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        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "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",
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        "level": "no",
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      "openapi": "https://developer.calendly.com/openapi.json",
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        "calendar.read",
        "calendar.availability",
        "calendar.booking",
        "calendar.webhooks"
      ],
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        "hosted",
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        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
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          "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"
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          "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"
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          "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"
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          "kind": "remote",
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          "schema": 86,
          "security": 70,
          "transparency": 61
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        "provenanceScore": 100
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        "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"
            }
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/calendar.read",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/calendly"
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      "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"
        }
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        "legalEntity": "Calendly, LLC",
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        "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."
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        "score": 100
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/calendly.json",
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        "slug": "calendly",
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          "target": "https://api.calendly.com",
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          "lastOk": true,
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
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              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://www.calendlystatus.com",
          "indicator": "none",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:27:41.084679761Z"
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        "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"
        },
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            "url": "https://developer.calendly.com/release-notes",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://calendly.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:47.582076712Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "d5a9d70a2911"
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          {
            "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"
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          {
            "url": "https://calendly.com/legal/customer-terms-conditions",
            "kind": "terms",
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "b8ae1bf79b38"
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        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:45.147779582Z"
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      "slug": "cronofy",
      "name": "Cronofy API",
      "vendor": "Cronofy",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.cronofy.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "scheduling",
      "summary": "Calendar sync and scheduling API from a UK company.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cronofy.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/cronofy/cronofy-node",
      "license": "MIT (SDKs)",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.cronofy.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "cronofy"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "pycronofy"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Each user connects through Cronofy's OAuth flow and gets an access token. Application-level calls such as Availability take the application's key as a Bearer token. The MCP server takes the `client_secret` of an internal application as a Bearer token for single-tenant use, or OAuth 2.0 for multi-tenant use.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Free developer account for building and testing. Emerging $819 a month billed yearly for up to 500 synced accounts, then $1.39 each a month. Growth $2,399 a month billed yearly for up to 3,000, then $0.69 each. Strategic is custom with priority support. The Meeting Agents add-on costs $0.79 an hour for 25 to 4,000 hours, with a $99 monthly minimum on its own and the first 24 hours free (https://www.cronofy.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$819 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 51,
        "npmWeekly": 10797,
        "pypiWeekly": 10097,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.cronofy.com/developers/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cronofy.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "calendar.read",
        "calendar.write",
        "calendar.availability",
        "calendar.booking",
        "calendar.webhooks"
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      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "webhooks",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "enterprise",
        "eu",
        "closed-source"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-25",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 64.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 182,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 56,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 85,
          "schema": 58,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 74
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
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        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "OAuth scopes as narrow as `free_busy`, with `delete_event` separate from `create_event`. Production pricing starts at $819 a month billed yearly.",
        "strengths": [
          "OAuth scopes as narrow as `free_busy`, with `delete_event` separate from `create_event`",
          "Event writes keyed on your `event_id`, so a retried create updates instead of duplicating",
          "99.99% uptime guarantee on Emerging and Growth",
          "Retention published per data type, such as 30 days for third-party events after disconnection",
          "ISO 27001, 27018 and 27701, SOC 2 Type 2 and a public bug bounty"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Production pricing starts at $819 a month billed yearly",
          "No OpenAPI spec or security.txt",
          "The changelog has no dates and its latest entries are years old",
          "MCP server is early access with no published tool list, and single-tenant mode takes the application secret",
          "429 guidance says only to pause, with no Retry-After"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Call the data centre host the account was created in (api-uk, api-de and so on), since data never crosses regions",
          "Reuse the same `event_id` when retrying an event write, since Cronofy upserts on it",
          "Ask for `response_format` slots when you want bookable times rather than free periods",
          "On 423, ask the user to relink, since Cronofy has already emailed them",
          "Keep under 50 requests a second and 500 a minute, and pause on 429"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 64.4
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 56,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 85,
          "schema": 58,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 58
        },
        "provenanceScore": 90
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.cronofy.com/v1/availability \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $CRONOFY_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"participants\":[{\"members\":[{\"sub\":\"acc_5ba21743f408617d1269ea1e\"}],\"required\":\"all\"}],\"required_duration\":{\"minutes\":30},\"query_periods\":[{\"start\":\"2026-10-01T09:00:00Z\",\"end\":\"2026-10-01T17:00:00Z\"}],\"response_format\":\"slots\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http cronofy https://api.cronofy.com/v1/mcp_server --header \"Authorization: Bearer $CRONOFY_CLIENT_SECRET\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "cronofy": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer ${CRONOFY_CLIENT_SECRET}"
              },
              "url": "https://api.cronofy.com/v1/mcp_server"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/calendar.read",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/cronofy"
      },
      "area": "everyday",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Emerging",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 819,
          "note": "Up to 500 synced accounts, billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "Growth",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 2399,
          "note": "Up to 3,000 synced accounts, billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra synced account on Emerging",
          "unit": "account-month",
          "usd": 1.39
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra synced account on Growth",
          "unit": "account-month",
          "usd": 0.69
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      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Cronofy Limited",
        "domain": "cronofy.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2014-10-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://docs.cronofy.com/policies/terms-of-service/",
        "privacy": "https://docs.cronofy.com/policies/privacy-notice/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.cronofy.com",
        "changelog": "https://changelog.cronofy.com",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (updated 24 September 2026) name Cronofy Limited, company number 07878590, 9a Beck Street, Nottingham, under the laws of England and Wales.",
          "www.cronofy.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404.",
          "The status page lists the API, Scheduler, Meeting Agents, conferencing services and each major calendar provider as separate components."
        ],
        "score": 90
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy.json",
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        "slug": "cronofy",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.cronofy.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:45.992385715Z",
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          "lastMs": 263,
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 109,
              "ok": 109
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 267,
              "ok": 267
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        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.cronofy.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T23:27:44.183802816Z"
        },
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            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:24:50.006903677Z"
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "pycronofy",
            "version": "2.1.1",
            "released": "2026-09-25",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:24:51.846800426Z"
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        ],
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        "pypiWeekly": 7328,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://cronofy.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:16:04.962526224Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.cronofy.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:28.77497468Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "cronofy.com",
          "registered": "2014-10-06",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cronofy.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:51.714116739Z"
        },
        "pages": [
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            "url": "https://changelog.cronofy.com",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:50.385949335Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "c6a5150f60a1"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.cronofy.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:49:56.536978328Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "242d022a202a"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://docs.cronofy.com/policies/privacy-notice/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:31.888004345Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e2e1ebea1a4c"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://docs.cronofy.com/policies/terms-of-service/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:34.034365666Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "7298fc93e38a"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T23:32:45.992385715Z"
      }
    },
    "summary": "Calendly API + MCP has a score of 68.4 (B) against Cronofy API's 64.4 (B). Both do calendar read. The largest gap is schema \u0026 documentation, 28 points."
  },
  "kind": "anchor.page",
  "links": {
    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-cronofy",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-cronofy.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
    "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/calendly-vs-cronofy.md",
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  "markdown": "Calendly API + MCP has a score of 68.4 (B) against Cronofy API's 64.4 (B). Both do calendar read. The largest gap is schema \u0026 documentation, 28 points.\n\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- Cronofy API: grade B, 64.4/100, rank #182 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cronofy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cronofy.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Calendly API + MCP for schema \u0026 documentation (+28), security \u0026 auth (+10), transparency \u0026 trust (+7).\n\nPick Cronofy API for agent ergonomics (+15), maintenance \u0026 community (+6).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Calendly API + MCP | Cronofy API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 58 | Calendly API + MCP +28 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 76 | Cronofy API +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 60 | Calendly API + MCP +10 |\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 | 56 | Cronofy API +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 74 | Calendly API + MCP +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.4 · B** | **64.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Calendly API + MCP | Cronofy API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Calendly | Cronofy |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.calendly.com` | `https://api.cronofy.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | MIT (SDKs) |\n| Tools exposed | 36 | none |\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 | 2026-08-25 | 2026-09-25 |\n| Popularity | none | 51 stars, 11k npm/wk, 10k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Cronofy API.** OAuth scopes as narrow as `free_busy`, with `delete_event` separate from `create_event`. Production pricing starts at $819 a month billed yearly.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Cronofy API\n\n1. Call the data centre host the account was created in (api-uk, api-de and so on), since data never crosses regions\n2. Reuse the same `event_id` when retrying an event write, since Cronofy upserts on it\n3. Ask for `response_format` slots when you want bookable times rather than free periods\n4. On 423, ask the user to relink, since Cronofy has already emailed them\n5. Keep under 50 requests a second and 500 a minute, and pause on 429\n\n## Other comparisons with Calendly API + MCP or Cronofy API\n\n- [Apiroc Unified Calendar API vs Calendly API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apiroc-vs-calendly.md)\n- [Apiroc Unified Calendar API vs Cronofy API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apiroc-vs-cronofy.md)\n- [Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Calendly API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-vs-calendly.md)\n- [Cal.com API v2 + MCP vs Cronofy API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cal-com-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- [Cronofy API vs Google Calendar API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cronofy-vs-google-calendar-api.md)\n- [Cronofy API vs Microsoft Graph Calendar API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cronofy-vs-microsoft-graph-calendar.md)\n- [Cronofy API vs Nylas Calendar and Scheduler API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cronofy-vs-nylas-calendar.md)\n",
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