Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 13 → 5 of 67
2 categories · RankedCal.com
83Judge labels
8First choices
5Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
8% in Interview scheduling for mid-market buyers
Rank 6 of 75 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 21 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Cal.com →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 69
3%20 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market6 of 75
8%21 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise10 of 75
2%15 labels
criticized challenger
In interview scheduling · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Cal.com for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interview scheduling | Talent acquisition | 8% | 6 of 75 | 0% | 21 | accepted challenger | ▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 14 of 108 | 0% | 11 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cal.com held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Interview scheduling · by segment
Mid-market▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 8 → 6 of 73
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 17 → 9 of 72
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interview scheduling | 4% | 7% | ▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 6 of 75 |
| Workforce scheduling | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 14 of 108 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Cal.com across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Cal.com across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct14 labels2
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative37 labels8not counted in share
Budget-constrained14 labels5
Scale-constrained4 labels1
Negative13 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative83 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 20 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you want a modern standalone tool for $0: Go with Cal.com (to create multiple interview types for free)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · first choice
“Recommended alternatives for sensitive use cases: - Cal.com (open-source, self-hostable option)” MiniMax M2.5 · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · first choice
“Calendly’s free plan or Cal.com’s free/low-cost tier, because both cover basic scheduling” Perplexity Sonar · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · first choice
“Calendly (free) or Cal.com (free tier) | Instant set‑up, embeddable links, zero cost” MiniMax M2.5 · Interview scheduling · comparative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cal.com, over the 83 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cal.com was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cal.com, over the 83 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cal.com was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cal.com. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 82 of the 83 answers that named Cal.com and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cal.comYour site69
lever.co40
firsthr.app35
peoplemanagingpeople.com34
metaview.ai32
sapia.ai31
koalendar.com29
calendly.com28
intervue.io28
goodtime.io20
277 of the 346 domain citations in answers naming Cal.com came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cal.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cal.com takes 8% of first choices and Calendly takes 20%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cal.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cal.com takes 8% of first choices and Calendly takes 20%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “interview scheduling tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “interview scheduling software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,900 a month (“cal.com”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 100 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 439,943 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 7,342 · 176 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 45,977
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
8%
rank 6 of 75 in interview scheduling
Segment leader
20%
Calendly
- First choices
- 8 across its categories
- Named in
- 83 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 82 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cal.com
8,280
subdomains included
Content
779
counted in the table below
Documentation
360
Product · Integration
11 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 650 | 95 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Comparison | 40 | 33 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Report or ebook | 32 | 13 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Conference or event | 30 | 5 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Case study | 13 | 12 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 7 | 7 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 3 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 2 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| News or press | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Calcom vs calendly comparison
- 2026-09-29Custom domain email waitlist blog
- 2026-09-29Migrate from nylas to calcom blog
- 2026-09-29Workflows for alternative medicine comparison
- 2026-09-29Workflows for conference centers conference or event
- 2026-09-29Workflows for trade show expo organizers conference or event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cal.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cal.com by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cal.com is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Cal.com, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.