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
Meeting scheduling	Sales	4%	5 of 77	0%	36	accepted challenger
Lead routing and management	Sales	2%	12 of 104	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by LeadAngel at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cal.com yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cal.com across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	4	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	3	0	4
Mistral Small	0	2	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	4	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	2
Kimi K2	1	4	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	4	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	1	3

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 labels3

Paraphrase19 labels1

Comparative30 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained21 labels6

Scale-constrained17 labels1

Negative20 labels7not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative121 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 23 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.

“I'd choose Cal.com for most small teams because it combines routing, scheduling, CRM sync, and a free starting point” Perplexity Sonar · Lead routing · budget prompt · first choice

“Start with Cal.com Free if you have technical capacity or want the most generous free tier with unlimited bookings.” Kimi K2 · Scheduling · budget prompt · first choice

“Cal.com (Best Overall Value & Scalability)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scheduling · budget prompt · first choice

“Cal.com (open-source, self-host)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Scheduling · negative 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 121 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Calendly99 of 12156Not in the top three

Chili Piper67 of 1218Not in the top three

HubSpot Meetings55 of 1217Not in the top three

SavvyCal39 of 1210Not in the top three

Doodle31 of 1210Not in the top three

Microsoft Bookings28 of 1213Not in the top three

Acuity Scheduling24 of 1210Not in the top three

RevenueHero20 of 1213Not in the top three

Setmore16 of 1211Not in the top three

LeanData13 of 1212Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 121 answers that named Cal.com and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cal.com11

guideflow.com10

albato.com7

youcanbook.me7

leadangel.com6

marketbetter.ai6

cleverly.co5

peoplemanagingpeople.com5

zapier.com5

blog.hubspot.com4

No domain is on file for Cal.com, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

albato.com/blog/publications/best-appointment-scheduling-software-sales-pipeline7

cal.com/blog/enterprise-scheduling-software5

guideflow.com/blog/business-scheduling-software-tools5

guideflow.com/blog/online-appointment-scheduling-software-tools5

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-meeting-scheduling-software5

cleverly.co/blog/appointment-scheduling-software4

leadangel.com/blog/operations/enterprise-scheduling-software4

learn.g2.com/best-business-scheduling-software4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cal.com

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cal.com; a claim can dispute any of them.

Cal.com (Enterprise) 2Cal.com (self-hosted) 1

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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 Cal.com'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 Cal.com, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at the vendor's own domain is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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