enterprise customers. Per-domain connection. Pro+ (1 included)…
  • Impersonation — Act as a user from dashboard to debug. Logged.
  • JWT Templates — Custom JWT issuance for third-party backends (Supabase, Hasura, Firebase, Convex…
  • Machine Tokens (M2M) — API keys and machine tokens for service-to-service auth in addition to user sess…
  • Multi-Factor Auth — TOTP (authenticator apps), SMS OTP, backup codes. Forced or optional per user.
  • Organizations (B2B) — Multi-tenant orgs with roles, permissions, invitations, domain allowlist, and pe…
  • Passkeys (WebAuthn) — Passwordless passkey sign-in with per-device biometrics.
  • Prebuilt Components — Drop-in React components: <SignIn/>, <SignUp/>, <UserButton/>, <OrganizationSwit…
  • Sessions — Server-side session tokens. Sliding expiration by default; configurable absolute…
  • User Management — Full user CRUD, metadata (public/private/unsafe), email/phone verification, ban/…
  • Waitlist Mode — Collect sign-ups before opening the app. Approve waitlist entries to activate ac…
  • Webhooks — Events: user.created/updated/deleted, session.created, organization.* — delivere…

Developer interfaces

KindSavvyCalClerk
SDK—@clerk/astro, @clerk/backend / @clerk/clerk-sdk-node, @clerk/chrome-extension, @clerk/clerk-expo, @clerk/clerk-js (vanilla), @clerk/clerk-react, @clerk/clerk-react-native, @clerk/nextjs, @clerk/nuxt, @clerk/remix, clerk-sdk-go, clerk-sdk-python, clerk-sdk-ruby, @clerk/tanstack-start, @clerk/vue
RESTSavvyCal APIBackend REST API, Frontend API
MCP—Clerk MCP
OTHEREmbed + Popup Widget, SavvyCal Dashboard, SavvyCal WebhooksWebhooks (Svix)
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