Chili Piper vs FreeBusy (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Chili Piper if

• Fits if your sales team lives in Salesforce or HubSpot and routes inbound leads
• Works for revenue teams with 15 or more seats

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you are a small team: $15,000 a year buys 15 seats
• Not for you if you want monthly billing, because the page says it is not available
• Skip it if you want a trial or free plan, as none is listed
• Watch out: the standalone ChiliCal is $12 per user a month but needs at least 200 seats
• Watch out: Chat AI, account identification and Signals reporting are on Scale at $3,500 a month, not Growth

Pick FreeBusy if

• Fits if you keep work, home and client calendars and want one free-time view
• Works for recruiters or sales teams that send availability links

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you need team scheduling on the free plan, as Personal is for individuals only
• Pricey if you add a team: Business is $10 per registered user a month
• Watch out: the comparison does not show which plan includes each feature
• Watch out: SSO, BYOK and VPN options are listed but not tied to a plan, and Enterprise is quoted on request

Chili Piper

• All plans are billed annually; the pricing page says monthly billing is not available.
• Entry price is $15,000 a year for 15 seats, with no free plan or self-serve trial listed.
• Chat AI, account identification and Signals reporting are on Scale or above, not Growth.
• Standalone ChiliCal needs at least 200 seats, so it does not suit small teams.

FreeBusy

• The Personal plan is for individual use only; team scheduling, forms and reminders start on Business.
• Business is charged per registered user, and Enterprise is quoted on request.
• The pricing page names its tiers but its comparison does not show here which plan includes each line, so check the plan before relying on a feature.
• The comparison lists SSO with SAML, BYOK and VPN connectivity among its security options, but not which plan includes them.

Chili Piper

Form Concierge

Shows a booking calendar to a visitor right after they submit a form, so a form fill can become a meeting on the spot.

Lead routing and handoff

Assigns leads, contacts and accounts to owners using rules and round robin, with caps, weighting and a territory table.

Chat AI

An AI chat on Scale that answers visitors from your content, qualifies them and books meetings. Growth includes chat journeys and live chat.

ChiliCal scheduling links

Every seat gets scheduling links that log meetings to the CRM; coworkers and time zones are handled automatically.

Follow-ups and spam checks

Follows up on no-shows, cancellations and abandoned forms, and uses agents to filter fake meetings and prepare reps.

MCP server and custom triggers

Growth and Scale list an MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, plus custom triggers and webhooks.

FreeBusy

Availability links and polls

Share an availability page with people inside or outside your company, embed it on a website, or send a poll so participants vote on times.

Several calendars in one

Show unified availability from work, personal and school calendars while keeping the calendar data separate, with different availability per client, project or event type.

Wide calendar support

The comparison lists Google, Office 365, on-premise Exchange, iCloud, Fastmail, Zimbra, Zoho, Yahoo and several other calendar systems.

Team scheduling

Pool availability for a group, require some or all members to attend, and book conference rooms at the same time as the meeting. This is on Business and above.

Conferencing and Outlook add-in

Connect Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex and other conferencing tools, and share links or propose times from Outlook, Gmail and a Chrome toolbar extension.

Reminders and forms

Business adds email and SMS reminders with custom templates, follow-up emails with surveys, and questionnaires collected at booking.

Chili Piper

• Growth$1,250

  per month for 15 seats, billed annually ($15,000/yr)

  Forms to meetings, routing, handoffs, 45,000 AI credits a year. Extra seats are $45 a month each.

• Scale$3,500

  per month for 30 seats, billed annually ($42,000/yr)

  Adds Chat AI and account identification, 150,000 AI credits a year. Extra seats are $50 a month each.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Scale features for teams of 250 or more seats, with volume pricing and more AI credits.

• ChiliCal standalone$12

  per user / month, minimum 200 seats

  Scheduling links only, with CRM, calendar and messaging integrations; no routing or AI credits.

FreeBusy

• Personal$0

  For individual use: appointment bookings, meeting polls and calendar integrations.

• Professional$5

  per month, billed annually ($6 billed monthly)

  Personal plus availability preferences, web conferencing integrations and the Outlook and Google add-on, for individual use.

• Business$10

  per registered user / month, billed annually ($12 monthly)

  Professional plus a team scheduling assistant, forms and questionnaires, and reminders and follow-ups.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Business plus compliance and procurement features, executive assistant delegation and white label; volume discounts, billed annually.

Chili Piper

No public discounts listed.

FreeBusy

• Annual discount

  Save with annual billing

  FreeBusy's pricing page shows Professional at $5 a month billed annually against $6 billed monthly, and Business at $10 against $12.