General Bots Calendar vs Sunsama

General Bots Calendar is a self-hosted team calendar for scheduling events, reminders and tasks. Users can request meetings, calls or reminders in natural language; invitations are sent automatically, and an availability endpoint can suggest open booking slots. The calendar has day, week, month and agenda views, mini-calendar navigation and keyboard shortcuts. It supports all-day and recurring events, personal reminders with lead time, and multiple calendars. Tasks with due dates appear alongside events, and completing a task updates its status on the calendar. REST endpoints cover event creation, reading, updating and deletion, plus free/busy checks. Calendar sync includes CalDAV servers. The calendar runs on customer-owned infrastructure and keeps data on the customer’s hardware; the full source is available under AGPLv3. Deployment is described as a self-contained Docker setup on a VM or bare metal. The Self-Hosted plan costs nothing, with unlimited users and operations and no per-user licensing fees.

Sunsama brings task management, calendar planning, and daily planning together for professionals. Its hybrid planning method includes recurring tasks, calendar sync, focus sessions, timeboxing, auto-scheduling, Pomodoro sessions, analytics, reminders, and daily shutdowns. It connects with Asana, Jira, Slack, Teams, Notion, Trello, and other services; its Zapier integration connects to more than 9,000 apps. Sunsama runs on iOS/iPadOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux. It is paid, with no free plan. Pricing starts at $17 per user per month with annual billing; the listed monthly plan is $22. A 14-day trial offers unlimited access to all features. Enterprise options include SSO, SAML, SCIM, audit logs, and custom privacy requirements, with no price listed. Added workspace members are billed automatically, with mid-month additions prorated. Users can cancel at any point and retain access through the billing cycle.