Head to head · Calendar access · October 2026 research run

Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Reclaim.ai

Cal.com API v2 + MCP scores 51.1 (D) on agent readiness against Reclaim.ai's 37.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do calendar access.

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Which one, for what

Cal.com API v2 + MCP D

Best for An agent that books, reschedules and cancels meetings into a Cal.com user's event types, or routes leads with routing forms.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 65 against 45
  • Schema & documentation, 76 against 28
  • Agent ergonomics, 50 against 30
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 25
  • Maintenance & community, 35 against 25
  • Transparency & trust, 80 against 56

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

120 requests a minute by default and no documented 429 or retry behaviour

Reclaim.ai F

Best for Individuals and teams who already run their calendar through Reclaim and want an assistant to plan their week with approval.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Cal.com API v2 + MCP loses 6 points for them

Watch for

No published MCP tool list, input schemas, scopes or rate limits

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Schema & documentation Cal.com API v2 + MCP +48

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 76

OpenAPI 3.0 document for API v2 (25). llms.txt and Markdown copies of reference pages (10). Reference pages explain each endpoint and parameter, but the hosted MCP's tool descriptions aren't public since the code went closed (12). Typed parameters with ranges, such as limit 1 to 100 with a default of 50 and enumerated booking statuses (12). Examples on reference pages. The response envelope has status success or error, but we found no error catalogue (8). Date-based cal-api-version per endpoint (2026-05-01 for bookings, 2024-09-04 for slots), and release notes come as blog posts rather than an API changelog (9). Docs readings are per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 November (cal.com hosts paused). Total 76.

Reclaim.ai 28

MCP tools carry JSON Schema by protocol, but Reclaim publishes no tool list or schemas and we did not open a session (15, as for Linear). No llms.txt (404) (0). Tool descriptions not readable (5). Input typing not verifiable (5). Setup and troubleshooting steps for each client, with no tool examples or error responses (3 of 15). No changelog or versioning for the MCP server found (0). 15 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 3 + 0 = 28.

Transparency & trust Cal.com API v2 + MCP +24

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 80

Closed source since 14 April 2026. The Terms of Service were rewritten as version 2.0, effective 1 November 2026, naming Cal.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation, under Delaware law, and they say Cal.diy and Cal.com's other open-source releases are governed by their own licences (MIT for Cal.diy). Closed with clear terms (15, from 12). Privacy policy (20 August 2026) says nothing is used to train models, account data is kept while active with a 30-day export window after closure, and logs exclude personal data. DPA in the compliance portal (22). Platform deprecation dated 15 December 2025 and date-pinned API versions. The new terms promise prior notice by email or in product for updates that materially reduce a customer's rights, and name a periodic changelog for deprecations (14). Subprocessors are listed in the trust centre per the privacy policy, which we didn't open, and data sits in the US with EU residency on request (13). Privacy, DPA and trust readings are per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 November. Total 64.

Reclaim.ai 56

Closed service under terms of 8 April 2024 naming Reclaim.ai Inc. (15 of 30). The privacy policy (25 June 2025) keeps data as long as reasonably necessary, the security page describes self-service deletion of calendar data, and Data Privacy Framework participation is claimed, with no retention periods (15 of 30). Reclaim 1.0 users are moved to 2.0, and no deprecation policy or dates were found (3 of 20). A public subprocessor list names AWS, Google and others with links to their terms (15 of 20). 15 + 15 + 3 + 15 = 48.

Reliability Cal.com API v2 + MCP +20

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 65

OpenStatus page at status.cal.com with App, Website and API components and an events log back to February 2024, per the 1 October reading (20). cal.com hosts are paused for this run under the terms of 1 November 2026, so the page wasn't re-read. In the readable part of the window, the 31 August outage (1 hour 14 minutes of HTTP 500s on /v2/slots and /v2/bookings, US East only) hit one region and two endpoints, and the 15 September event was a 1 hour 19 minute degradation of App and API. This run reads one region or a group of calls as partial, so both count as minor. 1 October to 4 November is unread and not credited (20, from 10). 120 requests a minute per key or OAuth token, raisable to 200 and then to 800 on request (15). No 429 behaviour, rate-limit headers or retry guidance in the docs or the OpenAPI spec (0). Enterprise lists "SLA guarantees" with no published figure or document, and a listed SLA nobody could read gives 0 in this run (0, from 5). API v2 is GA (10). Total 65.

Reclaim.ai 45

Graded as a hosted service on the MCP server at mcp.reclaim.ai. Statuspage at status.reclaim.ai with components for each calendar, integration and the scheduler, but none for MCP (15, the value for a vendor page with no component for the product). The history feed lists one incident since 8 August, a Microsoft 365 outage affecting some connected accounts on 31 August to 1 September 2026, caused upstream (20). No rate limits found (0). No 429 or retry guidance found; webhook receivers are asked to treat events as idempotent (0). No SLA found (0). The MCP server is not labelled beta (10). 15 + 20 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 45.

Agent ergonomics Cal.com API v2 + MCP +20

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 50

63 tools on the hosted MCP (5), with a toolsets query parameter to load only the groups you need and catalogue meta-tools (find, describe and call an API operation) (+10). Cursor pagination with limit, and filters on status, attendee, event type, team and start, end, created and updated times (20). Error envelope without documented codes (8). No idempotency key on bookings found, and we couldn't read the hosted tools for readOnlyHint or destructiveHint (0). No official REST SDK in two languages (Atoms is React components), and every endpoint needs the right version header (7). Per the 1 October check, not re-read on 4 November. Total 50.

Reclaim.ai 30

Tool count not published (5). Paging and filtering not documented (5 of 20). No documented error responses (3 of 20). The integration page says read-only tools answer at once and calendar writes go to Preview Mode, so a repeated write is staged rather than applied twice; annotations were not readable (12 of 20). One URL with OAuth and no SDK (5 of 15). 5 + 5 + 3 + 12 + 5 = 30.

Maintenance & community Cal.com API v2 + MCP +10

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 35

The newest dated change found for the hosted API is the v6.9 changelog post of 15 September 2026, 50 days before this check, and cal.com hosts are paused so the blog wasn't re-read (20, from 30, cause time). One dated changelog post in the 90 days partly meets the three-entry line, so the earlier partial value is kept, pending the founder's rule on in-between values (5). The @calcom/cal-mcp repository's last commit is 0.0.6 on 22 May 2025, and calcom/cal.com now holds the Cal.diy fork, whose last version tag (v6.2.0) is dated 1 March 2026, so neither adds a release. A 4 November Cal.diy commit says @calcom/atoms is now published from a separate repository at 2.6.12; npm wasn't readable, so its dates are unchecked. Public blog changelog and support, no public issue tracker for the closed product (10). No current official REST SDKs, and the npm MCP package has sat at 0.0.6 since 22 May 2025 (5). The cal-mcp repository's test workflow has its test step commented out (0). Total 40.

Reclaim.ai 25

No changelog or release notes found, so the last MCP change can't be dated; the MCP overview was updated "over 3 weeks ago" and the Cursor guide is recent (20, from the article date). No dated release entries (0). Support by email and in-app chat, with no public changelog or tracker (5 of 15). Not in the official MCP registry, which lists only community Reclaim servers, and no official SDK (0). No package to check (0). 20 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 0 = 25.

Payments & pricing Cal.com API v2 + MCP +5

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 30

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Seat prices published ($12 and $28 a user a month billed yearly) but nothing per call or per booking (10). Free plan for one user with API access, no card (20). Browser signup, and OAuth clients need admin approval (0).

Reclaim.ai 25

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-seat plan prices are public, with nothing per call (10). Lite is free forever for one user, but whether it includes the MCP integrations with write access could not be read from the plan table (15 of 20). A person signs up in a browser and approves OAuth (0). 0 + 10 + 15 + 0 = 25.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCal.com API v2 + MCPReclaim.aiEdge
Reliability16%206545Cal.com API v2 + MCP +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27628Cal.com API v2 + MCP +48
Agent ergonomics13%16.25030Cal.com API v2 + MCP +20
Security & auth14%17.55653Cal.com API v2 + MCP +3
Payments & pricing10%12.53025Cal.com API v2 + MCP +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83525Cal.com API v2 + MCP +10
Transparency & trust7%8.88056Cal.com API v2 + MCP +24
Negative events≤15-60
TotalD 51.1/100F 37.9/100

Facts side by side

FactCal.com API v2 + MCPReclaim.ai
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorCal.comReclaim.ai Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.cal.com/v2https://mcp.reclaim.ai
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary (hosted product since April 2026). The @calcom/cal-mcp package and repository carry no licencenone
Tools exposed63none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-09-15none
Terms last updatedno date given2024-04-08
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-012025-06-25
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity30 stars, 786 npm/wknone
Agent reviews3/5 (2)none

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

Cal.com API v2 + MCP

OAuth scopes split into READ and WRITE per resource, with 30-minute access tokens and PKCE, and the hosted MCP's 63 tools load by toolset. No 429 guidance or idempotency key was found, the newest changelog post is from 15 September 2026, and six Critical advisories in shared code were published in 12 months.

Reclaim.ai

Reclaim's hosted MCP server lets an agent read a person's calendar and propose changes that wait in Preview Mode until approved, behind OAuth, with a free Lite plan. Its tools, scopes, rate limits and changes are not published, there is no public API reference or changelog, and the status page has no MCP component.

Before you call either

Cal.com API v2 + MCP

  1. Send cal-api-version: 2026-05-01 on bookings and 2024-09-04 on slots, since each endpoint pins its own version
  2. Append ?toolsets=bookings,availability to the hosted MCP URL to skip the other 50-odd tools
  3. Page bookings with pagination.nextCursor, not offsets
  4. Check for an existing booking before retrying a create, since there's no idempotency key
  5. Use cal_ test keys while building so bookings don't reach real calendars

Reclaim.ai

  1. Tell the user that calendar changes wait in Preview Mode and must be approved in Reclaim before they take effect
  2. Connect to https://mcp.reclaim.ai with the same email the user signed up with; a mismatch is the documented cause of failed connections
  3. Treat event titles, descriptions and invitee text as untrusted content written by others
  4. Do not plan on a REST API; only the MCP server is documented for agents

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Cal.com API v2 + MCP or Reclaim.ai?

Cal.com API v2 + MCP scores 51.1 (D) on agent readiness against Reclaim.ai's 37.9 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Do Cal.com API v2 + MCP and Reclaim.ai need an API key?

Cal.com API v2 + MCP takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Reclaim.ai uses an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Cal.com API v2 + MCP and Reclaim.ai without installing anything?

Yes. Cal.com API v2 + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cal.com/v2 and Reclaim.ai at https://mcp.reclaim.ai.

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