Cronofy is powerful, but you pay per user and it takes real setup. Meet.bot is complete scheduling, with pages, availability, booking, and calendar sync over a REST API and a native MCP server. Billed per meeting booked, live the same day, no per-provider app setup.
Works with the calendars your users already use
Cronofy is solid enterprise scheduling. For teams that want to move fast without per-seat costs, three things stand out.
Cronofy bills per user or connected calendar, so cost grows with headcount. Meet.bot bills per meeting booked, with unlimited users free. You pay for outcomes, not seats.
No per-provider OAuth apps to register and no enterprise onboarding. Partner Connect gets your users live in two clicks, the same day, with no app review.
Cronofy gives you a REST API. Meet.bot adds a native MCP server, so AI agents check availability and book real meetings in conversation.
Cronofy is mature, enterprise-grade scheduling infrastructure. Meet.bot is simpler, AI-native, and billed per meeting instead of per user.
| Meet.bot | Cronofy | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Complete scheduling, AI-native | Scheduling + calendar API |
| Scheduling pages | Included, shareable + embeddable | Embeddable UI components |
| Availability engine | Built in (buffers, hours, limits) | Availability API |
| Booking & confirmations | Automatic events + emails | Event creation API |
| AI agents | Native MCP server + REST API | REST API |
| Time to launch | Same day | Days to weeks |
| OAuth app setup | Not required | Required per provider |
| Pricing model | Per meeting booked | Per user / connected calendar |
| Free tier | Yes, no card required | Developer sandbox |
| Calendar coverage | Google, Microsoft Outlook | Google, Microsoft, Apple, Exchange |
| Meeting intelligence | Not included | Recording + AI summaries |
| Enterprise SSO / SCIM | Not included | Available |
Honest take: if you need Apple or Exchange calendars, meeting intelligence, or enterprise SSO and compliance, Cronofy covers more ground. For fast, AI-native scheduling billed per meeting, Meet.bot is simpler and cheaper to run. More below.
Cronofy's Sync Engine caches your users' calendars on its servers to answer availability fast. Meet.bot takes the opposite approach: we read availability live from Google and Microsoft only when a request needs it, so your users' calendar data stays with their provider, not in our database.
We never download your users' calendars into our system. Free/busy and events are read on demand from Google or Microsoft when a request needs them, then discarded, never mirrored into our database.
We request the minimum calendar scopes to read availability and write the meetings you book. No mailbox access, no broad data grants.
GDPR-compliant data handling, TLS encryption in transit, and JWT-signed webhooks so your systems can trust every event. Details in our privacy policy.
Read live availability and create a real booking, calendar invites and confirmations included. Wire it to your backend, or drop in the MCP server and let an AI agent do it.
// check availability const slots = await fetch( "https://meet.bot/v1/slots?slug=demo", { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer " + token } } ).then(r => r.json()); // book the first open slot await fetch("https://meet.bot/v1/book", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: "Bearer " + token }, body: JSON.stringify({ slug: "demo", slot: slots[0].start, name: "Jane", email: "jane@acme.com" }) });
// add to your MCP client config { "mcpServers": { "meetbot": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@meetbot/mcp"], "env": { "MEETBOT_AUTH_TOKEN": "<token>" } } } } // then just ask: "Book a 30-min demo with jane@acme.com next Tue PM"
Most stacks nail the conversation, then hand off finding a time to a clunky link. Meet.bot closes that loop. Your AI agent checks real availability and books on the user's Google or Outlook calendar, in the conversation.
Turn a yes into a booked demo without leaving the chat. Slots in alongside your outbound stack via API or MCP.
Schedule callbacks and escalations mid-conversation, with ticket context passed straight to the booking.
Give your own users scheduling via the partner program. No Google or Microsoft setup, billed per meeting as you grow.
Works great, I use it almost every day!
We added a calendar integration for our AI agent in less than 30 minutes.
If you use Cronofy for scheduling, the mapping is direct.
GET /v1/slotsSwap Cronofy availability and free/busy calls for a single slots endpoint that already applies buffers, working hours, and limits.
POST /v1/bookOne call books the meeting and sends calendar events and confirmation emails to both sides.
Drop the OAuth app registration and verification entirely. Users connect with two clicks, you get their API token by webhook.
Receive booked, rescheduled, and cancelled events, JWT-signed, to keep your system in sync.
Tell us what you are building and grab 15 minutes. We will map it to Meet.bot and answer pricing and migration questions directly.
Booked straight on our calendar. Yes, with Meet.bot.
For most scheduling, yes: pages, availability, booking, and calendar sync, usually live the same day. Cronofy goes broader on calendar coverage and enterprise features.
Cronofy bills per user or connected calendar. Meet.bot bills per meeting booked, unlimited users free, so cost tracks bookings, not headcount.
Yes. No per-provider OAuth apps and no enterprise onboarding. Partner Connect gets users live in two clicks, the same day.
It is the differentiator: a native MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf) plus REST API, so an agent books real meetings in conversation.
Meet.bot syncs Google and Microsoft Outlook today. If you need Apple, Exchange, or CalDAV, Cronofy has broader coverage.
Yes. Embed pages with ?show_background=0&primary_color=hex, or build your own UI on the Slots and Book endpoints.