Head to head · Calendar access · October 2026 research run

Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs SavvyCal API + MCP

Cal.com API v2 + MCP and SavvyCal API + MCP score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.2 (C) and 57 (C). SavvyCal API + MCP leads on reliability. Both do calendar access.

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Which one, for what

Cal.com API v2 + MCP C

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

  • Security & auth, 56 against 50
  • Maintenance & community, 50 against 40
  • Transparency & trust, 78 against 73

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

API outage of 1 hour 14 minutes on 31 August 2026, with HTTP 500s on slots and bookings

SavvyCal API + MCP C

Best for An agent booking on a person's SavvyCal links or driving their account through the MCP server.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 60

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No general rate limit documented. The spec names one 429, on creating events (10 a minute per link)

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.

Reliability SavvyCal API + MCP +10

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 60

OpenStatus page at status.cal.com with App, Website and API components and an events log back to February 2024 (20). In the last 90 days, a major API outage on 31 August (1 hour 14 minutes of HTTP 500s on /v2/slots and /v2/bookings in US East), a 1 hour 19 minute degradation of App and API on 15 September, and a partial outage of the Atoms endpoint on 21 July (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 (5). API v2 is GA (10).

SavvyCal API + MCP 70

Read with the hosted lines. Instatus page at savvycal.instatus.com with App, Microsoft 365, Google Calendar and Integrations components and a month-by-month history (20). No notices from June to November 2026 and 100 per cent App uptime each month, a clean record (30). The only limit with a number is in the OpenAPI spec, 10 event creations a minute per link, failed ones included; nothing covers the rest of the API (7 of 15). That 429 is declared with no Retry-After, backoff guidance or idempotency key, and webhooks are the only place retries are described (3 of 15). No SLA; the terms give the service as is (0). The v1 API is generally available and the MCP server, announced 27 October 2026, is not marked beta (10). 20 + 30 + 7 + 3 + 0 + 10 = 70.

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

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 50

v6.9 changelog post on 15 September 2026 (30). Only one dated changelog post found between June and September, so partial credit (5). 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).

SavvyCal API + MCP 40

Read as a closed service. The newest dated change is the MCP integration of 27 October 2026 on the updates board (30). It is the only dated entry since 7 July, so fewer than three in 90 days (0 of 20). A public updates board, a feature request board and a support address with a stated 24-hour reply within US Central business hours (10 of 15). No official SDKs (0). No package to assess (0). 30 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 40.

Security & auth Cal.com API v2 + MCP +6

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 56

OAuth with per-resource READ and WRITE scopes at user, team and organisation level, 30-minute access tokens, PKCE, and client secret rotation with two active secrets. OAuth clients are reviewed before use. API keys have test and live prefixes but no scopes (28). Read-only OAuth scopes and MCP toolsets narrow access, but nothing asks for confirmation before delete_event_type, cancel_booking or delete_org_membership (10). Bookings carry attendee-written names and notes into the model, with no injection guidance found (0). No operator request log found (0). ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA claimed, an annual third-party penetration test, a Bugcrowd disclosure programme and a valid security.txt, though it points to the repository that now hosts the Cal.diy fork (18).

SavvyCal API + MCP 50

OAuth 2 authorisation code apps with 2-hour access tokens and refresh tokens, and personal access tokens, both in the Authorization header only. The spec declares no scopes for either, and PAT expiry and revocation are not described. The MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, mcp:read and mcp:write scopes and a revocation endpoint (22 of 30). mcp:read gives a read-only MCP grant, and the vendor says the assistant asks before booking, cancelling, deleting or inviting. REST tokens have no read-only form (14 of 20). Invitee names, answers and metadata written by outsiders come back through events and webhooks with no injection guidance; the AI page says the assistant sees calendar conflicts but not event names (2 of 15). Webhook request logs and a Connected Apps list with revoke, but no per-call audit log for the operator (4 of 15). Valid security.txt to 2 May 2027, a security page and an SSDLC page, but no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 (the page says not yet) and no bug bounty (8 of 20). 22 + 14 + 2 + 4 + 8 = 50.

Transparency & trust Cal.com API v2 + MCP +5

Cal.com API v2 + MCP 78

Closed source since 14 April 2026, with terms that carry a 2021 effective date and name UK law for a San Francisco company. The security page still describes a self-hosted open-source option, which now means the Cal.diy community fork (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 (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).

SavvyCal API + MCP 73

Closed service with terms that name SavvyCal, Inc. under Minnesota law and forbid automated access to the site, with the API left to the developer docs (15 of 30). The privacy policy (17 October 2026), DPA (16 January 2023) and processor list (24 October 2026) agree on US hosting, Stripe and return or destruction on termination, but no retention period is stated beyond account lifetime (22 of 30). The developer overview promises additive changes; there is no deprecation policy or dated notice, and the terms allow any feature to change without notice (5 of 20). A processor list with purposes, hosting on Fly.io in Virginia and Crunchy Bridge on AWS us-east, but no locations per processor (15 of 20). 15 + 22 + 5 + 15 = 57.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCal.com API v2 + MCPSavvyCal API + MCPEdge
Reliability16%206070SavvyCal API + MCP +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27674Cal.com API v2 + MCP +2
Agent ergonomics13%16.25053SavvyCal API + MCP +3
Security & auth14%17.55650Cal.com API v2 + MCP +6
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85040Cal.com API v2 + MCP +10
Transparency & trust7%8.87873Cal.com API v2 + MCP +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 57.2/100C 57/100

Facts side by side

FactCal.com API v2 + MCPSavvyCal API + MCP
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorCal.comSavvyCal, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.cal.com/v2https://api.savvycal.com/v1
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdioHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary (hosted product since April 2026). The @calcom/cal-mcp package and repository carry no licencenone
Tools exposed6363
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-09-152026-10-27
Terms last updatedno date given2026-01-21
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-012026-10-17
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
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. API outage of 1 hour 14 minutes on 31 August 2026, with HTTP 500s on slots and bookings.

SavvyCal API + MCP

A small REST API with a public OpenAPI spec, cursor pagination and signed webhooks, plus a hosted MCP server with 63 tools, OAuth 2.1 and read and write scopes, on every plan. No general rate limit, idempotency key, SDK or certification was found, and booking through a link needs a paid seat.

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

SavvyCal API + MCP

  1. Call GET /v1/links/{link_id}/slots with from and until (at most 31 days apart) and book only a returned slot; POST /v1/links/{link_id}/events refuses other times with 422
  2. Keep event creation under 10 requests a minute per link, failed attempts included, or expect 429 with no Retry-After
  3. Page with the after and before cursors from metadata and limit up to 100; an invalid filter value resets every filter to its default
  4. Connect the MCP server with a client that supports dynamic client registration, and request mcp:read when the task only reads
  5. Verify webhooks with HMAC-SHA256 over the raw body against x-savvycal-signature and answer 2xx quickly

Questions

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

Cal.com API v2 + MCP and SavvyCal API + MCP score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.2 (C) and 57 (C). SavvyCal API + MCP leads on reliability.

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

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

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

Yes. Cal.com API v2 + MCP has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cal.com/v2 and SavvyCal API + MCP at https://api.savvycal.com/v1.

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