Small business▼−23Since September 2026: 62% → 38%, −23 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
38%from 62% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 10 pointsRank 1 of 67, unchanged
7 categories · RankedCalendly
251Judge labels
43First choices
84Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
7Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
41% in Interview scheduling for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 75 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 33% of its 55 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Calendly →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 69
41%64 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market1 of 75
20%55 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise2 of 75
9%51 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 Calendly 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 | 20% | 1 of 75 | 33% | 55 | criticized challenger | ▲+1Since September 2026: 21% → 21%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 17 of 108 | 42% | 24 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Video interviewing | Talent acquisition | 0% | 27 of 66 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Spark Hire at 50% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Coaching platforms | Learning and development | 0% | 100 of 128 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 20% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 50 of 142 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by MeBeBot at 21% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Mentoring software | Learning and development | 0% | 39 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Together at 28% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 0% | 67 of 111 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Gem at 15% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Calendly held within the floor in all seven categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Interview scheduling · by segment
Mid-market▲+1Since September 2026: 21% → 21%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
21%from 21% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 1 of 73, unchanged
Enterprise▲+8Since September 2026: 0% → 8%, +8 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 57 → 3 of 72
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interview scheduling | 21% | 21% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 21% → 21%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 of 75, unchanged |
| 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 14 → 17 of 108 |
| Video interviewing | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 27 of 66, unchanged |
| Coaching platforms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 100 of 128, unchanged |
| HR AI assistants | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 50 of 142, unchanged |
| Mentoring software | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 39 of 77, unchanged |
| Recruiting CRM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 67 of 111, unchanged |
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 Calendly 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 Calendly 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
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
Direct36 labels17
Paraphrase7 labels1
Comparative73 labels26not counted in share
Budget-constrained47 labels19
Scale-constrained23 labels6
Negative65 labels7not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative251 labels in all, every segment counted; 43 of the 76 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.
“Calendly - Very popular and widely used. Has a free tier for basic use... For very small teams (1-5 people): Calendly's free plan or BizBot's free tier should suffice” MiniMax M2.5 · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · first choice
“Most companies with limited budgets start with Calendly's free plan and upgrade only when they need team scheduling features” Kimi K2 · Interview scheduling · budget prompt · first choice
“1. Calendly - Best for: Sales teams, recruiters, consultants, and anyone needing to schedule 1:1 or team meetings.” Mistral Small · Interview scheduling · comparative prompt · first choice
“Start with Calendly if you're testing or have simple needs—it's the default for most B2B mid-market per reviews.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Interview scheduling · direct 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.
“Avoid using general-purpose tools (like Doodle or basic free tiers of Calendly) for serious hiring workflows” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Interview scheduling · negative prompt · hard negative
“Closed source - opaque data handling practices... Collects more behavioral data than competitors” MiniMax M2.5 · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · hard negative
“you should skip it and choose something more modern” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · hard negative
“Calendly (Specifically for large Enterprise/Tech sectors): ... it is notably banned by Amazon for employee use. This is due to concerns over data leakage” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Interview scheduling · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Calendly, over the 249 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Calendly was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Calendly, over the 249 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Calendly 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 Calendly. 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 240 of the 249 answers that named Calendly and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cal.com114
lever.co100
firsthr.app85
calendly.comYour site80
peoplemanagingpeople.com76
sapia.ai76
metaview.ai65
koalendar.com64
goodtime.io60
selectsoftwarereviews.com60
700 of the 780 domain citations in answers naming Calendly came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Calendly stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Calendly stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “interview scheduling tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “interview scheduling software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 368,000 a month (“calendly”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2,824 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 292,858 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 31,476 · 1,285 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 643,919
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 10 clicks and $34 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
20%
rank 1 of 75 in interview scheduling
First choices
43
across its categories
- Named in
- 249 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 240 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on calendly.com
5,836
subdomains included
Content
642
counted in the table below
Documentation
5,020
Product · Integration
21 · 96
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 276 | 14 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Report or ebook | 126 | 0 | 2024-03-29 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 69 | 0 | 2024-11-21 | ||
| Case study | 60 | 0 | 2026-05-29 | ||
| News or press | 32 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 28 | 0 | 2025-05-09 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 28 | 1 | 2026-08-18 | ||
| Conference or event | 20 | 0 | 2026-06-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2024-11-25 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-18Company and product blog
- 2026-09-18Typeform integration blog
- 2026-09-18Integrations blog
- 2026-09-18Sales and marketing blog
- 2026-09-17Growth and productivity blog
- 2026-09-17Social media integrations blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page calendly.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.
Names read as Calendly
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Calendly; a claim can dispute any of them.
Calendly (Basic Tier) 1Calendly (Free Plan) 1Calendly (Sales/Recruiting) 1Calendly (Teams Plan) 1Calendly (Teams/Enterprise) 1
Follow Calendly
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Calendly is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Calendly is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Meeting Scheduling Software and AI Meeting Tools
- For
- Individuals, small business, large companies, sales, marketing, customer success, recruiting, education, technology, financial services, professional services
- Price stated
- Pricing calendly.com
- Starting price
- 0 calendly.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free; No credit card required calendly.com
- Integrations claimed
- 150 calendly.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 (Type 2)SOC 3CSA STARPCI COMPLIANTISO/IEC 27001
- Customers named
- Pua PakeleElizabeth SaundersMarques StewartAkira BradleyLizzie LewisAlation, Inc.VirtruAgriWebb
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Calendly's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: calendly.com, calendly.com/pricing, calendly.com/security, calendly.com/solutions/it, calendly.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Calendly's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Calendly, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Calendly by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Calendly 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 Calendly, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Calendly is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Calendly is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend Calendly first in Interview scheduling this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.