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    "a": {
      "slug": "cal-com",
      "name": "Cal.com API v2 + MCP",
      "vendor": "Cal.com",
      "vendorUrl": "https://cal.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "scheduling",
      "summary": "Scheduling API behind Cal.com's booking pages.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cal-com",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cal-com.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cal-com.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cal-com.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/calcom/cal-mcp",
      "license": "Proprietary (hosted product since April 2026). The @calcom/cal-mcp package and repository carry no licence",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.cal.com/v2",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@calcom/cal-mcp"
        }
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      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Bearer API key from Settings, prefixed `cal_` in test mode and `cal_live_` in live mode, or OAuth for integrations used by other Cal.com users. Most endpoints also want a `cal-api-version` header with a date (2024-09-04 for slots). The hosted MCP at mcp.cal.com signs in with OAuth 2.1. The local server reads `CAL_API_KEY`.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan for one user with unlimited event types and calendars. Teams $12 a user a month and Organizations $28 a user a month, both billed yearly (25 per cent off monthly), each with a 14-day trial. Enterprise is custom and annual. Teams adds round-robin, collective event types and routing forms. The Organizations plan adds sub-teams, SAML SSO, SCIM, domain-wide delegation and more APIs (https://cal.com/pricing). The separate Platform product has been closed to new sign-ups since 15 December 2025 (https://cal.com/docs/api-reference/v2/introduction).",
      "priceSummary": "$12 / seat-mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 63,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 30,
        "npmWeekly": 786,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://cal.com/docs/api-reference/v2/introduction",
      "llmsTxt": "https://cal.com/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://cal.com/docs/api-reference/v2/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "calendar.read",
        "calendar.availability",
        "calendar.booking",
        "calendar.webhooks"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "typescript",
        "closed-source",
        "enterprise"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-15",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 57.5,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
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        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "ergonomics": 50,
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          "transparency": 81
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "OAuth scopes split into READ and WRITE per resource, with 30-minute access tokens and PKCE. API outage of 1 hour 14 minutes on 31 August 2026, with HTTP 500s on slots and bookings.",
        "strengths": [
          "OAuth scopes split into READ and WRITE per resource, with 30-minute access tokens and PKCE",
          "Hosted MCP with 63 tools and a `toolsets` parameter to load only the groups needed",
          "OpenAPI 3.0 spec, llms.txt and Markdown reference pages",
          "Cursor pagination and filters on bookings by status, attendee, event type and time",
          "ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and a Bugcrowd disclosure programme"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "API outage of 1 hour 14 minutes on 31 August 2026, with HTTP 500s on slots and bookings",
          "120 requests a minute by default and no documented 429 or retry behaviour",
          "Closed source since April 2026, and the npm MCP package hasn't changed since May 2025",
          "No idempotency key on booking creation",
          "Plain API keys can't be scoped"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `cal-api-version: 2026-05-01` on bookings and `2024-09-04` on slots, since each endpoint pins its own version",
          "Append `?toolsets=bookings,availability` to the hosted MCP URL to skip the other 50-odd tools",
          "Page bookings with `pagination.nextCursor`, not offsets",
          "Check for an existing booking before retrying a create, since there's no idempotency key",
          "Use `cal_` test keys while building so bookings don't reach real calendars"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 61
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        "provenanceScore": 100
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.cal.com/v2/slots?eventTypeId=123\u0026start=2026-10-01\u0026end=2026-10-02\u0026timeZone=Europe/London\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CAL_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"cal-api-version: 2024-09-04\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http calcom https://mcp.cal.com/mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "calcom": {
              "args": [
                "@calcom/cal-mcp@latest"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "CAL_API_KEY": "${CAL_API_KEY}"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/calendar.read",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/cal-com"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Teams",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 12,
          "note": "Billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "Organizations plan",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 28,
          "note": "Billed yearly"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Cal.com, Inc.",
        "domain": "cal.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1997-05-16",
        "domainNote": "cal.com was registered in 1997, long before Cal.com launched, so the domain was bought later.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://cal.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://cal.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.cal.com",
        "changelog": "https://cal.com/blog",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy (effective 20 August 2026) gives a San Francisco address. The terms carry an effective date of 2021-04-14 and name the laws of the United Kingdom.",
          "security.txt expires 2030-06-01 and lists GitHub security advisories on calcom/cal.com as the contact, a repository that now hosts the Cal.diy fork.",
          "Release notes are blog posts titled Changelog, the latest v6.9 on 2026-09-15. cal.com/changelog is a user's booking page, not a changelog."
        ],
        "score": 100
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cal-com.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "cal-com",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.cal.com/v2",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-05T01:43:35.093755374Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 564,
          "authRequired": false,
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          "samples24h": 272,
          "samples30d": 920,
          "days": [
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 108
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 20,
              "ok": 19
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.cal.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:39:52.522007548Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@calcom/cal-mcp",
            "version": "0.0.6",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:23:04.926115513Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 30,
        "npmWeekly": 842,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://cal.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2030-06-01T00:00:00.000Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:57.566384637Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://cal.com/docs/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:22.775927876Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "cal.com",
          "registered": "1997-05-16",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cal.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:17.498740317Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://cal.com/blog",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:42.239603755Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "0cae70614a2b"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cal.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:44.469306726Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "d5bfa59d374c"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cal.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:46.462750529Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e1740e3fca2d"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://cal.com/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:48.371581449Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "441bf02fe62c"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T01:43:35.093755374Z"
      }
    },
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      "slug": "calendly",
      "name": "Calendly API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Calendly",
      "vendorUrl": "https://calendly.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "scheduling",
      "summary": "Calendly's scheduling API for availability, bookings, invitees and webhooks, with a hosted MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/calendly.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.calendly.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Personal access tokens for your own account, OAuth apps for other people's. Both go in the `Authorization: Bearer` header. The hosted MCP uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration only. Only 8 OAuth tokens per user can be requested in a minute.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan. The pricing page lists Standard at $10 a seat a month and Teams at $16, and says yearly billing saves 17 and 20 per cent. Enterprise starts at $15,000 a year with a 50-seat minimum, in USD only (https://calendly.com/pricing). Booking through the API needs Standard or above (https://developer.calendly.com/api-docs/calendly-api/scheduled-events/create-event-invitee.md).",
      "priceSummary": "$10 / seat-mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 36,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developer.calendly.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://developer.calendly.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://developer.calendly.com/openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "calendar.read",
        "calendar.availability",
        "calendar.booking",
        "calendar.webhooks"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "oauth",
        "closed-source",
        "enterprise"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-08-25",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 125,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 3,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 61,
          "maintenance": 50,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 85,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 70,
          "transparency": 81
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Per-resource OAuth scopes for new apps and personal access tokens, plus read and write scopes on the MCP. Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403.",
        "strengths": [
          "Per-resource OAuth scopes for new apps and personal access tokens, plus read and write scopes on the MCP",
          "MCP tools annotated with readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint",
          "OpenAPI 3.1 in JSON and YAML, llms.txt and Markdown copies of every page",
          "Status page with separate API and Webhooks components, both showing 100% uptime",
          "SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001, with an activity log scope on Enterprise"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403",
          "Booking limited to 10 a minute, 50 an hour and 100 a day per user below Enterprise",
          "No idempotency key on POST /invitees",
          "No official SDK",
          "Tokens issued before scoped permissions keep full access"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Resolve the user's URI with GET /users/me before listing event types or busy times",
          "Pass `start_time` in UTC and the invitee's `timezone` when calling POST /invitees",
          "List the invitee's scheduled events before retrying a booking, since there's no idempotency key",
          "Read `X-RateLimit-Reset` on 429 and wait that many seconds",
          "Use a client with dynamic client registration for mcp.calendly.com, since it has no static client ID"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 68.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 61,
          "maintenance": 50,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 85,
          "schema": 86,
          "security": 70,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "provenanceScore": 100
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.calendly.com/users/me -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CALENDLY_TOKEN\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http calendly https://mcp.calendly.com",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "calendly": {
              "url": "https://mcp.calendly.com"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/calendar.read",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/calendly"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Standard",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 10,
          "note": "Headline price on the pricing page, which toggles yearly and monthly billing"
        },
        {
          "item": "Teams",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 16,
          "note": "Headline price on the pricing page, which toggles yearly and monthly billing"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Calendly, LLC",
        "domain": "calendly.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2013-02-26",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://calendly.com/legal/customer-terms-conditions",
        "privacy": "https://calendly.com/legal/privacy-notice",
        "statusPage": "https://www.calendlystatus.com",
        "changelog": "https://developer.calendly.com/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy notice (updated 3 July 2026) names Calendly, LLC and a postal address in Buford, Georgia, and lists EEA and UK representatives.",
          "security.txt lists security@calendly.com and expires 2027-04-10.",
          "A developer policy sits at calendly.com/legal/developer-policy alongside the customer terms."
        ],
        "score": 100
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "calendly",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.calendly.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-05T01:43:35.106775785Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 123,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 118,
          "p95ms24h": 157,
          "samples24h": 272,
          "samples30d": 920,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 20,
              "ok": 20
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://www.calendlystatus.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-05T01:46:24.759772805Z"
        },
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://calendly.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "valid",
          "expires": "2027-04-10T00:00:00.000Z",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:47.738818781Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://developer.calendly.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:23.548790606Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "calendly.com",
          "registered": "2013-02-26",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/calendly.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:07:34.738480938Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://developer.calendly.com/release-notes",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:42:30.979428391Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "6b8c2bf3ffd2"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://calendly.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:47.582076712Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "d5a9d70a2911"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://calendly.com/legal/privacy-notice",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:45.57897157Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "881ce0a81fb2"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://calendly.com/legal/customer-terms-conditions",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:43.291421604Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "b8ae1bf79b38"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T01:46:24.759772805Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "Calendly API + MCP has a score of 68.4 (B) against Cal.com API v2 + MCP's 57.5 (C). Both do calendar read. The largest gap is reliability, 25 points."
  },
  "kind": "anchor.page",
  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-calendly",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-calendly.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
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  "markdown": "Calendly API + MCP has a score of 68.4 (B) against Cal.com API v2 + MCP's 57.5 (C). Both do calendar read. The largest gap is reliability, 25 points.\n\n- Cal.com API v2 + MCP: grade C, 57.5/100, rank #292 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cal-com.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cal-com.json\n- Calendly API + MCP: grade B, 68.4/100, rank #125 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/calendly.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Cal.com API v2 + MCP for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\nPick Calendly API + MCP for reliability (+25), schema \u0026 documentation (+10), agent ergonomics (+11), security \u0026 auth (+14).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cal.com API v2 + MCP | Calendly API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 85 | Calendly API + MCP +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 86 | Calendly API + MCP +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 50 | 61 | Calendly API + MCP +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 56 | 70 | Calendly API + MCP +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 50 | even |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 81 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.5 · C** | **68.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cal.com API v2 + MCP | Calendly API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Cal.com | Calendly |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cal.com/v2` | `https://api.calendly.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary (hosted product since April 2026). The @calcom/cal-mcp package and repository carry no licence | none |\n| Tools exposed | 63 | 36 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-08-25 |\n| Popularity | 30 stars, 786 npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cal.com API v2 + MCP.** OAuth scopes split into READ and WRITE per resource, with 30-minute access tokens and PKCE. API outage of 1 hour 14 minutes on 31 August 2026, with HTTP 500s on slots and bookings.\n\n**Calendly API + MCP.** Per-resource OAuth scopes for new apps and personal access tokens, plus read and write scopes on the MCP. Booking through the API needs a paid seat, and Free users get a 403.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cal.com API v2 + MCP\n\n1. Send `cal-api-version: 2026-05-01` on bookings and `2024-09-04` on slots, since each endpoint pins its own version\n2. Append `?toolsets=bookings,availability` to the hosted MCP URL to skip the other 50-odd tools\n3. Page bookings with `pagination.nextCursor`, not offsets\n4. Check for an existing booking before retrying a create, since there's no idempotency key\n5. Use `cal_` test keys while building so bookings don't reach real calendars\n\n### Calendly API + MCP\n\n1. Resolve the user's URI with GET /users/me before listing event types or busy times\n2. Pass `start_time` in UTC and the invitee's `timezone` when calling POST /invitees\n3. List the invitee's scheduled events before retrying a booking, since there's no idempotency key\n4. Read `X-RateLimit-Reset` on 429 and wait that many seconds\n5. Use a client with dynamic client registration for mcp.calendly.com, since it has no static client ID\n\n## Other comparisons with Cal.com API v2 + MCP or Calendly API + MCP\n\n- [Apiroc Unified Calendar API vs Cal.com API v2 + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apiroc-vs-cal-com.md)\n- [Apiroc Unified Calendar API vs Calendly API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apiroc-vs-calendly.md)\n- [Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Cronofy API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-cronofy.md)\n- [Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Google Calendar API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-google-calendar-api.md)\n- [Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Microsoft Graph Calendar API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-microsoft-graph-calendar.md)\n- [Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Nylas Calendar and Scheduler API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-nylas-calendar.md)\n- [Calendly API + MCP vs Cronofy API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-cronofy.md)\n- [Calendly API + MCP vs Google Calendar API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-google-calendar-api.md)\n- [Calendly API + MCP vs Microsoft Graph Calendar API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-microsoft-graph-calendar.md)\n- [Calendly API + MCP vs Nylas Calendar and Scheduler API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-nylas-calendar.md)\n",
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