Scheduling and meetings decision
meetergo
A competent developer or small team can self-host a useful meetergo replacement for scheduling and basic bookings in ~30 hours; the vendor's open-source MCP repo makes self-hosting easier so keeping the paid suite is only necessary for the full integrated EU-hosted AI, video, CRM and enterprise features.
Visit website↗$9.9/mo
$119/yr
Per seat. Read off the official pricing page.
$20one-off6 h to build
$0/mo5 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All meetergo alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Allow visitors to pick a time, verify availability against linked calendars, create booking record, send confirmation and calendar invite, and show a simple booking page UI.
What it still won’t have
- Built-in video conferencing (meetergo Connect) and EU-hosted call recordings
- Integrated CRM, e-signatures, invoices, portals, and advanced automations
- Prebuilt integrations catalog and migration service
- EU-hosted Mira AI meeting assistant and transcriptions (unless added separately)
- Whitelabeling, priority support, and enterprise features (SSO/SCIM/Audit logs)
What remains hard
- Compliance and regulation
100% DSGVO konform
- Compliance and regulation
Server in Frankfurt
- Compliance and regulation
EU-gehostete Modelle
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal self-hosted appointment booking service in Node.js (Express) + React, Postgres for storage, and Docker for deployment. Include OAuth calendar sync (Google + Microsoft) to check availability, booking pages with appointment types and availability rules, booking persistence in Postgres, transactional emails (SMTP/Mailgun), ICS calendar invites, a simple admin UI to create appointment types and view bookings, and a REST webhook endpoint for external notifications. Out of scope: video conferencing, CRM, e-signatures, AI transcription. Provide error handling, input validation, DB migrations, and unit tests for API endpoints. Include a Docker Compose setup and instructions to deploy on a single EU VPS.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Self-host verdict base92
- An open-source build was found+5
- 4 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 1/1 assessment runs agreed+4
- Hard moats found in the evidence-3
- Evidence score99
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 4
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productmeetergo homepage
- official pricingmeetergo pricing
- official docsmeetergo Docs app page
- open sourcelukevella/rallly
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
