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.
Best calendar and scheduling APIs for AI agents · All 89 scheduling comparisons
Which one, for what
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
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
| Category | Weight this run | Cal.com API v2 + MCP | SavvyCal API + MCP | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 60 | 70 | SavvyCal API + MCP +10 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 76 | 74 | Cal.com API v2 + MCP +2 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 50 | 53 | SavvyCal API + MCP +3 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 56 | 50 | Cal.com API v2 + MCP +6 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 50 | 40 | Cal.com API v2 + MCP +10 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 78 | 73 | Cal.com API v2 + MCP +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 57.2/100 | C 57/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Cal.com API v2 + MCP | SavvyCal API + MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Cal.com | SavvyCal, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | https://api.cal.com/v2 | https://api.savvycal.com/v1 |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary (hosted product since April 2026). The @calcom/cal-mcp package and repository carry no licence | none |
| Tools exposed | 63 | 63 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-10-27 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-01-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-17 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 30 stars, 786 npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |
How the scores have moved
SavvyCal API + MCP
No score change since it was listed.
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
- Send
cal-api-version: 2026-05-01on bookings and2024-09-04on slots, since each endpoint pins its own version - Append
?toolsets=bookings,availabilityto 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
SavvyCal API + MCP
- Call GET /v1/links/{link_id}/slots with
fromanduntil(at most 31 days apart) and book only a returned slot; POST /v1/links/{link_id}/events refuses other times with 422 - Keep event creation under 10 requests a minute per link, failed attempts included, or expect 429 with no Retry-After
- Page with the
afterandbeforecursors frommetadataandlimitup to 100; an invalid filter value resets every filter to its default - Connect the MCP server with a client that supports dynamic client registration, and request
mcp:readwhen the task only reads - Verify webhooks with HMAC-SHA256 over the raw body against
x-savvycal-signatureand 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.
Other comparisons with Cal.com API v2 + MCP or SavvyCal API + MCP
- Acuity Scheduling API vs Cal.com API v2 + MCP
- Acuity Scheduling API vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Agenda Hero vs Cal.com API v2 + MCP
- Agenda Hero vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Apiroc Unified Calendar API vs Cal.com API v2 + MCP
- Apiroc Unified Calendar API vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Aurinko Calendar API vs Cal.com API v2 + MCP
- Aurinko Calendar API vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Calendly API + MCP
- Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Cozi Family Organizer
- Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Cronofy API
- Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Google Calendar API
- Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Microsoft Graph Calendar API
- Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Nylas Calendar and Scheduler API
- Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Zoom Scheduler API
- Calendly API + MCP vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Cozi Family Organizer vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Cronofy API vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Google Calendar API vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Microsoft Graph Calendar API vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Nylas Calendar and Scheduler API vs SavvyCal API + MCP
- Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs YouCanBookMe API
- SavvyCal API + MCP vs YouCanBookMe API
- SavvyCal API + MCP vs Zoom Scheduler API
Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown
/compare/cal-com-vs-savvycal.md· slim.min.md· JSON.json(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - Each listing in full
/api/v1/tools/cal-com.json·/api/v1/tools/savvycal.json - From a terminal
anchor compare cal-com savvycal(the CLI) - Over MCP
compare_tools {"a": "cal-com", "b": "savvycal"}at/mcp, no key